Imagine seventh graders developing a school wide plan to promote respect in their school. That's the vision behind the second lesson in the R-E-S-P-E-C-T series. In preparation for designing a school-wide media campaign, class members...

Why to young people act the way they do? Scholars investigate the stages of adolescent development incorporating high school psychology techniques. Using research from the American Psychological Association, they uncover the five areas...

Make a whole rainbow by mixing red, green, and blue light. Change the wavelength of a monochromatic beam or filter white light. View the light as a solid beam, or see the individual photons.

Read inspiring quotes from famous people about how they opened up their imaginations to a larger vision in order to surpass the limits that society or others may have imposed on them.

An interactive simulation that teaches about photons, monochromatic light, white light, and rainbows through changing wavelengths, beams, filters, and color combinations. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online and...

Pablo's Picasso's La Toilette is a loving portrait of Fernande Olivier, as well as a study in opposites and a reference to the history of art. In this lesson, learners will discover the many levels of content in the painting through...

Learn about and try out a fun optical illustion created by MIT in 2007 that also serves as a vision test. Includes video.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Sight, or vision, is the ability to see light. It depends on the eyes detecting light and forming images. It also depends on the brain making sense of the images, so...

The blind spot in human vision is described and illustrated.

Photos from our past connect us to certain thoughts, feelings, and stories. Share your story on this growing collection of personal family snapshots and essay or read those of others.

In this activity, students will distinguish between words and letters. Students will look at each letter or word with an imitation magnifying glass to help them "see" letters and words more closely.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] You probably know people who need eyeglasses or contact lenses to see clearly. Maybe you need them yourself. Lenses are used to correct vision problems. Two of the...

Informative site for those who need assistance with computing needs due to low vision or blindness. Many links provided to arrive at a solution!

Blindness or visual impairment can have a profound impact on one's life. This organization provides a great deal of helpful information about resources that will assist the visually impaired person to lead a normal, productive life.

This is a lesson for peer tutoring of sight words including training, materials needed, procedures, and evaluation. The goal is to increase young scholars' sight word vocabulary and, therefore, their reading comprehension.

This database of images contains hundreds of photographs from TIME and Life Magazines from a span of over 70 years. This is a wonderful resource for the study of history, culture or photojournalism. Images are searchable by photographer,...

Did you ever wonder why you have two eyes but only see one image? This activity will explore how your brain combines the images from your eyes in surprising ways. Learn about the dominant eye and how some people do not have one!

During the early Progressive Era, two leaders dominated the debate over the best course for racial advancement in America. Who had the better vision for improving the conditions of African Americans in the early 1900s, Booker T....

Read statements by Jefferson and Hamilton on the role of government, the virtue of people, slavery, and the role of cities and decide who had the more enduring vision of America. Your opinion will be added to the tally of others who have...

An informative site on hyperopia (or better known as farsightedness). It discusses what it is, what causes it, some of the symptoms, and how it is diagnosed and treated.

This site provides a variety of dolch-sight words spelling list for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade and lists of dolch nouns. List can be tested, taught or played as a game on-line.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides a Dolch sight word review for kindergarten students. One in a series submitted.

Information is provided about laser surgery, which is used to correct vision problems and eliminate the need for glasses or contacts.

Full text of the middle English narrative poem Piers Plowman. Readers have the ability to view text in sections, or as a whole, and to carry out a search.