Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Makes Muscles Grow?

For Students 9th - 10th
We have over 600 muscles in our bodies that help bind us together, hold us up, and help us move. Muscles also need constant attention, because the way you treat them on a daily basis determines whether they will wither or grow. This...
Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Does Our Background Shape Our Thinking About Environmental Issues? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson where students explore the positive and negative impacts of human activities on the environment today and in the distant past, and examine how attitudes towards the environment might be shaped by one's experiences growing up....
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Voices of Hope and Seeds of Peace (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan that draws on the work of the Seeds of Peace, an international organization of teenagers from troubled regions of the world (with a focus on the Middle East) that fosters meaningful dialogue among people with opposing...