Assess students' understanding of scientific inquiry including the following skills: observation, background research, scientific procedures (including investigation design, measurement techniques, and error analysis), data collection, data display, scientific questions, formulating an hypothesis. Students will design and carry out an investigation to test which material is the best insulator; they will predict which way heat energy will flow in a system and analyze the flow of energy in a system from one point to another and from one form to another.

In “Invocation” from John Brown’s Body, Stephen Vincent Benet calls on the muse of America to inspire him. He invokes the varied American landscape and the many kinds of people who have contributed to American culture and life. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

In this lesson, students read a non-fiction book about a career and write a six-paragraph expository composition about the book.

Students will work collaboratively to gather information about various groups of gelatinous zooplankton. They will be able to compare and contrast at least three different groups of zooplankton organisms and describe how gelatinous zooplankton fit into marine food webs. Groups will prepare a brief written report summarizing the information they have found and orally present to the rest of the class.

In this lesson, students compare and contrast the tragic event that occurs in a work of fiction to a real-life tragic experience that occurs in a work of non-fiction.

Students will read sentences that contain misused transition words and will write better transition words to complete the sentences. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a description of a conclusion and a passage about Hawaii. Students will then write a conclusion for the passage. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage about the U.S. census and write a conclusion for the passage. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a prompt that includes questions and write an essay about an African American civil rights hero. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In this lesson, students examine the roles of women in the Revolutionary War era. Working in groups, students work make predictions about the contributions of a specific female patriot. The lesson provides a graphic organizer, cooperative grouping, and a think-aloud to support English language learners. Then students write a paragraph to demonstrate their new knowledge.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In this lesson, students describe the steps people took to eliminate segregation in U.S. schools. Students use a graphic organizer to analyze primary source photographs as a class, in pairs, and individually. After comparing their work in groups, students write a paragraph citing evidence from their graphic organizer to explain their understanding.

In 1899 and 1900, Secretary of State John Hay issued what became known as the Open Door Notes to foreign powers involved in China. Secretary Hay called on those powers to respect the rights of each other, to agree to an open market and equal trading opportunities for merchants of all nationalities, and to respect the territorial and administrative integrity of China.

Students will learn about deep-sea tubeworms. Students will work collaboratively to create a poster or three-dimensional model of a tubeworm. Each group will then prepare a written report describing the anatomy of tubeworms, how a tubeworm obtains food and the symbiotic relationship between the tubeworm and chemosynthetic bacteria, and the role that tubeworms play in the larger cold-seep food web.

This lesson was designed to help students gain social studies/history content knowledge by using textual evidence to answer text-dependent questions.

In response to Harriet Tubman’s request for a letter of commendation, Fredrick Douglas wrote a testimony of her character, hard work, and sacrifices for the sake of freedom from bondage while marking the differences in their leadership styles for the common cause. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

In this activity, students will analyze and interpret a number of "letters to the editor", and use this information to write their own.

Students will learn to order their thoughts into sequential writing. The students will map a trail around the school and then follow some of Jefferson's instructions for wrtiing detialed reports. Each student then writes a description of an animal after reading Meriwether Lewis's report of the black woodpecker, another "new" creature.

Students research the ways that humans impact coral reef ecology and identify some of the organisms that live in coral reef habitats. They will write a narrative essay as if they are one of these organisms and discuss how they are affected by human activities such as over-fishing, habitat destruction, pollution, etc.

Students will have an opportunity to develop such "live interviews" with ancient athletes; working in small groups, they will produce a script based on the results of their research and they will perform the interview for other students in the class.

In this lesson, students will use the individual experience of Mary McLeod Bethune to analyze choice, its affects on social equality, and impact on their own life experiences.