English language arts
Setting and the Five Senses: The Laundromat at Closing Time
Students find sensory details in a model passage, rewrite bland sentences, and describe a school location using four or more senses.
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Business & personal finance
Smart Shopper: Unit Prices, Sales, Saving Goals and Giving
Students compare unit prices and sale offers, plan how long it takes to reach a saving goal, and calculate a charitable gift with an employer match.
Science
Speed, Distance and Time: Reading a Motion Table
Students calculate speed, distance and time from word problems and read a table of a walker’s motion to find speed in each interval.
Science
Speed, Velocity and Acceleration: Motion Problem Set
Students solve one-step motion problems for speed, distance, time and acceleration, then separate speed from velocity in a short walking scenario.
Business & personal finance
Startup on Paper: Plan a Dog-Walking Business
Students complete a one-page business canvas for a fictional dog-walking startup, calculate start-up costs and payback time, then sketch a plan for their own idea.
Science
The Cell Cycle: Stages of Mitosis and Onion Root Counts
Students match descriptions to the stages of the cell cycle, then use made-up onion root tip cell counts to calculate how long a cell spends in each stage.
Social studies
The Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965: Cause-and-Effect Chain
Students use a word bank to complete a chain of events from Brown v. Board of Education to the Voting Rights Act and explain how protests and laws were connected.
Study skills & advisory
The Four-Step Decision: Work Shift or Study Night?
Students use a four-step decision model on a case about work and studying, calculate pay, score three options, and decide.
Career & technical ed.
The Math of Stopping: Reaction, Braking, and Distraction
Students use a simple model to calculate stopping distance at different speeds and find how far a car travels while the driver looks away.
Business & personal finance
The Power of Compound Interest
Students use the compound interest formula and a provided growth-factor table to compare simple and compound interest and see why starting early matters.
Social studies
Two Job Offers: Pay, Costs and Opportunity Cost
Students compare two made-up job offers by calculating annual pay, commuting costs, overtime and the value of benefits, and apply the idea of opportunity cost.
Social studies
Westward Expansion: From Louisiana to California
Students read about westward expansion from 1803 to 1849, fill in key terms, and use trail data to solve wagon-train math problems.