Social studies
A Tour of the Brain: Regions and Their Jobs
Students read a short passage on the brain, complete fill-in sentences with a word bank, and apply what they learned to everyday situations.
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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.
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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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Bill of Rights Scenarios: Which Right Is at Stake?
Students read about five Bill of Rights amendments, match seven made-up scenarios to the right involved, and discuss why rights have limits.
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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.
Social studies
Civic Duties vs. Civic Responsibilities: Case Studies
Students sort legal duties from voluntary responsibilities, work through three short civic case studies, and outline a plan for a community improvement project.
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Classical Conditioning Case Files: Pavlov in Everyday Life
Students label the stimuli and responses in four everyday classical conditioning cases, then match learning terms like extinction and generalization to examples.
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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.
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Coming to America, 1880–1920: Push, Pull and Two Fictional Letters
Students read about immigration in the Gilded Age, sort push and pull factors, and analyze two fictional immigrant letters written for the lesson.
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Comparative Advantage: Why Verdia and Lorand Should Trade
Students compute opportunity costs for two made-up countries, identify absolute and comparative advantage, and test whether a trade offer helps both.
Social studies
Decolonization After 1945: Paths to Independence
Students read about independence movements in Asia and Africa after World War II, match countries to former colonial rulers, order independence dates, and compare different paths to freedom.
Social studies
Federalism Sort: National, State, or Shared Power?
Students read about federalism, sort ten government powers into federal, state or shared, and reason through a made-up conflict between a state law and a federal law.