Through a five-lesson series with five hands-on activities, students are introduced to six simple machines - inclined plane, wedge, screw, lever, pulley, wheel-and-axle - as well as compound machines, which are combinations of two or...

Goal setting is a lesson that should be revisited and worked on throughout life. Having something to focus on and work towards helps us to be productive human beings. It is our responsibility to teach these skills to children. This blog...

The six types of simple machines are explained clearly through pictures, text and videos.

This site allows you to type in various lengths you want to covert. For example, if you want to find out how many feet there are in 10 meters, you can submit that information and get the answer.

This site allows you to type in an area of measurement you want to be converted. The site converts it for you!

Bubbl.us is a free online application that allows users to brainstorm online then save them, email them and share with friends.

Science Made Simple allows you to type in temperatures you want converted from one measurement scale to another.

Practice converting English units of measurement to metric units using this tool.

Video lesson on playing Dorian scales on six-string guitar. [3:26]

Explore the physics of motion and simple machines with this interactive game. Try a pre-made challenge or set up ramps in your own challenge to get the mysterious Dim Sum ball into the take-out container.

This site, which is provided for by Science Made Simple, allows you to enter an amount into an area conversion calculator.

Brief tutorial on how to use some of the most confusing punctuation marks: colon, semicolon, comma, dash, and the apostrophe.

What purpose does a semicolon serve in punctuation? Explore this website to learn more about this small but powerful grammar tool.

This is a site that offers answers to some often hard to answer questions such as why do leaves change colors. Provides an easy to understand answer to the question along with a section that students can read on their own, a puzzle,...

Explains the design of a simple 'motor' made from a magnetized screw and a battery.

This ebook version of Frederick Marryat's "Peter Simple" has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.

Slater divided factory work into such simple steps that children aged four to ten could do it -- and did. While such child labor is anathema today, American children were traditionally put to work around the farm as soon as they could...

Apart from the piezo generator, all of these generators are based on the same simple design, where magnets are rotated near to coils of wire (Faraday Induction). There is no coil switching so these are AC generators. On magnet movement,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Every grammar teacher will love finding this site filled with ready-made activity worksheets to practice basic grammar skills. Some include compound sentences, prepositions of location (with pictures),...

Inspired by "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)," this lesson asks students to think about memorable writing--writing that has, in some way, touched them personally. Students will make multiple drafts of simple advice in order to make...

Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This one is a...

Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This one...

Learn and teach a simple line dance created for the Bee Gees' song, "Stayin' Alive." Recommended for elementary students, the dance steps provided here could easily be simplified (or made more difficult) for students of different ages...

A simple activity where you must choose the properties that describe both the mineral and an object made from it. The activity can be played with new sets of minerals, objects, and properties.