There is so much information available in a library that students often don't know where to begin. In this lesson, students decide which library resources are most helpful in the assignment scenarios the teacher describes. For assessing understanding, students write essays to make a case for saving a library from budget cuts or possible closure by sharing examples of tools that help the community.

In this lesson, students gather and record information with adults discovering their first, best, and worst school memories. Students transfer this information to a memory page containing the interview information, and present one part of their memory page.

On the first day of seventh grade, Victor and his friend Michael try to hide their insecurities and impress the girls in their class. In turn they learn that teachers can be kind, that girls are approachable, and that taking a risk to fit in can pay off. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

In this lesson, students will examine ways to learn to use words and images to express a message.

This website allows students to listen to a brief phone conversation. It contains pre-listening exercises, listening exercises, vocabulary, post-listening exercises and online investigations. The audio file, which lasts fifty-six seconds, is accompanied by a script and a self-scoring quiz. Post-listening exercises and online investigations provide opportunity for students to extend their learning beyond the initial exercise and practice having a phone conversation with a partner as well as compare voice mail services from at least two different companies. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

In this lesson, students work in small groups to investigate a science-related mystery using resource materials, then write and deliver a persuasive speech that supports the theory of the mystery.

This infographic analyzes common fears and suggests ways to overcome fear of speaking in public.

In this lesson, students create multimedia speeches to introduce important women or Hispanic people.

In this lesson, students take a summative assessment, then begin researching and organizing information for an oral presentation on significant leaders in history.

Students will use PowerPoint to create a presentation on a given genre. As a culminating activity, students will present their presentation to the class and teach their genre.

This lesson helps students "hear" some of the diverse colonial voices that, in the course of time and under the pressure of novel ideas and events, contributed to the American Revolution. Students analyze a variety of primary documents illustrating the diversity of religious, political, social, and economic motives behind competing perspectives on questions of independence and rebellion.

In this lesson, students explore the First Industrial Revolution in early nineteenth-century America. Through simulation activities and the examination of primary historical materials, students learn how changes in the workplace and less expensive goods led to the transformation of American life.

This is an activity about visual analysis. Learners will compare and contrast images of Earth and Mars and then experiment with lenses to understand more about the instruments used to make the pictures. This is activity 1 of 9 in Mars and Earth: Science Learning Activities for After School.

A sixth grade boy lives with his mother. The mother maintains their livelihood with a blue collar job. In the story, William wants to find a cure for unhappiness that he sees in his mother and a man on the street. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

In this lesson, students determine what they need to know in order to become good public speakers.

In this lesson, students respond to a diagnostic assessment to determine what they need to know in order to become good speakers.