21st Century 8th Graders

Critical Thinking Lesson Plan

From Teachers Pay Teachers - "You have been hired to design and build a new toy that will be marketed across the nation this coming holiday season! Build a prototype, design a magazine ad, and fill out a self-reflection journal."

Creativity Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will create an infographic to share knowledge and data about an issue or science topic they are studying.

Collaboration Lesson Plan

Science Team Building Fun Activity Integrated Unit (Optional)
This Science Teambuilding activity, emphasizes cooperation and collaboration skills needed in science class and in the field of science. While working to float, sink and suspend a single piece of foil, students must learn to overcome com...

Communication Lesson Plan

"The students will be able to use a variety of resources to research the life, writings, theories, and other information about a specific scientist from the past. The students will effectively communicate the information to their peers through a classroom presentation, which will include replicating one of the scientist’s experiments."

Technology/Media Literacy Lesson Plan

Students dig into an article to determine whether they can trust the information by verifying the evidence it presents.

Technology/Media Literacy Lesson

Leadership Lesson Plan

"In eighteen minutes, teams must build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. The marshmallow needs to be on top."

Goal -
"Create a teamwork experience that can be debriefed along various angles, such as roles in a team, or what it takes to innovate"