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.
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Backpack Reset: Sorting Challenge and a Weekly System
Students sort ten items from a made-up backpack into four categories, evaluate study habits, and design a ten-minute weekly reset routine.
Study skills & advisory
Beat Procrastination: Case Studies and a Plan
Students read about common reasons for procrastination, analyze three short case studies, do time-planning math, and break a project into dated steps.
Study skills & advisory
Break It Down: Plan a Project Step by Step
Students break a big project into steps, add up the time needed, spread the work across four days, and make a short checklist for tomorrow.
Science
Build the Atom: Protons, Neutrons, Electrons and Isotopes
Students use atomic number and mass number to find particle counts for atoms and ions, then calculate an average atomic mass from isotope data.
Arts
Camera Vocabulary: Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO
Students learn aperture, shutter speed and ISO in plain language, choose settings for scenes, and calculate how settings change the light.
Study skills & advisory
Can You Trust It? Evaluating Sources
Students learn five questions for judging a source, apply them to four described sources about homework, rate each as strong or weak, and explain why.
Study skills & advisory
Catalog Entries and Call Numbers: Find It on the Shelf
Students read made-up library catalog entries, use the general Dewey ranges to predict where books belong, and practice putting call numbers in shelf order.
Study skills & advisory
Conflict Case File: Fix It with I-Statements
Students read a short conflict case, learn what an I-statement is, rewrite blaming statements, and plan a calm way to restart the conversation.
Mathematics
Coordinate Geometry: Distance, Midpoint and Slope
Students use the distance, midpoint and slope formulas to find lengths and centers, test whether a triangle is isosceles, and check a rectangle’s diagonals.
Study skills & advisory
Cornell Notes Practice: Sleep and Memory
Students learn the Cornell note-taking layout, take notes on an original reading about sleep and memory, and use their cue column to quiz themselves.
Study skills & advisory
Digital Citizenship: Think Before You Post
Students read about digital footprints, sort realistic online scenarios into safe and risky choices, and write their own posting rules.