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¿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.

¿Qué te duele? Body Parts and the Doctor’s Office

Students match body-part vocabulary, practice duele and duelen, read a short doctor-and-patient dialogue, and write about what hurts.

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.

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.

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.

Active Listening and Scoring a Speech with a Rubric

Students practice active listening on an original speech excerpt, then score two excerpts with a rubric and write kind, specific feedback.

Ad Detective: What Is This Ad Really Saying?

Students analyze six original, fictional ad descriptions, name the persuasion technique in each, separate claims from facts, and write their own ad concept.

Ad Techniques: Analyzing Two Invented Advertisements

Students analyze the techniques in two original ad texts, match lines to rhetorical devices, compare audience and appeals, and write an ad of their own.

Adaptations: Match the Trait to the Job

Students match animal and plant features to how they help survival, sort adaptations as structural or behavioral, and design a creature for a desert habitat.

Adding and Subtracting Fractions: Find the Common Denominator

Students add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators and find the mistakes in sample student work.

Ag Math: Field Area, Acres and Crop Yield

Students use area, acre, yield and unit-conversion formulas to solve field and crop problems from a farm business.

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.

Anatomy of an Editorial: Claim, Counterargument and Rebuttal

Students take apart an original editorial about a graduation requirement, label its claim, reasons, counterargument and rebuttal, and evaluate how convincing it is.

Angle Pairs: Complementary, Supplementary, Vertical

Students learn the four basic angle-pair relationships, then write and solve equations to find missing angle measures and catch mistakes in sample work.

Angle Relationships: Find the Missing Measure

Students use complementary, supplementary, vertical, triangle and parallel-line angle facts to find missing angles and correct sample work.

Any Novel: Character Map and Evidence Chart

Students build a character profile and relationship chart for a main character in any novel they are reading, with evidence from the text.

Any Novel: Plot Diagram and Prediction Log

Students map the plot of any novel they are reading, log predictions with text clues, and analyze conflict and cause and effect.

Architecture on Paper: Scale Drawings, Floor Plans and Elevations

Students learn how architects use scale, solve scale conversion problems, and sketch a floor plan and a front elevation.

Area and Perimeter of Rectangles, Triangles and Combined Shapes

Students match shapes to area formulas, then find area and perimeter of rectangles, triangles, trapezoids, rhombuses and combined shapes described in words.

Area and Perimeter: Fences, Floors and Fixing Mistakes

Students find area and perimeter of rectangles, triangles, parallelograms and an L-shaped room, then correct sample mistakes.

Arithmetic Sequences and Linear Growth

Students find common differences, extend arithmetic sequences, use aₙ = a₁ + (n − 1)d, and model plant growth and savings with linear equations.

Art Movements Field Guide: Six Big Ideas

Students use a field-guide table to learn six major art movements, solve matching clues and sketch the same object in Impressionist-inspired and Cubist-inspired styles.

Backpack Reset: Sorting Challenge and a Weekly System

Students sort ten items from a made-up backpack into four categories, evaluate study habits, and design a ten-minute weekly reset routine.

Balancing Chemical Equations: Count, Adjust, Check

Students balance eight chemical equations by changing coefficients only, count atoms in a table, and judge sample balancing attempts.

Be the Computer: Tracing Variables and Loops

Students trace short programs by hand, tracking how variables change inside for loops, while loops and an if statement.

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.

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.

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.

Better Interview Questions: Open, Closed and Leading

Students sort sample questions into open, closed and leading types, rewrite weak questions, write follow-ups, and plan an interview with an invented bus driver.

Beyond Dominant and Recessive: Snapdragons and Blood Types

Students use Punnett squares to explore incomplete dominance in snapdragon flowers and codominance in human ABO blood types.

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.

Binary Numbers: Counting with Only 0 and 1

Students convert between binary and decimal using a place-value chart, decode a secret word, and add two binary numbers.

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.

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.

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.

Boot Verbs: Stem-Changing Verbs in the Present Tense

Students conjugate common stem-changing verbs (querer, poder, pensar, dormir), complete sentences, and write short original sentences in Spanish.

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.

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.

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.

Break-Even Point: How Many Candles Must Corner Candle Co. Sell?

Students use a formula to find the break-even point for a fictional candle business, build a profit table, and test what happens when price or costs change.

Bug Hunt: Debugging Printed Code

Students read six short Python-style programs, match each to a type of bug, and write a corrected line.

Build a First Resume from a Fact Sheet

Students read a made-up fact sheet and turn it into strong resume bullets, then fix weak bullets and write one about themselves.

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.

Build the Atom: Protons, Neutrons, Electrons and Isotopes

Students use atomic number and mass number to find particle counts for atoms and ions, then calculate an average atomic mass from isotope data.

Building a Speech: Hook, Preview, Body and Close

Students put a scrambled speech back in order, label its parts, and write their own hook, thesis and conclusion on paper.

Building Major Scales with Whole and Half Steps

Students use the whole-step and half-step pattern to build G, D and A major scales from a list of the twelve note names.

Cafeteria Waste Audit: Percent, Recycling and Diversion

Students analyze a sample school cafeteria waste audit, calculating percentages, recycling and diversion rates, and yearly totals, then propose a waste reduction plan.

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.

Can You Trust It? Evaluating Sources

Students learn five questions for judging a source, apply them to four described sources about homework, rate each as strong or weak, and explain why.

Can You Trust This Source? Rating Five Sources

Students rate five invented sources about one school claim, match key source-evaluation terms, and plan how to verify a rumor.

Car Loan Math: What Does the Car Really Cost?

Students compare 48-, 60- and 72-month loan offers for the same car and calculate total cost, interest paid and affordability.

Career Spotlight: Wildlife Rehabilitator (Summarizing)

Students read an original career article, take notes paragraph by paragraph, and practice writing a short summary.

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.

Careers in Music: More Than Performing

Students read about eight music careers, match jobs to descriptions, answer questions about training and plan two careers they might explore.

Careers in the Trades: Compare Four Profiles

Students read four made-up profiles of workers in the skilled trades, compare training paths and daily tasks, solve two on-the-job math problems, and reflect on which path interests them.

Caring for Your Instrument and Your Voice: Habits and Routines

Students read about instrument care, vocal health and performance routines, judge good and risky habits, and plan their own routine.

Catalog Entries and Call Numbers: Find It on the Shelf

Students read made-up library catalog entries, use the general Dewey ranges to predict where books belong, and practice putting call numbers in shelf order.

Character Analysis: What Do Actions Reveal About Imani?

Students read an original backstage scene and use the character’s words, actions and stage directions as evidence to analyze her traits and motivation.

Character Creation: Build Someone Worth Reading About

Students fill in a character profile, match traits to showing details, and write the opening of a story about their new character.

Character Design Sheet: Shapes, Silhouettes and Expressions

Students learn how shape language, silhouette and expression shape a character, then design an original character on a design sheet.

Checking Account Register: Keep the Balance Straight

Students fill in a running balance in a check register, reconcile it with a bank statement, and work out an overdraft fee and savings interest.

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.

Choosing the Right Material: Reading a Properties Table

Students learn key material-property terms, read a properties table, calculate mass from density, and choose the best material for three design requirements.

Circles: Circumference, Area, Arc Length and Sectors

Students compute circumference, area, arc length and sector area from radius, diameter and central angle, and solve real-world circle problems.

Circuit Diagrams and Ohm’s Law on Paper

Students match circuit symbols described in words to their parts, then use Ohm’s law, series and parallel rules and the power formula to solve paper circuit problems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Classification: Use a Dichotomous Key

Students use a printed dichotomous key to identify eight animals from descriptions, learn how scientific names work and write a short key of their own.

Classification: Using a Dichotomous Key and Naming Organisms

Students use a paper dichotomous key to identify five animal groups and use scientific names to decide which organisms are most closely related.

Classroom Objects and Colors: El o La, Rojo o Roja?

Students learn ten classroom nouns and basic colors, sort nouns by gender, choose articles, make colors agree with nouns, and fix errors in sample sentences.

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.

Color Theory on Paper: Wheel, Schemes and Mood

Students use a reading, fill-in questions and sorting tables to learn primary, secondary and tertiary colors, complements, analogous colors and warm and cool colors.

Color Wheel and Mood: Choosing a Palette

Students learn color wheel vocabulary, match palettes to moods and businesses, and draw a six-part color wheel.

Color Wheel Lab on Paper: Mixing Chart and Labeled Wheel

Students complete a color-mixing chart, practice color vocabulary, and draw and label a 12-part color wheel using words or colored pencils.

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.

Comma Clinic: Lists, Introductions and Compound Sentences

Students learn three comma rules, add commas to eight sentences, answer two multiple-choice questions and judge three sentences in an error-detective table.

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.

Completing the Square: Perfect Squares and Vertex Form

Students find the missing term of perfect-square trinomials, solve three equations by completing the square, and rewrite a parabola in vertex form.

Complex Numbers: The Cycle of i and Complex Arithmetic

Students discover the repeating pattern of powers of i, then add, subtract, multiply and divide complex numbers.

Composition Case Files: Balance, Focal Point and Flow

Students decode five short descriptions of imaginary artworks to name the design principles, then sketch two thumbnail compositions and critique an example.

Concert Etiquette: Be a Great Audience and a Great Performer

Students read a short guide to concert behavior, judge eight scenarios, answer questions and write an audience guide for a school concert.

