Teaching About Endangered Animals (Reading Passages, Graphic, Video)

10 Nonfiction Reading Passages About Animal Heroes (with videos)

Animals are amazing in many ways — and it’s especially remarkable when they come to the rescue of their human friends. We’ve put together a collection of 10 engaging, nonfiction passages that include some incredible…

Teacher Story: “Aquarium Architects” Brings Math Formulas to Life in the Classroom

A Mini-Project for Teaching Students About the New Face of the $20 Bill: Harriet Tubman

With the recent announcement that Harriet Tubman is slated to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, here’s a great way to help them synthesize a reading passage, a video clip…

Using Sentence Frames to Teach Main/Central Idea in Informational Text

Students are often able to pick out key facts and ideas from grade-level text, but there is an added layer of complexity in determining an overarching idea or concept—especially when it’s not explicitly…

Using Measurement to Determine Flight Distance: Paper Airplane Challenge

Graphing Factors and Polynomials: Video Game Design 101

Aligned to standards HSA-SSE.A.2: Use the structure to rewrite expressions, HSA-APR.B.2: Apply the remainder theorem, HSA-APR.B.3: Identify zeros of polynomials