Here are some ideas to encourage reading for children of all ages as well as the whole family to try. It provides reading tools including a new literary assessment tool "Literacy Tracker."

This page tells of the early history of Panama. "Vasco Nunez de Balboa first settled in Hispanola (present day Dominican Republic and Haiti). To escape his creditors there, Balboa stowed away on a voyage to Panama in 1510. There were, at...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Using primary sources, students will form their own conclusions as to why African-Americans moved north in large numbers during the early 1900's. Included in this lesson plan is a PowerPoint to use for...

This sample chapter from Hurst's book Picturing Math is an excellent resource for using picture books and activities for learning computation.

A biography on the life of Paul Claudel, a prominent figure in the whole French Catholic Renaissance of the early part of the twentieth century. Also provides a complete list of all of his works.