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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating a Persuasive Podcast
   Students learn how to get their voice out on the web when they research issues important to them and compose a persuasive podcast to post online.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation
   Are your students easily fooled? You'll find out in this lesson in which students carefully and critically examine hoax websites to determine their validity.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Is Superman Really All That Super? Critically Exploring Superheroes
   What makes a superhero super? By comparing popular culture superheroes with heroic characters in children's literature, students learn to think critically about character traits, and consider how cultural perspectives influence the kinds of heroes we choose.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and Sound
   Movie music and magic set the scene for this lesson in which students analyze a scene from Good Morning, Vietnam and then create a scene of their own.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   On a Musical Note: Exploring Reading Strategies by Creating a Soundtrack
   Students create a soundtrack for a novel that they have read, as they engage in such traditional reading strategies as predicting, visualizing, and questioning.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Texting a Response to Lord of the Flies
   Students use Lord of the Flies to explore communication styles and techniques by writing text messages from one of the novel's characters to an imagined audience off the island.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Feature Story—Fifteen Minutes (and 500 Words) of Fame!
   Students learn how to differentiate between a news story and a feature story by writing a profile of a classmate.