Ninth Grade Lesson Plans

English Language Arts Grades 9-10 (2023)

• Acting Out Student Stories with Robots
• American Dream and The Great Gatsby
• An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
• Analyzing Informational Text
• Analyzing Visual Text
• Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads
• Animating Poetry: Reading Poems about the Natural World
• Annotate Text in Google Docs
• Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
• Balance Action in Your Writing with Thoughts and Emotions
• Book Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in Drama
• Book Report Alternative: Getting Acquainted with Farcebook
• Book Reports
• Can Words Lead to War?
• Character Analysis and The Crucible
• Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Oral and Literary Strategies
• Choose, Select, Opt, or Settle: Exploring Word Choice in Poetry
• Classical Appeals Analysis (Churchill/Roosevelt)
• Cornell Notes
• Digital Citizenship Online Communcation
• Digital Storytelling
• Does Science Fiction Predict the Future? Inquiry Based Media Literacy Unit
• Dr. Cannon Goes to Washington: Utah Statues in National Statuary Hall
• Elizabethan England & Shakespearean Context Lesson Plan
• Emily Dickinson and Poetic Imagination: "Leap, Plashless"
• Fact-Checker
• How the Sego Lilly Became Utah's State Flower: Examining Primary Sources
• How to Paint a Picture with Details in Your Writing
• How to Write Complete Sentences & When to Break the Rule
• LESSON PLAN: Pages | Annotate & Create PSA
• Learn New Vocabulary with Flash Cards
• Listening Guide: Chatbots are supercharging search: Are we ready?
• Listening Guide: Flagrant foul: Misinformation and sports
• Listening Guide: Opinion creep: How facts lost ground in the battle for our attention
• News Goggles: Emilie Munson, Times Union
• News Matters Unit Plan
• One Tin Soldier Rides Away
• Parallel Structure Quotes
• Poems that Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost
• Present Your Research with a Google Slide (9-12)
• Research and Develop a Topic
• S is for Shoes Off in the House | ABC's of AAPIs
• Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: ‘You Kiss by the Book’
• Structure and Detail in "A Long Thin Line"
• Team Working Session #2: Interview Prep and Scripting
• The Grapes of Wrath: Voices from the Great Depression
• The Life and Poetry of Phillis Wheatley
• Toulmin Argument Essay
• What is Media trying to tell me?
• Wordless Media Messages
• Write an If-Then Adventure Story
• Writers' Favorite Way to Start a Personal Essay
• iPad Lesson- Fairy Tale Book

Digital Media 1

• Digital Citizenship
• Digital Citizenship Lesson Plan - Tips to Stay Private Online

English Language Arts Humanities (2023)

• "Cotton Candy" by Edward Hirsch
• Being in the Noh: An Introduction to Japanese Noh Plays
• Lesson 1: Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
• Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy

English Language Arts Journalism (2021)

• BBC My World Media Literacy
• News Goggles: Candace Buckner, The Washington Post
• News Goggles: Emilie Munson, Times Union
• News Goggles: Kent Porter, The Press Democrat
• News Matters Unit Plan
• Storm Lake Documentary Discussion Guide on the Importance of Local Journalism

English Language Arts Professional & Technical Comm (2023)

• AUDIO: Dos and Don’ts
• AUDIO: Meet the TASCAM
• AUDIO: Mic check 1, 2
• Acquiring Content Legally and Ethically
• Acquiring and Sharing Content Legally and Ethically
• Been there, lit that
• Choosing a pet (writing unbiased queries - Search Coach)
• Creating New Content Using Others’ Work
• Creativity in the Online World — Copyright Basics and Our Roles as Creators and Consumers
• Creativity in the Online World — Our Roles as Creators and Consumers
• Get that b-roll
• How do I navigate information on social media?
• How to debunk science misinformation
• How to properly focus a camera
• How to record a podcast
• How to record a video diary
• How to record b-roll on your phone
• POP - Principles of Photography
• Sharing Content — How Much is OK?
• Using Copyrighted Works in Our Own Creations — Fair Use, Creative Commons, Permissions, and Public Domain
• Write a Business Plan
• Young fact-checkers explain how to discern info online

English Language Arts Speech & Debate (2021)

