Students will examine patterns between volcanic activity and seafloor features. NASA tracked volcanic activity for 15 years and created an animated map from their data. Compare this map to a map of seafloor features to reveal interesting...

Patterns are everywhere! In this week-long learning adventure, children will discover what a pattern is and explore patterns in different ways. Children will learn that patterns consist of a "core" or "unit" that repeats as they identify...

Through a simple online model, students learn about the relationship between average global temperature and carbon dioxide emissions while predicting temperature change over the 21st Century.

In this lesson students learn how the garden provides habitat for a variety of different animal species. They make observations and collect data to determine which species inhabit the garden. They will investigate relationships among...

Get your spy glasses ready! In this weeklong adventure, children will explore shapes and their attributes and use this knowledge to decode a secret message. Children will learn about two-dimensional (flat) and three-dimensional (solid)...

Contains plans for at least seven 20- to 30-minute sessions about alphabet books. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the lessons as well as...

This lesson focuses on strategies for active reading such as annotating your texts, reading multiple times, and using your prior knowledge.

This resource of archived content offers a variety of possible classroom activities and methods for teaching about the British Empire and colonialism.

An learning activity to help students grasp the concept of relative dating and geologic time.

The Smithsonian provides a guide that classrooms can use to explore the environment in their own backyard. For example, a second-grade class in Colorado interviewed people in their community to inquire about the state of the local...

By watching a short video and engaging in two primary source activities, learners will explore the need for social change, as well as its inherent challenges.

Through two primary source activities and a short video, understand how Douglass stood firm in his beliefs and rose to prominence, and explore the importance of literacy in his life.

Through two activities and a short biographical video, learners will understand Helen Keller's accomplishments.

Credit cards are convenient, user-friendly, and at times dangerous. In this lesson, students learn the joys and dangers of using credit as they help Credit, the main character in this activity, solve her credit problems.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will read the Llama Llama books and compare and contrast the stories. Teaching strategies, worksheets, and activities are provided.

Students begin to learn basics of flying UAVs/drones. This simple initial flight includes a take-off, hovering at different heights, and landing.

Young scholars will plan a human expedition to the planet Mars. Through this project-based activity, they can choose to learn about the surface of Mars, the trip route, the analogical features between Mars and Earth, nutrition and...

Second graders learn how plants depend on animals to disperse their seeds. Students will learn about ways that animals can disperse seeds. They will design their own model and compare it to the real action of plants and animals. In the...

The unit introduces the topic of probability and then students work in groups to find the odds of winning a game they design. The students learn how to summarize financial projections and appreciate the role of probability in real world...

The unit introduces the topic of probability and then students work in groups to find the odds of winning a game they design. The students learn how to summarize financial projections and appreciate the role of probability in real world...

For this activity, students use software tools to create a new cover design for a book they are reading to demonstrate comprehension and explore character, plot, setting, symbolism, and conflict. While it is suggested that students use...

Contains plans for lessons that teach about the letter M using a "Mystery Box" filled with items starting with M and the books "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" and "Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree" by Eileen Christelow. In...

The Mississippi Delta is disappearing because of rising sea levels and the construction of levees, yet the deltas in the Atchafalaya Bay are growing. View this video from NASA showing images collected over 31 years showing the growth of...

View videos and photos from the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew and see how the earth's landforms changed as a result of the heavy winds and rain. Weathering and erosion made a new landform and dramatically changed the coastline....