How can you protect your privacy when you're online? Kids share a lot of information whenever they go online -- sometimes on purpose, sometimes not. But do they understand that online privacy isn't just what they say and post? Help your students learn about their digital footprints and the steps they can take to shape what others find and see about them. Approximately 50 mins.

LESSON OBJECTIVES: Reflect on the concept of privacy, including what they feel comfortable sharing and with which people. Analyze different ways that advertisers collect information about users to send them targeted ads. Identify strategies for protecting their privacy, including opting out of specific features and analyzing app or website privacy policies.

Students explore the difficulties of having a learning disability and how that influences a person's self-image, enabling them to see the world as a diverse place, by reading the core text The Wild Book.

A printable guide with explanations and examples of sentences with and without parallel structure. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF] L.9-10.1a Parallelism

By connecting with the characters from the easily relatable series Pinky and Rex, students learn that it's okay to be different and consider what it means to be a good friend.

Reading the novel One Crazy Summer, set in 1968 Oakland, CA at the height of the Black Panther movement, students explore the meaning of community, identity, and what it means to be part of a revolution.

Index page from the University of Toronto offering the complete texts of twenty of Jonson's poems, as well as one work of prose.

Part of a project that culminated in 2006, this site contains great supports for those who are attempting to write about their own lives. Getting started, writing drafts, revising and other topics are all addressed.

Written for students, a full text and explanation of the Declaration of Independence, its authors, and background in the American Revolution. Links to related resources.

Bert and Ernie are off on another great adventure. This time, they're putting on a magic show. This resource focuses on problem solving and asking questions. [5:07]

Lists several dozen links to hypertext versions of Russell's writings on the Internet. Most of these writings represent his social and metaphysical philosophy, not logic.

An article on Bessie Head which gives biographical information as well as a good discussion on her writing.

Learn some facts about the Western pond turtle in this book. Includes audio narration in English and Spanish with text in English.

Students practice choosing between better and best or worse and worst by rewriting sentences with the correct underlined option. This is activity 1 of 2 in the series.

Students practice choosing between better and best or worse and worst by rewriting sentences with the correct underlined option. This is activity 2 of 2 in the series.

Students will compare an informational text versus a narrative text about Earth Day. Included in this lesson are videos and pictures of the lesson in action, a printable Earth Day Venn Diagram, and a recycling activity.

The first step in writing an informational text on the topic of students' choice is helping the student choose a topic of interest. Students will brainstorm ideas that will be possible final topics.

Learning to engage in collaborative conversations allows children to learn about their world, to become familiar with words, and to build a solid foundation for the development of reading and writing skills. This lesson will model collaborative conversations and give students a chance to practice this skill. Videos of the lesson in action and a poster for the classroom are included.

This site contains 13 lesson plans that are designed to address that standards of emergent readers. Each lesson engages students in adding or substituting individual sounds (phonemes).

Students will be able to analyze literary devices by participating in a written discussion. This activity is called "Pass the Paper". Students pass a sheet of paper around the room, with each student adding on. It's just a different way to have a discussion to help students make meaning. Examples and worksheets are included.

This lesson will help students read and comprehend nonfiction, specifically biographies, through determining criteria for text complexity. Included is a PDF and Smart Notebook titled Determining Text Complexity, and an example of a student's work.