[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson using primary resources in which students investigate how democratic the Roman Republic was. Includes downloads for student materials, teacher mateials, PowerPoint, and original sources.

During the course of this lesson students learn that while people can develop rewarding friendships online, they should be cautious with online-only friends and never reveal private information without asking a parent or trusted adult...

This mini-instructional activity covers the basics of the Supreme Court's decision that it was unconstitutional for a state to force students to salute the flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Students learn how the interests of...

Students discuss positive and negative aspects of interacting with others online. They learn the definition of cyberbullying and help the teacher fill in a Venn diagram that compares in-person bullying with cyberbullying. They then read...

Help your students understand motion and force through the construction of catapults.

A great activity for researching the geography of the Midwest States. Includes specific instructions, vocabulary, evaluation tips, and academic standards.

A hands-on lesson for helping students understand simple circuits, series circuits, and parallel circuits, and the differences between the three.

Through this lesson, middle schoolers will learn how to use ratios to create a scale drawing of their classroom's floor plan. It provides adaptations, discussion questions, assessment rubric, and suggested readings to help develop...

Use this lesson plan to teach students what sexual harassment is, how to identify acts of sexual harassment, and how to respond to it. This lesson requires simple materials and Internet access, provides several questions useful for both...

A learning module that begins with "Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Peace Prize Lecture" by Malala Yousafzai, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...

A lab activity on sound waves is presented on this website. Students will learn about sound waves produced by different objects in this activity. There are also a set of discussion questions and two other variations of the lab exercise.

This site provides a lesson plan to teach the importance of analyzing artifacts, past and present.

Contains a lesson plan that incorporates audio and video resources to help teach the book "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells. Also includes a number of discussion questions and links to additional information.

Introduce students to the ideas of motion and force in this hands-on lesson plan.

This Fibonacci sequence lesson plan is aimed at grades 9-12, but would be appropriate for some junior high classes. It includes historical background and examples of Fibonacci numbers in nature, as well as suggested readings and ties to...

This lesson plan looks at the causes of tsunamis and the different types.

Learners will work as a class to solve word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and simple fractions. To culminate the lesson, students will create their own word problems.

In this lesson plan, students will learn what probability is; ways to express probability as a ratio, a decimal, and a percentage; and how to solve problems based on probability.

In this classroom activity, students discuss how people and pollution affect the environment. Then they demonstrate ways to recycle, reduce, and reuse.

A project where students research and learn about animals of the rainforest. Students then make mobiles displaying several different animal pictures and facts.

Create a classroom model of the solar system while teaching about relative size of all the planets, and each planet's distance from the sun.

This Wide Angle video segment provides a comparison of two classrooms in the state-supported free primary schools of Japan and Kenya.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An article and video exploring the anatomy of a project. Get an insight into how a teacher developed and executed a project from beginning to end. Understand the steps they took while working through...

This program uses scientific techniques to examine how drugs effect the brain. Its ultimate goal is to present students with the negative effects of substance abuse and show the benefits of staying substance free. Each of the lessons...