Conflict Case File: Fix It with I-Statements

Students read a short conflict case, learn what an I-statement is, rewrite blaming statements, and plan a calm way to restart the conversation.

Context Clue Detectives: The Lighthouse Keeper

Students read an original story, use context clues to work out eight vocabulary words, and use the words in sentences.

Contour Drawing: Slow Looking at Your Own Hand

Students learn what contour drawing is, practice blind and modified contour drawings of their own hand, and score their work with a short rubric.

Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity: Critique the Flyer

Students learn four core design principles, diagnose problems in written descriptions of flawed flyers, and sketch a fixed layout.

Coordinate Geometry: Distance, Midpoint and Slope

Students use the distance, midpoint and slope formulas to find lengths and centers, test whether a triangle is isosceles, and check a rectangle’s diagonals.

Copyright and Fair Use: What Can You Use?

Students learn copyright, public domain, licenses and the four fair-use factors, then sort real-life scenarios and explain safer choices.

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.

Corner Toss: Read the Rules, Score the Game, Plan Strategy

Students read the rules of a made-up team game, score a sample game, and plan strategy and a safety rule.

Counting Beats: Note Values and Full Measures in 4/4

Students learn how many beats each note and rest gets in 4/4, add up written rhythms to see which measures are full, and fix the ones that are not.

Cover Letter Paragraph: Match Your Skills to the Job

Students study a made-up job posting and applicant, fix a weak cover-letter paragraph and write the opening, body and closing of a short cover letter.

Credit Scores and Credit Card Interest

Students match credit score factors, calculate credit utilization, and track a credit card balance for three months at a made-up 24% APR.

Cross-Contamination: Stop the Spread

Students read about how germs spread between foods, match six kitchen mistakes to the right fix, order refrigerator shelves, and judge true-or-false statements.

Cuando era niña: Imperfect Tense Memories

Students learn the imperfect endings, read a short original childhood memory, and complete true/false, matching, fill-in and writing tasks.

Cut the Clutter: Revising for Concision and Voice

Students match wordy phrases to concise versions, cut redundant sentences, switch passive to active voice and rewrite a flat sentence with vivid voice.

Cyber Defenders: Passwords, Phishing and Careers

Students learn how defenders protect accounts, calculate why longer passwords are harder to guess, spot warning signs in sample messages, and match computing careers to their jobs.

Dame direcciones: Tú Commands and City Places

Students follow Spanish directions on a block map to find city places, form tú commands, and write their own directions.

Days, Months and Dates: My Week in Spanish

Students use a Spanish calendar chart, answer sequencing questions, write dates in the Spanish day/month order, and read a short original passage about a weekly schedule.

Decimal Operations: The Class Store Price List

Students use a price list to add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals in shopping problems and correct sample mistakes.

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.

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.

Delivery Matters: Voice, Pace, Eye Contact and Gestures

Students read observer notes on two delivery styles, match delivery problems to fixes, and mark up a short script with pauses and emphasis.

Density Detective: Mass, Volume and Kinds of Matter

Students sort samples of matter into elements, compounds and mixtures, then use mass and volume to calculate density and identify unknown metals.

Density Detectives: Mass, Volume and Floating

Students use provided mass and volume data to calculate density, predict floating or sinking, and solve density problems.

Der, die, das: German Gender and Plurals

Students sort German nouns by gender, use ein and eine, match singular nouns to their plurals, and write sentences with Das ist ein/eine.

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.

Design Day: Sketch a Set and Costume for The Night Market

Students read an original play premise and design a set, a costume and a mood on paper, explaining their choices as a designer would.

Design Process Challenge: Fix the Crowded Bike Rack

Students learn the engineering design process by defining a school bike-parking problem, sorting criteria from constraints, scoring three designs in a decision matrix, and sketching their own.

Dialogue Punctuation: Who Said What, and Where Do the Quotation Marks Go?

Students learn six dialogue-punctuation rules, choose the correctly punctuated sentences, fix four errors, and write a short conversation of their own.

Dialogue That Sounds Real: Punctuation, Tags and Action Beats

Students fix punctuation errors in sample dialogue, learn action beats, and write a short conversation in which one character wants something.

Digital Citizenship: Think Before You Post

Students read about digital footprints, sort realistic online scenarios into safe and risky choices, and write their own posting rules.

Digital Footprint Detectives: Two Students, Two Footprints

Students read a case study about two fictional students’ online habits, complete a word-bank activity, sort sample posts, and write a pause-before-posting checklist.

DNA Structure and Replication: Build the Matching Strand

Students learn base-pairing rules, build complementary DNA strands, solve base-percentage puzzles and trace how DNA replication copies a molecule.

Earth’s Biomes: Match the Climate to the Place

Students use a biome reference table to match climate clues, plants and animals to six major land biomes.

Ein Tag mit Jonas: Read and Answer in German

Students read a short original German passage about one boy’s day, answer comprehension questions, match times with activities, and write about their own day.

En la tienda de ropa: Clothes, Prices and Change

Students match clothing vocabulary, read a short original shopping dialogue, and solve price and change problems posed in Spanish.

Energy Flow in an Ecosystem: Food Chains and the 10% Rule

Students classify organisms as producers or consumers, calculate energy passed along a food chain using the 10% rule and predict the effects of removing one species.

Energy Forms and Transfers: Follow the Energy

Students read about energy forms and conservation, trace energy transfers in six devices, and calculate wasted energy and efficiency.

Ethos, Pathos, Logos: Dissecting a Town Council Speech

Students read an original speech to a town council, label each sentence as ethos, pathos or logos, and write appeals of their own.

Être et avoir: Two Verbs You Cannot Skip

Students complete conjugation tables for être and avoir, choose and fill in forms in context, and translate short English sentences into French.

Evidence for Evolution: Bones, Fossils and DNA Differences

Students sort evidence for evolution into types, interpret a made-up DNA-difference table to rank how closely related animals are, and explain homologous and vestigial structures.

Exponent Rules and Scientific Notation Workshop

Students apply exponent rules, convert between standard and scientific notation, multiply in scientific notation and solve a travel-time problem.

Exponent Rules: Simplify, Match, and Fix the Mistakes

Students simplify expressions with the product, quotient, power, zero and negative exponent rules, match rules to examples, and fix common errors.

Exponential Growth, Decay and Logarithms: Lab Data Case Study

Students use a bacteria-growth case study, a half-life problem and compound interest to practice exponential functions, then connect exponents and logarithms.

Expressions and One-Step Equations: Words to Symbols

Students match word phrases to algebraic expressions, evaluate an expression, and solve one-step equations from word problems.

Fabric and Sewing Vocabulary: Read, Sort, Measure

Students read a short passage on fibers and fabric, fill in key sewing terms, sort fibers by source, and solve three yardage and seam problems.

Fact or Opinion? News Brief vs. Editorial

Students compare a neutral news brief with an editorial, sort statements into fact and opinion, and rewrite opinion as checkable fact.

Factoring Basics: GCF, Trinomials, and Zero Products

Students factor out the GCF, factor simple trinomials and differences of squares, solve quadratics with the zero-product rule, and find factoring errors.

Factoring Trinomials: Factor, Expand and Catch the Error

Students factor eight quadratic expressions, check by expanding, and find the mistakes in three sample factorizations.

Farm and Shop Safety: Spot the Hazards

Students read a made-up farm shop scene and a sample chemical label, identify hazards, explain what could go wrong and choose safer actions.

Farm to Table: Food Supply Chain and Price Math

Students follow a loaf of bread from wheat field to store shelf, calculate how the price grows at each stage and explain why, and weigh local food choices.

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.

Feed Ratios and Rations: Ag Math Problem Set

Students use ratios, percents and unit rates to solve feed-mix, daily-ration, cost and feed-efficiency problems for a made-up beef feeding operation.

Feelings Thermometer: A Calm-Down Toolkit

Students rank feeling words from mild to strong, match calming strategies to how they work, and make a personal plan for a tough moment.

FFA History, Emblem and Motto: Match and Recall

Students read about the history and symbols of the FFA, match dates and emblem symbols, complete the motto, and explain the three parts of agricultural education.

Finding Slope from Two Points

Students calculate slope from pairs of points, interpret positive, negative, zero and undefined slopes, complete a table, and find a mistake in sample work.

First Aid Basics: Read, Sort and Decide (Reading Only)

Students read about basic first aid, match first-aid kit items to uses, put helping steps in order and decide which situations need an emergency call.

Five Art Movements at a Glance: Reading and Fact-Finder

Students read a short overview of Renaissance, Impressionism, Cubism, Pop Art and street art, then fill in a fact table and answer questions.

Follow the Supply Chain: From Farm to Shelf

Students sequence the steps of a fictional trail mix supply chain, calculate lead times, and work out what a delivery delay does to store inventory.

Following the Flow: Reading and Designing Flowcharts

Students trace two flowcharts written as numbered boxes, predict outputs for different inputs, and plan a flowchart of their own.

Food Webs and the 10% Rule: Following the Energy

Students read about energy flow, learn the vocabulary of food chains, and use the 10% rule to calculate how much energy reaches each level of an energy pyramid.

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.

Four Career Clusters: Read the Profiles and Compare

Students read four short career cluster profiles, fill in a comparison chart, and match students to the cluster that fits their interests.

