This page discusses in detail what happened to the persecuted Romani people during the Holocaust. It also provides links to further content about lives of Roma and Sinti people during this period.

This incredible site outlines the rise and implementation of the Nazi Party in Germany. While learning about Hitler's transformation of Germany, explore the incredible pictures, audio clips, maps, video clips, and an interactive quiz.

This site contains the full text of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mystery "The Hound of the Baskervilles." Includes a summary note.

In this video segment from WGBH, children experiment with cardboard and build a house for their stuffed animals.

This interactive resource from Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics uses images and activities to understand the scope and scale of our universe. Featured are technologies used by generations of explorers.

In this activity, students compute statistical measures like the mean, standard deviation, and variance of the data set. They understand how measures of variability can be interpreted.

This narrated animation from Interactive NOVA: "The Secret of Life" illustrates DNA replication.

This video segment adapted from FETCH! shows contestants experimenting with different materials to see which is the best insulator and thus best able to keep the lemonade at their stand cool for customers.

Look at all the ways a human body can move. Book includes audio narration in 8 additional languages with text in English.

Shows the many things that children can do to stay healthy. Book includes audio narration in 15 additional languages with text in English.

This resource provides directions for a lab in which students observe changes in a gene pool of bunnies affected by natural selection. Includes PDF resources.

This illustrated essay from A Science Odyssey Web site explains the science behind radio waves, including the role of electrons and electromagnetic fields.

Illustrated storybook description of how the influenza virus spreads from animals to humans.

This lesson plan examines and makes inferences into the change and development in characters. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.

This diagram from Rainbird Publishing describes the specialized physical characteristics that allow woodpeckers to create some of the most secure nests in the bird world.

This site is a lesson on Document Analysis using a letter written by Anthony Eden to PM Chamberlain in late 1937.

From the PBS series, "Culture Shock," this teaching guide deals with the controversies that have surrounded the teaching of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." The guide is designed to help teachers find reasonable approaches to teaching about this controversy. It can also be used to encourage students to examine and understand the relationship between the arts and controversial subjects, as well as studying "Huck Finn" in more depth.