Work out your core, Common Core State Standards, through the first workshop in a series of 15 designed for educators. Inquiry-based activities designed for all content areas and grade levels explore the shifts to new standards,...

This lesson guide provides literacy activities for learning about climate change. The reading level is more accessible to struggling readers who may be studying this topic in the higher grades.

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...

Young scholars study climate change and create a Public Service Announcement that communicates their understanding of the science, raises awareness about climate change, and motivates people to take action.

Why are the reefs disappearing? Use this site to explore the science behind the issue. Useful at several grade levels.

Emphasizing the connections between English language arts and social studies, this unit teaches students how we learn about our past. Students explore various texts (literary and informational) to come to understand how Native Americans...

This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "How do people create change?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration...

Complete teaching unit for 9th Grade Thematic Unit: "Education." Students will read six informational texts focusing on the essential question: "How can education be used to create change?" They will gather information from their...

Join Leander in his chemistry lesson, and learn about the change of different types of substances.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use the percent change formula to solve real-world applications.

Join Jacob on the Nova Zembla Expedition, and help him use suitable materials for building his house.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to calculate a total cost of a purchase, followed by calculating the amount of change given after the sale. The video is followed by practice...

Fifth graders learn that even in the most fantastical settings, literature can teach us real lessons about life. Students explore the opposition of good and evil; the value in courage, adventure, forgiveness, and honesty; and the...

Students will create an animation to represent one of the many feedback loops that influences climate change. To create their animation, students will use clay, cut paper, whiteboard or other materials commonly found in the classroom....

A large collection of lessons on prairie agriculture for Pre-K to Grade 12, organized into grade level groups. They cover such topics as foods that come from agriculture, animal farming, soils, and environmental issues. These lessons on...

For this lesson unit, students learn about transportation systems, including the Great Lakes canal system, and how modes of transportation has changed over time with advancements in technology. There is a large student research component...

This lesson engages students in learning about plant growth. Students will observe changes in a growing plant and then will write in their discovery journals to write observations and hypotheses about the plant growth. Students will also...

Although this site is primarily designed for instructors at the post-secondary level, the information and suggestions given can also be used, with only minor changes, at the high school or middle school levels as well. Learn ways for...

This extensive lesson plan covers various topics about how animals interact with their environment. Topics include how animals sense their environment, how environments and organisms change together, and how animals use their senses to...

Things change about the 5th or 6th grade. Students don't want parents involved, and even if they did, parents often are not familiar with the educational subjects. How to handle? Perhaps some tips from the article will help.

This lesson summarizes two myths: Baucis and Philemon, an old couple who took in and cared for Zeus and Hermes who were pretending to be humans and were rewarded for their good deeds; and the story of why we have seasons due to Hades...

This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "Why do people resist change?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Provides the definitions of physical and chemical changes in matter and gives examples. The law of conservation of mass is also described.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Looks at the seasonal changes in plants.