Thirty classroom examples embed research-based practices within the teaching and learning process. The examples are grouped by grade levels and divided into Primary (K-2), Elementary (3-5), Middle School (6-8), and High School (9-12). Find examples at your grade level, adapt them to your teaching situation and materials, or use the examples as a point of departure for planning your own lessons.
Using graphic advance organizers scaffold students' sense of community.
Young English language learners talk about the world using hand lenses.
Creating personal learning goals supports literacy.
Math students explain problem-solving out loud as they talk through their thinking.
Fifth-graders revisit the world of Lewis and Clark using global positioning systems.
Teacher turns to technology to guide cooperative learning in a blended fourth-fifth science class.
Images help set the stage for understanding abstract concepts.
Interactive Web tools support math learning, providing fourth-graders skill practice that matters.
Digital cameras increase student self-concept as high achievers.
Using a word processing feature teaches efficient summarizing skills to fifth-graders.
Integrating math, science, and tribal culture, fifth-graders use technology to document their learning.
Building understanding in an arts-infused middle school class.
Middle school students polish skills for writing, reflection, and collaboration.
Middle school science students commit to goals through learning contracts.
Improving reading skills in middle school using a popular Web site prompts effective feedback.
Clarifying parents' role in homework improves school-family relationships.
Sixth-graders reflect on and categorize traits of successful learners.
Online tools help teaching teams plan thematic projects across distance.
Planning for videoconferencing with scientists, middle school students learn to ask good questions.
High school students correct misperception by making predictions, testing, and observing results.
Using blogs to improve writing in a high school English class.
High school students use Web-based news services to view, explore, and chart current events.
Students exhibit learning at a high school science fair for the community.
Applying the scientific method high school students use technology to help frame science investigations.
Mapping software helps students visualize and analyze statistics around community issues.
Summarizing complex texts using cell phones increases understanding.
Music recording software allows students to 'podcast' their study of Shakespeare.
Using Internet relay chat to focus practice while studying the French Revolution.
A natural disaster provides a rare opportunity for modeling global systems.
Online note taking with primary sources improves research skills in high school students.