Model Activities use primary sources and Best Instructional Practices to create effective Learning Experiences for students. Below is a list of our activities organized by the modeled Best Instructional Practice.

Differentiated Instruction Differentiated Instruction

Differentiated instruction is action in the classroom designed to effectively meet specific needs of diverse learners.

Literacy Instruction Literacy Instruction

Information Literacy

"Information Literacy is the ability to structure a search across a variety of sources and formats to locate the best information to meet a particular need." (Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning, American Library Association and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 1998)

Reading Comprehension

"Reading Comprehension is the ability to understand text, including words, numbers, and images in print or digital form." (International Reading Association)

Teaching for Understanding Teaching for Understanding

Teaching for Understanding challenges students to connect learning to large scale themes that are central to the discipline being studied while enabling students to apply what they have learned outside of the original discipline or subject.