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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English language arts
Be the Peer Editor: Checklists, Kind Feedback and Fixes
Students use an editing checklist on a sample student paragraph, judge feedback comments, give two stars and a wish, and fix the errors.
Science
Body Systems Teamwork: Match the System to Its Job
Students match eight body systems to their jobs, sort organs into systems, and explain how systems cooperate during a jog.
Science
Bones, Joints and Muscle Pairs
Students read a short passage on the skeleton, sort bones into axial and appendicular groups, match joints to types and explain how muscles work in pairs.
World languages
Bonjour! French Greetings and Introductions
Students match and use basic French greetings, complete mini-dialogues from a phrase bank, and write and perform a short introduction dialogue.
Health & physical ed.
Boundaries and Safe Adults: Respect, Privacy and Who to Tell
Students learn what personal boundaries are, sort sample situations as respecting or crossing a boundary, and write a plan for who to tell when something feels wrong.
Health & physical ed.
Build a Stress Toolkit
Students learn five healthy stress-management techniques, match them to descriptions, apply them to scenarios and build a private personal toolkit.
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.
English language arts
Career Spotlight: Wildlife Rehabilitator (Summarizing)
Students read an original career article, take notes paragraph by paragraph, and practice writing a short summary.
English language arts
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: A Timed Argument Paragraph
Students read made-up survey results, identify claims, evidence and reasoning, then write a timed argument paragraph about a school break.
English language arts
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: Should the First Bell Ring Later?
Students read an original argument text about school start times, sort statements into claim, evidence and reasoning, and write their own CER paragraph.
Social studies
Climate Zones: Classifying Seven Weather Stations
Students apply simple rules to temperature and rainfall data to classify climate zones and learn how latitude and elevation affect temperature.