TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Design Weather Instruments Using Lego Sensors
Students will design and create a LEGO structure that will house and protect a temperature sensor. They will leave the structure in a safe spot and check the temperature regularly and chart it.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Minnesota Tree Blitz
This activity serves as an introduction to tree identification and helps middle schoolers learn about the natural world around them. While exploring trees of Minnesota, students will recognize biodiversity of trees and learn how to...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Foreigner by Ralph Connor
This is the full text of the novel The Foreigner by Ralph Connor. This is the story of the Kalmar family, primarily the son Kalman, The father brings the two children to Canada leaving them in the custody of their stepmother who betrays...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. Packard
This is the full text of the novel The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. Packard. In the previous book of adventures, we met Jimmie Dale, a wealthy playboy by day, who at night put on a disguise and became The Gray Seal, a...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Eleventh Hour by Ethel M. Dell
This is the full text of the British novel The Eleventh Hour by Ethel M. Dell; it was adapted into The Eleventh Hour, a 1922 British silent film. The film revolves around Doris Elliott, who marries farmer Jeff Ironside, but quickly tires...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Tree Leaf Identification and Leaf Display Activity
In this Biology field activity, students collect tree leaves and seeds to make an identified collection after drying in a plant press, a phone book, or in magazines.
Michigan Reach Out
Reach Out Michigan: Have You Ever Met a Tree
This lesson plan has learners identify trees, perform bark rubbings and sketches, collect leaves, and then introduce a tree to their classmates.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Celebrating Fall
Explore the autumn scene while learning math, literacy, and science at the same time! These fall-themed resources highlight ways to make traditional fall activities - like visiting the apple orchard, going on nature hikes, and collecting...
Curated OER
Statue of Liberty Seen From the s.s. Coamo Leaving New York
Collection of historic photographs of the Statue of Liberty.
Curated OER
Photos and Images From Warhol's Collection.
This NPR site gives information on the time capsules that Warhol left. They are now in the Andy Warhol Museum. Every year the museum opens up a box of memorabilia, pictures, birthday cake, and whatever else Warhol felt like leaving behind.
Curated OER
Blacks Were Required to Carry a Pass to Enter and Leave Cities During Apartheid
A collection of radio programs on Nelson Mandela covering the years from the beginning of apartheid, the emergence of the African National Congress, his 27 years of imprisonment on Robben Island, up to his role as President of South...
Curated OER
Nelson Mandela Leaves Court in 1958 During His First Treason Trial
An extensive collection of BBC news articles about Nelson Mandela.
Library of Congress
Loc: Walt Whitman Notebooks
An amazing site, full of primary source documents, that offers a glimpse into the life and thoughts of American poet Walt Whitman. By paging through Whitman's notebooks, you can see a record of his ideas and witness lines of verse taking...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Leaf Investigation and Classification
Students will learn about classification of leaves by collecting a variety of leaves from home and working in small groups in the classroom to sort them into groups. Students will present their criteria for grouping the leaves to the class.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Diffusion, Osmosis, and Active Transport
Have you ever wondered how important gases enter and leave cells? Take an up close tour of a pore in a cell membrane. Then explore diffusion, osmosis, and active transport through this collection of interactive models.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Forensics: How Does It Matter? Measure the Spatter!
Every criminal leaves behind evidence at the crime scene. The trick to catching the criminal is collecting all of the evidence and making sense of it. This is what the forensic expert does. In this science project you will be correlating...
Other
What Tree Is It?
You've climbed this tree, sat in its branches and collected its leaves. Now you are old enough to know that it has a name. How can you tell what kind it is? Here are some ways to check: by leaf, by fruit, or just by the way it looks.
Other
Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Biological Science
All about plants has information on plant parts--seeds, flowers, fruits, roots, and spores--and plant processes--seed dispersal, germination, pollination, and photosynthesis. You can also take a tour of this Los Angeles-based...
Curated OER
Have You Ever Met a Tree
This lesson plan has students identify trees, perform bark rubbings and sketches, collect leaves, and then introduce a tree to their classmates.
George Eastman Museum
Discovering the George Eastman in Me the Legacy
There is much to gain from looking at the life of George Eastman. These guided activities will help you and your students come to know the man he was and appreciate him and many others who have impacted our world.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Jason: Tropical Forests Cleaning the Air?
Rainforests at the Crossroads: Measure the CO2 level in a bottle that contains spinach leaves when it is exposed to light. Then collect CO2 data and observe the effects of photosynthesis as you add leaves in the bottle.
Climate Literacy
Clean: A Fossil Thermometer
For this activity, students calculate temperatures during a time in the geologic record when rapid warming occurred using a well known method called 'leaf-margin analysis.' Students determine the percentage of the species that have...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Signs and Tracks of Animals
A detailed lesson plan outlining how students are introduced to the topic of animal tracking, and how their knowledge and vocabulary are carefully expanded. Students are shown 'evidence' of an animal having been present, and must...
Other
Great Japanese Poets: Kakinomoto Hitomaro
This site talks about Kakinomoto Hitomaro and has links to many other great Japanese poets.