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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Comparing Electronic and Print Texts About the Civil War Soldier
    Which side will win as students investigate both sides of the battle of using print versus online text for research as they learn about the lives of Civil War soldiers?
    
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project
    In this unit, students become active archivists, gathering photos, artifacts, and stories for a museum exhibit that highlights one decade in their school's history.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Creating Better Presentation Slides through Glance Media and Billboard Design
    This lesson introduces the concept of "glance media" through an analysis of billboards. Students apply design concepts by creating a slide presentation to accompany an existing historical speech.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Creating Family Timelines: Graphing Family Memories and Significant Events
    Students interview family members, and then create graphic family timelines based on important and memorable family events.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath: A Multigenre Project
    Using The Grapes of Wrath as a backdrop, students conduct research on issues that the novel addresses, publishing their findings in a multigenre museum exhibit.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Digitally Explaining the Immigrant Experience
    The United States has become the chosen home for many around the world. From the first explorers to the newest arrivals, each immigrant had his/her own reasons for traveling to America to face new challenges in this country. In this lesson after researching about particular immigrants, students will compare and contrast the immigrant experience. Together with a partner, students will create digital stories to share the experiences of two immigrants to encourage an understanding of the immigrant experience.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
    Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make text–self–world connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.
    
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Engaging Students in a Collaborative Exploration of the Gettysburg Address
    In small groups, students closely examine one sentence from the Gettysburg Address and create a multigenre project communicating what they have discovered about the meaning and significance of the text.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Entering History: Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Nikki Giovanni's poem "The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr." is paired with Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech, taking students on a quest through time to the Civil Rights movement.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Examining Transcendentalism through Popular Culture
    Using excerpts from the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, comics, and songs from different musical genres, students examine the characteristics of transcendentalism.

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