World languages
¿Qué Hora Es? ¿Qué Tiempo Hace? Time and Weather
Students use a reference table to match and write times, read a made-up weather report, translate weather expressions and write about the weather in Spanish.
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World languages
¿Qué te duele? Body Parts and the Doctor’s Office
Students match body-part vocabulary, practice duele and duelen, read a short doctor-and-patient dialogue, and write about what hurts.
Arts
A Short History of Theater: From Greek Festivals to Realism
Students read an original overview of theater history and use it to complete fill-in, true/false and timeline tasks.
Social studies
A Tour of the Brain: Regions and Their Jobs
Students read a short passage on the brain, complete fill-in sentences with a word bank, and apply what they learned to everyday situations.
Health & physical ed.
A Week of Screen Time: Read the Log and Do the Math
Students analyze a fictional student’s weekly screen-time log, calculate totals in minutes and hours, and design a balanced plan of their own.
Communications & media
Active Listening and Scoring a Speech with a Rubric
Students practice active listening on an original speech excerpt, then score two excerpts with a rubric and write kind, specific feedback.
Business & personal finance
Ad Detective: What Is This Ad Really Saying?
Students analyze six original, fictional ad descriptions, name the persuasion technique in each, separate claims from facts, and write their own ad concept.
English language arts
Ad Techniques: Analyzing Two Invented Advertisements
Students analyze the techniques in two original ad texts, match lines to rhetorical devices, compare audience and appeals, and write an ad of their own.
Science
Adaptations: Match the Trait to the Job
Students match animal and plant features to how they help survival, sort adaptations as structural or behavioral, and design a creature for a desert habitat.
Mathematics
Adding and Subtracting Fractions: Find the Common Denominator
Students add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators and find the mistakes in sample student work.
Career & technical ed.
Ag Math: Field Area, Acres and Crop Yield
Students use area, acre, yield and unit-conversion formulas to solve field and crop problems from a farm business.
Social studies
Age of Exploration Timeline: Five Voyages That Changed the World
Students read about five voyages from 1405 to 1522, place them on a timeline, calculate years between events, and discuss effects on the peoples involved.