• Book 4, Fragmentation. Chapter 1, Lesson 2: Mainstream Metal, Parental Advisories, and Censorship
• Civics 101 Podcast
• Frederick Douglass |Orator, Editor, and Abolitionist
• Lesson 1: NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1920s
• Lesson 2: The Debate in Congress on the Sedition Act
• Lesson 2: The Question of Representation at the 1787 Convention
• Lesson 2: The Social Security Act
• Lesson 3: A Debate Against Slavery
• Lesson 3: Creating the Office of the Presidency
• Let Freedom Ring: The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Opinion Writing- Publishing your views respectfully
• Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!: Simulating the Supreme Court
• PBS Soundbreaking, Lesson 10: Recording and Producing the Voice
• Sojourner Truth |Abolitionist and Women’s Rights Activist
• Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History, Lesson 7. Debating the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
• The Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said
• The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
• The Federalist Debates: Balancing Power Between State and Federal Governments
• The Federalist and Anti-federalist Debates on Diversity and the Extended Republic
• The First Amendment: What's Fair in a Free Country?
• The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories
• Using Gale Reference to Analyze Opposing Claims
• What Makes a Change-Maker?: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Health Education II (9-12)

• Advocacy Through Letter Writing
• Challenge Violent Thinking and Violent Acts
• Germs & Handwashing Interactive Nearpod Lesson
• Germs & Hygiene Lesson Plan
• IPad Health Lesson
• Internet Behaviors and their Consequences
• The Dangers of and Ways to be Safer Online
• The Truth About Energy Drinks
• Tobacco 101

Physical Education - Participation Skills and Techniques [Spring 2016]

• Bowling Lesson Plan
• Handball Lesson Plan
• Volleyball Lesson Plan

SEEd - Biology

• Bio - The Salty Truth: Ecosystem Impacts of a Changing Lake
• Cellular Respiration
• Co-dominate and Incomplete dominate Lesson
• Ecology - Biology Lesson Plan
• NOVA Evolution Lab Lesson Plan
• The Ethical Considerations of Personal Genomics
• Tiktaalik: Evolution of a "Fishapod"

SEEd - Chemistry

• Building Batteries-Secondary
• Combustion Process
• Helium: An Important Natural Resource
• Helium: An Important Natural Resource

SEEd - Earth and Space Science

• Carbon Cycle Earth Space Science
• Developing Real World Solutions to Land Management Problems
• Digging Into Renewables
• ESS - Can We Run Out of Water?
• ESS.UT.SEEd.4.4 Water Quality
• Earth Science- Natural Disasters 3D Lesson
• Energy Efficiency
• Energy Efficiency Makes A Difference
• Exploring Energy Conversions with Alternative Vehicles
• Google Maps Timelapse - HS-ESS3-4
• Hands-On Permeation
• Lesson 2 - Identifying Potash Layer to Mine
• Ocean Currents
• Oil and Gas
• Powering Your Future With an Energy Career
• Scientific Method
• Scientific Method
• Solar Flares, Sunspots, and the Solar Cycle - HS-ESS1-1
• Terraforming Mars - HS-ESS3-3, HS-ESS3-6
• The Big Bang Theory - HS-ESS1-2, HS-ESS1-3
• Use Math to Identify Mineral Resources
• Using Natural Resources in Utah
• Water in Our World: Exploring Storage and Movement in Different Environments

SEEd - Environmental Science

• EnSci - Exploring Utah’s Regional Water Use Through Time
• EnSci - Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
• EnSci - Terminal Lakes: Why Should You Care?
• NOVA Energy Lab Lesson Plan
• Water in Our World: Exploring Storage and Movement in Different Environments

SEEd - Geology

• Water in Our World: Exploring Storage and Movement in Different Environments

SEEd - Physics

• Energy Video Project
• Exploring Energy Conversions with Wind Power
• From There to Here: How Energy Moves and Changes
• Heat Exchangers
• How the Sun Sees You - HS-PS4-4
• Popsicle Bridge
• SlinkySeismometer_geoPhysics
• Thermal Energy Conversion Using Peltier Power
• Trichroic Prism - HS-PS4-1

SEEd - Wildlife Biology

• EnSci - Terminal Lakes: Why Should You Care?

