Students cut out the pattern of the Four-Wing Boomerang and trace it on to one half of the file folder. They practice throwing it.

Students investigate how a spinning paper tube generates lift as it travels forward.

middle schoolers are the opportunity to enhance their computation skills using real life statistics associated with the Space Shuttle. Skills emphasized include working with fractions, decimals, percents, ratios and proportions,...

Students practice working with the symbolic notation for logarithms. They understand various types of patterns and functional relationships. They use symbolic forms to represent and analyze mathematical situations.

Students examine and discuss a painting of a lizard by the artist Joseph Raffael. They list descriptive words about the lizard, and write a Cinquain and create a painting about a lizard.

Students examine and discuss a sculpture by the artist Jin Soo Kim. They explore and identify basic sculpture techniques, and create a sculpture using found objects, plaster, and cardboard.

Students make and fly small boomerangs made from file card paper.

Eighth graders locate on a map the 3 geographic locations of the seven Arkansas Posts and explain the reason for each location move. They compare and contrast the reasons people move in today's world with the reasons the inhabitants of...

Students discuss common attitudes about aging that are found in popular songs and how music is a means to explore attitudes about aging in this one-day lesson ideal for a middle-level general music classroom. The lesson includes a list...

Sixth graders watch a demonstration on how talking cans produce sounds. In groups, they compare and contrast the sounds from different sized cans. They participate in a variety of activities to discover how sounds are made and how...

In this preposition review instructional activity, students write the correct preposition on each of 20 lines in 11 questions. They work with on, in, with, for, and at.

Students demonstrate Newtons law of motion by examining the reaction of a rolling car when its mass and acceleration is increased.  In this acceleration lesson students complete and activity that shows them how Newtons Law of Motion...

In this oral language worksheet set, students practice saying 16 tongue twisters. They recite the short poems that highlight the sound of different letters of the alphabet. There are no questions related to this worksheet.

Students participate in an experiment to define a parts-per-billion solution. In this ecology lesson, students select a second substance to create a parts-per-billion solution and observe and record their results. Students work in groups...

The official website of American actor and humorist Will Rogers, with extensive biographical information, photos, and quotes by and about him.

A museum dedicated to American actor and humorist Will Rogers, with extensive biographical information, photos, quotes, his writings, and a virtual tour of the museum.

One of the most popular men in America during his time, Will Rogers was a film star, author, radio performer and vaudeville actor among other things. This PBS page offers a look at his life.

This page provides extensive information on the life and philosophy of Will Rogers.

From Will Rogers State Historic Park, a short profile of American actor and humorist Will Rogers, with articles and original photographs related to his ranch, his stables, and his love of horses.

Humorist Will Rogers is included as one of the writers whose works helped to change the society. Here's a biography, and links to other pages about Rogers.

A profile of American actor and humorist Will Rogers, with an overview of the different stages in his career.

Use this lesson to study the lives of Mark Twain and Will Rogers. Analyze the writing styles of both authors, and identify the men as humorists who reflected and changed American culture.

The Online Archive of California provides a very interesting website. Click on Biography, Important Dates in the right frame it will pull up information in left frame.

An image of Will Rogers.