This collection uses primary sources to explore Tim O'Brien's novel, The Things They Carried.

Contains plans for six lessons that use the Tim O'Brien's story "The Things They Carried" to teach about an author's style as well as letter writing. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...

This is an online study guide/notes for the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

For teaching the work of Tim O'Brien, this site features lesson plans, overviews, notes, and other resources to help students reading The Things They Carried, Ambush, Going After Cacciato, If I Die in a Combat Zone, and so on.

Students are given a biomedical engineering challenge, which they solve while following the steps of the engineering design process. In a design lab environment, student groups design, create, and test prototype devices that help people...

The diversity of bird songs is covered in this article from the companion site to PBS's "The Life of Birds." They can communicate about size, aggression, territory, mating, food, and many other things and they can produce a range of...

A learning module where students analyze the relationships between the structures and functions of cells, tissues, organs to carry out all of the requisite characteristics of life. They also describe the scope of biological study and...

Students ask questions about why things move the way they do and then design and carry out science experiments on the physics behind the movement. Students create lab reports to explain the steps of their process and to record...