Students to read detailed scientific passages and explain how an understanding of specfifc icefish adaptations might lead to a treatment or cure for human disorders, such as osteoporosis and anemia.

A teacher's guide to Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor. Includes common core aligned pre-reading promts, discussion questions, post-reading promts and writing activities.

In this lesson students will explore human rights and their relationship to one another. They will gain an appreciation of how human rights are violated in conflict zones- through a consideration of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Lastly, students will consider some of the controversies surrounding human rights. Lesson includes an interactive game on human rights, research prompts to better understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and an opportunity to assess the UN's Declaration of Human Rights.

This lesson and resource uses headline articles to help students read effectively by distilling main ideas from an informational text.

Students will research how the American dream has been experienced throughout history and then create a comprehensive mind map illustrating their findings.

In this lesson, students will identify how Common's rap song "A Dream" and Walter Dean Myers's short story "Monkeyman" reinterpret Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of nonviolence. Students will delve into a text-based discussion on characterization and conflict, as well as compose an essay on the Six Principles of Nonviolence (rubric available).

In this lesson on the Spanish American War from Historical Thinking Matters, students will explore sources, webquests, and activities designed to help in answering the following essay question: "The explosion of the U.S.S. Maine caused the United States to invade Cuba in 1898. Use the documents provided and your own knowledge to evaluate this statement. Do you agree with this explanation of the causes of the Spanish American War? Why or why not? Use and cite evidence from the documents to support your analysis of this statement.”

In this three day lesson, students will participate in text-centered discussions and use evidence to support their points.

In this lesson, students locate information from a variety of sources, and then select a paragraph from each and state the main idea and supporting details.

Students will learn basic information about the Incan empire and its downfall through selected readings and discussion activities. Students will futher their understanding regarding the clash of Spanish and Incan society by creating newspapers detailing the events, people, and places during the Spanish conquest of the Incan Empire.

In these interconnected lessons from TeachHistory.org, students will: 1. evaluate and assess the reasons given to remove Native Americans from their ancestral lands 2. analyze the change in United States government policy towards Native Americans from Washington to Jackson 3. compare and contrast different primary source documents on the same topic 4. make connections between the removal of Native Americans and the theory of "Manifest Destiny." Resource includes an overview, suggested approaches and teacher background information.

This lesson explores the essay Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson, focusing on an analysis of individualism. It includes background information on Emerson, sectional analysis of the text, accompanying reading questions and activities, vocabulary terms, and a suggested follow-up assignment.

Students will explore, the development of the textile industry in Great Britain, focusing on the invention of various machines. They will understand the link between rapid growth in both the textile industry and in coal mining in Great Britain to the development of social ills and the political push to alleviate some of the atrocious conditions under which people worked. Lastly, students will connect the process of industrialization to the expansion of male suffrage through the various reform bills of the 1800s in Great Britain.

This news brief from February 2013 provides the evolutionary explanation for why some vaccines provide lifelong protection with one or a few doses, but the flu requires a new shot every year. This article includes a set of discussion and extension questions for use in class. It also includes hints about related lessons that might be used in conjunction with this one.

In this 3 day lesson of 4 activities, students will learn how to summarize and explain what they have learned from their reading, questioning, and analyzation.

In this detailed, extensive, Common Core aligned teacher's guide to Into the Wild by John Krakauer, the curriculum framework is organized around an extended text, shorter texts and guiding questions. Teachers can choose from several charts of materials and activities to build a solid, challenging unit of study utilizing film, research, and complex but high interest text.

Through their interpretation of primary documents that reflect Victorian ideals, students can learn the cultural expectations for and limitations placed on Victorian women and then contemplate the writer Charlotte Brontes position in that context. Then, through an examination of the opening chapters of Jane Eyre, students will evaluate Jane's status as an unconventional Victorian heroine.

In the 1800s Irish immigrants to the United States faced intense discrimination. The treatment of the Irish raises the historical question of whether the Irish were considered "white" in the 19th century. In this lesson, students examine political cartoons, a Know-Nothing party speech, and a historian's account to consider how racial categories may be ambiguous and change over time.

This literacy assessment includes an excerpt from an 1873 speech, seven text-dependent questions, one constructed response writing prompt, and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.

This lesson provides students with an opportunity to study and analyze the innovative legislative efforts of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson in the social and economic context of the 1960s.