Mathematics
Box Plots and Histograms from Data
Students find a five-number summary and outliers from raw data, build a histogram from a frequency table, and read box-plot statistics.
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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.
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.
Science
Four Big Molecules of Life: Read, Sort and Match
Students read about carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids, fill in a summary table, match examples to jobs and answer short questions.
Arts
The Elements of Drama: Break Down a Play Plot
Students match the key elements of drama to their meanings, read a short invented play summary and map its plot, conflict, setting and theme.
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.