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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Campaigning for Fair Use: Public Service Announcements on Copyright Awareness
   Students explore a range of resources on fair use and copyright then design their own audio public service announcements (PSAs), to be broadcast over the school's public address system.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
   Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make text–self–world connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.
   
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Exploring Author's Voice Using Jane Addams Award-Winning Books
   History has many faces in this lesson in which students read Jane Addams Award-winning books to learn about peace, social justice, world community, and equality.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Fighting Injustice by Studying Lessons of the Past
   Social injustice occurs every day all over the world. In this lesson, students research a few historical examples of social injustice, including the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, and Japanese internment.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Investigating the Holocaust: A Collaborative Inquiry Project
   Students explore a variety of resources as they learn about the Holocaust. Working collaboratively, they investigate the materials, prepare oral responses, and produce a topic-based newspaper to complete their research.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Scaffolding Methods for Research Paper Writing
   In this lesson, students use a scaffold to help them compile information to write a solid research paper.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   The Big, Bad Wolf...Is This a Fact?
   Reading is revamped in this lesson in which students use a multimedia approach to study the books by Seymour Simon.