What does the world look like through someone else's eyes? Guide students in using colorful paper glasses to examine a story of school desegregation from multiple perspectives.

Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.

How do you read an image? Students find out in this lesson in which they "read" several images of the Boston Massacre to better understand the event and recognize effects of propaganda.

Bookworms will enjoy the bytes they find in this lesson as they research and share information about online library services in places around the world.

Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make text–self–world connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.

Who are the people behind the world's greatest inventions? Students read biographies of a terrific trio of American inventors and create presentations that highlight how their inventions from the past impacted the future.

Past and present come together when students interview their parents and create a skit that compares their parents' experiences as middle schoolers with the students' own lives.

Cooperation and critical thinking are the name of the game as students use baseball facts they find online to create trivia questions for a class Jeopardy game.

People make the past come alive as students research and then share stories about famous Americans who promoted democratic ideals.

Students look to the past and use historical context to compare and contrast two characters from folktales.

Students revive elements of the oral tradition by writing about something funny that happened to them recently, sharing with classmates, and discussing the changes that occur during the retelling of the stories.

Students discuss and categorize superstitions, define a superstition, and compare the similarities and difference between proverbs and superstitions.

"Famous Firsts" are researched by students, followed by small group research and multimedia presentations to report research results.

After students read the novel The Color Purple, dialect is discussed and students write a short piece of fiction or poetry using the dialect of their peer group.

As a class, students discuss Neil Armstrong's famous quote when he landed on the moon and explore the difference that one word can make, as well as the gendered language that Armstrong uses.

Students listen to Holiday's song "Strange Fruit" and identify powerful and descriptive images for a mini-lesson on tone and about the lynchings in the South during this time.

Students explore online resources about Ellis Island, interview an immigrant in the area, and publish their stories.

Students practice the Pre-AP strategy called SOAPSTone, identifying important parts of the Gettysburg Address and comparing it with John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech.

After learning about Dr. Salk, students interview a family member or someone they know who remembers the polio epidemic.