Going Mobile: Debating and Using Cellphones in School
Lesson Plan | Considering the pros and cons of using cellphones in the classroom.
View ArticleGoing Viral? Creating Dance Videos Across the Curriculum
Lesson Plan | Examining the phenomenon of viral music and dance videos, and developing original videos on a curricular topic.
View ArticleWhat Is Art? Considering and Creating Artistic Works
Lesson Plan | Pondering works of art, responding to definitions of art and then developing original works that express individual understandings.
View ArticleDeep Impact: Considering Personal Connections to Writers and Artists
Lesson Plan | Celebrating literary and other artistic heroes that have had a powerful impact on us.
View ArticleYear-End Round-Up | Language Arts, Literature, Journalism and Fine Arts
Lesson Plan | Our lessons are on summer vacation, but here's a look back at language and fine arts-related lessons from the 2009-10 school year.
View ArticleShort and Sweet: Deconstructing and Creating Brief Arts Reviews
Lesson Plan | Considering the usefulness and structure of mini-reviews and how to write them effectively.
View ArticleBiology in Film: Using Animation to Study Cell Structure
Lesson Plan | Writing voice-overs to explain the processes depicted in animated films about cells and molecules.
View ArticleTeaching the Holiday Season
Our regularly updated Spirit of the Season collection has enough lesson plans, crossword puzzles, discussion questions and multimedia links to keep you in holiday-related curricula for weeks, but we...
View ArticleBieber Fever: Casting a Critical Eye on Celebrities and Popular Culture
Lesson Plan | Engaging in cultural criticism about pop icons and idols to foster critical consumption of media, entertainment and culture.
View ArticleReader Idea |‘The DNA Dance’
The story of how a professor got 4,000 college freshmen to represent a DNA strand in an interpretive dance inspired by a Pulitzer Prize-winning series by the New York Times reporter Amy Harmon.
View ArticleThinking Critically: Reading and Writing Culture Reviews
In this lesson, we invite students to explore the cultural offerings around them and write reviews about what they experience. We use Times models to help them through the process.
View ArticleText to Text |‘Antigone’ and Noche Flamenca’s ‘Antigona’
In this Text to Text, we focus on pairing Sophocles' work -- called "the most powerful political play ever written" -- with the work of a contemporary Spanish flamenco dance company.
View ArticleWhat Is Art? Considering and Creating Artistic Works
Lesson Plan | Pondering works of art, responding to definitions of art and then developing original works that express individual understandings.
View ArticleDeep Impact: Considering Personal Connections to Writers and Artists
Lesson Plan | Celebrating literary and other artistic heroes that have had a powerful impact on us.
View ArticleYear-End Round-Up | Language Arts, Literature, Journalism and Fine Arts
Lesson Plan | Our lessons are on summer vacation, but here's a look back at language and fine arts-related lessons from the 2009-10 school year.
View ArticleShort and Sweet: Deconstructing and Creating Brief Arts Reviews
Lesson Plan | Considering the usefulness and structure of mini-reviews and how to write them effectively.
View ArticleBiology in Film: Using Animation to Study Cell Structure
Lesson Plan | Writing voice-overs to explain the processes depicted in animated films about cells and molecules.
View ArticleTeaching the Holiday Season
Our regularly updated Spirit of the Season collection has enough lesson plans, crossword puzzles, discussion questions and multimedia links to keep you in holiday-related curricula for weeks, but we...
View ArticleBieber Fever: Casting a Critical Eye on Celebrities and Popular Culture
Lesson Plan | Engaging in cultural criticism about pop icons and idols to foster critical consumption of media, entertainment and culture.
View ArticleReader Idea |‘The DNA Dance’
The story of how a professor got 4,000 college freshmen to represent a DNA strand in an interpretive dance inspired by a Pulitzer Prize-winning series by the New York Times reporter Amy Harmon.
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