Choose from four interactive quizzes to test your geography knowledge of Asia countries and capitals.

Choose from four interactive quizzes, and test your geography knowledge of European countries and their capitals.

A vast number of self-study quizzes on homonyms especially designed for English language learners. Using self-scoring drill-and-practice exercises, the Internet TESL Journal helps learners avoid common word-usage errors.

This extensive site features resources for teaching William Shakespeare's history play Julius Caesar. Includes lesson plans and other teaching resources.

Students explore the meanings of the symbols on the back of the 2010 Lincoln penny.

The Texas Legislature has created an excellent poster about state government designed to capture the interest of junior high students. Students can find out about the people, processes, and places of state government in Texas.

Single player geography game that provides practice in learning countries and their capital cities. The target capital appears under the toad. The student must jump to the matching country, in the form of a lily pad, that floats toward...

Find out what a law is and who makes them. Learn the step by step process of how laws are made on the national level.

When the plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field on September 11, it was 20 minutes flying time from the nation's capital. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 46 minutes into United Airlines Flight 93, a nonstop flight from Newark, New...

China has a population of over one billion people and is a huge energy consumer. No examination of global warming would be complete without looking at China's contribution to the problem, its burgeoning awareness of this and its efforts...

A brief description of the history of Salt Lake City. Includes a brief paragraph about the settlement of the Mormons in 1847. For the full article, get a free trial!

A broad selection of images featuring theaters and concert hallscan be found on this site by Picture Australia. By clicking on individual images you'll find high quality photographs as well as a brief description.

Analysis of Hiram Power's marble-sculpted portrait of Benjamin Franklin, which resides in the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol. Made in 1862, the sculpture convincingly captures what many consider to be Franklin's essential character.

Official site of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislative branch of the state government of Pennsylvania. Find a mix of useful resources, including a state-legislator finder, a virtual tour of the capitol building, a guide to...

This site from the Encyclopedia Mythica provides information on the god known as Jupiter. It discusses, in the second paragraph, his temple on the Capitol. The information is not in-depth at all, but it is very interesting and worth...

Photograph of the statue of General Lew Wallace in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol Building.

The New York Times Learning Network presents an online crossword puzzle that you can print or play online. This one is on The Fifty States. Subject matter may be a bit deep for an elementary student to work on independently.

The Hill is a non-partisan, non-ideological weekly newspaper that describes the inner workings of Congress, the pressures confronting policy makers and the many ways in which decisions are made.

This lesson introduces the proper use of capitalization in sentences.

Lesson in which students create American symbol folders to help them understand and identify national symbols.

This site provides a history of the U.S. Capitol, home of the Federal legislature. Includes an extensive photo gallery of the Capitol over time and links to other websites.

A road map of the vicinity of Hartford Connecticut from the Official Automobile Blue Book (1919), showing the Connecticut River, Capitol building, bridges, major roads, railroads and stations, parks, and major landmarks of the area.

A street map of the business district of Hartford Connecticut, from the Official Automobile Blue Book (1919), showing the Park River, Capitol building, the suggested Blue Book routes in the city, and the direction of travel on one-way...

A city plan from 1886 detailing Atlanta, showing the city limits, streets and street names, Union train depot and the rail routes, the old and new State Capitol buildings and Governor's mansion, two large cotton manufacturing plants, the...