A history of the world from the perspective of those who sailed the seas in great waves of exploration, from ancient times through the nineteenth century. Learn about the explorers, their ships, the tools they navigated by, and their voyages of discovery, trade, and conquest.
Text of landmark Supreme Court cases presided over by Chief Justice John Marshall, that decided questions of how to interpret the U.S. Constitution. The cases took place between 1801 and 1825.
This National Archives and Records Administration site contains a brief definition of the Plan and has a picture of Marshall. There also are links to a couple pages of the Economic Cooperation Act.
This site contains the full text of Dickens' novel "The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit." A brief summary is also included.
A collection of current and historic maps of Maryland along with maps of cities and national parks in the state.
Site from HyperPhysics dealing with the topic of mass and weight. In addition the site deals with weightlessness. The numerous links to other pages help the student see how ideas are interrelated.
This unit teaches students how to become a wise consumer. Some of the topics discussed are income, budgeting, credit, saving, and loans. Five different activities include objectives, worksheets, evaluations, and resources.
Large manipulatives and hands-on activities are used to teach patterns to Kindergarten and Grade One.
A compilation of resources devoted to teaching probability and statistics. The resources are broken into seventeen different objectives that have a problem, activity, and a game.
Two and three-dimensional geometric shape are explored in these exercises. Each activity has teacher notes, activity instructions, and a worksheet when necessary.
For this unit, students will be taught several techniques for creating tessellations and will respond to their learning in their Math journals.
Three different lessons demonstrate how to write linear equations. The equations found from two points, slope and a point, and slope and y-intercept are all featured. The lessons have an overview, materials, procedures, and evaluation techniques.
This "Exploring Fractions" multimedia site offers a video, an interactive page and a 5 page PDF of exercises as an exploration of improper, mixed and equivalent fractions.
This video explores how a tap dancer uses patterns to express herself. Be sure to follow the links to interactive exercises and printable exercises where patterns of numbers in sequences are expressed.
Learn Alberta offers a real-world scenario of skateboarding to introduce the concept of square roots. This multimedia site offers two videos, printable exercises and interactive exercises of finding the square root through visual prompts of squares.
This interactive Java applet allows visualization of line segments and their slopes. The slope and how it is found is given for each line drawn by the user.
Follow steps and examples to see how easy it is to convert from one one unit to another using fractions.
What is a number line? How can you use one to compare large and small numbers? Find the answers to these questions, play with an interactive number line, and follow links to information on adding, subtracting, and understanding absolute value using a number line.
This resource investigates the Pythagorean Theorem. Includes animations, examples, proofs, and links to problems and activities.
The learning activity examines how to simplify fractions. The resource consists of explanations, examples with solutions, and a simplifying fraction tool.