Grade 11 teaching resources

Students examine Theranos, its blood-testing claims, investors, and public impact through informational text and guided questions.

Students compare the long-term costs of owning a used electric vehicle and a gas-powered vehicle.

Students learn about Oklahoma's 45th Infantry Division, known as the Thunderbirds, and its service in World War II and the Korean War.

Students examine the 1901 Spindletop discovery and trace how technological innovation fueled economic and social change in Texas.

This four-page lesson explores how corn, beans, and squash support one another in the Three Sisters planting system.

Teach students how to use repetition, call-and-response, sound effects, vivid imagery, and gestures to make oral stories engaging.

This four-page reading resource explores the Taj Mahal’s history, cultural significance, construction, and symmetrical architectural design.

Students create a six-panel wordless comic that communicates an emotional narrative through imagery alone.

Students investigate how marshmallow Peeps dissolve in different liquids, making predictions and recording changes in size, shape, color, and other observations.

This engaging hot chocolate-themed science activity introduces students to solids, liquids, gases, mixtures, solutions, solutes, and solvents.

This three-page lesson introduces students to the Massachusetts Minutemen and their role at Lexington and Concord.

This four-page worksheet explores Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Gutenberg, and Galileo and their contributions to Renaissance art, science, literature, and communication.

This four-page worksheet examines the Catholic Church’s role in medieval European political, social, educational, and economic life.

Students read about Uber's founding, disruptive business model, global expansion, and challenges.

This four-page resource teaches students how to introduce, cite, and analyze quotations using the Quote Sandwich Method.

Students plan picnic purchases using grocery and restaurant flyers, calculate subtotals and sales tax, and stay within a fixed budget.

This three-page social studies reading resource explains the events leading to the attack on Fort Sumter and the outbreak of the American Civil War.

Students explore how friction affects curling stones and how gravity powers luge sleds.

This three-page informational reading introduces the Navajo Code Talkers, their contributions during World War II, and their lasting legacy.

Students read about deliberate practice, overcoming plateaus, stage presence, and managing performance anxiety.

Students explore how plastic is extracted, manufactured, distributed, used, and discarded.

Students calculate simple and compound interest on microloans and compare repayment costs.

Students read about Marie Curie’s education, perseverance, research on radioactivity, and Nobel Prize achievements.

Students learn about the Tuskegee Airmen, World War II, segregation, and their contributions to American history.

Students read an informational passage about oil sands, extraction, transportation, refining, and everyday petroleum products.

Students learn about recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, including discipline, teamwork, perseverance, and South Carolina’s military history.

Students read an engaging informational biography about Alfred Nobel, the mistaken obituary that changed his perspective, and the creation of the Nobel Prizes.

Students learn about the history and community service of the Iowa National Guard through an informational reading, key vocabulary, and a timeline.

Students read an accessible overview of the Battle of Gettysburg and its importance during the American Civil War.

This five-page worksheet explores how the Nile supported farming, transportation, society, and daily life in Ancient Egypt.

Students explore inflation by comparing historical and projected grocery prices, calculating percentage increases, and analyzing purchasing power.

This four-page worksheet explores why diversity strengthens science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Students explore Iowa’s geography, fertile soils, climate, farming history, corn yields, economic importance, and agricultural technology.

This three-page phonics resource introduces consonant blends and digraphs with examples, word sorting, tracing, writing, and illustration activities.

This four-page guide introduces bus routes, stops, arrival and departure times, fares, and schedule reading.

Students explore the Victorian origins, modern traditions, and cultural significance of Boxing Day in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Students explore British Columbia’s tectonic setting through a hands-on stress-and-release simulation, real earthquake data, and guided questions.

This three-page worksheet introduces confirmation, selection, and framing bias in digital media.

This classroom resource introduces bat basics, nocturnal adaptations, life cycles, ecological roles, and common myths.

This three-page French worksheet introduces emotions connected to returning to school, including excited, happy, nervous, worried, sad, tired, surprised, and confused.

This student worksheet introduces the chemistry of baking, including ingredient functions, limiting reagents, and chemical reactions.

This six-page printable activity pack introduces the P.I.E.

This six-page science resource explains why leaves change color in fall, including the roles of chlorophyll, photosynthesis, carotenoids, and anthocyanins.

Students explore why leaves change color by learning about chlorophyll, carotenoids, anthocyanins, and seasonal senescence.

Students learn to identify whether spooky texts are written to persuade, inform, or entertain.

Students sort example statements into persuade, inform, and entertain categories, then create their own examples.

This Thanksgiving-themed activity pack helps students distinguish between persuade, inform, and entertain in holiday writing.

This five-page printable packet helps students identify whether an author's purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain.