Young scholars engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concepts of integration and induction. They view a video about integration and take a quiz on induction. Students use the resource links to view information added to the lesson...

Students develop a business card to market them.  For this developing a business card to market them lesson, students design a business card to represent them.  Students create a logo or graphic design that is professional and...

Students analyze a quote written on the board by John Muir. They brainstorm ideas from the quote and discuss the interpretation of the quote and answer questions regarding the Forest Service as a Profession.

Learn about mechanical waves, which transfers energy from one place to another through liquids, gases and solids, with this interactive lesson.

If you are a teacher OR a student looking for a well-informed website on elements of the writing process, you are in luck! This site from the Capital Community College is very comprehensive and easy-to-navigate. From grammar basics to...

This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.

This online writing assistance offers help in the writing process, grammar and mechanics, usage, and four different types of essays, as well as help on deciding what and how to document.

A great resource for middle-school, high-school, and college writers, with worksheets, articles, model papers, and presentations that will help you with research, grammar, style, job-search and professional writing, and more. Includes...

In this lesson, you will learn to edit your final draft using a step by step approach to complete the final stage of writing called editing.

This is a fairly sophisticated series of writing guides. It assumes that users already have a solid grasp of spelling, grammar and mechanics, so it focuses more on organization and types of presentation than on more basic skills....

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will develop a brochure for a school during this writing unit. Students will learn functional writing and how to apply the associated conventions.

In this lesson, students read the description of the mechanical dog from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and then work in groups to create and write descriptions of their own futuristic pet.

At the beginning of the school year, students respond to a teacher-generated questionnaire in personal letter format. As a diagnostic tool, letter writing can reveal strengths and weaknesses in composition skills, organization, sentence...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students describe how the elementary steps of a chemical reaction combine to produce the overall reaction mechanism, and identify intermediates and catalysts when...

Resources for the writer of academic papers, with specific guidance about the mechanics of writing, citations, and effective expression. Lots of detail and lots of examples.

A very competent look at how to use abbreviations in their proper context. This site also examines the proper use of abbreviations with titles, numbers and phrases.

Have you ever wondered about the purpose of such small words as a, this, the and the like? These words are articles, determiners and quantifiers that precede and modify nouns.

This page focuses on the basic mechanics of writing including links to Genre, Thinking, Methods of Reasoning, Evidence, and Citation.

This lesson's focus is limited to the editing process for writing conventions: subject-verb agreement, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

This page focuses on writing a first draft including getting all the information down in an organized manner without worrying about the grammar and mechanics. It discusses the advantages of using word processing programs which make it...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to adjust your thesis so it accurately reflects the main idea of your essay. You will learn how to breathe life into a dead introduction...

Students learn about the engineering design process by working in teams to design and build a pen out of everyday materials that can deliver a controlled amount of ink to a sheet of paper.

A printable four-point rubric to use when assessing a persuasive piece with a focus on organization, a goal or thesis, reasons/support, audience, word choice, visuals/delivery, and grammar/usage/mechanics. Directions on how to use this...

In this activity young scholars use Microsoft Excel to manipulate and statistically analyze large climate databases of precipitation., temperature, stream discharge, tree ring data, ice core data, and ENSO to determine climate...