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Top 10 Interactive Units
Plan your year with these top ten online activities
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
Plan your year ahead with these teacher-tested multimedia units including audio and online publishing resources for students, plus lesson plans and free printables for you.
Grades 1–12
Students work with authors, editors, and illustrators to develop writing skills in eight genres — biography, descriptive, folktale, mystery, myth, news, poetry, speech, and book review writing — before publishing their work online.
Be sure to check out the Writing With Writers Teacher's Guide before getting started.
2. Clifford Interactive Storybooks
Grades PreK–2
Students practice phonics skills as they listen and read along with Clifford, selecting words to include in their own Clifford Interactive Storybook.
Check out the Clifford Interactive Storybooks Teacher's Guide before getting started.
Grades PreK–12
Take a voyage on the Mayflower, experience daily life in the early settlement of the Pilgrims, explore timelines, interviews, and "The Thanksgiving Web Hunt," and more.
Before getting started, be sure to check out the First Thanksgiving Teacher's Guide.
Grades 6–12
From project and activity ideas to encyclopedia articles and writing tips, Research Starters is the perfect starting point for research topics such as World War II, Confucianism, rainforests, and more.
5. Culture & Change: Black History in America
Grades 3–12
An interactive unit in which students study the Civil Rights movement and the concept of racism, explore the history of jazz music, meet famous African Americans, and more.
Get the Culture & Change: Black History in America Teacher's Guide before getting started.
Grades K–8
With Weather Watch, students come face to face with extreme weather conditions, track daily weather patterns, build an operational weather station, before collecting and comparing data, and writing reports from the eye of the storm.
Get started with the Weather Watch Teacher's Guide.
7. Building Language for Literacy
Grades PreK–K
Students develop language skills with Nina the Naming Newt, Reggie the Rhyming Rhino, and Leo the Letter-Loving Lobster as they explore a firehouse, a supermarket, and a zoo.
Get started with the Building Language for Literacy Teacher's Guide.
8. Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today
Grades K–8
Find out what it means to come to the United States as an immigrant from the early 20th century through the early 21st century with the Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today interactive unit.
Check out the Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today Teacher's Guide before getting started.
Grades 3–8
Join the free club for kids who love books! With Flashlight Readers, students can get exclusive author info, including photos, audio, and notes from the authors themselves, and play fun learning games that take them into their favorite books.
Get the Flashlight Readers Teacher's Guide before gettings started.
10. The Underground Railroad: Escape From Slavery
Grades 4–12
Travel back to the year 1860 and follow a young slave as he flees a Kentucky plantation for Canada along the Underground Railroad in The Underground Railroad: Escape From Slavery unit that includes audio and photo resources.
Get started with the Underground Railroad Teacher's Guide.
- Everything You Need:
- Subjects:American Civil War, Alphabet Recognition, Slavery, Underground Railroad, Abolition, Pilgrims, Literacy, Literature, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Word Recognition, Literature Appreciation, Research Skills, Writing, Creative Writing, Descriptive Essay, Expository Writing, Narrative Writing, Nonfiction Writing, Poetry Writing, Writing Process, Early Reading, Weather, Immigration, Spanish, Thanksgiving
- Skills:Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Print Awareness, Online Sources, Science, Social Studies, Research Skills, Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, Narrative Writing, Poetry Writing