Four Composers, Four Eras: Mini-Biographies and Timelines

Students read four short original biographies, fill in a comparison table, calculate gaps between dates and write a short radio introduction for one composer.

Four River Valley Civilizations: Read and Compare

Students read about Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley and Shang China, fill in a comparison chart, and explain why rivers helped early civilizations grow.

Four Sentence Types: Statements, Questions, Commands and Exclamations

Students identify the four sentence types, add end marks, rewrite sentences into new types and write one of each about a school field day.

Free Fall and Projectile Motion: Two Directions, One Clock

Students solve free-fall and horizontal-launch problems, complete a motion table that tracks horizontal and vertical motion, and compare weight on Earth and the Moon.

Free-Body Diagrams: Draw the Forces, Find the Net Force

Students add and subtract forces to find net force, then draw and label free-body diagrams for five situations and calculate weight, tension and acceleration.

Friendly Letter Workshop: Parts, Punctuation and a Thank-You Note

Students match the five parts of a friendly letter, fix greeting and closing punctuation, and write a thank-you letter to someone who helped them.

From DNA to Protein: Decode the Gene

Students transcribe a DNA strand into mRNA, decode it with a codon table, and predict how a single-base change affects the protein.

From Gross to Net: Reading a Paycheck Stub

Students calculate payroll deductions on two example paychecks and find take-home pay, including overtime.

From Idea to Law: How a Bill Becomes a Law

Students learn the main steps of how a federal bill becomes law, then order the steps and solve short scenarios.

From Vague Wish to SMART Goal

Students learn the SMART goal checklist, rewrite vague goals, and build a step-by-step plan for one personal goal.

From Wish to Plan: Writing SMART Goals

Students learn the SMART goal checklist, turn vague wishes into clear goals, do simple planning math, and write one goal of their own.

Fueling Athletes: Food, Water and Timing

Students learn the basic jobs of carbohydrates, protein, fat and water for athletes, sort foods by main nutrient, and plan a game-day eating schedule.

Function Machines: Parameters, Arguments and Return Values

Students trace short Python-style functions on paper, match key vocabulary, and write two small functions of their own.

Function Notation: What Does f(x) Mean?

Students evaluate functions written in f(x) notation, complete a function table, solve for an input, judge true/false statements, and apply a taxi-fare function.

Gas Laws by the Numbers: Pressure, Volume and Temperature

Students apply Boyle’s, Charles’s, Gay-Lussac’s and ideal gas relationships to numerical problems and explain which direction each variable moves.

GDP Basics: Measuring the Economy of Zandria

Students use the expenditure formula to compute GDP, growth and GDP per person for a made-up economy, and decide what counts in GDP.

Global Trade: Exchange Rates, Comparative Advantage and Tariffs

Students convert a made-up currency, compute opportunity costs for two made-up countries to find comparative advantage, and examine a tariff from both sides.

Gratitude Map and Kindness Notes

Students map what they are thankful for, practice writing a specific thank-you note, and plan small acts of kindness for the week.

Greek and Latin Roots: Decode New Words

Students use a reference chart of common Greek and Latin roots to match, complete and invent vocabulary words.

Groups, Norms, and Sanctions: How Society Shapes Behavior

Students learn key sociology terms for groups, norms, and sanctions, then apply them to everyday and legal examples.

Growing Up: Piaget’s Stages and Erikson’s Challenges

Students complete a table of Piaget’s four stages, match Erikson’s life challenges to examples and apply both theories to scenarios.

Growth Mindset: Reframe the Thought

Students read a short story about learning a hard skill, match fixed-mindset thoughts to growth-minded reframes, and write a reframe plus a note to their future selves.

Hallo! German Greetings and Numbers 0–20

Students match German greetings, write numbers 0–20 in German, solve simple math in German words, and write a short introduction dialogue.

Handle It: Written Customer Service Role-Plays

Students rate three sample replies to an upset customer using a four-step checklist, apply a return policy, write their own reply, and peer-review a partner’s reply.

Healthy Friendships and Fair Fights: Flags and Conflict Steps

Students classify friendship behaviors as green or red flags, put six conflict-resolution steps in order, and rewrite blaming statements as I-statements.

Heart and Circulation: Follow the Blood and Do the Math

Students trace the path of blood through the heart and body with a word bank, calculate heart rates and cardiac output from provided data, and answer questions about vessels.

Hola, ¿Cómo Te Llamas? Greetings and Introductions

Students match common Spanish greetings to English, read and answer questions about a short original dialogue, complete fill-ins, translate, and write their own introduction dialogue.

Homeostasis Case Study: Staying in Balance on a Hot Walk

Students read a case study, complete a negative-feedback loop, analyze sample temperature and blood sugar data, and explain homeostasis with an analogy.

Honey Bees at Work: Read, Check and Write in Chunks

Students learn four key words, read a short article in three chunks with a check after each, fill in a main-idea organizer, and write using sentence frames.

How a Bill Becomes a Law: Follow the Path

Students order the steps a bill takes through Congress, fill in key terms, and work out the vote counts needed to pass a bill or override a veto.

How a Message Crosses the Internet

Students read a short passage on how the internet works, rebuild a message from scrambled packets, and sequence the steps of loading a web page.

How Bats Find Their Way in the Dark: Main Idea and Cause and Effect

Students read an original science article about echolocation and answer questions on main idea, evidence and cause and effect.

How Elections Work: From Registration to Inauguration

Students put the steps of a presidential election in order, then calculate vote totals, percentages, and electoral-vote targets in made-up races.

How Memory Works: Reading the Forgetting Curve

Students read about memory stages, analyze a provided forgetting-curve data table, sketch the curve and plan a study schedule.

How the Writer Built It: Text Structure in a Passage About Honeybees

Students read an original informational passage about honeybee communication and identify the structure and purpose of each paragraph.

How to Critique Art: Describe, Analyze, Interpret, Judge

Students match art vocabulary to definitions and write a four-step critique of a painting described in words.

How Your Body Moves: Muscles and Joints

Students learn the main muscles and joint types behind everyday movements and connect each action to the muscle that does the work.

Human Body Systems: How the Team Works Together

Students match organs to body systems, trace the path of oxygen through the body and explain how several systems cooperate during exercise.

Impromptu Planning and Calming Speaking Nerves

Students learn two quick frameworks for impromptu speaking, plan timed outlines for everyday prompts, and match general nerve-calming strategies to their effects.

Industrial Revolution Case Study: A Family Moves to the Mill Town

Students read a case study about a fictional family in the early Industrial Revolution, complete a cause-and-effect chart, and weigh benefits and costs of industrialization.

Inflation and Purchasing Power: A Five-Item Price Basket

Students compare a made-up price basket across two years, calculate inflation and a price index, and see why wages must keep up with prices.

Inform or Persuade? Sorting Speech Excerpts and Appeals

Students sort original speech excerpts into informative and persuasive, match three persuasion appeals, and write a thesis for each purpose.

Informative Paragraph: From Fact Cards to Finished Writing

Students sort eight fact cards about honeybee colonies into useful and off-topic, then turn the useful facts into a well-organized informative paragraph.

Inside the Atom: Protons, Neutrons and the Periodic Table

Students use a short reading and provided data to fill in proton, neutron and electron counts for six elements and learn how the periodic table is organized.

Inside the Court System: Roles, Criminal vs. Civil, and Levels of Court

Students learn who does what in a courtroom, the difference between criminal and civil cases, and how trial and appeals courts differ.

Insurance Basics: Premiums, Deductibles and Claims

Students match insurance terms, work out who pays what in health, auto and renters claims, and compare two policies.

Integers on the Number Line: Temperatures, Depths and Balances

Students order integers, find absolute value, and add and subtract integers in temperature, depth and money situations.

Intervals: Measuring the Distance Between Two Notes

Students name intervals by counting letter names and half steps, then build notes above a given note.

Interview Answers That Tell a Story (the STAR Method)

Students learn the STAR method for interview answers, label the parts of a sample answer, and write their own.

Investing Basics: Stocks, Bonds, Index Funds and Diversification

Students learn the basic types of investments, compare a concentrated and a diversified portfolio using made-up returns, and see how fees add up.

Ionic, Polar or Nonpolar? Using Electronegativity to Classify Bonds

Students subtract electronegativity values to classify ten bonds as ionic, polar covalent or nonpolar covalent and count valence electrons in four molecules.

Is It Proportional? Tables, Constants and Rates

Students test tables for a constant ratio, find the constant of proportionality, write y = kx and solve rate word problems.

Is It Reliable? Sorting News and Online Sources

Students rate six described sources for reliability, sort fact from opinion, and rewrite a misleading headline.

Is It Right? Three Business Ethics Cases

Students study three short fictional business situations, identify stakeholders, weigh options, and defend a decision using an ethics checklist.

Is That Professional? Workplace Etiquette Case Files

Students judge short workplace scenarios about being on time, honesty, phones, and teamwork, and explain what a better choice looks like.

Is This Source Reliable? Judge Three Sample Websites

Students compare written descriptions of three fictional websites using author, evidence, date and purpose, and decide which are reliable.

Key Signatures Decoded: Sharps, Flats and Major Keys

Students use the order of sharps and flats and two simple rules to name major keys from their key signatures, then find and fix mistakes in sample student work.

