Science Buddies
Science Buddies: The Height Limits and Linearity of Bouncy Balls
You might think that plants and animals have little in common with batteries, springs, or slingshots, but they actually do have something in common. Both living and non-living things store and transfer energy from one form to another. In...
Analyze Math
Analyze Math: Introduction to Limits in Calculus
The tutorial investigates numerical and graphical approaches to calculating the limit of a function. Examples with detailed solutions are included.
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Limits of Empathy
A learning module that begins with "The Limits of Empathy" by David Brooks, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
Other
Raising Children Network Limited: Changing Routines: Autism
This resource provides strategies to use with students who struggle with changes in transitions and daily routines. Examples of changes in routines are provided, along with visual strategies and social stories. These tools may be used...
Other
Infinitec: Work and Assistive Technology
Work is about finding a way to effectively complete a task. Many new Assistive Technology (AT) devices are available to help people get work done by new means, such as by dictating text to a voice recognition program, or by having...
Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: How Does Government Secure Natural Rights?
This lesson introduces students to some basic ideas the Framers used in creating the kind of government they thought would best protect the natural rights of each individual and promote the good of all. At the end of the lesson, students...
Geographypods
Geographypods: Introducing Global Development
This exercise has five objectives: to find out how big the gap between rich and poor is, to learn a little more about the issues facing people with limited access to food around the world and the features and extent of malnutrition, to...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Craft and Structure: Point of View
This learning module focuses on the types of point of view, how the point of view impacts the description of events, and the impact of the types of narrators. It provides an example with an explanation and a practice activity with...
Other
University of Wisconsin Green Bay: Faults and Earthquakes
This site is primarily set up as an outline and is loaded with graphs, maps, and images. It covers a variety of earthquake-related topics, such as what causes earthquakes, fault lines and structures, seismology, a historical look at...
Other
Azoomee: E Safety Lesson 5: Spending Time Online
In this video lesson [1:56], students learn how to identify the benefits of a healthy balance with technology.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Where Have All the Scrub Jays Gone?
Learn how organisms rely on one another but also compete with one another within the same ecosystem.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Imagine Life Without Friction
Students are introduced to the concept of inertia and its application to a world without the force of friction acting on moving objects. When an object is in motion, friction tends to be the force that acts on this object to slow it down...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Designing Medical Devices for the Ear
Students are introduced to biomedical engineering and the engineering design process through a short lecture and an activity in which they design their own medical devices for retrieving foreign bodies from the ear canal. They learn...
The Newberry Library
Treason or Loyal Opposition? The Copperheads and Dissent During the Civil War
Learning module with primary resources and questions for discussion on the Copperheads and the limits of free speech and government criticism in times of war.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Comparing Athens and Sparta
Introduce the ideas of limited and unlimited government with a instructional activity on the government styles in Ancient Greece. Students will compare and contrast Athens and Sparta to understand the two very different governments that...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Understanding Character: The Life of Percy Julian
In this interactive lesson supporting literacy skills, students watch video dramatizations of Percy Julian's struggles with racism and how he refused to let it limit his possibilities in life.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Kids' Quest: Mobility: Wheelchair Athletes?
Complete a WebQuest that will help you answer this question: Can a kid in a wheelchair be an athlete?
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Competitive Exclusion Principle
The concept of competitive exclusion, explained here, states that two species cannot co-exist when needing the same, limited resources to survive. The different types are described and examples are provided.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: What Got Stolen?
After reading Grandpa's Teeth by Rod Clement, the writer will plan a scene from a story where a character confronts another character about something that has been stolen. Descriptive details need to take precedence in this scene, as...
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: Color Changing Robot
Scientists at Harvard University recently invented a robot shaped like the letter "X" that can change its color to blend in with its surroundings. While this robot is currently limited to operating within a laboratory, it could...
US Department of State
Biographies of the Secretaries of State: John Sherman (1823 1900)
Short bio of John Sherman with details of his rise to prominence and influence on U.S. diplomacy including his work on the anti-trust act that would limit monopolies.
Other
Learning Farm: Compare and Contrast Informational Texts
In this narrated tutorial, students are presented with information about first and third points of view, then read two passages about the same event and answer questions that compare how the topic is presented. After completing the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ready, Set, Research!
Students will have the opportunity to do research on a weather topic in which they are interested. This lesson will teach the students how to use dictionaries, encyclopedias, resource books and the Internet to find facts about the...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Simple Ways to Encourage Learning
This site offers several simple ways to encourage learning in your child.