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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 11
   Amelia Earhart completed her solo flight from Honolulu to Oakland in 1935.
   Students explore the definition of a hero and use the interactive Venn diagram to identify the most common characteristics of a hero.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Recipe for Writing: Fairy Tale Feasts
   After examining recipes written based on students' favorite fairy tales, students research a recipe related to their favorite story, book, or fairy tale and include it in a classroom recipe book.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 15
   Beware the Ides of March!
   Students discuss and categorize superstitions, define a superstition, and compare the similarities and difference between proverbs and superstitions.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters
   Imagine if vocabulary could come alive with the click of a button! Students create video posters to demonstrate knowledge of new economics vocabulary.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 11
   Children's author Patricia Polacco was born in 1944.
   Students share family stories of their own by writing original poems and reviewing parts of speech using the Diamante Poems tool.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Printout  |  Graphic Organizer
   Connection Web
   Students use this printout to expand on connections they have made to a text and use those details to write essays or create projects about the text.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating Family Timelines: Graphing Family Memories and Significant Events
   Students interview family members, and then create graphic family timelines based on important and memorable family events.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 23
   Diarist Samuel Pepys was born.
   Students write diary entries and revisit the entries as if it were a hundred years from now. Students then brainstorm and write paragraphs about life in the 21st century.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Printout  |  Graphic Organizer
   Double-Entry Journal
   This printout helps students record ideas and situations from texts in one column, and their reactions in the second, thus making a connection between the text and themselves, another text, or the world.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan
    Exploring Cost and Savings Using Children's Literature
    Students make sense of dollars and cents when they study the importance of saving and budgeting in this lesson.

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