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1. 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.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 19
   Celebrate Juneteenth!
   Students use the Venn Diagram to compare Juneteenth celebrations to Fourth of July celebrations and hypothesize about the differences.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 4
   It's Independence Day! Or is it?
   Students consider why there are so many different dates associated with the Declaration of Independence and why the nation's birthday is celebrated on July 4.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 15
   Latinx Heritage Month begins today.
   Students brainstorm all the various aspects of Latinx culture and compile topics to research. Groups then research topics and present their information to the class.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Let It Grow: An Inquiry-Based Organic Gardening Research Project
   Students learn about organic gardening by developing their own research questions, conducting research, gardening at their school, creating signs about their plants, and presenting their research to the class.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Let's Build a Snowman
   In this lesson, students use both fiction and nonfiction texts, the Internet, and a K-W-L chart to learn about how animals survive the winter.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Martin Luther King, Jr. and Me: Identifying with a Hero
   This lesson provides ideas for celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by encouraging students to explore the connections between Dr. King and themselves through journaling and inquiry-based research.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Myth and Truth: Independence Day
   By exploring myths and truths surrounding Independence Day, students think critically about commonly believed stories regarding the beginning of the Revolutionary War and the Independence Day holiday.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Myth and Truth: The "First Thanksgiving"
    By exploring myths surrounding the Wampanoag, the pilgrims, and the "First Thanksgiving," this lesson asks students to think critically about commonly believed myths regarding the Wampanoag Indians in colonial America.

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