Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills at Home: Saving and Investing
This collection of activities offers practical strategies to help parents teach teens the basics of saving and investing. Using the suggested activities, parents can share facts about direct investing, mutual funds, and investment clubs...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Modern City in Art
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Three Mile Island the Inside Story
This Web site was created to provide more information about the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant; about the course of the accident there; about the steps?extending over almost 15 years?through which the nature and extent of the...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Erbium: Periodic Table of Videos
The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. In this one, the professor explains why erbium is perhaps the most important element for websites like YouTube. [5:35]
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Authentic Writing and Math Problem Solving Using Shopping Lists
We're going shopping in this integrated lesson. Students must make a budget, create a shopping list, and act out grocery shopping utilizing their problem solving and writing skills. A comprehensive lesson with printable worksheets,...
EL Education
El Education: Field Guide to Insects in Western Massachusetts
This field guide was created by 2nd graders in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was part of a two-month Learning Expedition that included field observation and collection, classroom experimentation and research, reading from books and...
EL Education
El Education: Insect Cards
These local insect note cards were created by 2nd graders from the Alice B. Beal Elementary Magnet School in Springfield, Massachusetts. The project included field observation and collection, classroom experimentation and research,...