[Free Registration/Login Required] By learning the Rings of Responsibility, 2nd graders explore how the Internet connects us to people in our community and throughout the world. Help students to think critically about the different ways...

Students explore the concept that people can connect with one another through the Internet. They understand how the ability for people to communicate online can unite a community. Free membership required.

This lesson plan provides a cross-curricular lesson for second grade students. Teachers will read Elino R J. Pinczes' One Hundred Hungry Ants and then engage the students in hands-on division activities that connect to the book.

The unit contains lessons and a presentation that allow students to explore the Sun through images and investigate how magnetism from the Sun interacts with the Earth's magnetic field during space weather events.

This site is provided for by the American Forum for Global Education. Using lullabies as the base of study, students learn about cultural differences in child care and taking care of basic human needs.

A series of lesson plans designed to be used with the Smithsonian Ocean Planet exhibit (available online). Lesson topics include marine ecosystems, pollution of ocean water, animal strandings, and literature.

This lesson engages learners in learning about short vowel sounds. Connections to multicultural songs, books, music, stories, and activities immerse students into new content. Learners will connect letter and sound cards to pictures of...

A learning module asking students to analyze different types of texts, connect literature to events and experiences, use various writing skills, deconstruct media, practice grammar and vocabulary skills, and analyze point of view,...

A lab experiment (in a series of experiments) that explores the cryosphere. In this lab, students will be introduced to the different parts of the cryosphere and their locations. They will also be shown the connections between the...

Learn about how to strengthen literacy, inquiry, and problem-solving skills, and how to connect kids with high-quality nonfiction and informational books. Provides videos, articles for parents and for teachers, webcasts for teachers, and...

This extensive learning module examines how the United States became more connected with the world as it pursued an expansionist foreign policy, became the destination for many new immigrants, and encouraged migration to the Pacific...

This article suggests uses for picture books in 3rd-grade classes including for sequencing, imagery, to determine the main idea, to create their own picture books, to create the missing connection between picture and text, and to aid...

Song lyrics and sound files (in Real Audio format) along with resources for teachers and parents to help incorporate music into classrooms and homes to aid learning. CDs of the songs are available for purchase.

This elementary exploration of interdependence from the American Forum for Global Education touches on language arts, social studies, and science. Learners understand the connection between themselves and their natural environment.

This math game will help students understand the connection between fractions and decimals. Students will use dice, a recording sheet, and their number sense as they find equivalent fractions from decimals. During the other part of the...

Global Problem Solvers is an animated STEM series from CISCO that features a group of middle school students who work together to solve social problems. This teacher's guide provides discussion ideas and activities that that connect to...

Intergrating dance into your social studies instructional activity on the Navajo culture will give your students a glimpse into another way of life. They will use their knowledge of loom weaving, Native Americans, and creative dance to...

Enrich your science activity with watercolors! This lesson plan contains assessment criteria, links to more information, and step-by-step ideas to cultivate your students' knowledge about weather conditions.

Students will explore nineteenth-century life in the White Mountains of New Hampshire through a tale of a family who lived there by analyzing a painting by Thomas Cole and reading a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

This StudyCard stack teaches and tests on the exponential function. Shows connection between the function parameters and the resulting geometric behaviors of the exponential function. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch. 6.1.

This activity will build upon the concepts taught in the lesson The Strongest Pump of All. The activity will pull together the concepts of bioelectricity, electrical circuits, and biology. It will allow the students the opportunity to...

Canada has accomplished some important achievements in space technology. Use the links to explore the main topics. Educators will appreciate connecting to the school program "Space: Space Exploration" on this site.

Find two dozen lesson plans developed by California teachers that use pieces from the Getty's collection as source material for interdisciplinary approaches to arts and language arts learning.

With Vuillard's painting of a park in Paris as a backdrop, students will explore the social concepts of parks both in this painting and their own life.