Assign this text to deeply engage your students!

Actively Learn provides free ELA, science, and social studies digital content—short stories, primary sources, textbook sections, science articles, novels, videos, and more—and embeds them with assignments aligned to standards for all 50 states that you can assign immediately or customize for your students.

Whether you’re looking for “The Tell-Tale Heart,” The Hate U Give, “The Gettysburg Address,” or current science articles and simulations, Actively Learn is the free go-to source to help you guide your students' growth in critical thinking all year.

Teaching Locked in love

Locked in love

In cities all over the world, bridges and fences have become weighed down tributes to love. They are covered in padlocks with the names of lovers scribbled on them. The practice is called love locking. While many people love it, others are not so happy.

Ceri Houlbrook, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Hertfordshire
The Conversation

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

Should love locks be destroyed?
STANDARDS:
RI.2 - Main Ideas, RI.6 - Author's Purpose, RI.8 - Evaluate Argument

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

2,3
Assign this text to your students for free!