In this lesson, students practice time management by making their own schedules. They learn to calculate elapsed time in both digital and analog formats.

In this lesson, students will explore Eleanor Roosevelt’s many national and international contributions by watching a short video and engaging in a class discussion. Afterward, they will read a letter written during her time as First Lady expressing her opinion on racial issues and examine a 1957 photograph of Roosevelt during her tenure at the United Nations. The lesson culminates with students designing a mural to summarize the life of this forward-thinking woman who was born into privilege yet spent decades doing public service.

This video describes the election process and provides and explanation of the federal amendments and laws at the state level that have been implemented to create the current election system.

This is an interactive lesson plan about probability with a series of questions and explanations and videos.

Students will learn about women’s rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton by focusing on her strengths and challenges as an activist and founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association. After watching a short video, examining a photo of Stanton with Susan B. Anthony, and reading excerpts of the Declaration of Sentiments, students will assess the lessons they have learned about organizing people to make change.

In this lesson students learn to create equivalent fractions between fifths and tenths (and then some other denominators) as a means to compare fractions of like denominators.

In this lesson stuents will design and implement a study of local seat belt use and compare the results to national statistics.

This resources can be viewed as an interactive (using Flash) or as a print timeline with dates and summaries on events relating to U.S. foreign policy. Periods are divided beginning with beginning with pre-1900 and ending with 2000-2002.

Students will examine the 1960s Civil Rights era and the differing philosophies of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., focusing on the activist Grace Lee Boggs, whose radical ideas evolved as her understanding of the movement deepened.

This lesson plan explores the basic principals behind designing and building a home, and the many variations and unique qualities that go into it. Students will have the opportunity to design their own homes and furniture while understanding coding and planning limitations.

In this lesson, students explore the connections that can exist in a natural environment, and examine how changes to the environment, particularly those caused by human activity, can affect those connections.

In this lesson students explore different repeating patterns in music to predict when two or more events will occur at the same time. They are encouraged to create patterns and draw conclusions. In doing so they learn to predict the least common factor of up to three numbers.

The purpose of this lesson is to explore the role of African culture in modern dance in America. The lesson will focus on three key areas. The first area will examine the Afro-Caribbean slave roots that were a part of modern dance and the ways that modern dance movements and themes reflected daily life activities. The second area will focus on how modern dance reflected issues of black pride, self-expression, and identity. The third area will explore how modern dance themes of social justice and activism evolved in response to a racist American society.

In this lesson, students analyze how regions such as Texas, New Mexico and California had established Mexican and Indigenous communities already in place as the United States expanded westward in the mid 1800s. Students review the different ways that Mexican citizens come to terms with the expansion of the United States and the ways in which they became foreigners in their own lands within a very short time.

In this lesson, students examine how modernization may impact society, politics, the economy, and the environment, especially in areas such as China and India. This lesson is based on two PBS WIDE ANGLE documentaries - "To Have and Have Not" and "1-800-INDIA."

In this lesson students will be introduced to Islamic culture while viewing the PBS video series Islam: Empire of Faith. Students will have the opportunity to research aspects of Islam by using the World Wide Web, library books, and other research tools. Students will also have the opportunity to work with classmates in creating an ABC Book of Islam based on their research, accompanied by visuals. *This is lesson 2 of unit on Islam entitled: Islam-Empires of Faith.

In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad is shooting a film. On their fourth day of filming, they hope to shoot an extra scene, which means their film supply costs will go up. They look at their budget and find that if they lower their crew costs, they can film the extra scene without going over their budget for the day.

Listening to folktales from around the world can enrich children's understanding of many cultures. Decide on a story with your children, and work with them to turn it into a play. Students will adapt a folktale into written dialogue.

In this lesson plan from The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, students will view clips and examine the impact of French colonial rule on Vietnam.

In this lesson plan from The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, students will watch video clips and examine the benefits and contents of the Geneva Accords and the Geneva Conference in 1954.