Student Resources

Student resources are interactive activities collected from around the Web. They can be used to support related lesson plans or as standalone activities in the classroom. Browse our library of student resources by grade level or subject area below.

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History & Social Studies

Launchpad: Getting to Know the First Amendment! (6–12)

Review the features of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

History & Social Studies

Launchpad: Getting to Know the First Amendment! (K–5)

Review the features of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Art & Culture

Launchpad: Hammurabi’s Code

How does Hammurabi's code reflect Babylonian society?

History & Social Studies

Launchpad: Having Fun: The Economics of Leisure

By 1900, there were more than 29 million people in the American workforce including men, women, and children. Americans worked an average of 59 hours per week and usually received Saturday afternoons and Sundays off. Many companies provided unpaid leave to their employees. How do you think Americans might have spent their leisure time a century ago?

Literature & Language Arts

Launchpad: Hayden and Roethke

Students examine the relationship of poetic form and content, shaped by alliteration, consonance, repetition, and rhythm, in two poems about fatherhood: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz."

History & Social Studies

Launchpad: Henry David Thoreau's Essay "On Civil Disobedience"

This Launchpad guides students through Henry David Thoreau's classic political essay, "On Civil Disobedience."