English language arts
PEEL It Apart: Writing an Analytical Paragraph
Students read a short original story passage, learn the PEEL paragraph structure, and build an analytical paragraph about a character.
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Arts
Photo Composition on Paper: Thirds, Framing and Leading Lines
Students learn five composition techniques, identify them in written scene descriptions, and practice them by sketching on a grid.
Science
Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration: Two Sides of One Cycle
Students compare photosynthesis and cellular respiration with an equation organizer, sort statements by process and count atoms to see that matter is conserved.
Social studies
Physical and Human Geography: Features, Resources and Regions
Students sort features into physical and human geography, classify natural resources, and identify three types of regions.
Science
Physical or Chemical Change? Sort the Evidence
Students classify twelve everyday changes as physical or chemical, name the evidence, and apply conservation of mass to a rusting problem.
Health & physical ed.
Plan a Week With the FITT Principle
Students learn the four parts of the FITT principle, analyze a sample exercise plan, and then build their own one-week activity plan.
Health & physical ed.
Plan Your Move: Build a Weekly Physical Activity Plan
Students analyze a fictional student’s weekly activity plan, learn the FITT principle and the talk test, and design a realistic plan of their own.
Career & technical ed.
Plant Parts and Plant Needs: Match, Sort, Explain
Students read a short passage on plant parts and growth needs, match each part to its job, sort foods by the plant part we eat, and explain what a struggling plant is…
English language arts
Poetry Toolbox: Figurative Language in “Three O’Clock”
Students read an original poem, identify five types of figurative language, explain meaning and mood, then write two lines of their own poetry.
Social studies
Population Density: Calculating and Comparing Six Countries
Students calculate population density for six made-up countries, rank them, and explain how land and cities affect density.
Arts
Poster Layout Plan: Thumbnails, Hierarchy and Design Careers
Students learn layout basics, do margin and thirds math, match design careers, and plan an event poster with thumbnail sketches.
Communications & media
Press Ethics and Plagiarism: Six Case Studies
Students read short ethics cases about plagiarism, gifts, photo editing, privacy and corrections, then write a correction notice and a staff rule.