Young scholars examine the structure of paragraphs. For this writing skills lesson, students examine a scrambled paragraph with no formatting or punctuation. Young scholars rearrange the text to create a well-developed paragraph.

For this seafloor worksheet, high schoolers review the terms associated with formations found on the seafloor including sea mounts and seafloor spreading. This worksheet has 8 fill in the blank questions.

Young scholars utilize computer image processing techniques to measure the size of Earth's polar ice caps and analyze various phenomena visible on planetary images.

In this lesson students learn how to identify modes of transportation and communication for moving people, products, and ideas from place to place. Students also study the advantages and disadvantages of different modes of...

Young scholars study volcanoes. In this volcanoes lesson, students read several volcano paragraphs and study the pictures or diagrams. Young scholars then make an erupting volcano, complete website research about volcanoes, and answer...

Fourth graders plan their own activities to reinforce the concepts being taught in school. The tic-tac-toe grid is used to help students create innovative learning activities to generate ideas.

Students develop arguments for and against campaign finance reform, examine federal and state laws that attempt to limit contributions to political candidates, evaluate various plans for campaign finance reform and formulate their own...

Students study geographical maps and their functions.  In this geography lesson students work in groups to build a map to scale.

Students read a story about a boy in South Africa. They identify places in South Africa they might want to visit. They compare and contrast life in South Africa with their life in the United States.

Students practice their geography skills. In this geography skills instructional activity, students locate, plot, and label places on maps and globes.

Student create and evaluate resumes. In this practical writing lesson, students employ the writing process to write their own functional quality resumes.

Students role play weather forecasting activities. They investigate weather forecasting processes such as equations, data analysis, announcing by role playing in a large lecture hall.

Young scholars create instructional videos. in this video lesson, students choose a subject area and topic to make their own how-to video. They research this topic and film their video using a flip-camera. 

Students identify places that a child living in South Africa and they themselves might want to visit.

Third graders examine hard boiled eggs as possible models for the earth's layers.

Middle schoolers demonstrate ability to access information and classify that information as broad or specific. They create a game to share with other students.

Students construct, interpret and translate maps and geographic data. Given a worksheet, students identify an island, an atoll, a scale, and a compass rose. Students grid systems, legends, and symbols. They use the map to find answers to...

Ninth graders review what they already know about ancient civilizations. Before visiting the museum, they complete a pre-test on Cyprus and how trade is important to the island. During the visit, they travel in small groups to examine...

A course lecture on how the Earth's geological features have evolved through the movements of tectonic plates. Explains the different types of plate boundaries and how they manifest in geological formations. Also describes the structure...

As part of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site examines a variety of topics related to the Earth. Topics covered in the discussion include formation of the solar system, the planets, the continents, primary differentiation...

Information about the land forms of Virginia. Explore each region of the state and read about the ancient shorelines, active volcanoes, colliding continents, and dinosaur fossils.

Material to begin an exploration of plate tectonics and mountain formation. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on metamorphic rocks and mountain building, and ideas for teaching this...

Interactive site provides information on the Breakup of Pangea, plate boundaries, plate movements as well as a quiz.

A history of the formation of the Australian continent, along with descriptions of many of Australia's unique features. Links to the geographical features of Australia are provided, such as highest mountains, islands, or longest rivers.