Lesson which teaches elementary students the importance and significance of keeping the audience in mind when writing. Students write invitation letters and perform extension activities while learning these concepts. Good resource.
This resource includes three student readings that provide information about U.S. policy on nuclear weapons, the successes and failures of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the motivations that lead nations to seek nuclear bombs. Provides discussion questions about the readings.
Offers teaching activities, four political cartoons, and a narrative about reforms proposed by three major presidential candidates in 1912: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provides a lesson, focusing on the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, that relates to the power granted to the President and the Senate to make and approve treaties with foreign nations (Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, of the U.S. Constitution). Primary source documents include that actual signed treaty, Lincoln's spot resolutions, and a photograph of the border marker being rebuilt.
This interactive activity produced for Teachers' Domain shows the relationship between tectonic boundaries and the locations of earthquake events and volcanoes around the world.
An overview of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and a synopsis of Acts I-V and the Epilogue are included in this thorough study guide designed to aid comprehension of the play.
This site is a biography of Thomas Carew. It contains quotes from several of his best known poems, a brief biography, a timeline of his life, links to many of his poems which can be read here online, a number of essays about Carew and his work, and links to other Thomas Carew sites.
This illustrated essay from the NOVA Web site answers questions about irregularities in the tides.
This outstanding site offers an interactive timeline that spans the breadth of British history from 1066 to the late 20th century. The timeline acts as a portal to high quality videos originally produced for the BBC that cover a broad range of subjects across British history.
Teachers can use the information on the Timucua Indians either with the student handouts provided or within their own lesson designs. In addition to the materials on the Timucuas, there are resources available for a broad spectrum of other areas of Florida social studies.
Smithsonian Education presents Reviled and Revered: Toads, Turtles, Snakes, Salamanders, and Other Creepers and Crawlers. Get the facts about reptiles and amphibians. Learn about their unique characteristics, as well as explore why we love or hate them. Students will appreciate the excellent photographs and background information. Teachers will love the series of five lesson plans, complete with student handouts, discussion questions, lesson extensions, curriculum standards, and a resource list.
A lesson plan for teachers on workplace ethics. This is a good site for information on the topic.
Students will discover how to move a function up, down, to the right or left or reflect it.
Series of LearningCheck documents to assess student knowledge of quadratic transformations.
In this activity, students will perform a translation, and explore the properties of translations. In the second part of this activity, they will extend the concept of translations to the coordinate plane.
This is a LearningCheck quiz to evaluate students on the special angles of the unit circle.
This set contains questions regarding Type I and Type II errors, and the power of an inference test. Students differentiate between Type I and Type II errors, and their relationship to the null and alternative hypotheses.
Evidence from the fossil record is used to support bird evolution from small carnivorous dinosaurs. In the student module, feathers, behavior, and skeletal structure are examined in an interactive lesson designed to impart a complete understanding of fossil bird evolution. In the teacher module, lesson plans, rubrics, assessments and references are clearly outlined.
This thorough site delves into how we use water on an everyday basis. Ground water, surface water, domestic use, commercial use, irrigation use, are just a few of the topics described on this site. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.
This article details the life of war criminal Adolf Eichmann from his youth to his capture and execution.