Keyboarding Theory: Home Row, Posture and Typing Speed Math

Students learn finger assignments, ergonomics and the typing speed formula, then practice home-row finger placement silently on the desk.

Kitchen Measurements: Teaspoons to Gallons

Students use a table of kitchen equivalents to convert between teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, pints, quarts, gallons and ounces and solve real recipe questions.

Kitchen Safety Snapshots: Safe or Unsafe?

Students judge eight short kitchen scenes as safe or unsafe, write the fix for each unsafe habit, and answer questions about fires, knives and handwashing.

Kitchen Tools: Match the Tool to the Job

Students match ten kitchen tools to their jobs, sort tools into categories, and answer questions about measuring and safe storage.

La famille Dubois: Read and Answer

Students read a short original French passage about a family, answer comprehension questions, match family words, and write about their own family.

La rutina diaria: Reflexive Verbs in Order

Students learn reflexive pronouns, put a character’s daily routine in time order, and write about their own mornings in Spanish.

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.

Latitude and Longitude: Finding Cities by Coordinates

Students use a table of city coordinates to name hemispheres, identify mystery cities, and calculate degree differences.

Laundry Labels and Sorting Loads

Students decode six care-label phrases, sort ten clothing items into laundry loads using given rules, and calculate laundromat costs.

Layers of the Earth: Journey to the Center

Students use a data table to learn the four layers of Earth, convert real distances to a paper scale model, and judge how far humans have drilled.

Le passé composé: Introduction with Avoir

Students build the passé composé with avoir, form past participles of -er and a few irregular verbs, translate short sentences, and find errors in sample work.

Le, la, l’, les: French Articles and Gender

Students sort French classroom nouns by gender, choose the correct definite and indefinite articles, and fix wrong articles in error-spotting practice.

Leading and Communicating at Work: Fix the Team Email

Students learn three leadership styles, apply teamwork ideas to short scenarios, critique a rude workplace email, and rewrite it professionally.

Les nombres et l’heure: Numbers to 60 and Telling Time

Students write French numbers up to 60, solve simple arithmetic written in French words, and match digital times to French sentences.

Les verbes en -er: What I Like at School

Students conjugate regular -er verbs (parler, aimer, jouer), complete sentences, match school subjects, and write about what they like and dislike.

Limits on Paper: Tables, Patterns, Algebra

Students estimate limits from tables of values, compare left and right limits, and find limits by substitution and factoring.

Line Language: Types, Moods and a Line Sampler

Students learn six kinds of line, link each to a mood, and fill a line sampler and two mood drawings with pencil.

Lists and Index Numbers: Counting from Zero

Students read and trace Python-style lists, use index numbers starting at zero, and predict what happens when a list changes.

Literal Equations: Solving Formulas for Any Variable

Students rearrange familiar formulas to isolate a chosen variable, apply them to real numbers, and match formulas to their rearranged forms.

Livestock Terms and the Ruminant Stomach: Sort and Match

Students learn the names of male, female and young farm animals, match special livestock terms, and learn the four compartments of a ruminant stomach.

Lo, La, Los, Las: Replace the Noun

Students match nouns to direct object pronouns, rewrite sentences with lo, la, los and las, and find the error in a sample sentence.

Loads and Structures: Tension, Compression and Safety Factors

Students learn tension, compression, dead and live loads, safety factors and how a beam shares a load between supports, then solve short structure calculations with units.

Logo Concepts: Six Types and a Page of Thumbnails

Students learn six logo types and what makes a good logo, then sketch six thumbnail ideas for a fictional tutoring business.

Logo Lab: Design a Mark for an Imaginary Business

Students learn six logo types and design principles, brainstorm for an imaginary business, sketch thumbnails, finish one logo and critique it with a rubric.

Loud, Soft, Fast, Slow: Dynamics and Tempo Terms

Students read a short glossary of Italian dynamic and tempo terms, match them to their meanings, rank them from soft to loud and slow to fast, and plan the markings for an…

Louis Braille and the Six-Dot Code: Sequence and Cause and Effect

Students read an original informational text about the invention of braille, build a timeline, and match causes to effects.

Major and Minor Triads: Build the Chords

Students build major and minor triads by counting half steps, then match chord symbols to names and spell the chords of a simple progression.

Mali Empire and Mansa Musa: Gold, Salt and Sources

Students read about the Mali Empire, answer questions about trade and Mansa Musa, and evaluate what three different kinds of historical sources can and cannot tell us.

Map Scale and Legend: Reading the Pinecrest County Map

Students read a map legend, find features by grid square, and use a scale to convert map distances to real distances.

Map Skills: Directions Around Town

Students use a grid map of a town to find places, follow direction steps with compass directions, and write their own directions.

Mapping a Character Arc: From Flaw to Change

Students read a short original story, map how the main character changes in three stages, and then plan an arc for a character they know.

Mapping Marlow Island: Directions, Grid Squares, and Scale

Students use a made-up island map to practice grid coordinates, compass directions, and map scale.

Mara and the Borrowed Bike: Character Traits with Evidence

Students read an original realistic story, choose trait words for the characters, and back each trait up with evidence from the text.

Más, Menos, Tan... Como: Comparing People

Students use a data table about four teens to judge true/false comparisons and complete and write Spanish comparisons with más, menos, tan and como.

Maya, Aztec and Inca: Three Societies of the Americas

Students read about the Maya, Aztec and Inca, fill in a three-way comparison chart, and answer questions about how each society organized government, record keeping and farming.

Me Gusta la Comida: Food and Expressing Likes

Students match food words, practice gusta and gustan, read a class food survey table, translate sentences about likes, and write about their own food preferences.

Mean, Median, Mode and Range: Reading Time Survey

Students build a frequency table from survey data and find the mean, median, mode and range of two data sets.

Mean, Median, Mode and Spread: Quiz Scores and Commute Times

Students compute mean, median, mode, range and standard deviation, then see how an outlier changes each measure.

Media Detective: Reading Images and Messages About Appearance

Students learn how images in ads and online feeds are staged and edited, analyze sample messages with a media-literacy table, and write a positive health message.

Meet the Instrument Families: Strings, Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion

Students read about the four instrument families, sort thirteen instruments into their families, and answer questions about how each family makes sound.

Mental Health Basics: Myths, Facts and Who Can Help

Students sort myths from facts about mental health, match common situations to the helpers best suited to them, and write a plan for starting a conversation with a trusted adult.

Menu Math: Order, Total and Change

Students read a café menu, add prices, find change, compare costs, and plan an order within a budget.

Mi Familia: Reading About Family Members

Students match family vocabulary, read an original passage about a made-up family, complete a relationship table, translate sentences and draw a labeled family tree for a fictional family.

Mi fin de semana: Reading in the Preterite

Students read a short original Spanish passage about a weekend, hunt for preterite verbs, answer comprehension questions in English, and write about their own past day.

Migration and Urbanization: Push and Pull Factors in Brightwater

Students sort push and pull factors, analyze urbanization data for a made-up country, and apply the ideas to a short case.

MLA Basics in Plain English: Format, In-Text Citations and Works Cited

Students learn the basics of MLA paper format, practice in-text citations, and build two Works Cited entries from made-up source information.

Momentum and Collisions: Is It Conserved?

Students compute momentum and impulse, solve sticking-collision problems, and check whether momentum is conserved in three sample collisions, one of which has an error.

Money and Banking: Interest, Loans and Saving

Students match the functions of money, then calculate simple and compound interest, loan costs and a bank’s lending margin.

Multi-Step Equations: Distribute, Combine, Solve

Students solve eight multi-step equations that need distributing, combining like terms, and moving variables, then find errors in sample work.

Music and Emotion: A Listening Journal from Memory

Students recall a piece of music they know well and write a journal analyzing tempo, dynamics, tone color, texture and form, and how those choices shape mood.

My Activity Log: Track, Analyze, Set a Goal

Students analyze a sample week of activity minutes, record or plan their own week, and write a realistic goal.

Natural Selection: The Pebble Beetle Case Study

Students use made-up population counts of light and dark beetles on dark volcanic rock to explain the four parts of natural selection.

Needs, Wants and Savings: Jordan’s Weekly Budget

Students sort a teen’s weekly expenses into needs, wants and savings, add the totals, and decide what to cut.

News Values and the Upside-Down Pyramid

Students match news situations to the six news values, sort facts into the inverted pyramid, and write a short news story in pyramid order.

Newton’s Three Laws in Everyday Scenarios

Students match each of Newton’s laws to everyday scenarios, match law statements, and solve three F = ma problems.

Newton’s Three Laws: Sort, Solve and Explain

Students sort everyday situations into Newton’s three laws, solve five F = ma problems, and judge true-or-false statements about force and motion.

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.

Number Line Jumps and Arrays

Students use number line jumps to add and subtract, track temperature changes above and below zero, and count objects in arrays to build multiplication fluency.

Numbers 0–30: Count, Spell and Add in Spanish

Students read and spell Spanish numbers from 0 to 30, then solve addition and subtraction problems written in Spanish.

One-Point Perspective: A Road to the Vanishing Point

Students learn horizon line, vanishing point and convergent lines, sequence the steps for drawing a box, and then draw a box and a road in one-point perspective.

Operant Conditioning: Reinforcement, Punishment and Schedules

Students use a 2 x 2 grid to classify eight scenarios as positive or negative reinforcement or punishment, then identify four reinforcement schedules.

