On July 1, 1863 the Army of Northern Virginia, under the command of General Robert E. Lee met the Army of the Potomac, under the leadership of Major General George Meade. Considered the turning point of the war, the Battle of Gettysburg...

Keeping abreast of how your child is doing in school can be a challenge. Never fear, help is here in the form of Google Classroom. Teachers use this platform to post assignments, check homework, and share newsletters with students and...

Take off those chains binding you to the whiteboard and create custom presentations using an interactive program that makes even voice recording a breeze. Choose from a variety of backgrounds, writing tools, and timing options. Perfect...

Create and share interactive lessons, diagrams, and homework help with a recordable whiteboard that makes learning easy. Record your voice, handwriting, images, and drawings. Share them with your friends and students, or post them to...

Create beautiful and simple presentations, sales pitches, lessons, and visual stories that utilize Getty Images, high quality photos licensed under Creative Commons, as well as your own prints.  What you create will demand people’s...

How do you determine whether a resource is credible or not? Contrary to what your class probably believes, just because it's published doesn't mean it provides accurate information! So how does one determine if it's credible? Use this...

Because many of your older students are probably getting their first jobs, it could be an appropriate time to discuss taxes. This presentation defines deductions, types of taxes, purposes of paying taxes, and the forms required to file...

The equilibrium constant does not change — as long as the temperature remains unchanged. Here's presentation that briefly reviews equilibrium constants  before working through four practice problems, including three calculating...

Discovery of microwaves and other trivia starting this PowerPoint will help interest your class in the application and behavior of these radio waves. Great images to show real-life experiments and equipment help understanding of how the...

For a basic overview of phrases (prepositional, absolute, appositive, and participial), use this presentation in your grammar unit. Each slide contains a short explanation and an example, concluding with a slide about relative clauses....

The presentation offers a set of three problems related to temperature and equilibrium reactions. It walks through solving each, reminding pupils how to figure for the forward and reverse rates.

Dr. Ruben Puentedura created the SAMR Model. This is a set of 38 slides from a presentation at Ridley College. He explains the four levels of SAMR, and the steps involved in implementing it with technology, along with examples. Most of...

This lesson introduces Newton's Second Law and explains that force is equal to mass times acceleration. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Newton's Second Law."

This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of websites for research sources. It gives the pros and cons to using websites as sources and discusses the need to evaluate websites and what to look for.

This slideshow lesson focuses on brackets by providing background information and uses including the following: clarify details, adding emphasis, modifying quoted material, and marking errors in quotations using [sic]. It provides...

This slideshow lesson focuses on how to write an effective cause and effect thesis; it reviews cause and effect writing, lists signal words for cause and effect papers, explains what is required in the thesis, and provides three examples...

This slideshow lesson focuses on cause and effect transition words; it defines and lists the categories of transition words. It discusses when to use cause and effect transition words, provides a list of sample words, and offers sentence...

This video lesson focuses on using character cards as a reading strategy. It defines and gives the purpose of character cards, explains the type of information to put on the front and the back of the card and how to maintain the card. It...

This slideshow focuses on authors defining characters through description such as features, dress, mannerisms, emotions, and objects. It provides several examples from Bram Stoker's "Dracula."

This tutorial offers two slideshows: one for colons and one for dashes. They each state the purpose of the mark and tell when they are used along with examples.

This slideshow focuses on the use of commas in a series. It discusses the rule for commas in a series; requirements of a series; words, phrases, and clauses in a series; and comma placement.

This lesson focuses on the six main types of reading comprehension questions: main idea, purpose, tone, inference, detail, and definition. It explains each type and offers examples in text and in audio formats.

This slideshow focuses on common symbols including definition and background information, identification, and lists of common symbols and their meanings by category: colors, flowers, animals, seasons, elements, religious, weather,...

This lesson focuses on the comparison and contrast essays; it defines new terms: compare/contrast essay, yin/yang Venn diagram, block comparison, and point by point comparison. It also provides a slideshow which defines and discusses the...