Curriculum Guides

As the United States commemorates the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, reflection on the causes and consequences, people and events involved, and impact on culture, technology, economy, and legal and social dimensions of the nation takes place. In addition to selected reprints from The Washington Post, this guide provides resources, vocabulary, study questions and a wide variety of suggested activities: a Lincoln quiz, personality and technology research projects, and a business-related advertising study.

Study of arthropods and recent insect infestations has many interdisciplinary expressions. Beginning with observation and research, students may engage in scientific and journalistic writing and the creation of field guides, wanted posters and display cases. Post article reprints focus on bedbugs, stink bugs, beetles, borers and ants.

Students who know their rights will help ensure that those rights are not ignored. Posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools and zero-tolerance policies provide in-school cases to study due process and the balance between individual liberties and the public interest. Activities include a crossword puzzle, e-Replica searches, opinion survey, Establishment Clause Tests, poster project and holding a public hearing

As explorers discovered new plants, they brought back drawings, specimens and seeds. Today, these once-exotic edibles are part of our daily lives as we stop at the grocery store, the coffee shop and nursery. Activities in this guide encourage interdisciplinary lessons in botany, nutrition, art, mathematics and community engagement.