Students document and list excerpts from a document that shows how calmly officials reacted to the launching of Sputnik. They research contemporary magazines and newspaper articles of the day as well.

Learners study Eleanor Roosevelt's spirit, personal style, and humanitarian efforts. They investigate their own community for volunteer organizations dedicated to helping others.

Learners examine the history and the development of the net from its defense creation in 1969 to Vice President Gore's Information Superhighway in the ninety's. this lesson was originally written for librarians who have had little or no...

Twelfth graders produce a map illustrating the current NATO members, future nations, and nations that have applied for membership. They research current information regarding NATO, and the Russian viewpoint about the expansion of NATO....

Students investigate the Inaugural Speech of the President of The United States while comparing two speeches. They conduct research to find the two speeches on the internet and look at them side by side. The lesson includes background...

Students study the history, ethics, politics and law of state sovereignty and its limits.  In this investigative lesson students listen to a lecture, discuss then complete a few assignments. 

In this semicolons learning exercise, students practice their punctuation skills by completing 3 activities that use semicolons. Students complete 9 sentences.

Pupils read the story A New Coat For Anna and discuss their knowledge on how to make a coat. In this reading and coat making lesson plan, students discuss coat making and listen to a speaker that spins thread to make coats.

Students read the story Quaking by Kathryn Erskine about a girl who moves in with people who clash with her style. In this holocaust lesson plan, students also answer discussion questions.

Learners discuss the needs for robots in space discovery, and take turns simulating a robot and controller to demonstrate the difficulties of programming a robot to successfully complete simple tasks.

Students explore the history of the Industrial Revolution and how it preceded the development of many modern innovations. They research the history of many modern appliances and decide how they rely on these conveniences everyday.

In this vocabulary worksheet, students read 100 English oxymorons. They include "absolutely unsure" and "hone hundred and ten percent."

In this energy and nuclear power learning exercise, students, with a partner, discuss what thirteen energy terms mean and match those same terms to their definitions in the second activity.

In this key vocabulary crossword puzzle activity, students practice key vocabulary as they read the 17 clues to correctly fill in the word puzzle. Students also choose 5 of the words and write questions using each of them.

In this vocabulary development worksheet, students use their language skills to examine 10 groups of words and select the word in each group that names a vegetable.

Students investigate how robots are used in space. In this space science instructional activity, students participate in an experiment using a blindfold and complete assigned tasks. The students demonstrate how robots are "thinking"...

Pupils play the parts of robots and their controllers. For this robot lesson plan, students learn about robots, and use verbal commands to simulate how a robot would command to it's controller.

Students read background information about the Aurora Borealis and complete a science experiment based on the lights. In this Aurora Borealis instructional activity, students read information about the formation and background of the...

In this vocabulary building worksheet, students matches the word with a definition, and uses definition clues to select the correct word.

For this hats worksheet, students look at pictures of hats and choose which name fits the hat best. Students complete 20 multiple choice questions.

In this analogies activity, students read the word pairs and choose the answer that best expresses a relationship similar to the original pair.

In this language arts worksheet, students practice for the TOEFL test by answering 5 questions. Students read the sentence that has one word surrounded by apostrophes. Students choose the word closest in meaning to this word. Students...

In this plains Indians worksheet, students read a passage about the plains Indians and the "white man," then complete 3 related activities.

For this oxymoron worksheet, students test their vocabulary skills by reading and identifying the contradiction in each of the given phrases.