A teaching guide for Harper Lee's classic To Kill A Mockingbird. Includes discussion questions, vocabulary, writing and discussion prompts and activities.
A teacher's guide to Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken. Contains discussion questions, research and writing prompts and background information.
Six teaching ideas for F.Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby including research, writing, and collaborative assignments.
Six teaching ideas for F.Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby including research, writing, and collaborative assignments.
In this lesson, high school students work in groups to explore the issue of civil liberties by conducting Internet research on related court cases of their choosing. Working in heterogeneous groups allows for social interaction and fun in the learning process, while also promoting positive interdependence and practicing of research skills. To summarize their findings, groups create PowerPoint presentations to share with the class.
This resource provides a lesson and activity wherein students will spend time examining the civil movements instigated by Thoreau, Gandhi and King; moreover, students will examine the influence of these men on one another. Students will complete research on all three men, analyze and draw a political cartoon, and respond and reflect through writing and discussion.
In this lesson, students conduct research using various websites in order to develop a cohesive argument about the benefits or disadvantages of the Three Gorges dam.
In this lesson students conduct research on life insurance to determine what types are best to purchase and when.
Students will compare and contrast Times Topics pages with Wikipedia as potential sources of information and use Times Topics pages to tackle classroom research questions.
Students learn how warmer temperatures have impacted ice drift tourism on the northern coast of Hokkaido, Japan. They will then consider the ways a continued warming trend might impact other global tourist destinations in the future.
In this lesson, students learn how warmer temperatures have impacted ice drift tourism on the northern coast of Hokkaido, Japan. They will then consider the ways a continued warming trend might impact other global tourist destinations in the future.
This lesson focuses on the importance of geographic features and the abundance of natural resources that helped ancient Egypt become the world's first superpower. Students will learn about the geography and resources available to the ancient Egyptians and create a multimedia tour that demonstrates this learning to others.
In this lesson, each student is assigned a unique theme, symbol, or character in Great Expectations, and will complete a paper on that topic.
This unit brings together multimedia resources describing major world religions. Multiple documents are available for examining the origins and cultural impact of religions including Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity.
In this lesson, students complete an end of unit assessment and write an evidence based perspective based on their prior research activities. Rubric is included.
This resource provides a lesson designed to guide students through a reading of the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter". Students will read and analyze the text. Afterwards, students will reflect through response to guided questions and write an essay.
In this lesson, students use inquiry to choose a topic for an essay. Students start with a general topic, then develop lines of questioning leading them to specific questions they want to answer with an essay.
This lesson explores the twofold concept of "arete" (virture and excellence in sports) focusing on the ways in which the concept of arete bridges the gap between philosphy and sports. Students will read and critically evaluate an academic essay arguing that through the concept of arete, the ancient Greeks created a specialized athletic culture.
In this lesson, students will generate questions about what has happened to the environment and the people of Fukushima as a result of the tsunami and flooding of the nuclear power plant. Students will use primary source video testimony and interviews to gather information from many perspectives, share information orally, and take notes on ideas expressed by others. Then, students will integrate information on Fukushima into an opinion paper.
In this activity, students will research invasive forest plants and design "wanted posters" that illustrate the plants' shady characteristics and crimes.