Six TEAMology social-emotional activities from their SEL curriculum, plus a coloring and activity book to use with students in grades PreK-5th grade.

This site clearly explains the concept of Social Darwinism, then asks students to evaluate its implications in an example. Good lesson in critical thinking and philosophy.

To help kids thrive, recognizing their strengths is just as important as working on their challenges. Here's a cool - and crafty - way to identify kids' strengths and connect them in a paper chain, or a "strength chain".

This compilation contains several lessons that will help students learn fair methods to resolve conflicts. Other lessons will help students engage in a cooperative task.

This tutorial focuses on active reading comprehension strategies including reading aloud, taking notes, summarizing, and writing in the margins of books to improve retention and class discussion. It includes two Flickr videos on active...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson from the Royal Shakespeare Company which includes the social and historical background of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, several activities including the use of poems and paintings, and a...

Sparticl is a new web and mobile service for teens, a collection of the very best the web has to offer in science, technology, engineering, and math or STEM. Sparticl includes answers to science questions, images, videos, games, and...

This culminating activity will help students identify ways they can become an influencer in their classroom and community.

Families can come together through games designed to make history something fun and integral to family life. Build a sod house like prairie settlers did in the 1800s. Go back in time to visit five families that lived in the same house...

What are advertisers really selling? Are there hidden messages in ads? In this lesson plan, students explore the concept of persuasive advertising and evaluate ads directed at young consumers. A timely lesson plan that would generate...

It's comforting for kids to know that they live within a circle of care. Remind children that many people care about them...that's what the "Circle of Care" is all about. Together as a family, use these resources to help your child...

This guide is designed to help students who are just entering high school balance the demands their offline life with their digital one. The guide offers practical advice on a variety of activities kids like to do online, including...

This site features a complete project guide for George Orwell's book "Animal Farm."

These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week (December 7th), celebrate winter.

Students use an online geographic information system (GIS) to uncover the geographic and social context of streets named after Martin Luther King, Jr. They map street locations to identify regional patterns in honoring King, consider...

Students in Mexico answer questions about their lives, comparing their experiences to those of American children. They talk about popular names, celebrations, food, geography, social and environmental issues, the economy, history,...

Each time you log on to the Internet, use your cell phone, or do anything digitally you are leaving a digital trail. In this tutorial, you will be completing five quests. In the first, you will make a record of your online activities...

For this lesson, young scholars will learn fair methods for setting conflict.

Working through our frustration can help us grow our brains and it's also perfectly normal to get frustrated! This article explains four suggested steps for dealing with frustration.

To come up with a plan on how to transform our mistakes into opportunities to grow our brains, this article explains three categories of mistakes and how you can overcome them.

This article gives some examples of how your brain grows when you learn new things.

This article explains three common ways we allow mistakes to hurt our learning process.

Discussion of a landscape painting by George Inness will introduce students to the impact of the railroad on the countryside in mid-nineteenth-century America. They will depict this same scenery as they envision it in the past and in the...

The "I don't want to do homework blues" have probably hit you before. Homework is important, we all know this, but sometimes it is a struggle to get it finished. If you have problems doing your homework and want help, or if you want to...