In this lesson, students discuss the hardships of teen parenting today and throughout history and interview someone of an older generation about how attitudes, behaviors and options relating to teen pregnancy and parenting have changed over time.

Students closely examine chamber music as it has changed from the Middle Ages to today. Students will work in small groups to research the composers, instruments and typical presentation of chamber music in five distinct time periods, and then individually write biographies of composers from their assigned era. Each group will create an interesting and informative display of their epoch and biographies, which they will present in a future class.

This music lesson plan allows students to closely examine chamber music as it has changed from the Middle Ages to today. Students will work in small groups to research the composers, instruments and typical presentation of chamber music in five distinct time periods, and then individually write biographies of composers from their assigned era. Each group will create an interesting and informative display of their epoch and biographies, which they will present in a future class.

This resource is the article which is part of the lesson from the New York Times lesson of the same name.

Students explore the effect that a particular culture can have on popular music.

In this lesson, students explore the effect that a particular culture can have on popular music.

In this lesson, students explore the effect that a particular culture can have on popular music.

Can stronger laws and factory inspections make a difference when it comes to preventing disasters like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire or the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh? To answer this question, we selected two sources to compare. The first is a 2013 article written less than two months after the Rana Plaza collapse, in which government inspectors and Times reporters find problems in additional Bangladesh factories. The second is a 1911 Times article written shortly after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that describes other problematic buildings in the New York City region.

Students will examine the wartime killing of civilians in Vietnam through discussion, close reading and research.

Students will consider literary works including Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and research their respective "back stories." They then design posters illustrating their information for display.

Students compare and contrast the world, people and technologies of "1984" with those of today and create a treatment for a modern film, print or stage adaptation that revolves around current technologies.

In this lesson, students compare and contrast the world, people and technologies of “1984” with those of today and create a treatment for a modern film, print or stage adaptation that revolves around current technologies.

This resource from the New York Times contains a collection of teaching ideas that commemorate poet Maya Angelou, including writing and reading activities.

Students consider the negative image that some have of rap and hip-hop music through discussion and reading an opinion piece from The New York Times. They then examine rap and hip-hop songs that promote more positive ideas and values and create CD cover artwork reflecting these messages

In this lesson plan with multiple activities ranging from group work to actual annotation practices, students will review strategies of annotation and consider the benefits. They will brainstorm ways to annotate, explore various methods in depth, and test the value of annotating while reading.

Students reflect on stories of teenagers with body dysmorphic disorder, or B.D.D., and eating disorders. By drawing and discussing support webs around each story, groups investigate the disorders from the perspectives of the individual affected and the people in their lives.

Students survey their own caffeine consumption. They rank various beverage and food products for their caffeine content, learn about how caffeine affects the body and create and perform educational skits about caffeine and health.

In this resource, this article discusses the problems of diagnosing and treating very young children with extreme behavioral and emotional problems. It also addresses society's response to these children and the impact it has on the family units.

In this lesson, students examine India's caste system. Students then work in small groups to explore the economic, social, and political "rules" of the different classes in the Indian caste system.