Students read about an indentured servant, and complete a chart comparing slaves and indentured servants.

Students observe people at work and draw them in pencil or charcoal in high contrast values.

Young scholars construct a Frequency Distribution.

First graders complete sunlight and solar effects activities to learn about light and its power. In this solar activity lesson, 1st graders complete a sunscreen test activity, a light test, a black light test, a cloudy test, a sunglasses...

Students develop a plan for ecotourism after researching a nearby national park or wild area.

Students study how scientists measure diversity.  In this diversity lesson students look at marine communities and look at data to calculate diversity in 3 different ways.

Second graders explore how plants produce oxygen.

Students make predictions using given data, writing a linear equation from given data, and using a linear equation to predict later behavior.

This parent guide helps you to teach your child geography. The site features a section on each of the five themes of geography and how to specifically teach a child to learn and be able to apply each theme. Although published in 1996, it...

A map of the region near Chancellorville, Virginia, site of the Battle of the Wilderness from May 5-6, 1864.

This Teaching With Historic Places unit, designed for students in grades 5-12 is about the conflict between American settlers and the Cherokee Nation. Students will outline events leading up to the forced relocation of the Cherokee in...

The abolition movement sought to end the practice of slavery in the United States.

A series of maps showing important campaigns and regions of the American Civil War (1861-1865). The maps show important cities and towns, railroads and campaign routes, terrain and coastal features, and rivers. The maps include (1)...

Luna moths are one of the most unusual and beautiful of the North American moths known as Saturnidae. They are well known for their green-yellow colors and long tails,and although they are often seen in pictures, they are a real surprise...