Read about how even as snow covers the land with a beautiful white blanket, signs of spring lurk beneath it. Book includes audio narration in nine additional languages with text in English.

This site provides the full text of Dickens' "Bleak House." A brief summary is also included.

Contains plans for four class periods that ask students to blend narrative and expository writing after reading fiction and nonfiction selections. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.

This review of what makes up human blood is easy to read and understand. There are guides to pronunciation and glossary links as well as a self quiz to check your understanding.

This site is a review of one of Phyllis Naylor's more well known books, "Shiloh."

Contains plans for six lessons that ask students to write group book reviews after reading texts in literature circles. Students also learn about research and documentation as they put together their reports. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.

These four lesson plans integrate the life of Davy Crockett and the tall tales that were created about him. Includes a printable rubric, lesson extensions, links, and much more!

In this story, two young girls go bowling with their uncle. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Turkish, with text in English.

Students take a numerical and tabular look at finding the maximum value of an open box constructed by folding a rectangular sheet of material with cutout square corners. They also understand the concepts of independent and dependent variables.

Make your students' game play more meaningful by using our activity and assessment set designed specifically for Branches of Power. This easy-to-use Extension Pack helps you give context and purpose to the game, as well as reinforce and assess the game concepts. That means deeper learning for students, and best practices around game-centered learning for you!
Extension Packs slides can be accessed with Google Slides and are designed for use with projectors or interactive whiteboards.
This Extension Pack now includes English language learner (ELL) supports. We've included tips and practice that help make differentiated instruction a breeze. Best of all, new instructional scaffolds now mean this lesson is adaptable for a wide range of learners! LESSON OBJECTIVES: Simulate the way separation of powers and checks and balances limit government *Illustrate the law making process at the local, state, and federal levels *Analyze the structure, functions, and processes of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches

Learn about the different kinds of breads people eat around the world. Includes audio narration.

This interactive activity, from the Web site developed for the PBS series "Building Big," use your knowledge of bridge design to match the right bridge location in a fictitious city.

Contains plans for five 50-minute interdisciplinary lessons that ask students to write about math-related, informational books such as "Actual Size" (Jenkins, 2004) and "If You Hopped Like a Frog" (Schwartz, 1999). Students use books like these as models to write their own math-related books about animals. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.

In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, Harry and Eliza Briggs describe their experience in the first school desegregation case, Briggs v. Elliott.

Here is a list of British artists as well as links to a biography about them, and photographs of their famous works.

Read Charlotte Bronte's "Shirley." The novel is set in the north of England, specifically Yorkshire, in the later years of the Napoleonic Wars and the time of the Luddite riots.

This 1954 statement, issued by a group of black educators, strongly endorses the Supreme Court's Brown ruling.

This sampling of newspaper editorials from the mid-1950s reflects the range of public opinion and responses to the Brown decision.

Contains plans for five lessons that ask students to create PowerPoint presentations about shared experiences like field trips or other activities. Students take pictures of what happen, and then explain the sequence of events in words and images. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.

The learning resource is a guide to a better understanding of butterflies. Some topics discussed are the identification, food, and life cycle of the butterfly. In addition to an information guide the activity has images of butterflies.