Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
In this lesson, students explore the essential questions "Who am I?" and "What makes me me?" through multimodal narrative writing. For this creative composition, students engage in preliminary reflective writing and in an up-close look at their thumbprints. Throughout this creative writing process,... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: November 12th, 2025
Thumbprint Autobiography
Students will examine the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Joffe Numeroff to learn about the conditional mood. After deconstructing, reconstructing, and creating their own conditional sentences, students will write collaborative Chain Stories in a narrative style similar to Joffe's book,... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: November 7th, 2025
Conditional Statements
In this lesson on the importance of clean water as a natural resource, students will begin by observing a polluted water source within a United States community. Next, students will explore the significance of the Ganges River and the political and religious issues that impact the ongoing struggle to... Read more »
Created by: Kristen Sublett
Date Updated: April 23rd, 2025
Ganges River Pollution
In this lesson, students will create models to simulate glacial movement. Students then will compare and contrast real glaciers with their models, learn about glacial theory, and research modern-day glaciers to find out what is happening to them. Read more »
Created by: Teresa Randall
Date Updated: September 29th, 2026
Glacial Theory and Earth's Systems