Opinion Paragraph: Make Your Reasons Count

Students label the parts of a model opinion paragraph, then plan and write their own on a school-life question with two reasons and examples.

Order of Operations: PEMDAS Practice and Parentheses Puzzles

Students evaluate expressions with exponents and parentheses and place parentheses to make equations true.

Outlining Practice: The Rush Hour Puzzle

Students read an original passage about traffic, complete a Roman-numeral outline, and then write an outline of their own from a short paragraph.

Paragraph Builder: Topic Sentence, Evidence and Closing

Students put scrambled sentences in order, find the one that does not belong, write topic sentences for two sets of details, and build a four-sentence paragraph.

Parliamentary Procedure: Read the Meeting Script

Students read a short FFA chapter meeting script aloud in roles, put meeting steps in order, answer questions about motions and voting, and write their own motion.

Parts of a Book: Book Detective

Students use sample book pages (title page, copyright page, table of contents, glossary and index) to answer questions and learn what each part of a book is for.

Parts of Speech Sort: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs

Students sort twelve words into four parts of speech, identify the part of speech of bold words in sentences, and turn adjectives into adverbs.

Passive, Aggressive or Assertive? Sort the Responses and Rewrite

Students classify sample responses as passive, aggressive or assertive and rewrite pressured situations into respectful, clear refusals.

Password Hygiene: Weak, Strong and Why

Students count and rate eight made-up passwords, learn why length and uniqueness matter, and practice safe account habits.

Pattern Mandala: Radial Symmetry and Repeating Line Designs

Students practice four line patterns, learn about radial symmetry with angle math, and design an original mandala.

PEEL It Apart: Writing an Analytical Paragraph

Students read a short original story passage, learn the PEEL paragraph structure, and build an analytical paragraph about a character.

Percent Change: Discounts, Tax, Tips and Growth

Students calculate percent increase and decrease in sales, tax, tips and population problems and correct three sample student solutions.

Percent Problems: Discounts, Tax and Tips

Students match percents to fractions, then solve discount, tax, tip and part-of-a-whole problems and correct sample mistakes.

Periodic Trends: Reading Ionization Energy Data

Students analyze first ionization energy data for periods 2 and 3 and group 1, describe the trends, spot the exceptions and make predictions.

Photo Composition on Paper: Thirds, Framing and Leading Lines

Students learn five composition techniques, identify them in written scene descriptions, and practice them by sketching on a grid.

Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration: Two Sides of One Cycle

Students compare photosynthesis and cellular respiration with an equation organizer, sort statements by process and count atoms to see that matter is conserved.

Physical and Human Geography: Features, Resources and Regions

Students sort features into physical and human geography, classify natural resources, and identify three types of regions.

Physical or Chemical Change? Sort the Evidence

Students classify twelve everyday changes as physical or chemical, name the evidence, and apply conservation of mass to a rusting problem.

Picture-Ready Writing: Vague vs. Specific Description

Students sort vague and specific sentences, rewrite weak sentences with concrete details, and describe a mystery object for a partner to guess.

Pictures Made of Numbers: Pixels, Run-Length Codes and RGB Colors

Students turn binary rows into a pixel picture, shorten rows with run-length codes, read red-green-blue color values and calculate how much storage a small image needs.

Plan a Week With the FITT Principle

Students learn the four parts of the FITT principle, analyze a sample exercise plan, and then build their own one-week activity plan.

Plan Jordan’s Week: Build a Realistic Homework Schedule

Students read a sample student’s busy week, add up task times, and build a day-by-day homework plan before planning one of their own tasks.

Plan Your Move: Build a Weekly Physical Activity Plan

Students analyze a fictional student’s weekly activity plan, learn the FITT principle and the talk test, and design a realistic plan of their own.

Plan Your Practice: Read a Practice Log and Build a Weekly Plan

Students analyze a week of practice minutes in a sample log, match practice strategies to their purposes, and build a realistic practice plan with a goal.

Plant Cells vs. Animal Cells: Read and Compare

Students read a short passage, complete a plant-versus-animal cell comparison table, and answer four multiple-choice and two short-answer questions.

Plant Parts and Plant Needs: Match, Sort, Explain

Students read a short passage on plant parts and growth needs, match each part to its job, sort foods by the plant part we eat, and explain what a struggling plant is…

Plate Tectonics: Boundaries and Slow Motion Math

Students identify the three plate boundary types, calculate how far plates move over time and evaluate evidence that continents have moved.

Plot Structure: Sorting the Story of the Missing Cash Box

Students read an original short story, sort its events into the parts of a plot, and plan a plot of their own.

Poetry Close Reading: Figurative Language in “Early Bus”

Students annotate an original free-verse poem, identify similes, personification, alliteration and enjambment, and write a short poem of their own.

Poetry Forms: Haiku, Acrostic and Free Verse

Students learn three poetry forms from original examples, count syllables, and write one haiku, one acrostic and one free verse poem.

Poetry Toolbox: Figurative Language in “Three O’Clock”

Students read an original poem, identify five types of figurative language, explain meaning and mood, then write two lines of their own poetry.

Point of View Experiments: Whose Eyes Are We Looking Through?

Students identify first, second and third person narration in one scene, then rewrite the scene from two different viewpoints.

Polynomial Operations: Add, Subtract, Multiply and Check the Work

Students classify polynomials, add, subtract and multiply them, test a possible factor, and spot errors in sample work.

Polynomials: Add, Subtract, and Multiply

Students add and subtract polynomials, multiply with the distributive property and an area box, and answer vocabulary questions.

Pond Food Web Detective: Who Eats Whom?

Students use a feeding table for a pond community to sort organisms into roles, trace food chains and predict what happens when one species disappears.

Population Density: Calculating and Comparing Six Countries

Students calculate population density for six made-up countries, rank them, and explain how land and cities affect density.

Population Growth Math: Doubling Time and Rates

Students use the rule of 70, percent growth and birth and death rates to calculate how fast populations grow, then interpret a sample growth table.

Poster Layout Plan: Thumbnails, Hierarchy and Design Careers

Students learn layout basics, do margin and thirds math, match design careers, and plan an event poster with thumbnail sketches.

Potato Cores and Salt Water: Analyzing Osmosis Data

Students analyze made-up class data from potato cores soaked in salt solutions, calculate percent change in mass and write a data-based conclusion about osmosis.

Press Ethics and Plagiarism: Six Case Studies

Students read short ethics cases about plagiarism, gifts, photo editing, privacy and corrections, then write a correction notice and a staff rule.

Price Detectives: Supply and Demand Scenarios

Students read a supply and demand schedule and predict how price changes in six everyday scenarios.

Price It Right: Markup, Discounts and Pricing Strategies

Students calculate markup, discounts, margin and bundle savings, compare two pricing choices, and match six common pricing strategies to their definitions.

Probability: Dice, Marbles and Two-Way Tables

Students count outcomes for two dice, multiply independent and dependent probabilities, and use a two-way table for conditional probability.

Probability: Sample Spaces, Compound Events and Experiments

Students fill in a two-dice sum table, find probabilities of simple and compound events, compare experimental and theoretical results and correct sample work.

Program the Robot: Grid Paths on Paper

Students act as the computer, tracing robot programs on a 5 by 5 grid, fixing a bug, and writing their own step-by-step program.

Project Cost Estimate: Planning a Bookshelf Budget

Students plan the cuts for a bookshelf on paper, compare board-length options, and build a cost estimate with tax from a provided price list.

Psychology Then and Now: Perspectives and Branches

Students match the major schools of psychology to their key ideas, then sort real-world research scenarios into the branches of psychology.

Punnett Squares: Pea Plant Crosses

Students complete three monohybrid Punnett squares for pea plant height, read the genotype and phenotype results and predict offspring counts.

Punnett Squares: Predicting Pea Plant Traits

Students use a worked example to complete Punnett squares for pea plant crosses, calculate expected offspring counts and explain why genetics predictions are probabilities.

Pythagorean Theorem: Find the Missing Side

Students find missing sides of right triangles, test whether side lengths make a right triangle, solve ladder and screen problems and fix common mistakes.

Quel temps fait-il? Weather and Seasons

Students match French weather phrases, sort the months into seasons, complete weather sentences, and describe their favorite season in French.

Rational Expressions: Simplify, Multiply and Name the Restrictions

Students simplify, multiply, divide and add rational expressions, match expressions to their restrictions, and diagnose false “cancelling.”

Read Like a Historian: An Invented Letter to the Editor

Students analyze an invented 1911 letter to the editor for author, purpose, bias, fact versus opinion, and missing viewpoints.

Read the Numbers: Build an Income Statement for Maple Lane Bakery

Students use one month of fictional bakery records to calculate revenue, gross profit and net income, then analyze a second month and spot a common mistake.

Read the Schedule: Times, Days and How Long

Students read a weekly schedule, find start and end times, work out how long events last, and fill in a plan for their own Saturday.

Reading a Floor Plan: Scale, Dimensions and Area

Students use a 1/4 inch = 1 foot scale to convert drawn sizes into real room dimensions, calculate floor area and flooring costs, and answer questions about plan symbols and dimension lines.

Reading a Nutrition Facts Label: Do the Math

Students use a made-up nutrition label to multiply by servings, calculate calories from fat and percent daily value, and compare cost per bar.

