This lesson plan will help students explore adaptation, especially as it relates to migration. Students will come to realize that adaptations can be behavioral as well as physical. Students are assigned a particular animal to investigate...

Track the migration of whooping cranes, once on the verge of extinction. Follow new crane chicks from their hatching to the day they complete their first fall migration at 5 to 6 months of age.

Observe hummingbirds and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.

Observe robins and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.

Track bald eagle migration. Report your sightings and observations to the bald eagle tracking map.

Track gray whale migration. Use live data to observe migration patterns.

This reading resource discusses the strategy of comparing and contrasting ideas. Students will learn definitions and explanations for similes, metaphors, and analogies. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they...

Read and learn about monarch butterfly sightings and migration, and what those can tell about the species.

Here's an experiment to test the hypothesis about the migration of the American robin. Is the arrival of the robin in a certain area predicated on a certain temperature? The process and resources you'll need to test the hypothesis are on...

Follow gray whales as they make their long journey from Mexico to their feeding grounds in the Arctic. This webpage gives students background information and up to date news about the migration of the gray whales. Also, students can...

During this 8-day unit, students will engage in collecting text evidence and then writing about their findings. They will answer the following question with credible, well-explained evidence: Why did Andrew Jackson and Elias Boudinot...

Determine the height of a bouncing ball by creating a quadratic function for each.

Students will construct a mathematical model of a gear to determine the number of revolutions.

An activity where students try to optimize profits by producing the largest daily output of ammonia by simulating the Haber-Bosch process. Students will use their knowledge of equilibrium reactions and the effects of variables like...

An interactive timeline that marks the important people, events, and discoveries in the world of chemistry.

Do you the factors that cause a disease to spread? In this simulation, figure out how to counter the spread of diseases!

A list of video based learning modules available on several curricular topics including literature and reading, math, science, history, economics, and more.

A website containing teaching resources for several subjects including Arts, Foreign Language, Literature & Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and History.

This is a workshop for teachers of grades 3-5 with a focus on building reading comprehension. It includes a video demonstrating some of the strategies used as well as activities, printouts, and even tips for new teachers. [28:25]

In this lesson, Mimi Norton integrates world geography with the study of Chinese culture and history by engaging her young students in a variety of activities to locate natural and human-made landmarks on maps of China. To build...

A simulation where students explore the chemistry and physiology of exercise. Students will choose an avatar and try to set a running goal by applying their knowledge of chemistry. Students will also calculate to see how many...

A series of 24 instructional videos, each about 30 minutes in length, designed to teach literary analysis. Topics include Responding to Literature, The Elements of Short Fiction, Tone and Style in Short fiction, The Elements of Poetry,...

A series of 16 Instructional Units on American Literature with texts, videos, instructor guides, and more. Topics include: Native Voices, Exploring Borderlands, Utopian Promise, Spirit of Nationalism, Masculine Heroes, Gothic...

This reading resource discusses the strategy of using context clues to decipher new words. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they use context clues to understand new words.