Provides a general overview of irregular galaxies, including a specific look at type I and type II irregulars.

Newspaper clippings covering many aspects of Love Canal including much information about the litigation and claims filed by those so affected by the pollution that seeped into the town.

Blank templates of all types of graphic organizers from Venn Diagrams to Vocabulary Sketches are available for free at this resource.

This site features an online textbook with very in-depth information about multivariable statistics. (NOTE: In the archived version, some images do not appear. However, many of them are multiple-choice questions for students, and if you...

What do you want to be when you grow up? Explore the kind of job you are interested in by watching a collection of videos about different careers.

What do you want to be when you grow up? Explore the kind of job you are interested in by playing some games related to different careers.

A strategy for vocabulary instruction that involves introducing new vocabulary in related clusters. This approach can help diverse learners, including those students learning English, to make important vocabulary connections.

Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore the conceptness of randomness, and to hopefully squash some student's ideas of what random really is. For example, the lesson points out that in a completely...

This site provides a collection of language teaching resources. Strategies are arranged in the "Vocabulary Acquisition and Use" standard and grade cluster of the ELA Common Core Curriculum Standard.

An activity with an optical illusion that will have your eyes seeing a cluster of boxes but is it really boxes? In this activity, explore this illusion and what happens to trick your brain to seeing what it sees.

Here are definition for several terms parents of gifted children should be familiar with as they research the educational options and school programs for gifted youth. Terms include "accelerated learning," "advanced placement," "cluster...

This site from the University of Cambridge allows you to view information on spiral, elliptical, and Milky Way galaxies, as well as galaxy clusters. Provides basic facts about each one.

Your interstellar police squad has tracked a group of criminals to a cluster of seven planets. Now you must apprehend them before their reinforcements arrive. Of course, the fugitives won't just stay put- they'll try to dodge you by...

This task, codes to all three standards in this cluster, and also offers students an opportunity to practice modeling (MP4). Students must attempt to make reasonable assumptions about the average length of vehicles in the traffic jam and...

This task provides an instance of illustrating cluster without being limited to only linear equalities. Aligns with A-REI.B.

The purpose of this task is for students to reason about base-ten numbers on the number line in a way that will require them to use what they know about place value. Students first represent addition and subtraction on the number line in...

The Bemba are the largest ethnic group in the Northern Province of Zambia. Seventeen or eighteen ethnic groups in this general area of Zambia comprise the Bemba-speaking peoples, and they form with the Bemba a closely related culture...

This introduction provides some basic information as background for the detailed accounts of the particular cultures that follow. The cultures have been selected to represent Africa, in the sense that they include the larger and...

The terms "LoDagaa" and "Lobi-Dagarti" (or Dagara) are used for a cluster of peoples situated across the frontier of Burkina Faso and Ghana. Hoe farming of cereals (sorghum, pennisetum [pearl millet], maize), together with some yams are...

This site from the University of Richmond provides information on the subject of clustering. "Clustering is a type of prewriting that allows you to explore many ideas as soon as they occur to you." This handout explains the principles of...

This journey will help you solve big questions about the universe. You will be able to see beyond human capabilities and will learn what scientists are discovering.

An excellent tip sheet on how to group information after brainstorming and prewriting.

Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.

An article, from the online journal From Now On, that discusses a wide range of issues related to originality of thought--the kind of thinking that leads to new ideas, innovation, and creative problem solving. Covers a variety of...