Tenth graders investigate the concept of the European Union. They spend time looking at the different characteristics that are common in respect to geography, culture, and governmental structures. The research is used in order to obtain...

Students are introduced to the problem and brainstorm ideas for approaching the problem and keeping track of what has been done. They work in pairs and share their answers, explaining their reasoning.

Students generate patterns from a structured situation, find a rule for the general term, and express it in words and symbols. They also devise and use problem solving strategies in a systematic way.

Students practice this problem that needs a certain amount of experimentation (trial and error) to get any answer at all. In the process they practice their basic number facts. However, to get the complete set of answers Students need to...

Eighth graders find connections between numbers in a table; use Pythagoras' theorem in a general algebraic form; and measure accurately from a scale drawing to find a method that might enable the helicopter to land inside a rectangular...

Fourth graders analyze the book Train to Midnight, based on the Underground Railroad. They compose and perform a puppet play based on the book. Students perform and videotape their puppet plays.

Students view and interpret Dan Howard's artwork entitled, Soliloquium:IV. They write a story of what they think is behind the painting and then paint their own soliloquy.

Young scholars pretend they are the person who is kept out of a group. As a class, they examine the behaviors of each person in a group situation and discuss how the role-play made them feel. They examine situations in which they kept...

Ninth graders take a rectangular box (e.g., a cereal box) and cut it up to make a new, cubical box with the same volume as the original. In so doing, they will discover that because the cubical box has less surface area than the...

Tenth graders, in groups, participate in a simulation activity in which they are assigned a certain "status" role to play in a given situation. After the simulation, they reveal their status roles and discuss what they observed. They...

High schoolers read any play (A Midsummer Night's Dream, for example.) They participate in a teacher-led relaxation exercise designed to help the students review specific lines from the play. They write about the experience and answer...

Students. through a variety of library books on biographies, explore and assess the contributions of individuals to society. They choose one person to write a short biography on after reading their biography checked out from the library.

This website contains multiple strategies that help adults and students discuss dating and talking about sex.

The resource is a helpline that offers support from trained Peer Advocates. The Peer Advocates are trained to offer support, advocacy, and information to those in dating abuse relationships.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key principles used in relative dating. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.

Examine the issues around dating violence, the statistics about dating violence and suggestions for how to leave an abusive relationship and where to get help. Construct Web pages related to dating violence using authoring software.

Examine facts and issues about dating violence, and use that information to impact the entire school population by planning a Dating Violence Awareness school campaign.

As teens develop relationships, it is pertinent that they grow an understanding of healthy and unhealthy relationships. This lesson focuses on the basics of relationships and dating violence.

This page, developed by a clinical psychologist, offers advice on selecting a companion, including things to do and things to avoid.

This article from The Christian Science Monitor entitled "The labor of finding love: Why today's nonsystem is a good thing" explores the patterns - and non-patterns - in contemporary dating and the effects this seem to have on...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduces Steno's laws, which allow scientists to decipher the geological events that occurred and the order in which they took place, including how the relative...

In the Mix, the forum on social issues for teens that airs on PBS, considers the issue of violence and abuse in teen relationships.

Defines domestic/dating violence, explains the laws against it, and how they can help the abused.

This set of activities from the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology has students investigating how relative dating and absolute dating methods are used to determine the age of rocks and fossils.