PBS site explores these building blocks of the universe as well as their various types and clusters.

Career Ship is an on-line career exploration adventure geared towards middle school students. Your mission is to fuel the Career Ship and learn about possible careers.

This page includes useful background information about Mind Mapping, as well as a video explanation of it by Tony Buzan. Additional resources are provided as well.

This lesson plan uses graphic organizers to engage students in reading comprehension strategies for informational text in science. Venn Diagram, Hierarchy, Time Line, Cluster Diagram, and Flow Chart reproducible pages are included with...

An animated adventure story, developed by NASA, that helps children understand earth science concepts by using satellite photography and other types of aerial photographs to identify physical features on the surface of the earth. Teaches...

Blank templates of all types of graphic organizers from Venn Diagrams to Vocabulary Sketches are available for free at this resource.

This site provides detailed history and star cluster location information for each zodiac constellation. Also includes links (mostly to Wikipedia pages) to additional information for keywords that appear in the articles.

A collection of pre-formatted graphic organizers that you can integrate into activities and lesson plans or use by themselves.

Explains clustering and its advantages as a pre-writing exercise.

An article, from the online journal From Now On, that discusses a wide range of issues related to originality of thought--the kind of thinking that leads to new ideas, innovation, and creative problem solving. Covers a variety of...