Students can find and analyze different abbreviations and acronyms using newspapers. An online abbreviation and acronym dictionary is linked to this lesson plan for 4th grade.

These authors recommend this system for remembering important facts.

A comprehensive glossary of terms and acronyms used in particle physics.

An article about effective E-mail use. Includes links to an introduction, what makes E-mail different, context, format, and acronyms and jargon.

The National Weather Service presents this site of supplemental weather information. Materials include a glossary, acronyms, quizzes, lesson plans, and downloadable posters, booklets, weather wheels, etc.

An interactive abbreviations assessment is found on this page. Acronym, initialism, and contraction concepts are included on this assessment.

This site focuses on abbreviations including definitions, acronyms and initialisms, abbreviations for courtesy titles and academic degrees, Latin abbreviations, and other common abbreviations including time and dates, places, and units...

This article focuses on 4th-grade spelling words which include the following: abbreviations and acronyms, suffixes, capitalization, and silent letters.

This two-page PDF includes a Poetry Analysis format using the acronym TP--CASTT. It explains how to evaluate a poem. It is followed by the blank form for students to use when analyzing a poetry.

This site from Tex's French Grammar provides a clear and concise presentation of French adjectives that precede the noun (bon, beau, vieux, etc.) Helpful acronym for remembering - Beauty, Age, Numbers, Goodness, and Size (BANGS). Site...

Contains plans for three lessons that introduce a nonfiction prereading strategy with the acronym THIEVES, which stands for Title, Headings, Introduction, Every first sentence, Visuals and vocabulary, End Questions, and Summary. In...

Students will practice locating and investigating resources to answer questions on a topic using the FINDS research process. FINDS is an acronym describing its five-step research process: Focus, Investigate, Note, Develop, and Score. A...

An excellent outline of the usage and rules concerning the "period" in English punctuation. Includes guidelines about acronyms, abbreviations, sentence ending, and more.

An up-to-date dictionary of more than 7000 computer terms. You can search for random terms or for terms within specific areas.

A mnemonic is an instructional strategy designed to help students improve their memory of important information. This technique connects new learning to prior knowledge through the use of visual and/or acoustic cues. The basic types of...

This Global Land Vegetation module is one of four Studying Earth's Environment from Space modules. It consists of three sections: class resources, computer lab resources, and a glossary and acronym List.

Ouline of the Five Points of Calvinism from the Synod at Dort, 1619, reaffirming the basic tenets of Calvinism. Explains the power of God over the process of salvation in an easy to remember 5 step acronym, TULIP.

This on-line encyclopedia provides the definition of the economic acronym "TANSTAAFL," which is a way to explain opportunity cost.

This site is the home page for the Disabilities Resources Organization. You may wish to choose the link to your state to find local agencies and organizations. The link to "Alphabet Soup" lists acronyms--it is a great link to follow.

A transcript of National Security Decision Directive 172, issued by Reagan administration staffers in 1985. A formal statement of the administration's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) two years into SDI's research and development. With...

While still in graduate school, John Robert Schrieffer developed with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper a theoretical explanation of superconductivity that garnered the trio the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972. The BCS theory (the acronym...

Amazing number of agencies formed as a result of New Deal legislation. Read about the agencies and legislation whose acronyms have become part of governmental history.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Resource notes to aid students as they analyze different types of nonfiction. The GAP (genre, audience, and purpose) acronym is provided to use when comparing nonfiction texts.

Gives a detailed explanation of how the order of operations works. Explains how to use the PEMDAS acronym (Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction) to remember the correct order. Includes lots of example...