NeverBore Free Resources – Lesson Plans

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.

Teen Startup Trainers Preview

Teen Startup Trainers is a 30-hour curriculum designed to immerse teachers in the “Lean Startup” and “Design Thinking” approaches to entrepreneurship.

No Easy Answers Preview

Traditional personal finance instruction is effective at teaching terms and concepts to students, but it’s been less effective at shaping long-term behavioral change. No Easy Answers aims to improve students’ long-term financial literacy and decision-making by taking a unique, inquiry-based approach to personal finance.

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.