Explore plant and animal cells with this interactive site. Explanations are provided for each cell organelle.
Connect to primary source documents (facsimiles. transcriptions, translations) that trace the history of Europe.
This interactive game is similar to Concentration. Students must evaluate the expression in the puzzle for the given value and match it with the correct answer.
In this lesson, students will learn about a topic in three different text formats. They will then evaluate each format to determine the pros and cons. Students will also assess the credibility of each text.
In this activity, the students will investigate if two chords intersect in a circle, then the products of the measures of the segments of the chords are equal.
This site provides a detailed overview of "Everyman," and includes the full text of the work, related essays and articles, and additional resources.
Contains plans for lessons that teach about the mystery story genre, including its story elements and vocabulary. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.
Shows children reading with others at school. Includes audio narration in 22 additional languages with text in English.
An introduction to Darwin's theory of evolution with hyperlinks to other topics on evolution, including a timeline of evolutionary thought.
Contains plans for six lessons that ask students to examine types of conflict (character vs. character, character vs. self, character vs. nature, and character vs. society) before writing essays that compare and contrast two conflicts. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.
This site is actually an in-depth lesson plan for the teaching of the Greek New Comedy, "The Grouch," by Menander. For students, it provides a great deal of detail about the play and background material on Greek comedy as a whole. RL.11-12.5 Choice of Text Structure
This audio compilation, recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, captures the voices of several civil rights leaders.
This audio compilation, recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, pays tribute to the women -- both leaders and widows of slain leaders -- of the Civil Rights movement.
Recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, this audio segment captures the voice of SNCC leader John Lewis.
In this video segment adapted from NASA, students in Matsuyama City, Japan, interview Expedition 8 Commander and NASA Science Officer Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri about life and work aboard the International Space Station.
A video interview with poet and author Nikki Giovanni, civil rights activist. Includes full transcript of video and short biography.
Contains plans for two lessons that use the book "Anna's Art Adventure" by Bjorn Sortland to teach students to write about art descriptively. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.
From Read-Write-Think, here is a three-day lesson plan in which a class collaborates to produce a book, focusing on carving a jack-o-lantern. The emphasis is on teaching the skill of sequencing events.
Students graph scatter plots and understand the concepts of correlation and least-squares regression. They also perform transformations to achieve linearity in the data plot.
Contains plans for four lessons that ask students to change the action in the turning point of a tragedy in order to see the effect on the rest of the play. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.