Reading a Script in Pairs: Rain Check, Tone and Subtext

Pairs read an original two-person scene in low voices from their seats, then analyze what each character wants, how lines should be spoken, and the turning point.

Reading a Web Page: HTML Tags on Paper

Students read a short HTML page, match tags to their jobs, sketch what a browser would show, find mistakes in sample code and write simple tags of their own.

Reading Heart Rate Numbers and Target Zones

Students use the 220 − age estimate to calculate heart rate zones, convert pulse counts to beats per minute, and classify a sample workout log.

Reading Motion Data: Velocity-Time and Position-Time Tables

Students read two data tables for a moving object, find acceleration from slopes, find distance from areas, and sketch the graph.

Reading Nutrition Labels: Compare Three Snacks

Students compare three provided nutrition labels, calculate whole-container totals and percent Daily Values, and choose a snack using evidence.

Reading Sixteenths: Ruler and Tape Measure Practice

Students practice reading U.S. ruler and tape-measure marks in sixteenths of an inch, adding and subtracting lengths, converting units, and fixing a common measuring mistake.

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.

Reading Weather Data: Pressure, Fronts and Forecasts

Students read about air pressure and fronts, then interpret sample weather station reports and an hourly record to identify a cold front passing a town.

Reconstruction After the Civil War: Fact-Check the Notes

Students read about Reconstruction, match the three Reconstruction Amendments, and fact-check a classmate’s study notes for errors.

Regular -ar Verbs: Build and Conjugate

Students conjugate regular -ar verbs in a chart, complete sentences, identify correct forms, build sentences from a word bank and translate two sentences.

Renewable or Nonrenewable? Energy Sources and Your Power Bill

Students classify eight energy sources as renewable or nonrenewable, then calculate sample electricity bills and the savings from a more efficient light bulb.

Renting or Buying: Comparing Monthly Costs

Students compare the monthly cost of renting an apartment with the cost of owning a house, then weigh money and non-money factors.

Research Methods: Correlation, Experiments and Ethics

Students interpret a small data table, separate correlation from causation, design a simple experiment on paper and match ethics principles to examples.

Research Planning on Paper: Topic, Question, Keywords, Sources

Students narrow broad topics into research questions, match source types to their uses, and build a one-page research plan without using the internet.

Resume Bullet Points: Action Verbs, Details and Results

Students learn what makes a strong resume bullet, then rewrite four weak bullets and write one about their own activity.

Revising with the Five Senses: Bring a Flat Paragraph to Life

Students identify the senses in sample phrases, plan sensory details for a flat paragraph, and revise it so a reader can see, hear, smell and feel the scene.

Revision Workshop: Cut, Swap, Sharpen

Students diagnose problems in a weak draft, revise it under a word-count limit, write a paragraph under numeric constraints, and give partner feedback.

Rhythm Detective: Counting Beats in 4/4 and 3/4

Students add the beat values of written rhythm patterns, decide if measures are complete, and write counts like 1 & 2 3 4.

Rights and Responsibilities: Two Sides of Citizenship

Students read a short explanation, sort everyday scenarios into rights and responsibilities, and explain how the two connect.

Rights of the Accused: Four Amendments and Three Landmark Cases

Students learn what the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments protect and match scenarios and landmark cases to them.

Road to Independence: A Timeline from 1763 to 1783

Students match eight Revolutionary-era events to their dates, calculate the years between them, and answer questions on cause and effect.

Robot Logic on Paper: Sensors, If-Then Rules and Tracing a Path

Students learn how robots use sensors and if-then rules, then trace a simulated robot on a paper grid map, apply and/else rules to sensor readings, and match sensors to jobs.

Root Detectives: Greek and Latin Roots

Students use a chart of eight Greek and Latin roots to decode words, complete sentences with root words and reason about unfamiliar words.

Runoff, Algae and Fish: Reading a Lake Data Set

Students analyze a made-up five-year lake data set to link nutrient runoff to algae growth, low oxygen and fewer fish, then propose a follow-up investigation and a solution.

SAE Record Keeping: Income, Expenses and Profit

Students analyze a made-up student’s SAE ledger of expenses, income and hours to find total profit, profit per hour and profit margin, and judge what makes a good record.

Safe Bodyweight Circuit: Effort Scale and Safe Limits

Students try an optional five-station bodyweight circuit with firm safe limits, rate their effort on a 1–10 scale, and analyze a sample effort log.

Safe Food Temperatures: Know the Numbers

Students fill in the safe cooking, holding and cold-storage temperatures, convert them to Celsius, and work two time-in-the-danger-zone problems.

Same News, Five Tones: Diction and Connotation

Students compare five announcements of the same event, name each tone, point to the word choices that create it, and rewrite one in a new tone.

Sampling, Bias and Misleading Claims

Students classify sampling methods, spot biased samples and questions, separate correlation from causation, and expose a truncated bar graph with arithmetic.

Say It Clearly: Communication Styles and I-Statements

Students sort statements into passive, aggressive and assertive styles, rewrite blaming messages as I-statements and practice listening with a partner.

Say It in Your Own Words and Cite It

Students compare four attempts to rewrite a source sentence, learn why paraphrasing and citing matter, and practice writing and alphabetizing simple citations.

Scaling a Recipe Up and Down

Students find a scaling factor, multiply a pancake recipe up and down, convert units, and use unit rates to scale a muffin recipe.

Scarcity and Opportunity Cost: The Corner Bakery

Students define scarcity, find opportunity costs in everyday choices, and read a bakery production table to see rising opportunity costs and incentives.

Search and Sort Like a Computer

Students find patterns in number sequences, compare two ways to search a list, and sort a short list by hand.

Searching: Linear Search vs. Binary Search

Students search a sorted list of 15 numbers two ways, count how many checks each method needs, and discover why binary search is so fast.

Secret Numbers Behind Text: Reading and Writing ASCII Codes

Students use a provided ASCII table to turn words into numbers, decode secret messages, and connect letter codes to binary.

Sein, haben und regelmäßige Verben: Verb Forms Practice

Students conjugate sein, haben and spielen, fill in verb forms, translate short sentences and correct wrong verb forms.

Sensation vs. Perception: How the Brain Fills In the Picture

Students read about sensation, perception, Gestalt principles and depth cues, then match examples and analyze illusions described in words.

Sentence Combining: From Choppy to Smooth

Students learn five ways to combine short sentences, practice with short sets, and revise a choppy paragraph.

Sequences and Series: Sort, Find the nth Term and Add It Up

Students classify sequences as arithmetic or geometric, find nth terms and sums, and solve a theater-seating problem.

Ser or Estar? Sort, Choose and Fix

Students use a rule chart to choose between ser and estar, correct errors in sample sentences, translate and write their own pair of sentences.

Ser: Describing People and Matching Adjectives

Students fill in the present tense of ser, choose adjectives that agree with the noun, translate both ways, and describe a famous or fictional character.

Setting and the Five Senses: The Laundromat at Closing Time

Students find sensory details in a model passage, rewrite bland sentences, and describe a school location using four or more senses.

Shop Safety Detectives: Spot the Hazard, Choose the Protection

Students read shop safety rules, match jobs to protective gear, answer scenario questions and analyze an incident report to spot unsafe choices.

Significant Figures: Count, Round and Calculate

Students learn the counting rules for significant figures, then count, round and use them in multiplication, division, addition and subtraction.

Similar Figures and Scale

Students use proportions and scale factors to find missing lengths in similar figures, maps, models and shadow problems, and complete a table on how perimeter, area and volume scale.

Simple Circuits: Ohm’s Law, Series and Parallel

Students match circuit vocabulary, then use Ohm’s law to solve problems on series and parallel circuits described in words and fill in a V-I-R table.

Simple Machines by the Numbers: Levers, Ramps and Pulleys

Students identify the six simple machines and calculate ideal mechanical advantage, effort force, work and efficiency for levers, ramps, pulleys and wheel-and-axle examples.

Simple Machines: Match, Sort and Calculate

Students match everyday objects to the six simple machines, sort common tools, and calculate mechanical advantage and work for a ramp and a lever.

Sine and Cosine Graphs: Amplitude, Period, Midline

Students read amplitude, period and midline from sine and cosine equations, build a table of values, and write equations from descriptions.

Six Musical Traditions Around the World

Students read about six world music traditions, match clues to each, complete a comparison table, and respond in writing.

Six Steps for Tough Choices: A Decision-Making Model

Students learn a six-step decision-making model, match each step to its job, and apply it to a fictional student’s scheduling problem.

Sleep and Productivity: Analyze a Week of Sleep

Students analyze a sample week of sleep data, test their knowledge of sleep facts, sort evening habits and make a personal sleep-friendly plan.

Slope and Linear Relationships from Points and Tables

Students find slope from two points and from tables, write y = mx + b equations, and interpret slope in real situations.

Slope-Intercept Form: Read It, Write It, Use It

Students read slope and y-intercept from equations, write equations in y = mx + b form from given information, and interpret a real-world line.

Small Moment Story: Zoom In on Ten Seconds

Students study a short model story, plan a single small moment, and write a narrative paragraph that shows feelings through actions.

SMART Goals for Healthy Habits

Students learn the SMART goal framework, identify strong goals, rewrite vague ones and build a one-page plan for a healthy habit of their choice.

SMART Goals: From Vague to Specific

Students learn the five parts of a SMART goal, judge sample goals, solve two goal-progress problems, and write a SMART goal of their own.

