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,...

The interactive resource explores how to tell time. Students are either asked to enter the time displayed on a clock or move the hands of a clock to display the given time.

Morning glories unfurl their petals like clockwork in the early morning. A closing white waterlily signals that it's late afternoon. And moon flowers, as their name suggests, only bloom under the night sky. What gives plants this innate...

Download these free worksheets to sharpen your time skills. Sheets focus on elapsed time, telling time on analog clocks, calendars, and converting time.

This site from The Franklin Institute presents a number of activities, games, exhibits, scavenger hunts, resources, links related to clocks and telling time.

An online resource tool to help students understand how to tell time in Spanish. Numerous examples are given to aid in learning. Brief quizzes are given at the end of the lesson to test what you've learned. Bilingual.

This lesson helps children make a connection between the digital and analog clock. In general, the number system is based on units of ten which can sometimes make it difficult for children to realize that time is based on cycles of...

Students can practice determining elapsed time when given a start time and an end time. They can switch between digital and analog clocks.

This site discusses easy ways to have fun teaching time skills. These activities, games, and books will help your students master reading and measuring time.

Second graders worked on telling time to the hour and half hour earlier in the year. Now they will apply their understanding of counting by 5s to telling time to the five minute interval.

Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball that's hurtling towards us. And we owe all these abilities to an interconnected system of timekeepers in our brains. But...

Using State Facts for Students, a data access tool from the U.S. Census Bureau, students will explore data about their state and voice their opinions on how the population has changed over time. Students will work in small groups to...

Let's take it from the top! This week's adventure, Operation: Lights, Camera, Action!, takes children to a movie set where they work behind-the-scenes and explore different kinds of jobs such as production assistant (keeps track of the...

This article tells about the 1971 Supreme Court ruling in which Native Americans were able to keep fishing rights promised in earlier treaties.

Digby, Nova Scotia is a community with a long history of oral tradition. This has played a large part in preserving the community's history as elders' stories, gleaned from interviews, have been preserved for the future. This exhibit...

Teaching Clock is a teaching resource to help children explore telling the time in both analog and digital formats. Ideal for use in full-screen mode on an interactive whiteboard, where teachers can demonstrate the relative movement of...

Students calculate elapsed time using analog clocks. Included in this lesson are a detailed plan, clock template, and video of students making their clocks.

Students will listen to the book What Time is it Mr. Crocodile? by Judy Sierra. The students will read and use Mr. Crocodile's schedule to answer questions as well as read analog and digital clocks to the hour.This lesson plan was...

Students need to have lots of opportunities to share their opinions based on text. In this lesson, the teacher will read the story, Jack and the Beanstalk, multiple times before the students create their opinion. The detailed process of...

Here, an exhibit entitled "The War Years Remembered" reflects upon the experiences of Wetaskiwin, Alberta during the Second World War. A plethora of photographs, documents, and personal anecdotes overwhelmingly tell the story of a small...

Learn about the birds of Sydney Australia. See how the number of species have changed over time and learn what those changes can tell us about Sydney's past, present and future bird populations.

"Canterbury, Connecticut, and Little Rock, Arkansas, are links in a chain of events representing the long struggle for equal educational opportunities for African Americans. This lesson plan highlights two important historic places and...

Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he tells his story publicly for the first time....

A short history of Tampa, Florida from the time of Spanish explorers. A city-commissioned painting by artist Lynn Ash that tells the story of Tampa is presented.