Our Teacher Advisor's Best Thematic Lessons
We've asked our Teacher Advisors to share their best thematic teaching ideas. Browse the unit plans below to find the right one for your classroom.
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Lesson Plans
Meet Your Vegetables
by Jeremy Brunaccioni
This integrated curriculum unit helps students better understand the importance of good nutrition and how to make healthy dietary choices.
by Jeremy Brunaccioni
This integrated curriculum unit helps students better understand the importance of good nutrition and how to make healthy dietary choices.
Sheltering Shells
by Jill White
This is a unit that investigates things with shells. The students take an in-depth look at animals with shells and different types of shells.
by Jill White
This is a unit that investigates things with shells. The students take an in-depth look at animals with shells and different types of shells.
Overboard for Owls
by Marissa Ochoa
Students will become researchers and scientists as they learn about animal adaptations with owls.
by Marissa Ochoa
Students will become researchers and scientists as they learn about animal adaptations with owls.
Using Poetry to Explore Change and Belonging
by Kechia Williams
In this unit plan from veteran teacher Kechia Williams, students read poems that pertain to change and growth and think about their own sense of belonging.
by Kechia Williams
In this unit plan from veteran teacher Kechia Williams, students read poems that pertain to change and growth and think about their own sense of belonging.
Adolescent Issues
by Nicole Sledge
Since students are more engaged in the content being taught when it is related to their own lives, this unit makes connections between typical teen issues and essential writing skills, the rules of subject-verb agreement.
by Nicole Sledge
Since students are more engaged in the content being taught when it is related to their own lives, this unit makes connections between typical teen issues and essential writing skills, the rules of subject-verb agreement.
