World languages
¿Qué Hora Es? ¿Qué Tiempo Hace? Time and Weather
Students use a reference table to match and write times, read a made-up weather report, translate weather expressions and write about the weather in Spanish.
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Arts
A Short History of Theater: From Greek Festivals to Realism
Students read an original overview of theater history and use it to complete fill-in, true/false and timeline tasks.
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.
Social studies
Age of Exploration Timeline: Five Voyages That Changed the World
Students read about five voyages from 1405 to 1522, place them on a timeline, calculate years between events, and discuss effects on the peoples involved.
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.
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.
Career & technical ed.
Careers in Food Service: Jobs, Shifts and Paychecks
Students match eight restaurant jobs to their duties, calculate pay, overtime and shift hours, and write about a career path and teamwork.
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
Deep Time: Scaling Earth’s History and Reading Rock Layers
Students shrink 4.6 billion years onto a 46-meter rope to see how recent humans are, then use a sample rock column to order layers and a fault by relative age.
Arts
Design a Concert Program: Order, Timing and Program Notes
Students plan a 30-minute concert from eight fictional pieces by following ordering rules, adding timings and writing a short program note.