Second graders explore ways to use computers. They practice spelling words using Kid Pix software, write Bible verses and illustrate them. They read stories and illustrate and write about their favorite characters. They create pattern...

Students verbally tell partners a personal version of a fairy tale to each other. They listen, analyze, and describe the tales' differences and similarities in a Venn diagram.

Students explore about the British ban on slave trading and compare it to high profile campaigns today. They discuss what motivates people to behave in this way? What do students want to change, and how would they go about doing this?

Middle schoolers relate pirate history to present day locations. They stimulate background knowledge established through the research project. Students exercise communication skills as a means of discovery. They create their own trading...

Students complete their Sparky's Engineer Activity Book. In this engineering lesson, students are guided by their teacher in completing their Sparky's Engineer Activity Book which reviews what engineers make and what tools and materials...

This lesson focuses on Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Longhorn Clemens and author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It includes links to a Discovery Education video about Mark Twain (Registration...

A great game for number recognition, patterns, and working memory. Grover leads the way as you compete in ice skating, snowboarding, and skiing while learning along the way!

A collection of games for kids. Mix of fun and light science, geography, and language skills.

Donkey Hodie and her pals encourage each other when playing. Invite your friends to play a matching or memory game.

Features great games to wake up the brain. Test your knowledge of words, numbers, vocabulary, and more while having fun.

This University of Washington site includes interactive java-based games to test your memory. There are also lots of in-class activities for testing concentration and memory.

A teacher-led activity that helps learners learn to isolate initial sounds of words. Students match pictures according to the initial sounds of the words that the pictures represent.

Test your memory while you learn about eclipses of the Sun. Click on tiles to reveal pictures of solar eclipses and maps of the path of the November 2012 eclipse in Australia. Try to find matching pairs of pictures.

Test your memory skills with this coin matching game.

Test your memory while you learn about clouds. Click on tiles to reveal photos of clouds and try to find a matching pair.

Test your memory while you learn about the Sun, space weather, and Earth's magnetosphere and upper atmosphere.

There are the usual, and some unique, tricks and games to learn and remember the multiplication tables at this site.

A memory game where the player learns more about Samuel Clemens' life, career, and historical time period through a series of questions. Pictures and additional information are provided throughout the game. Different levels of challenge...

Engaging site for K-12 students to learn more about how the brain functions-- and have some fun at the same time.

Engaging site for K-12 students to learn more about how the brain functions-- and have some fun at the same time.

Learn about the life story of Notre Dame football hero, Knute Rockne, and discover how he revolutionized the game of football both as a player and a coach.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about short term memory, lobes of the brain, and memorization techniques. Take test using the skills taught in the lesson.

The Study Skills Help Page offers many learning strategies for success. The website is based on a college course - it has a wide variety of online learning resources such as study skills course objective, notes, and practice tests/games.

The Study Skills Help Page provides learning strategies for success. Explore the learning tools and tips that you can use to become a more skilled learner.