"Equal opportunity . . . is not enough." Johnson's 1965 commencement address to the students at Howard University provides an opportunity for participants to see how education was a key element in his vision for civil rights.

Language arts learners don't need a lecture about poetry; they listen to poetry every day on the radio! Apply skills from literary analysis to famous songs and beautiful lyrics with a lesson about literary devices. As...

The television and interstate highways both came of age in 1950s America. Scholars use film, text, and discussion to explore how these and other cultural icons shaped the literature of the time. Pupils also create a family history...

Hooray for chocolate chip cookies! Ask your mathematicians to triple a chocolate chip cookie recipe and then reduce the recipe by one-fourth. Your class may need two days to complete, tripling the recipe the first day and reducing the...

Create larger-than-life insects for the classroom. Bugs are usually pretty small, but during the Jurassic period they were huge. Kids use diagramming and scale conversion to enlarge a modern day insect so that it is as big as its ancient...

Put an insect together piece by piece with a fun and artistic puzzle project. To increase small group collaboration, learners use photos of insects cut into one-inch squares to create an enlarged puzzle version of the image. Extension...

Initiate an international pen pal program! After establishing communication with an art class in another country, groups share pod casts and video streams of their work. The scripted resource details how to prepare for the pod casts, but...

Explore the resolution of Hamlet with these 21 explorations of the two scenes of Act 5.  There is a complex cause-and-effect question concerning the final scene that could be used as an essay prompt. 

Sixth graders study energy conversions. They watch a demonstration of a working engine and make a chart explaining the energy conversions taking place. They build a simple electric motor and research other types of electric generators.

Fifth graders discover in hands-on activities the relationships between the measures. They work in groups to create conversion tables using familiar measuring tools. Students solve problems requiring conversions.

In this metric conversion practice activity, students use their problem solving skills to fill in the 15 blanks in the kilometer and meter conversion chart.

Eighth graders demonstrate the use of instruments of measurement. As a class, they take notes and observe the proper procedure for using a graduated cylinder, a ruler, and a balance/triple beam balance. In groups, 8th graders visit...

In this degrees to radians conversion learning exercise, students covert 20 degree figures into radians as they practice their math skills.

Students convert measurements from one unit to another. In this math lesson, students study the environmental consequences of oil spills. They replicate an oil spill event by modeling and scaling.

In this units of measure conversion activity, students use their problem solving skills to convert the 10 measurements listed in millimeters to measurements listed in centimeters.

In this units of measure conversion worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to convert the 10 measurements listed in millimeters to measurements listed in centimeters.

In this units of measure conversion worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to convert the 10 measurements listed in millimeters to measurements listed in centimeters.

For this units of measure conversion worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to convert the 10 measurements listed in millimeters to measurements listed in centimeters.

In this units of measure conversion worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to convert the 10 measurements listed in millimeters to measurements listed in centimeters.

In this units of measure conversion instructional activity, students use their problem solving skills to convert the 9 metric measurements listed to the assigned metric units.

For this ESL daily routine word/picture matching worksheet, students look at 10 small clip art pictures that show images of things that happen in a person's daily routine. They match the picture to the words that describe it.

In this online interactive vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 10 fill in the blank questions regarding words related to the aerospace industry. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

Students participate in a role-playing activity in order to practice  conversational English used while shopping. In this practical vocabulary lesson, students practice etiquette as it pertains to grocery shopping. Students pretend...

Get young people thinking about their lives and current topics of social justice, advocacy, gender, race, and identity. After examining several works by Barbara Kruger, participants select a tag with one of the questions printed on it,...