This instructional activity engages students in learning about plant growth. Students will observe changes in a growing plant and then will write in their discovery journals to write observations and hypotheses about the plant growth....

A few pages from the journal of Narcissa Whitman who was a missionary in the Oregon Country. She was later murdered along with her husband at the Whitman massacre.

Students will observe the germination and growth of plants from seeds over the course of several days, and record their observations in a journal.

This article focuses on journal writing including the benefits, goals for parents and teachers, materials needed, journal exercises, and teaching kids how to keep a journal.

A scanned copy of the 1852 publication Little Fanny's Journal by Margaret Fraser Tytler, a fiction book for children.

Based on journals for Laura Ingalls Wilder's family, these descriptions of housework in a pioneer home are typical of the life of most pioneers on the prairie or in the northern woods. These chores would have been "women's work."

Learn about Newbery award winning author Katherine Applegate's writing career and how she was inspired to write "The One and Only Ivan."

A firsthand account by a survivor who was a German priest at a Jesuit church located about 3 miles from Hiroshima. His story covers both the blast and the aftermath and gives valuable primary source details about the bombing.

Find out what a journal is and how writing in a journal is different than other types of writing.

Develop a digital story to illustrate and inform others about different habitats or ecosystems. Resources for building a digital story are provided.

A firsthand account and description of the Battle of Jutland by a German gunnery officer. His account sheds light on both German and British naval tactics used in the battle.

Article describes the very beginning of the takeover of the Egyptian government by young activists. Although the outside world thought it was a spontaneous movement, this article describes the careful planning that went into the...

The second section of this article discusses form and function to follow when creating a brochure for your business. This article focuses on the size of the brochure.

An excellent instructional activity where students are guided in how to write an article for publication in a scientific journal. Includes downloadable instructional activity and student handout.

A global search tool with access to over 13,000 scientific journals including open access journals and journals in special programs for developing countries.

This page from the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics presents some advanced information about Venn diagrams, including formal definitions, symmetric Venn diagrams, variants of Venn diagrams, unsolved problems, who John Venn was, and...

This is the website of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. It features blogs about the history of United States immigration, newsletters, Journal of American Ethnic History, and educational resources concerning the history of...

For this unit, students will be taught several techniques for creating tessellations and will respond to their learning in their Math journals.

First published in The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society, this article discusses animals and their meanings in Indian mythology. Part of an extensive Indian culture site.

Students will engage in different activities to help them learn about physical skills. Students will play Busy Body Bingo, Movement Bingo, Silly Stretching, On the Move, Hullabaloo, Little Sliders, and Frog Pond. Students will keep a...

A lesson where students examine the journal of a young Scottish woman, Janet Schaw, visiting North Carolina in 1775. She writes of her experiences observing the tensions and rivalries in the Cape Fear River area that pitted neighbors...

This activity can be used during a unit on the U.S. Constitution. Middle schoolers will analyze the Senate Journal of the First Congress and identify how the document demonstrates content contained within Article II of the Constitution...

Take the design challenge to make a wave machine with simple materials on this site. Site contains a design challenge and an interactive journal to document the challenge. Find a video with an example of one way to make the wave machine.

Can you block the beam of light? Students will investigate what happens to light beams when you put objects in its way. These tests will allow them to learn new vocabulary (translucent, transparent, opaque) and discover how these terms...