Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
In this lesson, students will distinguish between indicative, imperative, and interrogative sentences. Students will act out different types of sentences and write their own sentences in indicative, imperative, and interrogative mood. While this lesson is currently aligned only to 8th grade standards,... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Indicative, Imperative, Interrogative Mood
In this lesson, students will learn about paleontologists who have helped shape our understanding of organisms’ evolutionary history. They will research and evaluate evidence that scientists have used to construct and continually use to reconstruct evolutionary history and environmental pressures that... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: August 29th, 2024
Geographical Landforms and Waterforms
This lesson is about physical geography in the United States and focuses on major landforms and their features. Students will start by reviewing what they already know about landforms with a fun game called Kahoot. They will then create a model of an assigned landform using paper mache. After that,... Read more »
Created by: Kallie Patrick
Date Updated: March 14th, 2024
Geographical Landforms and Waterforms
Discerning the Reliability and Credibility of Sources
In this lesson, students practice determining the relevance, reliability, and validity of information gathered while researching well-known urban legends. Students analyze the quality, usefulness, and accuracy of the sources they find using a provided framework. As their final product, students construct... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: February 22nd, 2024
Discerning the Reliability and Credibility of Sources