This article, written for students in grades 4-5, discusses the world's most southern active volcano, Mt. Erebus of Antarctica. Modified versions are available for students in younger grades.

A PDF worksheet that provides five important questions to help you analyze theme. RL.9-10.2 and 11-12 Analyzing Theme.

Multiple text versions of all of Shakespeare's works, including Folio, Quarto, and/or modern versions of some (Click on "A full list of the plays and poems, in their various versions"). Part of a larger site about Shakespeare containing a variety of information about him and his work.

Here, read all 13 chapters of Joseph Conrad's book, "The Secret Agent." Chapters are preceded by an "Author's Note" and a brief paragraph, introducing the text, its setting, and protagonist.

Read the full text of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" that follows the lives of the the March sisters: Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth.

Informational text and Alaska Native culture form the basis of the groundbreaking MOLLY OF DENALI series and its educational resources. The MOLLY OF DENALI collection offers videos, digital games, lessons, teaching tips, and activities so that educators can utilize the series in the classroom. Set in a rural Alaskan village, and featuring the adventures of Molly, her family, and friends, MOLLY OF DENALI models the many ways that children can access and create informational text in their daily lives. At the same time, the stories are infused with Alaska Native values, history, traditions, language, as well as contemporary life. In This Collection: Lesson Plan (10), Interactive (4), Video (15), Document (4) for Grades K-2 , Resources in Spanish (4).

Why do hot air balloons float? This resource from the NOVA Web site offers a series of interactive activities that illustrates the physics of hot air balloons.

Discover the difference between free-falling and weightlessness in this interactive activity from the NOVA: "Stationed in the Stars" Web site.

This interactive activity from NOVA Online shows four different ways in which caves are formed: by rainwater, waves, lava, and bacteria.

Learn what it takes to build an igloo from the best kind of snow to the most effective tools and other little-known facts about these traditional Canadian Inuit structures in this interactive activity from NOVA.

Nitrogen, one of the most abundant elements in the universe, is essential to life. This interactive activity adapted from the University of Alberta provides an overview of the nitrogen cycle. Includes background reading handout and discussion questions.

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You're the geneticist now. In this interactive feature developed for the companion Web site for NOVA/FRONTLINE: "Harvest of Fear," use the latest in genetic technology to engineer your own "supercrop" of tomatoes.

Glenn Foss, an instructor at Palomar College, discusses some possible reasons why students have problems reading and recalling textbook material. Provides an outline for seven steps of effectively reading assigned material.

In this interactive activity from ChemThink, students will examine the basic properties of matter at an atomic level and consider how various atoms affect the way a substance behaves.

This interactive periodic table developed for Teachers' Domain provides detailed information about the chemical properties of elements and illustrates the electron configurations that determine those characteristics.

This article profiles Julie Codispoti, assistant curator at the United States Polar Rock Repository, and discusses the basics of polar geology. Modified versions are available for younger students.

This site is a collection of copyright-free literature ranging from nursery rhymes to philosophy to literature from many time periods and cultures. There are more than 6,000 texts, and over 1,100 of them are accompanied by audio readings. The site was originally designed to help English language learners, as users can hear as well as see the texts. It is also useful for those who are hearing-impaired, as well as anyone who is looking for simple access to these texts.

Students compare Romeo and Juliet: Act II, Scene 2 from three different versions of the story.

Lesson that teaches students how to find important and significant information while reading text. After locating information through strategies, students learn how to summarize content-area text. A downloadable fishbone template is linked.