Help learners memorize the states and their capitals with this interactive train-car lesson.

After learning the song Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winters, students will use the Underground Railroad to identify with some goal or task in their own life.

In this lesson plan learners will collect information about the state they live in and create an alphabet book of information.

In this lesson students will research the explosion of the Mt. Vesuvius volcano by describing how they think the scene may have occurred in Pompeii.

This science fiction story is a spring board for great discussion questions that span across various school subjects.

This table offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and suffixes, their definitions, and sample words in the content areas. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes

In this lesson plan students will understand the significance of those who served during the American Revolution.

Students will explore the life cycle of a butterfly using a website and observations of caterpillar metamorphosis. This lesson plan will incorporate science, mathematics, language arts, and art.

As a part of a week-long unit about bats, the learners will identify the characteristics of a bat and write an essay about bats. Student understanding will be enhanced through the use of books, poems, lectures, discussions, individual...

Young scholars will learn about both POP Art and science in this pattern project. Working in conjunction with a science teacher in your school, students will view cells through a microscope and use visual diaries to create pattern...

Here's a lesson plan that combines art, music, movement, critical thinking, math, and baseball. The plan gives complete instructions, printable resources and web links, assessment, and application of national standards.

A unit on child labor during the Industrial Revolution. The focus is on using primary resources to learn about this issue and this time in American history. Includes many images and documents. The unit is cross-curricular with activities...

Contains plans for eight cross-curricular lessons that teach about memory and the brain using Li-Young Lee's poem "Mnemonic." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This ideas bank from the British Museum provides background information about Rome throughout the years and the connections to Shakespeare's works making it a good resource for cross-curricular...

This lesson plan provides a cross-curricular lesson for second grade students. Teachers will read Elino R J. Pinczes' One Hundred Hungry Ants and then engage the students in hands-on division activities that connect to the book.

Cross-curricular online resource on the book "Catherine Called Birdy," by Karen Cushman. Includes discussion questions and engaging learning activities.

Students are challenged to design a healthy city in this unit plan. The cross-curricular unit covers content standards for ninth grade in science, language arts, world geography, and math. Students explore air quality and the impact it...

"Archipelago", a novel by David Ward set in the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia, follows a boy who is transported to prehistoric times and must learn to survive there. This extensive teacher's guide includes chapter summaries...

"How to Make a Wave", a novel by Lisa Hurst-Archer, is about an adolescent girl struggling to come to terms with a scar on her face and the absence of her mother. This extensive teacher's guide includes chapter summaries with...

"Greener Grass" an historical novel by Canadian author Caroline Pignat, is set in Ireland, follows a family's struggle to survive after a potato blight hits their crop and famine comes. The family has many trials along the way. This...

"Egghead", a novel by Caroline Pignat, explores the impact of bullying in the lives of teens. The reader sees the bullying situations through several characters' eyes - the bullied, a bystander and a bully. This extensive teacher's guide...

"Dooley Takes the Fall", a mystery novel by Canadian author Norah McClintock for grade nine and up, is about a boy who has made some mistakes in the past. He becomes a suspect after he witnesses a boy jumping off a bridge and has to...

"The Countess and Me", a novel by Canadian author Paul Kropp for grades seven to nine, deals with the struggle of a thirteen-year-old boy to gain acceptance from his peers who belong to a gang. He juggles this with his feelings towards...

"A Company of Fools", a novel by Deborah Ellis, is set in Paris during the year of the plague. It follows the friendship of two orphaned boys living at an abbey. This extensive teacher's guide includes chapter summaries with accompanying...