Students share opinions about facts related to sleep. They then create a health and wellness exhibit that addresses topics related to sleep, including interactive elements that exhibit visitors can experience. Learning is synthesized through the analysis of their own experiences and observations.

Students learn about the ways New Orleans high school marching bands and professional brass bands have overcome obstacles in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to keep their musical traditions alive. They then create auditory presentations on festivals and celebrations around the world.

Students reflect on high-risk, readily available, often legal ways teenagers achieve a high, using stories, facts and statistics to make connections and learn the risks and dangers associated with these activities. Then they go further by making skits or public service announcements to warn classmates or younger students about these dangers.

Students consider "popular" music and movies in today's society. They then devise an updated version of a classic song of their choice for a popular movie and analyze their classmates' choices.

This lesson from the New York Times is a collection of activties and lessons to help students make accurate inferences in their own reading.

This resource is a collection of posters showing the struggles and triumphs of the life of Nelson Mandela. These posters are from around the world and show the international effort in dealing with South Africa in the late 20th Century.

Students explore the workings of the FARC, a Marxist guerilla group in Colombia, as well as learn the basics of Marxism. Then, the class examines the discrepancies between Marxist theory and Marxism as it is actually realized in Colombia and in other parts of the world. The link for the article for this lesson can be found at http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/25/world/colombia-s-rebels-keep-the-marxist-faith.html

After losing costumes and sets to Hurricane Sandy, the Martha Graham Dance Company rebuilds, recreates and reinvents itself.

Students create vegetarian menus for fictional characters, then analyze them for nutritional content.

Students consider the influence of bullies and map the social ecosystem of their schools, before learning about an unusually harmonious baboon troop. They create lifelines that compare baboon and human development and write an essay that considers the relationship between psychosocial development and progress.

In this article, the author explores when children start to develop a sense of what is right or wrong. Along with this, they investigate if this skill comes from biology or society.

Students will explore the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. They will then research various perspectives, discuss the events in context, and write statements from the perspective of a country or organization involved.

Students explore the inception and evolution of hip-hop music as a springboard for writing music reviews and researching other genres of music.

Students explore ways in which music can relay messages of peace and how popular songs can be interpreted as commentary on current issues and themes.

Students listen to and share thoughts about a piece of classical music. They then write a piece of music or poem, and analyze their peers and their own creative processes.

Students explore how the sounds made by everyday objects can be transformed into musical experiences, composing and performing musical pieces using non-traditional instruments.

This is the article connected with the lesson plan from the New York Times.

In this lesson, students explore how Irish folk songwriters express their feelings about Ireland through song. Students then write songs expressing their own feelings about their homeland.

In this lesson, students explore how Irish folk songwriters express their feelings about Ireland through song. Students then write songs expressing their own feelings about their homeland. This is the article connected with this lesson.

Students will learn a new vocabulary word each day, along with reinforced definitions, video resources, and articles from the New York Times the word has appeared in.