This teacher resource offers lesson plans, worksheets, book recommendations and classroom activities aimed at students from kindergarten through 8th grade.

Use this teacher resource to get students more involved in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Sections of the Teacher Pack include Creating the Worlds of the Play, The Court and the Forest, Creating Characters, Using Movement, and Playing a...

This lesson is a spin-off of the popular television show Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? Students are chosen one by one to pick an exercise card that will also have a point value on it. Once a card is selected as a class, students...

As the United States expanded westward, many cultural groups came into contact with one another, such as Native American tribes, Chinese, and various Europeans. In this set of exercises, students use primary source documents to explore...

Introduce your primary students to retelling and sequencing skills. Will also help move your students to higher-level thinking which deals with characters, setting, and plot. Site offers one week's worth of lessons.

A resource for teachers to help students develop the knowledge and skills needed to become informed and active participants in society's climate change discussions. It touches on both the scientific aspects of climate change and social...

A teachers' guide to the Signet Classic edition of Baroness Emma Orczy's tale of post-revolutionary France. The guide suggests several ways to build student knowledge prior to reading the novel, and discusses the major themes. It also...

This lesson plan uses Agatha Christie's novel Witness for the Prosecution as a starting point for students to learn about the sections of newpapers as they analyze articles from the various sections. This leads up to the students...

This lesson focuses on improving students' persuasive writing skills. Students reseach baseball and then write a persuasive essay to convince the baseball coach that a trip the Baseball Hall in Fame would be beneficial to the members of...

Created in association with the Masterpiece Theatre film version of "A Death in the Family," this teacher's guide provides materials for the study of the film or the book. Students will study the life and work of James Agee, determine...

Using calculators, students investigate quadratic functions using geometric toothpick designs in this instructional activity that with a review of transformations of quadratic functions, vertical and horizontal shifts, and stretches and...

The 'Clean Air Crusaders' help teachers work with students to educate them about all kinds of air pollution and ways to improve our environment.

NASA site provides thematic units targeted for students in grades 5-8. Provides lesson plans, reproducible worksheets, visuals and links to useful resources.

Exercise to help an individual understand the relationship between the work force and the structure of the American family. Includes a bibliography, student reading list, and example problems.

Explore a wealth of poems, lesson plans, and classroom activities to help elementary school students discover the diversity in African-American poets and create their own voice in poetry. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).

Learn about kindness through activity ideas for students of all ages and ideas for encouraging positive behavior in the classroom and community. Learn what a "Random Act of Kindness" is, and find ways to talk about this character trait...

Using their own habits for data, young scholars predict how much time they spend on different activities each day, and how much variability each activity is likely to have. They then collect data into a class spreadsheet and look at the...

Featuring Madeleine L'Engle, this module provides numerous learning resources for teachers. Study guides, curriculum guides, reader's theater story adaptations, instructional videos, and spaces for student exemplars are provided.

Background information on the political situation which surrounds Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra provides a stimulus for several student activities. A good way to get young scholars out of their seats and into the play.

Provided here is an interactive unit to help students discover the history of immigration in America and take an interactive tour of Ellis Island.

Through a respectful and sensitive manner, this Edukit was designed to help educators bring a knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal Spirituality and Creation to their students. Lessons are divided up into grades 1,3,5,7 and 10-12,...

Through interpreting and investigating historical maps, students gain new perspective not only of their local communities but also of their own homes. Student activities include collecting data about their homes, reporting on the...

Beginning with a discussion on how people adapt to or relocate to environments, this lesson encourages students to explore why the Colonists settled in specific regions. In groups, students examine primary documents, analyzing Colonists'...

To teach students how to use collect and use real-life data, use this activity to create, populate and analyze graphs to interpret data related to the growth of plants from seeds. The activity then asks students to create a story about...