Thinkport's teacher resources for all grade bands feature professional development video tutorials and short, self-paced modules on specific concepts in literacy.
This short, self-paced professional development module demonstrates a clear process for generating text-dependent questions for use with literature and informational text at all grade levels.
Visit three classrooms to see how writing arguments is approached at various grade levels and subject areas – first grade ELA, 6th grade science and 9th grade government.
This collection features Dr. Bruce Perry and explores the impact of stress and trauma on the brain, and the resulting effect on learning. His teachings have helped schools significantly decrease behavior problems and create safe learning environments.
This self-paced lesson designed for teacher professional development introduces teaching strategies for integrating the content-based student lessons in the Inspiring Middle School Literacy Collection into your curriculum.
This self-paced lesson designed for teacher professional development introduces research principles that support the needs of middle school learners when reading and comprehending nonfiction text and shows these principles in action in actual classrooms.
This interactive lesson designed for professional development looks at standards-based approaches to incorporating environmental public health topics into your middle school classroom.
This interactive lesson considers how videos, interactives, and other forms of digital media can help middle school teachers and students explore content related to heat and thermal energy in an engaging and dynamic way.
This interactive lesson allows teachers to review science concepts and engage with assessment activities that reflect their developing perspective on the value and affordances of media in science instruction.
This professional development toolkit shares activities developed at the California Academy of Sciences and are designed to help you faciliate successful NGSS training for a team of educators.
This collection honors the centennial of women's suffrage. Touching on topics such as the labor movement, immigration, politics, civil rights, and women’s suffrage, these resources develop students’ historical thinking skills and help them make connections between past and present.
Inspired by the popular PBS series "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.", the media resources in this collection feature students in a genetics and genealogy camp as they explore their family history and DNA ancestry. Download and customize the curriclum for your classroom.