[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students learn about the roles of authors and illustrators through games and book-writing. Students will have an opportunity to act out the roles of illustrators and authors. They will...

A brief biography of the award-winning author and illustrator, Vera B. Williams.

Students collaboratively create an illustrated story as a team by using Google Presentation.

A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Wood's Illustrated Natural History by John George Wood, a nonfiction book for children.

A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of The Illustrated Alphabet of Birds, an alphabet and poetry book for children.

This profile of the book and magazine illustrator Robert Lawson features a biography and many examples of his work.

This book was created by tenth grade students in San Diego, California. It combines student descriptions of economic terms and concepts with original student art that illustrates them. Students were supported by social studies and art...

Beautiful illustrations of Tasha Tudor's children's books and pictures of her farm and crafts give you a feel for this artist.

Students will be given double-sided counters/dots to complete this activity. They will take five counters in their cupped hands (or a cup), shake them around, pour them onto the desk. Next, they count how many counters are yellow and how...

There is a wealth of information here. Get detailed overviews of the war and then scroll down the page to sections on pilots and designers, machines of war, a World War 1 history quiz and much more.

This interview reveals how one illustrator has found success and gratification in her career.

April 11, 2014 Sports Illustrated article about Iowa State University men's basketball coach, Fred Hoiberg and his future at Iowa State.

On April 15, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg and rapidly sank with only 710 of her 2,204 passengers and crew surviving. Some believe that the rescue procedures favored the wealthier first class passengers. Other believe that the...

This task builds on prior knowledge and understanding of conditional probability, and introduces the concept of independence of events. Multi-colored envelopes are required in this activity. Aligns with S-CP.A.3.

This task applies reflections to a regular hexagon to construct a pattern of six hexagons enclosing a seventh. The focus of the task is on using the properties of reflections to deduce this seven-hexagon pattern. Aligns with G-CO.B.6.

In this task, students are shown two triangles that appear to be similar, but whose similarity cannot be proven without further information. Students are asked to provide a sequence of similarity transformations that maps one triangle to...

The goal of this task is to study if the analog of the AA criterion for similarity of triangles holds for different types of quadrilaterals. Aligns with HSG-SRT.A.2.

This question examines the algebraic equations for three different spheres. The intersections of each pair of spheres are then studied, both using the equations and thinking about the geometry of the spheres. Aligns with A-CED.A.2 and...

For this task, learners are shown the graphs of two equations, with areas bounded by their lines and intersections shaded in different colors. They are asked to write a system of equations or inequalities for each shaded area and explain...

Suppose ABCD is a quadrilateral for which there is exactly one rotation, through an angle larger than 0 degrees and less than 360 degrees, which maps it to itself. Further, no reflections map ABCD to itself. What shape is ABCD? Aligns...

There is exactly one reflection and no rotation that sends the convex quadrilateral ABCD onto itself. What shape(s) could quadrilateral ABCD be? Explain. Aligns with G-CO.A.3.

Seventh graders explore proportional relationships using paint colors in this lesson.

In this lesson plan students solve multi-step equations using proportional relationships.

This lesson plan has students solving a real world word problem using addition or subtraction.