Lesson Plans

83 Result(s)
Grade Range
6-8
Investigating Jack London's White Fang: Nature and Culture Detectives

In White Fang, Jack London sought to trace the “development of domesticity, faithfulness, love, morality, and all the amenities and virtues.” In this lesson, students explore images from the Klondike and read White Fang closely to learn how to define and differentiate the terms “nature” and “culture."

Grade Range
6-8
Mapping Our Worlds

Students explore the world of maps and learn how to view the world around them in a two-dimensional format.

Grade Range
6-8
The Constitutional Convention: Four Founding Fathers You May Never Have Met

Witness the unfolding drama of the Constitutional Convention and the contributions of those whom we have come to know as the Founding Fathers.  In this lesson, students will become familiar with four important, but relatively unknown, contributors to the U.S. Constitution Convention: Oliver Ellsworth, Alexander Hamilton, William Paterson, and Edmund Randolph.