Students participate as a class in this activity using their desks as points on the coordinate plane. The teacher leads them in the activity, increasing their understanding of the characteristics of the coordinate plane.

This StudyCards stack enables students to review the vocabulary used in studying human genetics.

This activity allows students to physically create a number line and work on adding and subtracting integers. This lesson can be adapted to include other concepts with real numbers.

Find the human ancestor you are interested in and click on it either in the timeline or the list below for more details. Each fossil or reconstruction pictured includes links to more details about it.

Humor is not the first thing people associate with Poe, but this essay offers a look at the humor that Poe attempted in his writing. Good for a different look at an often-studied author. Offers a bibliography and links to online texts.

This amazing website provides access to 200 exciting experiments from cartoonist, broadcaster, and engineer, Tim Hunkin. Each experiment is categorized and illustrated.

Web page with a large quantity of links to information on Hurricane Rita including maps, aerial images, satellite images, data, and much more.

This article provides extensive excerpts from "The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass." This is a lot of information about the great abolitionist and orator written by himself.

Detailed biography of John Adams' life prior to the American Revolution, beginning with his childhood with sections on all the important periods of his life. Site also includes texts of the inaugural address, state of the union addresses and Adams' address to Congress on the XYZ affair.

Here one finds President Johnson's address to the nation in which he lays out his legislative priorities and his assessment of foreign affairs the early part of his administration.

Gives a historical description of the events that led up to the Boston Tea Party (1773).

Read an in-depth biography on former Chief Justice, John Marshall. Topics in the biography include his early life, his life during the Revolutionary War, and his term as Chief Justice. Also includes information about major cases in which Marshal was involved during his career.

The text of a 1649 colonial act concerning religion in Maryland. Describes punishment of any who reject Christian teaching.

This last section of an extensive essay about the railroad in United States history discusses the role of the railroad in the 20th century.

This website contains a basic explanation of what rotational symmetry and rotational symmetry order is. Some practice problem identifying rotational symmetry order are also given.

Excellent interactive learning site that features portraits, quotes, and facts about each U.S. President from George Washington to George W. Bush.

Lesson that introduces the concepts of nonfiction to elementary students. Through reading and interactive lessons, students engage the genre of nonfiction and begin to write their own examples.

Students will identify different types of correlations graphically and by using the linear regression analysis obtained from a TI-84 Plus calculator. Students will also obtain and know the significance of a correlation coefficient as a result of this lesson.

Contains plans for a lesson using "Kites Sail High: A Book About Verbs" by Ruth Heller to teach about identifying and classifying action, linking, and helping verbs. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lesson as well as assessment and reflection activities.

Contains plans for four lessons that teach about the fallacies used in advertising such as bandwagon appeal, hasty generalizations, red herrings, emotional appeals, and more. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.