In this lesson, high school students look critically at the literary work "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe and its 1961 film interpretation. They use prediction strategies to form and refine their opinions about the story line progression in each work. They read the short story, screen the film, discuss reactions to both works, and plan and write a persuasive essay analyzing the validity of the film interpretation. This lesson is ideally suited for students who have experience with persuasive writing, and it can be adapted to work with any literature-film pairing.

This lesson plan introduces students to the pivotal role that Congressional committees play in the legislative process, focusing on how their own Congressional representatives influence legislation through their committee appointments. Students begin by reviewing the stages of the legislative process, then learn how committees and subcommittees help determine the outcome of this process by deciding which bills the full Congress will consider and by shaping the legislation upon which votes are finally cast. With this background, students research the committee and subcommittee assignments of their Congressional representatives, then divide into small groups to prepare class reports on the jurisdictions of these different committees and their representatives' special responsibilities on each one. Finally, students consider why representation on these specific committees might be important to the people of their state or community, and examine how the committee system reflects some of the basic principles of American federalism.
What role do Committees play during the legislative process?
How is Committee membership determined?
What role do Committees play with regard to oversight and checks and balances?
Analyze the legislative process of the United States Congress by focusing on the role of Committees.
Evaluate how Congressional representatives can influence legislation through their specific committee assignments.
Evaluate how Committees uphold the Constitutional responsibilities of the Legislative Branch.

Explore the different conic sections and their graphs. Use the Cone View to manipulate the cone and the plane creating the cross section, and then observe how the Graph View changes.

Constitution 101 is a 15 unit curriculum that provides students with a basic understanding of the Constitution’s text, history, structure, and caselaw. Using multiple primary source documents students will study the historical and philosophical foundations of America’s founding principles from a range of diverse voices The curriculum guides students to think like constitutional lawyers—cultivating the skills necessary to analyze all sides of constitutional questions. Each unit contains detailed materials for classroom teachers, as well as opportunities for guided discovery and practice and tools to check for understanding.

iCivics presents a comprehensive, short-form video series explaining the text, history, and relevance of the United States Constitution, Bill of Rights, and additional amendments.

Website Description:
Magna Carta, Montesquieu, the Mayflower, and more! Follow this WebQuest through history to the events, people, and documents that inspired the writers of the Constitution.
This WebQuest serves as an introduction or review. Students will learn how documents from the Middle Ages and thinkers from the Enlightenment had an impact on the system of government that was formed in the Constitution, and how that has an impact on them today.

Student Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to...
*Identify documents and ideas that shaped the U.S. Constitution
*Compare American and British governing documents
*Explain key constitutional principles and their impacts

This is an entire unit of activities relating to whole numbers, place value and rounding.  The activity I use is called "Reality Checking" on pages 57-64.  "Reality Checking" provides a real world connection for students to practice and apply the standard algorithm for addition and subtraction.  Students will work either individually, with a partner or group to balance a mock checking account.  Students will add whole number deposits and subtract whole number withdrawals while using estimation to check for reasonableness.

How many cookies did the Cookie Monster eat? This 3 Act Task by Graham Fletcher begins with a short portion of a video with Cookie Monster eating cookies. First students make observations and estimates to begin determining how many cookies the puppet ate. Students can then use pictures of the cookie label package, a full package of cookies, and the remaining cookies after the puppet ate some. Students are estimating, adding, and subtracting within 50 to determine the number of cookies the Cookie Monster ate.

A fun, engaging research project/presentation on corporate law basics. Intended for an Intro to Business class - Business Law Unit - High School 

Through ongoing partnership with teachers across New York City, New Visions has developed this course map for a high school earth & space science course fully designed to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the New York State Science Learning Standards (NYSSLS). Each unit follows a common structure: students engage with an anchor phenomenon and develop questions; go through sequences of learning and sense-making to develop and iterate on answers to those questions; then complete a three-dimensional performance task.

Unit 1: Discovering New Worlds Topic: Solar System
Unit 2: Probability of Life in the Universe Topic: Early Solar System, Orbital Motion, and Origin of the Universe
Unit 3: Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Are we at Risk? Topic: Earth’s Interior_ Waves, Energy and Risk
Unit 4: Climate Change Throughout Human History Topic: Coevolution of Climate and Life
Unit 5: Human Decision Making Topic: Human Sustainability
Unit 6: More Hurricanes and Blizzards in NYC? Topic: Climate Change and Severe Weather

Using primary sources related to the official proclamation of Columbus Day as a holiday at the national level, this activity asks students to analyze the documents (official proclamation and a newspaper advertisement) to determine why President Harrison chose to declare it as a holiday. Accessing the lesson/document does require setting up free account.

This lesson provides awareness of the vocabulary used when discussing credit cards. Students search for vocabulary words in a credit card offer. Each student defines the terms, then relate them to one another in the sample credit card offer. Afer the definitions are completed, they create a graphic organizer, either electronically, such as Popplet, or by hand

This activity allows the user to explore different cross sections of various cones, cylinders, prisms, and pyramids. Cross sections can be difficult for students to understand, given that the concept requires that students switch between three-dimensional shapes and two-dimensional representations of those shapes.

Students must research a current event with a marketing / promotion focus. Guidelines are provided to synthesize their ideas into a written paper.

This research article provides the details of a current immunotherapy study performed by scientists at MIT. Immunotherapy is a relatively new and very promising cancer treatment that is now a focus of many cancer research labs. The article discusses what immunotherapy is, how T cell activation works, and how the treatment has eliminated some tumors in mice. As an interactive activity, students can practice making annotations in the margins of the article to check for understanding. Overall, students who read and dissect this article are learning how to comprehend complex biomedical research studies. As a supplemental activity, teachers can distribute the worksheet quiz posted in WISELearn. This set of questions (true/false, fill in the blank, multiple choice, short answer) assesses the students' comprehension levels of the current MIT immunotherapy research. An answer key is provided. The skills learned from investigating this article can hopefully be used to investigate other current biomedical research for human diseases and disorders.

An assignment for students to complete a variety of customer service scenarios.  I used this during distance learning in the spring and it worked well as an introduction for customer service. 

This lesson would be a great tool to use for a online literacy course and even a business law. Cyberbullying and the Law reviews hypothetical scenarios with online bullying as well as goes over every Province and Territories law regarding bullying. Even though this lesson is developed for Canadian laws, it can easily be translated to fit into the United States laws.

Students will work independently in the lab to produce a dragon from the random mixing of genetic traits.  Students will use Mendelian principles to construct their dragon. Students will then Ã¢â‚¬Å“mate” their dragon with another dragon and predict the probability of specific genotypes/phenotypes for offspring of the dragon parents.

This lesson plan includes teacher instructions and student materials needed to explore ocean zones and the various types of animals found in each zone.

Electronic practice that can provide teachers the ability to individualize or assign as a group. This collections of topics covers middle school standards through AP Calculus AB. Easily create a class and assign practice topics to one or all of your students. You can assign due date, late dates, as well as customize how many questions students need to work through. Students get immediate feedback on their practice and are walked through the correct solution if they get it incorrect. This website is run by a math teacher who created it because he was looking for an alternative to assigning textbook problems.