Learn about Universal Design for Learning, which uses new brain research and new media technologies to respond to learner differences. Check outcome suggestions of how to use UDL and easily integrate various forms of technology into the...

It's a mathematician's dream come true. An easy trick for checking mathematical computations, without a calculator! Believe it or not, it works with all four operations.

This lesson focuses on a voter's need to be fully informed prior to casting a vote on Election Day and how to acquire the necessary information.

The area known as Nuristan is located at the southern end of the Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan. There are limited amounts of arable land in the Hindu Kush, but there are abundant amounts of pastureland well suited for...

This writing assignments asks students to assume the voice of a person from history they have researched. Focusing on a topic or belief the person showed passion about as history unfolded, the students write an essay modeled after NPR's...

This writing assignments asks students to assume the voice of a character from a novel they are reading. Focusing on a topic or belief the character shows passion about in the novel, the students write an essay modeled after NPR's "This...

This lesson plan includes directions for 5 different activities for making a variety of fossil types. The fossils included in all five activities are casts, petrification fossils, imprints and preserved fossils. The labs require a number...

The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story. But how do writers suck readers into stories in this way? Nalo Hopkinson shares some tips for how to use language to make your...

Members of the seventh grade math group have nominated a member of their group to be class president. Every student in seventh grade will cast a vote. There are 2 candidates in the race and a candidate needs at least 50% of the votes to...

This is an outdoor activity where students look for animal tracks and try to identify the animal. They can also make plaster casts of tracks and collect other evidence of an animal's presence.

An example of a bronze sculptural piece produced by the Yoruba people of East Africa. Famous for its sense of realism, which was unique in African art at the time (twelfth to fourteenth century AD), this head of a king, from Ife, is...