If you teach religion to elementary students, then you have to see this site! It is overflowing with creative ideas to use in your classroom and will get your students excited about the Bible. Many of these lessons also integrate math,...

Students measure the wavelength of sounds and learn basic vocabulary associated with waves. As a class, they brainstorm the difference between two tuning forks and the sounds they produce. Then they come up with a way to measure that...

This article reviews research that has been conducted in relation to the five types of play, namely physical play, play with objects, symbolic/semiotic play, pretend play, and games with rules.

In this activity, students work with partners to create four different instruments to investigate the frequency of the sounds they make. Students may chose to make a shoebox guitar, water glass xylophone, straw panpipe or a soda bottle...

In this lesson, 5th graders learn about the sounds of weather. They create an instrument that mimics rain, wind, or thunder, then use them for sound effects during an interactive story called Gracey Goose.

CyberBee is designed for K-12 teachers and encourages engaged learning and problem solving skills through a variety of activities based on frameworks such as the WebQuest, treasure hunts, and Big6.

This online tool is designed for teachers to create rubrics that correspond with project-based learning activities.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features W.C. Handy, an African American composer who changed the course of popular music by integrating the blues idiom into then-fashionable ragtime music. Among his best-known works is the...