Practice brainstorming ideas and collaborating with others to share information using digital tools. Time to complete: 45-90 minutes

Contains plans for five 50-minute interdisciplinary lessons that ask students to write about math-related, informational books such as "Actual Size" (Jenkins, 2004) and "If You Hopped Like a Frog" (Schwartz, 1999). Students use books like these as models to write their own math-related books about animals. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.

This beautifully crafted site on Mesopotamia has selected information on Assyrian palaces and warfare, Babylonian astronomers, trade and transport and Sumer, Royal Tombs of Ur and Ziggurats.

This mini-lesson covers the basics of the Supreme Court's decision that overturned "separate but equal" in public schools. Students learn about segregation and "equality under the law," and they use what they learned to craft compound sentences following a structured format. LESSON OBJECTIVES: Describe segregation and the 14th Amendment "equal protection of the law" *Identify the main arguments put forth in the case. *Describe the Supreme Court's decision and analysis. *Identify the impact of the Court's decision. *Write compound sentences

Create, promote, and manage an online business using digital tools. Time to complete: 6-9 hours

Learn how to build a book presentation with Google Slides. Time to complete: 45-90 minutes

Share your work by creating a portfolio website using Google Sites. Time to complete: 45-90 minutes

Undergraduate student project for building datasets and analyzing the electoral, party system, and mass behavioral characteristics for a set of countries.

This site offers helpful templates and formatting advice for students to create their own newspaper.

A site that defines and describes the dangers and realities of plagiarism. Also gives information on why students plagiarize, strategies for preventing, making plagiarism-proof assignments, and links to other sites.

An excellent tip sheet on how to group information after brainstorming and prewriting.

This interesting site has a variety of activities and games to use in the classroom or at home to teach letter recognition, phonics, and beginning writing skills. Learn about individual letters at the Alphabet Soup Cafe, create an Alphabet Scrapbook, learn to write the letters with Spinner the Spider, and learn about alphabet fonts in the section on Shapes and Features.

This mini-lesson covers the Supreme Court's decision about limiting government restrictions on campaign contributions. Students learn about campaign finance, Super PACs, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold Act), and the First Amendment. Students compare campaign tactics, and evaluate the cost and effectiveness of reaching a large audience. LESSON OBJECTIVES: Describe the rights protected by the First Amendment *Identify the main arguments put forth in the case *Define corporations, Super PACs, campaign finance, and the Federal Election Commission *Describe the rationale behind the Supreme Court's decision *Identify the impact of the Supreme Court's decision on political campaigns

This mini-lesson covers the basics of the Supreme Court's decision that determined the government's ability to conduct electronic surveillance of its citizens. Students learn about the First Amendment right to free speech, the Fourth Amendment protection from unreasonable searches, national security, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Students evaluate different forms of government monitoring, and provide their perspective on whether government surveillance is a necessity for national security, or a violation of people's privacy and individual rights. LESSON OBJECTIVES: Describe the rights protected by the First and Fourth Amendments *Identify the main arguments put forth in the case *Analyze the conflict between ensuring national security and protecting individuals' rights *Describe the rationale behind the Supreme Court's decision

This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, highlights resources that help elementary teachers learn about climate change and teach their students important foundational concepts.

This resource guide begins by outlining the theory underlying the literacy work and then lays out the framework for the supports included in the Readers series. Subsequent chapters describe and illustrate the specific content literacy and language development strategies that have been chosen as being of particularly high impact. Although most of the strategies can be used in multiple ways, we have chosen to present them as occurring "Before, €During€ and After Reading" because of the importance of this mental model in effective content literacy instruction.

A clear guide to understanding the audience for your writing, this site leads you through steps to help you identify your audience, then structure your writing to meet that audience's needs and expectations. Use links on the right. W.9-10.4 Write/Aud/purp. W.11-12.4 Clear/Coherent Writing; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen writing

Provides coloring pages for each letter of the alphabet in three styles: traditional, cursive, and modern. Each page features a printed upper and lower case letter of the particular style as well as an illustration of something that starts with that letter. Full page PDFs of each letter are available (require Adobe Reader).