Activities in LaunchPacks

Learning Strategies

Learning Strategies are skill-building exercises that develop subject area literacy. Click "Activities" to select from 4 Learning Strategies:

Main Idea

Summary

Main Idea & Summary

Journal

Choose a Resource

Select an article to apply the Learning Strategy. You can choose to assign an excerpt or the full text of the article

Edit the Instructions

Edit or save the default instructions. Don't forget, you can assign multiple Learning Strategies to a single resource.

Question Sets

Question Sets challenge students to explore the contents of a LaunchPack and apply their learning.

Starter Sets

Created by Britannica experts, these open-ended questions can be applied to many topics. Choose to use a whole set or select your preferred questions.

Questions by Category

Add individual questions by category to build your own activity.

Activity Builder

Browse and change pre-set questions per Grade Level. Customize the questions by editing the question content, and add custom questions.