In this science worksheet, students conduct Internet research to answer 15 questions about the history and process of papermaking. They also write an essay explaining how to make paper.

In this immunity activity, students review vocabulary associated with how the body defends itself from diseases. This activity has 12 matching questions.

In this reading and study guide worksheet, students define 7 vocabulary words, define 4 literary terms, and respond to 32 short answer questions pertaining to Act III of "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare.

In this reading and study guide worksheet, students define vocabulary and literary terms, find examples of literary term usage, and answer comprehension questions based on Romeo and Juliet, Act III.

In this archaeology for kids quiz 85 activity, student interactively answer 12 multiple choice questions about honoring the dead in ancient cultures, as part of an online magazine.

Students examine antibiotics, what they do and what things were like before we had them.  In this antibiotics instructional activity students research bacteria and antibiotics then as a group prepare a written report. 

Students investigate cultural diversity. In this Asian cultures lesson, students discuss the attributes of cultures and participate in a classroom simulation that requires them to experience Asian cultural norms and compare them to...

Tenth graders read and analyze the story, "A Sound of Hammering," by Dazai Osamu. They answer discussion questions, conduct Internet research on the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, develop a character web, analyze the major themes...

Young scholars study the characteristics of living things and explore the characteristics of viruses including their structure, function, and reproductive cycles. They also explore the impact of viruses on human health by discussing...

In this medicine in history learning exercise, students read through the questions about the history of medicine. Students give short answers to the 18 questions.

For this online grammar worksheet, students read the sentences and fill in the gaps with the word have plus the correct form of the verb in brackets. Students complete 15 exercises.

This is an excellent site to help with research on the Ten Plagues in the book of Exodus. It describes the situation in Egypt that the time and gives Biblical references for each plague.

Ohr Somayach International provides an introduction to the Ten Plagues. Recently an artifact was found that parallels the Bible's account of the Ten Plagues. Scroll down the site and you can read the similiarities.

Houston's Colt Stadium was plagued by mosquitoes and brutal heat. Other ballparks, such as Cleveland's cavernous 'Mistake by the Lake,' had bizarre dimensions.

Provides an illustrated story of Moses from his birth to the Ten Commandments.

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Presents charts listing the fatalities from various disasters around the world, including epidemics, plague, famine, weather-related and earth-related disasters going back hundreds of years. Next, the top ten disasters with the highest...

The Black Death and its impact across Europe is profiled. Text plus a colored graphic flowchart make the topic visually appealing and of interest to both students and educators.

This resource provides the text of a children's story about Passover, with clickable links to definitions of special terms.

"Although it's surfacing anew as a terrorist weapon, the deadly anthrax disease has plagued the world for centuries, with reports of it dating back to biblical times." This CNN site is a time-line of Anthrax dating from 1500 B.C.

PowerPoint overview provides a look at Roman history in which civil war plagued Rome from the beginning of the Roman Republic to the Pax Romana. Teacher, Tom Richey, provides us with numerous slides, both informative and entertaining.

Few great books like the Decameron have shaped our very notion of storytelling and its crucial role in the negotiation and production of shared social and cultural values. In its hundred stories, shared in ten days by ten young people...