How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...

Watch twelve videos and download content to learn more how teachers can use a revision guide to teach students how to revise a literary essay.

This lesson is about teaching our students and adults how to understand their social learning challenges in the context of their overall abilities and then how they can use their strengths to learn more strategies related to their...

Students will conduct a short research project about a topic. This lesson focuses on how to find the information needed on their chosen topic.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan for Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" asks students to mark the rhyme scheme and highlight similes and metaphors, to respond to a modern letter with a message similar to the sonnet, and to...

A collection of teaching resources to help students explore plants! Resources investigate anatomy of plants, reproduction and life cycles, fruits, seeds, classification, photosynthesis, factors that affect plant growth, and respiration....

In this teaching box are resources to help students learn why and where tornadoes happen and how these weather events impact people's lives.

This Teaching Box combines readings and activities to build student understanding of the changes that happen during an El Nino event.

This teaching box is filled with explorations and readings that help secondary students learn the science of flash flooding.

This teaching box is filled with educational resources that help students explore the science of, and solutions to, air pollution.

Through close reading of "The Waste Land" in its original manuscript form, students will explore how the poem evolved in the process of editing. By reading contemporary letters and reviews, students will be guided towards a more informed...

A collection of educational resources to bring cloud science to elementary students.

These activities encourage learners to explore the social and historical context of the play "A Taste of Honey" so they can understand how revolutionary it was when first performed, and why it continues to be so popular with audiences...

This series of activities give students opportunities to explore the relationship between production and reception in poetic form. They will consider how W.H. Auden's mastery of language contributes to the impact and longevity of his work.

In these activities, students will use manuscript drafts, notebooks, and essays to study Woolf's experimentation with form and use of language during the lengthy process of composition. They will also consider the work in the context of...

In these activities, students will consider Ted Hughes as a poet and a person, as well as some of the literary and personal influences on his writing. They will explore some of his poems in the draft and published form, exploring the...

In these activities, learners will focus on a wealth of drafting material and writer's notebooks to reveal how Angela Carter created her final comic novel, "Wise Children". They will closely examine fascinating source documents and...

Three teachers describe how they used the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) in their classrooms. One teacher used it to teach a fall unit on cranberries, another teacher used this technique in a gingerbread holiday unit, and lastly, a...

Students often think they understand a body of material and, believing that they know it, stop trying to learn more. But come test time, it turns out they really don't know the material very well at all. Can cognitive science tell us...

Lots of ideas for teaching Grade 5 students about commas. Includes an anchor chart showing the comma rules they need to understand, four videos, an idea for making a comma rules booklet, and links to additional resources.

From the PBS series, "Culture Shock," this teaching guide deals with the controversies that have surrounded the teaching of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." The guide is designed to help teachers find reasonable...

Background information on the African American troops in the 369th Infantry accompanied by teaching activities that allows students to analyze photographs and use the information in many curricular connections.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers. Students will be able to plan the writing of summaries, paragraphs, and literary responses.

Students learn about the role engineers play in creating protective gear for sports. Students then build a protective landing pad to catch a dropped egg without it breaking