Social studies
Be the Justice: Reasoning Through Made-Up Supreme Court Cases
Students learn how the Supreme Court decides cases, then analyze two made-up First Amendment cases, weigh both sides, and write their own short decisions.
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Social studies
Checks and Balances: Who Can Stop Whom?
Students match everyday-style scenarios to checks and balances, answer reasoning questions, and design a check of their own.
Communications & media
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning and Rebuttal
Students learn claim, evidence, reasoning and rebuttal on a lunch-period topic, spot four common fallacies, and write their own rebuttal and an argument for the other side.
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.
Science
Lab Report Practice: How Does Drop Height Affect Bounce?
Students analyze provided ball-drop data: identify variables, write a hypothesis, calculate means, sketch a line graph and write a claim-evidence-reasoning conclusion.
Mathematics
Normal Distribution Reasoning: Z-Scores and the 68–95–99.7 Rule
Students compute z-scores and use the empirical rule to find percentages and counts in normally distributed data.
Career & technical ed.
Reading the Road: Sign Shapes, Colors, and Who Goes First
Students match sign shapes and colors to their meanings and use safe-driving reasoning on four right-of-way scenarios.
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.
English language arts
Spot That Fallacy: Nine Faulty Arguments
Students match nine original examples to the logical fallacy each one commits, pick the sound argument, and repair a flawed one.
Social studies
The Case of the Missing Trophy: A Forensic Reasoning Puzzle
Students analyze evidence in a fictional school theft case, separate direct from circumstantial evidence, and avoid jumping to conclusions.
Career & technical ed.
Three Views of a Block Stack: Front, Right and Top
Students read number grids that show how many cubes are stacked in each spot, then work out the front view, the right-side view and the total cubes for three objects.