Grade 9 teaching resources

Students explore empathy by analyzing everyday acts of kindness and explaining how people show understanding of others’ feelings.

Students learn how electric cars work, including the roles of batteries, inverters, motors, charging ports, and regenerative braking.

This four-page worksheet introduces daylight-saving time and connects clock changes to elapsed-time problem solving.

Students learn common electrical circuit symbols and the functions of batteries, resistors, switches, LEDs, and wires.

This four-page worksheet introduces elapsed time through a worked example and guided practice.

Students learn about watts, kilowatt-hours, electricity rates, and calculating appliance energy costs.

Students learn to recognize phishing tactics, including urgency, suspicious links, impersonation, and requests for personal information.

Students examine how digital features such as infinite scroll, notifications, autoplay, likes, and streaks influence user behavior.

Students learn about Pennsylvania military installations, the Pennsylvania National Guard, and Veterans Day traditions.

This five-page guide introduces Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), anxiety-driven behavior, and the difference between demand avoidance and deliberate defiance.

This four-page worksheet helps students analyze password strength, identify common vulnerabilities, and explain how length, complexity, and unpredictability improve security.

This three-page science resource introduces the Sun's layers, composition, nuclear fusion, solar phenomena, and importance to Earth.

This three-page worksheet introduces Orange Shirt Day, residential schools, and the importance of Every Child Matters.

This three-page worksheet introduces oral traditions and compares oral testimonies with written documents.

This six-page economics worksheet introduces opportunity cost through everyday decisions, study-time allocation, and a major spending dilemma.

Students learn to interpret serving sizes, calories, nutrients, and Daily Values using a sample Nutrition Facts label.

Students identify, extend, and create arithmetic and geometric sequences through guided examples, practice problems, pattern puzzles, and real-world applications.

Students learn about Nellis Air Force Base, the Nevada desert’s role in pilot training, and teamwork among airmen.

This four-page activity pack helps students distinguish needs from wants through definitions, a relatable spending story, sorting activity, and advertising analysis.

This three-page worksheet introduces intrinsic and extrinsic motivation with clear definitions, examples, classification practice, scenarios, and critical-thinking questions.

A four-page worksheet explaining how the Moon’s position relative to Earth and the Sun creates its phases.

Students create spending, saving, and sharing plans using birthday money, an allowance, and an unexpected windfall.

Students learn about Missouri’s military history, Fort Leonard Wood, the Missouri National Guard, and Veterans Day celebrations.

Students distinguish misinformation from disinformation by examining intent, motivation, and potential consequences.

This five-page worksheet introduces mental health, emotions, stress responses, body awareness, and healthy coping strategies.

This four-page activity introduces media literacy through news habits, fake-news headline analysis, vocabulary, and source evaluation.

This three-page worksheet introduces students to the origins, historical significance, and traditions of Memorial Day.

This four-page worksheet introduces sensory, short-term, and long-term memory.

Students explore why materials such as wood, metal, plastic, glass, paper, rubber, cotton, and bricks are chosen for specific jobs.

This six-page economics worksheet introduces perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly.

Students examine U.S.

Students explore the science of maple sap flow, including freeze-thaw cycles, pressure changes, and sugar production.

This three-page worksheet teaches students to identify the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction passage.

This four-page resource introduces common logical fallacies, including straw man, ad hominem, false dilemma, appeal to authority, bandwagon, and Texas sharpshooter.

This four-page worksheet introduces ad hominem, false dilemma, slippery slope, and hasty generalization fallacies.

This three-page worksheet introduces specular and diffuse reflection, the law of reflection, and key terminology such as incident ray and normal line.

This four-page worksheet introduces light refraction, including how light bends between media and how refractive index affects bending.

Introduce students to logical arguments by identifying premises, conclusions, signal words, and argument structure.

Students learn how transparent, translucent, and opaque materials interact with light.

This three-page worksheet introduces light as electromagnetic energy and explains rectilinear propagation, light rays, wave properties, and the visible spectrum.

This four-page resource introduces local, state or provincial, and federal government responsibilities through clear explanations, vocabulary, examples, and a sorting activity.

Students explore Visual, Auditory, Reading/Writing, and Kinesthetic learning preferences through an eight-question self-assessment.

This four-page resource introduces common washing, bleaching, drying, ironing, and dry-cleaning symbols.

Students learn about Joint Base Lewis-McChord, its Army and Air Force missions, and its importance to Washington communities.

This six-page resource introduces free trade, tariffs, quotas, and embargoes through explanatory text and guided thinking prompts.

Students investigate zebra mussels and emerald ash borers through informational text, ecological data analysis, comparative questions, and economic impact evidence.

Students practice forming irregular plurals through fill-in-the-blank questions, multiple-choice identification, sentence completion, matching, writing, correction, and a word puzzle.

Students use number lines, absolute value, and Keep-Change-Flip to calculate temperature changes.