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Students will learn from reading diary entries written on the Oregon Trail how such writings preserve history and bring the past to life.

Andrea Barnes is retiring after nearly 30 years in the classroom. In this post she shares parting words of wisdom for future teachers, especially the need for collaboration during the current COVID-19 crisis.

Help your middle schoolers sharpen their writing and critical thinking skills with activities including a poetry scavenger hunt and an opportunity for them to invent a board game.

Download this free Wallace v. Jaffree lesson plan to teach students about an important Supreme Court case regarding prayer in schools and the First Amendment.

Students will read stories about people's experiences on the Oregon Trail and work on related activities that will help them build their skills in math, science, ELA, and other subject areas.

Down these World War II lesson plans and activities to teach your students about the war in history that claimed at least 50 million lives worldwide.

Help students build their skills in working with fractions, decimals, ratios, and percent.

For this week's activities, students can create how-to videos, analyze media messages, and respond to summer writing prompts.

Help students learn about how to plan for the future, with a focus on creating a personal budget and constructing a net worth statement.

Teach students about synonyms and antonyms and have them create a How-To Tech Guide with these activities for middle schoolers.

Have your students hone their active-listening skills and identify literary terms with these at-home activities for middle schoolers.

Teach students about metaphors and have them write fiction stories with these free downloadable activities for middle schoolers.

See literacy in action with Literacy at Work. Paired with lesson plans, the web series features literacy leaders as they teach students poetry, speechwriting, and more.

Start a discussion with your students about the Eighth Amendment with this Miller v. Alabama lesson plan.

Esther Wojcicki shares her lesson on conducting an interview and writing a personality feature—​an intriguing, creative article about the interviewee.

Teach students in Grades 3-12 how to conduct interviews and write compelling personality features with these insights from Esther Wojcicki.

Put students in Grades 6-8 on the path to making knowledgeable purchasing decisions with these free activities ideal for at-home learning.​