Career & technical ed.
Safe Food Temperatures: Know the Numbers
Students fill in the safe cooking, holding and cold-storage temperatures, convert them to Celsius, and work two time-in-the-danger-zone problems.
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Career & technical ed.
Simple Machines by the Numbers: Levers, Ramps and Pulleys
Students identify the six simple machines and calculate ideal mechanical advantage, effort force, work and efficiency for levers, ramps, pulleys and wheel-and-axle examples.
Science
Simple Machines: Match, Sort and Calculate
Students match everyday objects to the six simple machines, sort common tools, and calculate mechanical advantage and work for a ramp and a lever.
Health & physical ed.
SMART Goals for Healthy Habits
Students learn the SMART goal framework, identify strong goals, rewrite vague ones and build a one-page plan for a healthy habit of their choice.
Technology & computer science
Sorting by Hand: Selection Sort and Bubble Sort
Students sort a short list of numbers by hand with two sorting algorithms, record every pass in a table, and compare how much work each method does.
Health & physical ed.
Sportsmanship Case Studies: What Would You Do?
Students read four short sportsmanship situations, choose the best response, and write a class respect code.
Arts
Still Life Study: Value, Light and Overlap with Objects from the Room
Students learn how light, shadow and overlap create depth, then draw a small still life from objects in the room and evaluate their own work.
Career & technical ed.
Strengths and Interests Map: People, Things, Ideas, Data
Students rate eight everyday activities, tally their scores into four work-style groups, and reflect on what the results do and do not mean.
Business & personal finance
Taxes 101: Sales Tax, Brackets and Refunds
Students match common taxes to what they fund, calculate sales tax, work through a made-up tax bracket and decide whether a worker gets a refund.
Health & physical ed.
Team-Building Without Equipment: Communicate Clearly
Students practice clear communication through a describe-and-draw partner task and a silent line-up, then reflect in writing.
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.
English language arts
The Professional Email: Subject, Tone and Clear Requests
Students choose professional subject lines, greetings and closings, rewrite a casual email, and write an email asking a manager to swap a work shift.