Secondary Library Media (6-12)

• "Just the Facts, Ma'am": Evaluating Sources
• Book Recommendations with Podcasts
• Book Reviews With Digital Photography
• Building Background Knowledge on The Holocaust
• Career Research - Biography
• Choosing Research Topics: Plate Tectonics
• Compare Spanish Speaking Country Information
• Copyright in the Real World (Part 2)
• Create a Podcast About Your NHD Project
• Creating a Positive Digital Identity
• Digital Citizenship Infographic
• Digital Citizenship for Libraries
• Does Science Fiction Predict the Future? Inquiry Based Media Literacy Unit
• Evaluate Websites Using the CRAP Checklist (9-12)
• Explore the World a Country at a Time
• Fake News or better known as Disinformation
• Finding Materials in the Library
• Finding Sources to Support your Question
• Gale Reference Introduction
• Generating An Interesting, Condensed Topic
• Genius Hour
• Genius Hour Project (Math) Lesson Plan
• Genius Hour Project: Career Exploration for Student's in Special Education
• How to Use the Card Catalog
• How to select sources: a vocabulary exercise
• Know Your Literature Genres
• Know Your Literature Genres
• Know Your Literature Genres
• Library Orientation
• Library Photo Scavenger Hunt
• Location and Access: Threading the Needle
• Memoir with El Deafo (Grade 6-8)
• Nearpod: Student Privacy and Social Media
• Organizing Information Lesson - Sorting Pictures
• Picture This! Creating an Infographic
• Puzzles, not Pieces: Smart Searching (Day 3 of 5)
• Puzzles, not Pieces: Topic Selection (Day 1 of 5)
• Puzzles, not Pieces: Topic Selection (Day 2 of 5)
• Puzzles, not Pieces: Using Sources (Day 5 of 5)
• Reading Engagement Lesson 1: Interests & Reading Survey
• Reading Engagement Lesson 2: Speed Book Dating
• Reading Engagement Lesson 3: Book Talks
• Renaissance 'Movers and Shakers'
• Rules of the Game Print vs Digital
• Senior Capstone 1: Evaluating Sources
• Senior Capstone 2: Using Databases and Library Catalog
• Senior Capstone 3: Using Databases and Summarizing
• Social Media and the Stand Against Fake News
• Swift and Slow on the Internet You Will Go (Grade 6)
• Tech Fun Friday Project
• Types of Media Bias and How to Spot It
• Using Gale Reference to Analyze Opposing Claims
• What is Media trying to tell me?
• Wordless Media Messages
• You are an Independent Reader

Secondary Media Arts - Level I

• Graphic Design 1 Curriculum
• Human Faces
• Make Art Inspired by Frida Kahlo and Mexico
• The Rule of Thirds, Framing, and Leading Lines in Photography

Secondary Media Arts - Level II

• DIGITAL STORYTELLING
• Make Art Inspired by Frida Kahlo and Mexico
• The Rule of Thirds, Framing, and Leading Lines in Photography

Secondary Media Arts - Level III

• DIGITAL STORYTELLING
• Make Art Inspired by Frida Kahlo and Mexico

Secondary Music - Instrumental - Level 1

• Concert Commercial

Secondary Visual Arts - Level 1

• Make Art Inspired by Frida Kahlo and Mexico
• Make Art with Google Sheets

Secondary Visual Arts - Level 2

• Make Art Inspired by Frida Kahlo and Mexico
• Short Documentary Filmmaking

Secondary Visual Arts - Level 3

• Make Art Inspired by Frida Kahlo and Mexico

Social Studies - World Geography

• 7 Billion: Where Do You Stand?
• A Refugee's Story
• A Tapestry of Multicultural Diversity
• A Vanishing Island
• At-Risk Communities
• Comparing and Contrasting Global Migration Policies
• Creating DOK Pamphlets Using iPad
• Cultural Diffusion in Korean Society
• Culture, What You See and What You Don't
• Far from Home
• Features of Culture
• Gapminder Dollar Street
• Global Issues
• Government 101: What Is A Government?
• Haitian Migrants at the US–Mexico Border
• How did the colonization of Africa shape its political and cultural geography?
• Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World
• Is Democracy at Risk? A Lesson Plan for U.S. and Global History Classes
• Maps
• Modern Globalization and Its Effects
• Nelson Mandela and Apartheid in South Africa
• Part 1: Travel Guide Video Project
• People on the Move
• Power of the Pyramids
• Push and Pull Factors of Human Migration
• Reclaiming Rivers
• Rethinking the Fabrics We Wear
• Students learn about how food security affects the US and the world.
• Sustainable Development Goal PSA
• Teaching About Cultures
• The Quilters of Gee’s Bend: Art and Resilience
• What's In a Name?
• Why Do People Migrate?
• Why Don’t We Just Make Everything Ourselves?

Unmanned Aerial Systems

• "Remember" by Joy Harjo
• Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
• Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
• Lesson 2: The Debate in Congress on the Sedition Act
• Lesson 2: The Question of Representation at the 1787 Convention
• The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
• The Federalist and Anti-federalist Debates on Diversity and the Extended Republic
• What Makes a Change-Maker?: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper