This lesson will allow students to select and share what details are important on a topic.  Groups of students will research a topic and then discuss and determine the top 25 important things someone should know about the topic.

Images can be a useful component in any subject.  This lesson will guide students through an analysis of an image.  Students will use critical thinksing skills to interpret an image. Students will then generate a hypothesis about the source and construct questions for further investigation. 

Students will discuss the definition of a biography and determine what elements it contains.  They will research a famous person and create a web graphic organizer with key achievements and personal information from their life. Peer feedback will be given on the web creation and then an oral presentation will be given.

The students will learn that the Constitution provides the guidance for the branches of the government.  They will analyze the first three articles and then research the duties and requirements of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. Government.  Students will then examine the branches of the state government. 

Students will learn about the different types of bridges and how they work.  The lesson also includes a maker component where the students build a bridge. 

Students will read books / ebooks and then act as a critic by evaluating and expressing their opinion.

Students will watch movies and then act as a critic by evaluating and expressing their opinion.

Primary sources provide firsthand evidence and perspectives of historical events by the person writing them.  Students will read various types of correspondence (letters, diaries, and postcards) and analyze their content.  Students will then take on the role of a citizen and write a letter as if they were part of a major event of the Civil War. 

Students need to be prepared for college or the workforce. This lesson plan allows students to use the computational thinking process to learn about careers.

Students will research and learn about the process the industries use to get food from farm to table.

Students will learn and utilize list poems, understand and appreciate multiple perspectives while analyzing figures, memories and events in their educational community.  They will also apply what they have learned to create a new product. 

Students will learn the process a case goes through to get to the Supreme Court and why some cases are determined to be landmark cases.  Students will research various landmark cases in history and examine why the case was important and how it relates to the Constitution or one of the Amendments.  The students will then select one of the landmark cases and act it out in class. Students who portray the judges will use their own opinions to determine the case and then the group will discuss if the decision is the same as the original case or if it was different and what significance today's world played in that decision.

Students will use the POWER Library resources to locate images and to complete a worksheet on disasters.

Students learn how newspapers got started, what components are necessary for creating a good newspaper, and what is included in the basic structure of a news article.  They will examine historical newspapers from several eras and then compare them to today's newspapers.  Students will then take on the role of a journalist and write a news article about a hot topic or current event. 

This lesson will introduce students to an important event that took place on this day.

This lesson plan walks students through the copyright licenses and open educational resources.  Students will learn how to author resources using the OER Commons platform, align them to standards, and evaluate them using the Achieve Rubrics.