Smart Shopper: Unit Prices, Sales, Saving Goals and Giving

Students compare unit prices and sale offers, plan how long it takes to reach a saving goal, and calculate a charitable gift with an employer match.

Socratic Seminar Prep Sheet for Any Text

Students prepare quotes and open questions about their current class text, then hold a respectful circle discussion and reflect on it.

Soil Layers and Soil Texture: What’s Under Our Feet

Students learn the layers of a soil profile, match each layer to its description, and analyze sample soil texture data to decide which soil drains fastest and holds the most water.

Soil pH Data: Averages, Crop Match and Fixes

Students analyze made-up soil pH test results from six field plots, find averages, match plots to crop pH ranges and decide whether lime or sulfur is needed.

Solutions and the pH Scale: Molarity, Dilution and Reading pH

Students calculate molarity and dilution amounts on paper, then read an everyday pH table to classify acids and bases and compare acidity.

Solving and Graphing Inequalities

Students solve one- and two-step inequalities, describe how each graphs on a number line, judge true/false statements, and write inequalities for real situations.

Song Form Detective: Verse, Chorus and Bridge

Students label the sections of an original song lyric, map its form with letters, study rhyme, and write four lines of their own.

Sorting by Hand: Selection Sort and Bubble Sort

Students sort a short list of numbers by hand with two sorting algorithms, record every pass in a table, and compare how much work each method does.

Speaker, Audience, Purpose: Reading Five Short Texts

Students analyze five very different original short texts for speaker, audience, purpose and clues, then rewrite one for a new audience.

Special Right Triangles: 45-45-90 and 30-60-90

Students use the side-ratio patterns of 45-45-90 and 30-60-90 triangles to find missing sides, including square diagonals and equilateral-triangle heights.

Speed, Distance and Time: Reading a Motion Table

Students calculate speed, distance and time from word problems and read a table of a walker’s motion to find speed in each interval.

Speed, Velocity and Acceleration: Motion Problem Set

Students solve one-step motion problems for speed, distance, time and acceleration, then separate speed from velocity in a short walking scenario.

Sportsmanship Case Studies: What Would You Do?

Students read four short sportsmanship situations, choose the best response, and write a class respect code.

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.

Spot the Hazard: Preventing Injuries at Practice and Play

Students read a short scene about a pickup game, find eight safety hazards, write a fix for each and create a personal injury-prevention checklist.

Spot the Scam: Protecting Yourself from Fraud and Identity Theft

Students sort eight sample messages into scam or safe, name the red flags, match warning signs to smart responses, and plan what to do after a possible scam.

Spot the Technique: Media Literacy and Propaganda

Students learn eight persuasion and propaganda techniques, identify them in made-up ads and slogans, and practice asking smart questions about any source.

Spreadsheet Logic on Paper: Cells, Formulas and Ranges

Students read a printed spreadsheet, evaluate formulas by hand, write their own formulas, and design a small tracker on paper.

Stage Areas and Directions: Read the Map, Place the Actors

Students learn the nine stage areas with a map table, then decode stage directions and place characters on a blank stage grid.

Stages of Child Development: Infants to School Age

Students read about four stages of child development, match children to their stage, answer safety and age-fit questions, and plan an activity for a four-year-old.

Startup on Paper: Plan a Dog-Walking Business

Students complete a one-page business canvas for a fictional dog-walking startup, calculate start-up costs and payback time, then sketch a plan for their own idea.

States of Matter: Particles on the Move

Students read about the particle model of matter, complete a comparison table, match phase-change names, and answer review questions.

Still Life Study: Value, Light and Overlap with Objects from the Room

Students learn how light, shadow and overlap create depth, then draw a small still life from objects in the room and evaluate their own work.

Stoichiometry Basics: Using Mole Ratios from Balanced Equations

Students read mole ratios from balanced equations and use them to solve mole-to-mole, gram-to-gram, limiting reactant and percent yield problems.

Storyboard It: Plan a Six-Panel Comic Page

Students learn comic and storyboard vocabulary, then plan and sketch a six-panel page from a short story outline.

Stream Health Detective: Analyzing Water Quality Data

Students read about stream health indicators and analyze a sample five-site data table to rank sites, calculate averages and propose causes of poor water quality.

Strengths and Interests Map: People, Things, Ideas, Data

Students rate eight everyday activities, tally their scores into four work-style groups, and reflect on what the results do and do not mean.

Stress and Coping: Build a Personal Toolkit

Students learn about stress types and coping styles, sort coping strategies, and draft a simple plan for handling a common school stressor.

Subject-Verb Agreement: Tricky Cases

Students choose the correct verb in ten tricky sentences, answer two multiple-choice questions and rewrite three sentences to fix agreement errors.

Supply and Demand: Finding Equilibrium and Predicting Price Changes

Students find equilibrium in a market table, identify shortages and surpluses, and predict how real-world events shift supply and demand.

Surface Area of Prisms: Faces, Nets and Wrapping

Students find the surface area of rectangular and triangular prisms by adding the areas of faces, solve packaging problems and fix common mistakes.

Symbol and Motif Log: The Stopped Clock

Students read a short original story, log repeating images, and decide what they might symbolize before inventing a symbol of their own.

Symmetry and Pattern: Mirror, Spin, Repeat

Students learn mirror, radial and repeating-pattern design, test letters for symmetry, and then draw a mirrored picture, an eight-part radial design and a pattern border.

Synthesizing Two Sources: Sunday Hours at the Town Library

Students read an original library memo and a resident’s letter about the same facts, compare the two, and write a synthesis that uses both.

Systems of Equations: Substitution and Elimination

Students solve systems of two equations by substitution and by elimination, check solutions, and use systems to solve two word problems.

Taxes 101: Sales Tax, Brackets and Refunds

Students match common taxes to what they fund, calculate sales tax, work through a made-up tax bracket and decide whether a worker gets a refund.

Teaching a Computer with Examples: A Paper Nearest-Neighbor Classifier

Students act as a simple machine-learning program that labels messages by comparing them with labeled examples, then discuss what can go wrong.

Team-Building Without Equipment: Communicate Clearly

Students practice clear communication through a describe-and-draw partner task and a silent line-up, then reflect in writing.

Tech Ethics Case Studies: Cameras, Autoplay and AI Helpers

Students analyze three short, fictional technology scenarios, weigh benefits against risks for different people, and defend a decision with reasons.

Test-Style Grammar and Words in Context

Students practice sixteen test-style questions on grammar, punctuation and vocabulary in context, with a self-check against the key.

Test-Taking Strategies: Beat the Trap Answers

Students match five test-taking strategies to their meanings, apply them to practice questions with built-in traps, and plan how they will prepare for their next test.

The 5 Ws and H: From Fact Sheet to Lead

Students pull the 5 Ws and H from an invented fact sheet, compare sample leads, and write their own lead sentence.

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.

The Cell Cycle: Stages of Mitosis and Onion Root Counts

Students match descriptions to the stages of the cell cycle, then use made-up onion root tip cell counts to calculate how long a cell spends in each stage.

The Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965: Cause-and-Effect Chain

Students use a word bank to complete a chain of events from Brown v. Board of Education to the Voting Rights Act and explain how protests and laws were connected.

The Columbian Exchange: What Crossed the Ocean?

Students read a short passage on the Columbian Exchange, sort twelve plants, animals and diseases by direction of travel, and answer questions about its effects.

The Constitution Blueprint: Preamble and Seven Articles

Students read an overview of how the Constitution is organized, match each article to its job, and restate the Preamble’s goals in their own words.

The Culture Iceberg: Customs, Values, and Misunderstandings

Students sort visible and hidden parts of culture, then analyze made-up misunderstandings between communities.

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.

The Five Parts of Fitness: Sort and Explain

Students learn the five health-related fitness components, sort sample activities, and match each component to a definition.

The Four Ps of Marketing: Launching the TrailGlow Lantern

Students learn the four Ps of the marketing mix, sort twelve launch decisions for a fictional lantern, and plan their own product with a partner.

The Four-Step Decision: Work Shift or Study Night?

Students use a four-step decision model on a case about work and studying, calculate pay, score three options, and decide.

The Great Depression and the New Deal: Alphabet Agencies

Students read about the Great Depression, match six New Deal programs to what they did, and write a newspaper headline for one program.

The Greenhouse Effect: How Heat Is Trapped

Students read a short factual passage on the greenhouse effect, put the steps in order, match gases to their sources, and do a percent-increase and temperature-conversion calculation.

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.

The Islamic Golden Age: Scholars of Baghdad and Beyond

Students read about scholars and learning centers of the Abbasid era, match scholars to their contributions, and sort achievements into fields.

The Lantern of Wren Hollow: Finding the Theme

Students read an original fantasy tale, map its story elements, and tell the difference between a topic and a theme.

The Math of Stopping: Reaction, Braking, and Distraction

Students use a simple model to calculate stopping distance at different speeds and find how far a car travels while the driver looks away.

The Missing Trophy: Clues, Red Herrings and Inferences

Students read an original school mystery, record the clues, rule out suspects, and practice drawing supported inferences.

The Mole: Molar Mass and Conversions

Students calculate molar masses and convert between grams, moles and particles using given atomic masses and Avogadro’s number.

