English language arts
The Honeybee Waggle Dance: Judge the Summary
Students read an original science article, judge three sample summaries, and then write their own summary and identify supporting details.
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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.
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.
Mathematics
The Pythagorean Theorem and Its Converse
Students find missing sides of right triangles in real-world situations and use the converse to test whether side lengths make a right triangle.
Mathematics
The Quadratic Formula and the Discriminant: Solve and Predict
Students use the discriminant to predict how many real solutions each quadratic has, solve six equations with the quadratic formula, and model a falling object.
Communications & media
Tight Headlines, Smart Captions and Copyediting
Students choose and write headlines, write captions from photo descriptions, and fix errors in sample sentences as a copy editor would.
Mathematics
Transformations on the Coordinate Plane: Slide, Flip, Turn, Resize
Students apply translation, reflection, rotation and dilation rules to the vertices of a triangle and to a point, and compare congruent and similar images.
Mathematics
Triangle Congruence and a Two-Column Proof
Students match given information to congruence shortcuts (SSS, SAS, ASA, AAS, HL), judge true/false claims, and complete the reasons in a two-column proof.
English language arts
Two Views of a Tide Pool: Comparing an Article and a Journal
Students compare an original science article and a personal journal entry about tide pools, analyzing purpose, tone and shared ideas.
Arts
Value and Shading: From Light to Dark
Students build a seven-step value scale, shade a sphere and a cube with a stated light source, and answer questions on how artists use value to show form.
Mathematics
Volume of Prisms, Cylinders, Cones and Spheres
Students sort the volume formulas and then compute volumes of prisms, cylinders, cones, spheres and a combined solid from measurements given in words.
World languages
Voy a viajar: Future Plans with Ir a
Students practice ir a + infinitive, read an original travel-plan passage, unscramble sentences and write about their own dream trip.