[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...

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...

[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.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students attempt practice problems on identifying hourly time changes.

It was August 6, 1926, the day that an American, Gertrude Ederle, was poised to become the first woman to swim the English Channel. Only five men had ever swum the waterway before. The challenges included quickly changing tides, six-foot...

3000 hours of sun per year - well, that's what you get when you visit the beautiful region of Andalusia. It has varied landscapes and a beautiful climate. It's capital is Seville. This site is available in English, Spanish or German.

Wouldn't it be great if all of our documents could be stored on the internet rather than eating up our hard drive space? The concept is 'cloud computing' and this issue provides some concern over this new type of computing.

This is a question that we all think about. Explore it with your students and try to figure out what a postmodern victory looks like in Iraq in an age of asymmetrical warefare. (2003)

In this lesson, for grades 7-12, students will examine President Obama's proposed policy on offshore drilling, the various positions on offshore oil exploration and participate in a mock-policy committee to develop policies for offshore...

Outstanding and exhaustive site with a number of resources pertaining to the nomination of Samuel Alito. His biography, confirmation process explanation, links to other resources, and educational resources are all included.

A detailed lesson plan for the topic 'The Prospect For Democracy in Iran", based on the election of 2009. Objectives, procedures, handouts, activities,and standards met are all included.

From the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer a lesson plan that asks students to compare President Bush's troop surge policy with the Baker-Hamilton proposal and others, and to decide which strategy would be the most effective. Provides all...

The video series shows students the relevance of statistics in real-world settings. The resource includes 26 half-hour videos. Topics include normal distributions, probability, random variables, experimental design, and describing data.

Don't believe everything that is read on the Internet! So many people around the world follow the news, all news, that they find posted on social media. Some news is real, some news is fake. How much of the fake news might have...

More and more people are awake after midnight or before dawn. Some are working, perhaps keeping the graveyard shift or doing business with foreign markets. Some are playing-increasing numbers of entertainments never close. Some are doing...

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin lays out his plan to bring people displaced by Hurricane Katrina back to New Orleans. The governments at all levels also are looking at plans for for future evacuations and recovery. Article is from September,...

All of the newest technologies can be going on at one time - Facebook, texting, homework online, talking with friends on the computer. However, what are the consequences of this technological multi-tasking? Here is a video that discusses...

When girls are allowed to go to school, they have a significant impact on their family and community. Students learn and think critically about the variety of reasons why it is in everyone's best interest to ensure that all girls, across...

This lesson focuses on the Confessional Poets: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Robert Lowell, who all suffered from depression which is reflected in their poems. It gives short bios of each poet and provides a link to one poem from each:...

Code.org wants to inspire all students to participate in computer science. The interactive digital courses are meant to ensure each and every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science at every grade level. The...

Activities that teach students basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. Includes lots of additional supports for teachers. All materials are free and teachers sign in to create a class.

In this lesson plan, pupils are exposed to the different types of political samples, given lists of election data and asked to differentiate between the samples, and informed as to the sources of bias in samples. In addition to...