Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat: Morning Badges Home Activity

For Students Pre-K - K
Counting and cardinality, measurement, and measureable attributes are all discovered in this activity from Peg + Cat. Your child can earn badges as they complete a morning routine with Peg and her best friend Cat.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing Across the Curriculum Lesson: This I Believe: History

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This writing assignments asks students to assume the voice of a person from history they have researched. Focusing on a topic or belief the person showed passion about as history unfolded, the students write an essay modeled after NPR's...
Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: How to Teach Writing in Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Literacy expert Timothy Shanahan shares best practices for teaching reading and writing. In this article, he recommends some reasonable approaches, activities, and routines to help facilitate and teach writing in Kindergarten.
Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Redd Foxx

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Redd Foxx, an American comedian and television actor known for his raunchy stand-up routines. His style of comedy, often described as "blue" for its foul language and highly adult subject...
Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Richard Pryor

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Richard Pryor, an American comedian and actor, who was one of the leading comics of the 1970s and '80s. His comedy routines drew on a variety of downtrodden urban characters, rendered with...