The Nervous System and the Reflex Arc

Students read about neurons and reflexes, match nervous system parts to their jobs, put the steps of a reflex arc in order and sort actions into reflex or voluntary.

The Power of Compound Interest

Students use the compound interest formula and a provided growth-factor table to compare simple and compound interest and see why starting early matters.

The Professional Email: Subject, Tone and Clear Requests

Students choose professional subject lines, greetings and closings, rewrite a casual email, and write an email asking a manager to swap a work shift.

The Pythagorean Theorem and Its Converse

Students find missing sides of right triangles in real-world situations and use the converse to test whether side lengths make a right triangle.

The Quadratic Formula and the Discriminant: Solve and Predict

Students use the discriminant to predict how many real solutions each quadratic has, solve six equations with the quadratic formula, and model a falling object.

The Rock Cycle: Follow a Boulder’s Journey

Students read about the three rock types, match rock-cycle processes to their descriptions, sort common rocks and trace a granite boulder through the cycle.

The Sandwich Incident: Point of View in Humor

Students read an original humorous first-person story, analyze how the narrator’s point of view shapes what we know, and rewrite a scene from another character’s view.

The Silk Road: Han China and Rome Trade Across Asia

Students read about the Silk Road, match key vocabulary, put six trading cities in order from east to west, and track which goods and ideas moved in each direction.

The Water Cycle: Follow the Water

Students read about the stages of the water cycle, complete vocabulary blanks, do simple percent calculations about where Earth’s water is and trace a raindrop’s path.

Theater Careers: Who Does What Behind the Curtain?

Students match eight theater jobs to their duties, solve backstage scenarios, and think about which career fits their strengths.

Theme Tracker: Find the Big Idea in Any Novel or Play

Students track repeating ideas across scenes of the book they are reading, then build a supported theme statement.

Thinking Traps: Spotting Cognitive Biases in Everyday Choices

Students learn seven common cognitive biases, identify each one in a short scenario, and write a question that would reduce each bias.

Three Colonial Regions: Land, Work and People

Students read about New England, the Middle Colonies and the Southern Colonies, fill in a comparison chart, and match key vocabulary.

Three Prompts, One Story: Writing From Words Alone

Students choose one of three word-only story prompts, brainstorm with a planning table, write a short story, and check it with a self-assessment checklist.

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.

Tight Headlines, Smart Captions and Copyediting

Students choose and write headlines, write captions from photo descriptions, and fix errors in sample sentences as a copy editor would.

Tiny Stories: Six-Word Stories and Flash Fiction

Students study original six-word stories, count words, compress a sentence to exactly six words, and write a short flash fiction piece.

Transformations on the Coordinate Plane: Slide, Flip, Turn, Resize

Students apply translation, reflection, rotation and dilation rules to the vertices of a triangle and to a point, and compare congruent and similar images.

Treble Clef Note Names: Lines, Spaces and Spelling Words

Students learn the names of the lines and spaces on the treble staff from a written chart, then spell words with note names and answer review questions.

Triangle Angle Sum and Exterior Angles

Students use the 180° angle sum and the exterior angle theorem to find missing angles, and classify triangles by their angles and sides.

Triangle Congruence and a Two-Column Proof

Students match given information to congruence shortcuts (SSS, SAS, ASA, AAS, HL), judge true/false claims, and complete the reasons in a two-column proof.

Trig Identities: Test, Simplify, Catch the Error

Students test identity claims with numbers, use the Pythagorean identity to find missing trig values, simplify expressions, and find an algebra error.

True or False? Boolean Logic and Truth Tables

Students complete truth tables for AND, OR and NOT, evaluate conditions with given values, and test whether two expressions are equal.

Two Job Offers: Pay, Costs and Opportunity Cost

Students compare two made-up job offers by calculating annual pay, commuting costs, overtime and the value of benefits, and apply the idea of opportunity cost.

Two Pathways: Following Food and Air Through the Body

Students read about the digestive and respiratory pathways, match digestive organs to jobs, put the path of air in order and explain how digestion and circulation cooperate.

Two Views of a Tide Pool: Comparing an Article and a Journal

Students compare an original science article and a personal journal entry about tide pools, analyzing purpose, tone and shared ideas.

Two-Step Equations: Solve, Check, Catch the Mistake

Students solve eight two-step equations, check each answer by substitution, and find the errors in sample student work.

Two-Step Inequalities: Solve, Test and Describe

Students solve two-step inequalities, match them to word descriptions, model budget situations and correct sample student work.

Typography Vocabulary: Serif, Leading, Kerning and More

Students learn typography vocabulary with a word bank, sort type styles by category, and calculate type sizes and line spacing in points.

Unit Circle Special Angles: Fill, Convert, Match

Students complete a unit-circle table of special angles, convert between degrees and radians, and match trig expressions to exact values.

Unit Rates and Ratios: Which Is the Better Deal?

Students find unit rates, compare three package sizes, complete a ratio table and solve rate word problems.

Value and Shading: From Light to Dark

Students build a seven-step value scale, shade a sphere and a cube with a stated light source, and answer questions on how artists use value to show form.

Vectors and Polar Coordinates: Convert and Combine

Students convert between polar and rectangular coordinates, find vector magnitude and components, and add vectors on paper.

Volume of Prisms, Cylinders, Cones and Spheres

Students sort the volume formulas and then compute volumes of prisms, cylinders, cones, spheres and a combined solid from measurements given in words.

Volume of Rectangular Prisms: Packing Boxes

Students find the volume of rectangular prisms, solve for a missing edge, solve packing problems and correct sample mistakes.

Voy a viajar: Future Plans with Ir a

Students practice ir a + infinitive, read an original travel-plan passage, unscramble sentences and write about their own dream trip.

Walk-and-Talk: Stride Math and Conversation

Students calculate steps and distance from stride length, then take a gentle pair walk (or stand-and-talk) while discussing how to build more movement into daily life.

Warm Up Before You Play: Author’s Purpose

Students read an original sports article, decide why the author wrote it, and match short samples to the four common author’s purposes.

Warm-Up and Cool-Down: Put the Routine in Order

Students read a step-by-step warm-up and cool-down routine, put scrambled moves in order, spot unsafe stretching habits, and design their own routine.

Waves and Light: Wavelength, Frequency and the Spectrum

Students label wave parts with a word bank, solve wave speed problems, order the electromagnetic spectrum and answer questions on light and sound.

Waves and Sound: Wavelength, Frequency and Speed

Students match wave vocabulary, use v = f × λ and echo and thunder timing to find wavelengths and distances, and classify waves as transverse or longitudinal.

Weak, Better, Best: Sorting and Revising Thesis Statements

Students sort eight sample statements into announcements, facts, vague claims and strong theses, then revise weak ones and write their own.

Weather vs. Climate: Compare Two Cities with Data

Students sort statements into weather or climate, calculate averages and ranges for two cities, and explain why a coastal city has a milder climate.

Weeknight Dinners on a Budget: Plan and Compare

Students total a five-dinner family plan against a $50 budget, swap one meal to save money, compare unit prices, and calculate a sale discount.

Westward Expansion: From Louisiana to California

Students read about westward expansion from 1803 to 1849, fill in key terms, and use trail data to solve wagon-train math problems.

What They Say vs. What They Mean: Dialogue and Subtext

Students analyze an original dialogue where a character hides her feelings, then write a short scene with subtext of their own.

Who Can You Trust? Evaluating Bias and Credibility in Three Sources

Students compare three original sources about a made-up study gummy, chart each source’s author, purpose and evidence, and rate credibility.

Who Do You Call? Local, State and Federal Help Desk

Students act as help-desk workers who route everyday requests to local, state or federal government, and match officials to their levels of government.

Who Fixes It? Local Government and a Town Budget Choice

Students match everyday problems to the part of government that handles them, then make a small town budget choice.

Who Is the Customer? Choosing a Target Market

Students learn four ways to segment a market, match examples to each, choose the best target market for three fictional businesses, and build a customer profile.

Who Owns the Business? Sole Proprietors, Partners and Corporations

Students read about four ways to own a business, complete a comparison table, match key terms, and choose the best ownership type for four small-business situations.

Word Builders: Prefixes and Suffixes

Students use a prefix and suffix chart to match words with meanings, build new words, and invent two words of their own.

Work, Energy and Power: Roller Coaster Energy Budget

Students calculate work, kinetic energy, potential energy and power, then fill in an energy table for a coaster car to see energy conservation at work.

Write an Original Monologue: Plan, Draft, Revise

Students study an original monologue, learn the steps of playwriting, plan a character and write their own short monologue on paper.

Write It Professionally: Emails, Messages, and Voicemails

Students learn the parts of a professional message, rewrite a casual text, and draft a polite email and a short voicemail script.

Write the Quiz: Question Levels for Any Reading

Students classify question types on a short passage, then write and swap their own reading quiz for their class text.

Writing Formulas and Names for Ionic and Covalent Compounds

Students use a table of ion charges to write formulas from names and names from formulas, then practice prefixes for covalent compounds.

Yearbook Theme and Spread Planner

Students learn yearbook vocabulary, do a page-count budget for an invented 160-page book, and plan a theme and sketch a spread on paper.

Your Digital Footprint: Active, Passive and Permanent

Students sort online actions into active and passive footprints, judge sample posts, and write a personal pause test for sharing online.

Your First Paycheck: Gross, Net, and a Simple Budget