Examine the proper uses of punctuation with this easy PowerPoint. Simple, bold, and straightforward, each slide introduces a different symbol. Difficult or confusing instances are indicated as well.

The challenge: determine whether a tank will float. A design activity has groups work as engineering teams in order to determine the stability of given tanks and liquid contents. The teams need to determine the equations to...

Red, yellow, blue. Orange, purple, green. Introduce kids to primary and secondary colors with a series of videos and a 19-slide presentation that shows how mixing primary colors produces secondary colors.

Give kids a few strategies to help them become amazing problem solvers. This presentation is intended to be used over a two-day period and presents several techniques or ways to solve word problems or multiplication problems by...

Young students view this presentation which goes over the concepts of being a good citizen, what volunteers do, what our basic rights are, and what types of organizations in our society are considered to be led by volunteers. The last...

Paragraphs are simply visual cues to separate information. Briefly display the different types of paragraph organization with these slides. A good tool for beginning readers and writers.

Studying African American history? Explore and discuss famous African Americans such as Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington Carver, Harriet Tubman, and more. Simple bulleted facts detail the heroic deeds of these individuals. Use...

Ninth graders know how to solve a system of linear equations, but what happens when the system involves an exponential function? The instructional slideshow teaches viewers to determine solutions to systems of equations with linear...

Teach your class how to investigate research sources. You can start out with this presentation, which lays out a easy strategy for asking questions and taking down answers that cover the important information.

Use this presentation to introduce a class or lecture about writing organization. The slide show is the first part in a five-part series, titled "What is an Essay?" The slideshow is short and could use more detail, but functions as a...

Middle schoolers in particular will benefit from this simple presentation. Forty slides cover story elements like the protagonist, antagonist, and setting, and literary devices are also included. Some examples are given, but for the most...

The word kenning is derived from an old Norse phrase. It means, "to express a thing in terms of another." Pupils practice identifying and using kennings in the modern English language. This presentation was produced in Britain, and has a...

Young readers learn from this presentation the proper ways of capitalizing and punctuating "titles," such as: Mr., Mrs. Ms. Capt., etc. The last slide has four titles of people that students must correctly capitalize and punctuate.

Students explore food webs. They identify any misconceptions of producers, consumers or decomposers and their relationship within a food web. Students draw an example of a food web for each of the examples that are given. They address...

This online lesson helps students explore primary sources, including photographs and audio and video recordings, in order to learn about the Apollo crew and spacecraft, the history of the space race, and the incredible technological...

In this slideshow tutorial lesson, students will review how to answer questions based on context clues. Definitions and short examples are provided related to how to find context clues and then apply the textual evidence to reading...

This PowerPoint is intended to accompany lesson 9, Cotton Industry in Texas, in the ebook Building an Economy: The Texas Experience, available for free from the Texas Council on Economic Education...

This lesson goes over comma splices and run-ons and discusses how to recognize them. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Comma Splices and Run-ons."

This lesson demonstrates how to draw free-body diagrams for objects at rest or sliding on an inclined plane. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Representing Forces on an Inclined Plane."

This lesson goes over how to correct a run-on sentence or a comma splice.

This lesson goes over comma splices and run-ons and discusses how to recognize them.

This lessons introduces sentence fragments. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Sentence Fragments."

This slideshow lesson focuses on using sentence variety in composition to improve clarity and overall readability. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Sentence Variety."

A slideshow on the formatting rules for using numbers in text. It is 2 of 6 in the series titled "Writing Numbers."