NeverBore Free Resources – Lesson Plans

Making Active Teaching Strategies Accessible

At NeverBore, we know there are barriers to implementing active-learning strategies. We help you analyze and break down those barriers to make teaching more effective for all of your students — while meeting rigorous state and national standards.

The NeverBore Method™

Storytelling

Our brains are wired to learn through stories and narrative.

Discussion/Debate

Students build “sticky” factual knowledge via argument.

Simulation

Immerse students in thoughtful role-playing scenarios.

Problem Solving

Give students messy, real-world problems to solve.

Competition

Sophisticated academic competitions and purposeful activities.

Authentic Tasks

Get students outside the classroom and immersed in real-world experiences.

Lesson Plan Library

At NeverBore, we love teachers. That is why we offer free curriculum resources to help you tackle difficult topics in the high school classroom, like Trump v. Clinton and free trade, with carefully designed simulations and discussion-focused lessons. Try active learning in your classroom today with one of our sample, step-by-step lessons.

Teens and Sleep

In this lesson, students learn about sleep, sleep cycles and the purpose of sleep through a collaborative inquiry answering the question, do high school students get enough sleep?

You Be The Financial Advisor

This lesson was created to enable high school students in a personal finance, business or economics course to learn principles of personal finance by applying them to a fictional case study.

$15 Minimum Wage

Many American cities and states have adopted $15 minimum wage laws in the past few years, in response to worker protests and concerns that existing minimum wage levels left too many workers unable to escape poverty.

Health Insurance Choices

Health insurance in the U.S. is extremely complicated, and there are a lot of variables that are unpredictable or not available to the public/consumer (such as discounts provided by medical plans, actual costs of services, extra charges for facilities and specialists, etc). This lesson simplifies the factors that go into health insurance, while still teaching students about the main considerations that factor into the costs of healthcare and giving them the tools to start to make informed decisions.

Does My Smartphone Make Me Smarter?

Ninety-five percent of American teenagers have access to a Smartphone, and ninety-four percent say they want to use their phones in class for academic purposes. Seventy-five percent of teenagers believe that using a phone in class has improved their ability to learn and retain information. Teenagers are also more likely than Americans in other age groups to believe they can successfully multitask -- meaning they can attend to the messages and information on their phones without sacrificing attention to learning (or driving).

Tinker vs. Des Moines

By exploring the question, "Do you think American high school students have the same right to free speech as adults?", students will respond in discussions and in writing, using personal, literal, interpretive and evaluative stances, to works of non-fiction.

Free NeverBore Lesson PlansFor Teachers.