Students practice using adverbs of manner by combining two sentences. Students must change the adjective in the second kernel to an adverb before combining a sentences.

This resource from the AMERICAN MASTERS documentary Becoming Helen Keller features Keller's work around social justice and the disability movement. Using video, discussion questions, teaching tips, and activities, students explore how Keller used her platform to support her advocacy and activism, and her lasting impact on American society. [4:14]

In this resource from the AMERICAN MASTERS documentary Becoming Helen Keller, examine Keller's advocacy for the Blind through her 40 years of work with the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB). Through video, discussion questions, teaching tips, and activities, students analyze primary source documents to help them understand the impact of Keller's advocacy for the Blind - and how it was her life's work. [5:06]

Students experiment with a new material—aerogel. Aerogel is a synthetic (human-made) porous ultra-light (low-density) material, in which the liquid component of a gel is replaced with a gas. In this activity, student pairs use aerogel to simulate the environmental engineering application of cleaning up oil spills. In a simple and fun way, this activity incorporates density calculations, the material effects of surface area, and hydrophobic and hydrophilic properties.

Fly into high-tech career exploration as you learn about careers with satellites, airplanes and flying cars of the future!
See the Lab Squad kids’ report for this career in Support Materials +

A profile of aerospace engineering as a career,includes aeronautical and astronautical engineers as sub-categories in this field. Includes Aerospace Engineering Overview - Preparation - Day In The Life - Earnings - Employment - Career Path Forecast - Professional Organizations -Profiles of Aerospace Engineers - Overview PDF - PowerPoint - Podcast.

This collection of Aerospace Engineering learning modules will allow students to explore video and interactive media resources that support the middle and high school Engineering Design core ideas.

In this unit, students will become familiar with fables and trickster tales from different cultural traditions and will see how stories change when transferred orally between generations and cultures. They will learn how both types of folktales employ various animals in different ways to portray human strengths and weaknesses and to pass down wisdom from one generation to the next. Use the following lessons to introduce students to world folklore and to explore how folktales convey the perspectives of different world cultures.

Very unique site that presents Aesop's Fables with traditional and modern pictures. Pictures are created by art students at University of Massachusetts Amherst. There is an index to search by individual stories.

In addition to providing full texts of over 600 fables by various authors, this website is a complete source for biographical, historical, and critical information. Many fables include Real Audio narrations so you can listen while you read! Consider using the lesson plans for integrating fables into classroom instruction.

This tutorial video focuses on affixes; it defines all the associated terms, explains how affixes affect the meaning of words, gives examples, and ends with a rap music clip about prefixes, suffixes, and root words. [6:10]

Here you will find a collection of maps of Afghanistan from the Perry-Castaneda Collection. There are political maps, relief maps, cultural maps, historical maps, and links to maps on other sites.

The Anansi tales are told by the Ashanti people of Ghana, West Africa, and have been passed down through the generations by oral tradition. Here you can watch "Anansi's Rescue from the River" performed.

Watch a welcome dance that combines movements from several traditional dances of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. [8:18]

Watch a professional stilt dancer and musician perform the Gue Pelou dance from the Ivory Coast. This dance is a sacred rite used to honor and communicate with the spirit world and can be danced to protect the village. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. [5:08]

Watch the hambone, an African-American rhythm technique that uses the whole body as a "drum set" to produce different sounds, demonstrated.

Watch a performance of the Kou-Kou dance, a communal recreational dance often used to teach kids how to dance, from the Ivory Coast. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. [3:07]

The Manjani, a West African dance that celebrates an important event such as the harvest, a wedding, or a naming ceremony is performed by The Imani Dance and Drum Company. Included are teaching tips, a lesson plan, and additional background information. [2:28]

In this video watch a performance of Sohu, a ritual cleansing dance from Togo. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. [7:15]