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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Audio Listening Practices: Exploring Personal Experiences with Audio Texts
   Students keep a daily diary that records how and when they listen to audio texts, then analyze the details and compare their results to published reports on American radio listeners.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 4
   Celebrate John Venn's Birthday!
   Students celebrate the birth of English logician, philosopher, and creator of the Venn Diagram by building community within the classroom by comparing and contrasting likes, dislikes, and characteristics about one another.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Collaborating, Writing, Linking: Using Wikis to Tell Stories Online
   Students become online authors in this lesson in which they write and post a short story using wiki technology.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 15
   In 1870, the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad was completed.
   Students access the National Park Service website and look at the webpage "The Last Spikes." Students explore different accounts of what happened as the railroad neared completion and discuss the nature of ceremonies.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 18
   Montgomery Ward published the first mail-order catalog in 1872.
   Students explore how and why catalogs have changed over the years and compare their findings about printed catalogs with online catalogs.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 4
   President Barack Obama was born today in 1961.
   Students are introduced to a passage by President Barack Obama in his book Dreams from My Father and are encouraged to engage in an examination of the ways they are portrayed by the media.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Reciprocal Revision: Making Peer Feedback Meaningful
   Interpreting art is a subjective process. In this lesson, students write written responses analyzing a work of art and use feedback from their peers to revise or confirm their initial responses.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 7
   The first picture of Earth was taken by the U.S. satellite Explorer VI in 1959.
   After students view the first picture from the Explorer VI Satellite, they discuss the differences between this first image and the images of the earth that we typically see today.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 1
   The prototype for the World Wide Web was created in 1990.
   Students look at pictures from the past using the WayBack Machine and brainstorm a few websites to explore to think about how they have changed over the years.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Voting! What's It All About?
    Students explore a variety of sources for information about voting. They evaluate the information to determine if it is fact or opinion, and then create a graffiti wall about voting.

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