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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A-B-C: It's Easy as 1-2-3 to Make Math Alphabet Books
   Using the Alphabet Organizer app, students create alphabet books to review math terms.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
   Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   11 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Blast from the Past with Nuclear Chemistry
   After researching the history and basic facts of a nuclear chemistry topic, students utilize the Web 2.0 tool Timetoast to create an electronic timeline that they use to present their research to the class.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A "Brief, Urgent Message": Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five
   As a culminating activity for Slaughterhouse-Five, students make a compilation album (a CD with 6-8 tracks) that reflects their analysis, understanding, and reaction to the ideas in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Case for Reading - Examining Challenged and Banned Books
   Students examine books, selected from the American Library Association Challenged/Banned Books list, and write persuasive pieces expressing their views about what should be done with the books at their school.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs
   This lesson makes a connection to popular culture by asking students to research and analyze contemporary and historic protest songs and to catalogue them in a class wiki.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Acrostic Poems: All About Me and My Favorite Things
   Students create acrostic poems using their names and the names of things that are important to them.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Action Is Character: Exploring Character Traits with Adjectives
   Students must "become" a character in a novel in order to describe themselves and other characters using powerful adjectives.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
   This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They choose important quotations from the text and work in groups to formulate "quiz" questions that their peers will answer.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    A Daily DEAR Program: Drop Everything, and Read!
    The teacher shouts, "Drop Everything and Read!" and students settle into their seats to read books they've selected. This independent reading program helps students build a lifelong reading habit.

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