An individual organism's genes determine its physical and behavioral traits. When individuals reproduce, they pass along unique combinations of genes to their offspring. Different environments favor individuals with different physical...

What did the Second Great Awakening have to do with women's rights and social reform? How was it a stepping stone for the women's suffrage movement? Find out how this movement, which emphasized individual worth, empowered women...

This mini-lesson covers the basics of the Supreme Court's decision that determined the government acted constitutionally when it detained people of Japanese ancestry inside internment camps during World War II. Learners learn what...

The Ellis Island Unit focuses on immigration, ethnicity, and cultural backgrounds. It will provide students opportunity to explore their individual heritage through primary and secondary research techniques and share the results of their...

A database of information about plants across the United States and how to identify them. Covers grasses, legumes, gymnosperms, wetland monocots, and the Ericaceae flowering plants. The information is contained in downloadable zip files,...

This interesting site focuses on unusual microbes that inhabit an extreme environmental niche on our planet. Individual articles are written in a tone suitable for general audience.

Read the background for the Founding Fathers' support of freedom of religion and separation of church and state. Included are parts of letters in which George Washington and Thomas Jefferson celebrate the fact that the United States was...

This activity asks students to match documents to individuals based on the reasons these people came to and were living in the United States. The photographs and documents are attached to government forms in some of the millions of...

This mini-lesson covers the basics of the Supreme Court's decision that interpreted the Commerce and Supremacy Clauses of the U.S. Constitution and affirmed the federal government's superiority with regard to its enumerated powers....

Find a variety of maps, pictures, and some history about Taekwondo and its spread throughout Korea.

This site is provided for by the University of Groningen. Leader of the Anti-federalist faction against strong national government, Mason fought the ratification of the U.S. Constitution for protection for individual rights; read this...

Lesson plan where students first learn about pickle-ball through a provided slideshow presentation. Next, students create a newsletter about the sport. Meanwhile, students will learn how to play pickle-ball and end with a singles and...

In this lesson, learners will recognize and examine the lives of Alabamians who have impacted the lives of others and the history of the state with their notable contributions during the first half and last half of the twentieth century....

Students will review addition and subtraction of decimals with a hands-on, cooperative small group experience. They will be placed in small groups and solve problems on individual whiteboards. This lesson plan was created as a result of...

This lesson is designed to help students of all backgrounds learn to work together in groups to complete a research paper assignment. This is a collaborative based lesson plan that challenges students to work together to complete the...

This lesson plan reviews the alphabet with very young learners and introduces the concept of shelving in the library. The lesson plan incorporates software, reading, and games to address individual learning modes of the students.

In this lesson, students, working individually or in groups, will combine two or more media elements to produce projects or presentations. Various elements the teacher and students will consider using are text, digital cameras, scanners,...

In this lesson students write a poem about their class and classmates. Students then transfer their poems to individual presentation slides which are combined with their classmates' slides to create a class slideshow presentation. This...

In this lesson, teachers will guide the learners, as a group, through the process of writing a meaningful story using a story map. First the teacher will review the parts that make up a successful story. Then, the students will be guided...

In this lesson students will be able to explain various events that took place during the Civil Rights Movement. The students will be divided into groups of 5. Each student within the group will receive an individual role of...

Students research and create a brochure project on an endangered species of their choice integrating aspects of math, science, social studies, art, reading and writing. This project allows the students to make connections across the...

Utilizing a graphic organizer, students work individually and in groups to rank websites according to specific criteria.

This brief from 2007 describes the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and presents the answers to frequently asked questions regarding RTI and Early Intervening Services. The brief was produced by the U.S. Department of...

This unit embraces those individuals who have brought change to the United States in both social and political equality through a Video on Demand, activities, and other enlightening resources.