On Sunday, November 4 at 2 a.m, clocks in U.S were set back by an hour as Daylight Savings came to an end. What is DST? Who first proposed the idea? Is it practiced around the world? Let's take a look in this video. [0:37]

Genius Hour is inquiry-based, student-directed learning. It gives students an opportunity to look at the big wide world around them and explore their own unique interests in a loosely structured, but supported way. This article gives...

This lesson focuses on the short story "Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin which takes place in Louisiana during one hour at the turn of the 19th century. Chopin uses local color and various forms of irony to tell the story. The text is...

A digital page-by-page walk through an illuminated Middle Age Book of Hours.

Read about the Hours (Horae), the fruitful goddesses of the Seasons and the guards of Mount Olympus, who are the personifications of the seasons.

This Library of Congress site provides information on the fight for the eight-hour workday. Discusses labor unions and strikes.

Earth Hour began in Australia in 2007 and was taken worldwide in 2008. What it means is that participants are asked to turn off their lights on a specific date at a specified hour, to send a strong message to governments to take stronger...

Code with Anna and Elsa in this learning module that was developed for the hour of code. Site includes an introduction video.

The 24 Hour Museum collects in one place museum exhibit sites and news from over 3700 museums, galleries and heritage sites in the UK. Whether you are interested in history, science, literature or culture, you'll be able to find...

Hour of Code, a Khan Academy online program, encourages students to spend an hour learning to program. Titles include Hour of Drawing with Code, Hour of Webpage, and Hour of Databases are explained. This article explains how teachers can...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students practice converting the time from a 12-hour clock into the format for a 24-hour clock. Includes video [0:51] demonstrating a...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students practice converting the time from a 24-hour clock into the format for a 12-hour clock. Includes video demonstrating a sample...

Take another step in learning computer programming during Khan Academy's Hour of Webpages.

Supplemental programming is offered following the completion of the Hour of Code tutorial.

An overview of Khan Academy's Hour of Code--self-paced courses on JavaScrpt, HTML/CSS, and SQL. The programs include videos, coding challenges, and a final project.

From December 5-11, millions of kids in over 180 countries will take the Hour of Code challenge. The annual initiative, which coincides with Computer Science week, is organized by Seattle-based non-profit Code.org to demystify the world...

A learning module that begins with Terence Powderly's persuasive text "The Plea for Eight Hours" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...

A learning module that begins with "After Hours in Kindergarten" by Kim Roberts, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...

A learning module that begins with the poem "The Children's Hour" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The interactive resource is a series of questions where students practice determining time after the hours have changed.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes the different parts of a clock, how to tell hours, how to tell minutes, and how to write the time displayed on the clock digitally.

Complete text of Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" with hyperlinks to definitions and comprehension questions. A link to biographical information about Chopin is also available.

Full text of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) poem "The Children's Hour." Includes notes.

This twenty-hour course introduces elementary and middle school young scholars core computer science and programming concepts.