Tiktaalik: A Fish Out of Water

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn that transitional fossils provide scientists with evidence to establish how major animal groups are related to one another.

The a-r Song

This video segment from Between the Lions is a music video featuring Fonix singing about the joys of the “ar” sound.

Abiyoyo

In this video segment from Between the Lions stars Theo the Lion reading aloud the story of Abiyoyo, a South African tale packed with suspense, heroic characters, and new words.

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Amazing Trampolini Brothers: brave

In this video segment from Between the Lions, a trio of animated circus performers demonstrates the comparative and superlative adjectives brave, braver, and bravest.

Amazing Trampolini Brothers: good

In this video segment from Between the Lions, a trio of animated circus performers demonstrates the comparative and superlative adjectives good, better, and best.

Amazing Trampolini Brothers: noisy

In this video segment from Between the Lions, a trio of animated circus performers demonstrates the comparative and superlative adjectives noisy, noisier, noisiest.

Amazing Trampolini Brothers: tasty

In this video segment from Between the Lions, a trio of animated circus performers demonstrates the comparative and superlative adjectives tasty, tastier, tastiest.

American Stories: Teens and Immigration

In this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students explore the experience of four teen immigrants to the United States.

Baseball and Social Change: The Story of Roberto Clemente

In this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students explore how a culture changes as new groups of people enter it, focusing on the experiences of baseball player Roberto Clemente and the influence of Latino culture in the United States.

Building the Erie Canal

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students look at how the construction of the Erie Canal brought about major changes within United States, particularly in New York City, upstate New York, and the Midwest.

Building the Pyramids of Ancient Egypt

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the pyramids of ancient Egypt, the pyramids' role in Egyptian society, and historians' theories about how the Egyptians were able to build these massive structures.

Bullying

In this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students think about the impact of bullying on individuals' rights in a democratic society.

Character Change: The Diary of Anne Frank

In this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students examine how Anne Frank's character changed while she was in hiding from the Nazis in World War II.

Character Conflict: Language Immersion

In this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students explore conflict as a plot device through the story of Moises, a fictional young immigrant to the United States.

City Country Rap (c)

In this video segment from Between the Lions, the animated hip hop duo Rhymo and Hip rap about the hard "c" and soft "c" sounds while telling the difference between the country and the city.

City Mouse and Country Mouse

This video segment from Between the Lions places emphasis on "c" words as it retells an original version of Aesop’s fable. A city mouse and a country mouse trade living spaces only to discover there’s no place like home.

Cliff Hanger and the Giant Snail

In this video segment from Between the Lions featuring seasonal vocabulary, a giant snail offers to rescue Cliff but moves at a snail’s pace.

The Columbian Exchange

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore the movement of plants, animals, and diseases that characterized the Columbian Exchange and learn how it changed the world.

Conflict Over Western Lands

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore how the differing worldviews of white settlers and Native Americans led to conflicts over land when Americans surged westward in the 1860s.

Continental Drift: What's the Big Idea?

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how the theory that explains the position of Earth's continents was established and later modified, and gain important insights into how science and the scientific community operate.