Students will use text analysis strategies to summarize two significant events of the Revolutionary War—the Battle of Saratoga and the French Alliance. Then students, working in collaborative groups, will use their knowledge of these events to annotate the lyrics of the song "Guns and Ships" from the... Read more »
Battle of Saratoga and the French Alliance
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Setting and Conflict
In this lesson, students experiment with changing the settings in well-known fairy tales and examine how conflict might change in a different setting. Students explore the Prologue from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and analyze how the setting affects the conflict. After analyzing and comparing different... Read more »
Memory and the Mandela Effect
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In this high school psychology lesson, students investigate how memory works and how it can lead to shared false memories known as the Mandela Effect. Through engaging, hands-on activities, students explore the processes of memory encoding, storage, and retrieval. This multi-day lesson develops critical... Read more »
Memory and the Mandela Effect
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Though the traditional five-paragraph essay is a great foundational tool, writing beyond the traditional high school environment can take many forms. One form is known as an infographic, combining visuals with researched information. In this club activity, students gain an introduction to the infographic... Read more »
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