Using images and graphs, this interactive resource illustrates scientists' efforts to study Earth's climatic history for the last 250,000 years by drilling into the Greenland Ice Sheet and examining ice cores. Includes background reading material and discussion questions. Adapted from the Wright Center for Science Education, Tufts University.

In this interactive activity adapted from the Wisconsin Online Resource Center, students will learn how heat can be transferred in one of three ways: conduction, convection, and radiation.

This video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates how to identify how the character feels in a story.

This animation from NASA illustrates the phases in the formation of a hurricane.

This interactive resource adapted from the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley shows how a dinosaur can be buried under sediment after it dies, become a fossil, and then become exposed and discovered by paleontologists.

Explore the elements of a story using the well-known Cinderella story as source material. Learn about setting, character, sequence, exposition, conflict, climax, and resolution.

Students will view video documenting the real-life story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911. Students will complete a story elements graphic organizer. This organizer will help them distinguish various story elements and put them in the chronological order.

Death as a character reveals how we process one of life's greatest mysteries, and there's a lot more breadth to how the grim reaper is depicted than you might think. [8:57]

Students read part two of The Joy Luck Club and examine how the mothering style of the members of the Joy Luck Club affected their daughter's perception of mothers.

We will react to part two, chapter two from The Joy Luck Club to explore some character interactions.

React to part two, chapters three and four from The Joy Luck Club to examine parenting style of two characters.

Read chapter four from The Joy Luck Club to answer questions about character interactions.

React to part four, chapter three from The Joy Luck Club to discover how Lindo convinces her husband to marry her.

Students will be introduced to Maslow's hierarchy of needs and will explore how this hierarchy relates to the needs that humans have. Students will also be introduced to background information about the South during Jim Crow through an informational article, the song "Strange Fruit," and a video about Ernest Gaines. Students will also read chapters 1-7 of A Lesson Before Dying and participate in a whole-class discussion about the similarities between the characters' situations and where these characters fall on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Form claims to prepare for a discussion about the lessons Grant and Jefferson have learned about humanity in the first seven chapters.

Students read chapter eighteen of A Lesson Before Dying. Students will deepen their understanding about the lessons that Grant and Jefferson are learning about humanity by rereading sections of the text and answering questions. Students will also add to the humanity understanding tool and the character interaction understanding tool.

Read chapter eighteen from A Lesson Before Dying in pairs and analyze the development of characters.

React to chapters twenty-five and twenty-six from A Lesson Before Dying to establish our initial understanding of the conflicts of the characters.

Students will read chapters 28- 31 of A Lesson Before Dying. They participate in a whole-class discussion about the changes that occur in the main characters and how these changes relate to lessons being learned. Students will analyze how the author develops tone in the last chapters of the book and how this tone relates to "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay and make connections between the themes that are developed in the poems and in the last four chapters of the novel.

Form claims to prepare for a discussion about how characters Grant and Jefferson have changed throughout the story.