See how a teacher adds social components to make using Khan Academy a success.

This article explains what adjectives do, the questions they answer, and provides examples. It also provides a list of links to websites where adjective lesson plans, worksheets, and activities can be found.

This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.

A great cross-curricular lesson that focuses on humanity in the time of the Stone Age. Students will study prehistoric cave paintings and then produce their own paintings as part of a large mural.

Even though this article is aimed at young guitarists, this is an excellent read for any young musician. This well- written column provides strong legitimate reasons for considering private lessons.

In this blog, a teacher offers strategies for building engaging digital lessons as a result of the Covid Pandemic. My first task is to figure out how to make my lessons clear. I am working without the benefit of being able to circle the...

Learn how pilot libraries in the Revitalizing High School Libraries Initiative, seeking to support adolescent literacy, doubled their circulation, increased visits from students and teachers, and expanded the role of library media...

This articles discusses the importance of teaching verbs and provides tips on creating verb lessons including the definition of verbs and verb tenses.

This article discusses spicing up your lesson plans for teaching adjectives with adjective worksheets, games, and adjective lists all of which can be located online. It suggests the use of Art and Music in your classroom to provide...

This article outlines a lesson for teaching comparative and superlative adjectives including defining and providing examples for each and a basic lesson plan for teaching them.

This article focuses on ideas for lessons to teach creative writing such as Brain-Scrambler, Five-Sentence Paragraph, Obfuscatory Sentences, and Two-Sentence Response.

This article suggests uses for picture books in 3rd-grade classes including for sequencing, imagery, to determine the main idea, to create their own picture books, to create the missing connection between picture and text, and to aid...

A series of articles on current issues in teaching biology. Several are available in Spanish.

How you can use Khan Academy's content for in-class guided and independent practice.

This article gets down to the basics, including what podcasts are, how to access them, how to create them, and why to use them. While it is specifically directed toward school librarians, the information is equally applicable for...

This article offers to share IEHS's extensive immigration resources with educators and explains how to get access them. It also invites scholars to consider applying for their signature Grant-in-Aid Awards, offered annually, for support...

Here you can find a general overview of the importance of the rain forest, and why it needs "saving." A student activity and teacher's lesson plan is also included.

This teaching tool focuses on teaching poetry in less than 10 minutes per day. Turn your students into poetry pros with a quick structured poetry analysis. Focus Poetry is a technique of shared reading that provides multiple...