Fourth graders investigate conflict and social justice. In this conflict resolution lesson, 4th graders consider conflicts they have experienced and think about how they could have applied conflict resolution strategies to change the...

Young scholars investigate the prejudice and racism that has existed in the U.S. for centuries by attending a field trip.  In this equality lesson, students visit the Tolerance Museum and discuss the history of the U.S.  Young...

In this present perfect tense instructional activity, students identify the tense used in the sentences indicated by the context. Students complete 6 problems.

Students, in pairs, explore the perception of guilt and innocence as it relates to a crime.

Sixth graders investigate the concept of the quality of information that is used to conduct research. They begin to conceive the differences between information that is fact or fiction. Students write a critique of an information source...

Second graders develop a fire safety plan using a board game. Using a set of consequence cards, 2nd graders discuss the importance of staying away from fire. They use their experience with the board game to develop a fire safety escape...

Students discover that geology is something that is all around them. In groups, they participate in an activity in which they collect evidence and make observations. They solve a "murder mystery" in examining the history of a landscape.

Students are exposed to a wide variety of war related literature in order to comprehend the influence of conflict upon the lives of the Korean people. The information is used to complete a research report.

Students create a portrait that describes their culture.

Students study how a geologist examines a hazardous waste spill using an actual site. They use site data to map the spill, find its source and determine how fast the spill is spreading.

Students read excerpts from the historian Conover Hunt writing about John F. Kennedy and from primary source documents using the handout: Historical Sources and Historians. Students discuss and identify source types, evaluate sources,...

Young scholars engage in research about the hantavirus. They use a variety of resources to obtain information. Students distinguish the differences between hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, hantavirus transmission, and hantavirus prevention.

Students create a chart comparing visual clues with artistic meaning. This lesson plan is designed to introduce students to the ways in which consistent patterns of gesture and pose chosen by an artist (specifically George Catlin)...

This is the full text of the short story "The Adventure of the Dying Detective" by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes.

Short, illustrated children's detective stories collected by the well-known "Jornal do Comercio," a Brazilian periodical. Read the stories online and see if you can help Inspector Arruda solve the mysteries.

In this lesson, students will become word detectives to find spelling patterns in a story, and then sort the words they find according to the patterns. This "word detective" will become a favorite independent activity throughout the...

Is the case closed on the authorship of Shakespeare's plays? Student history detectives explore the evidence for and against one of the possible alternatives, Edward deVere, using the novel Shakespeare's Secret plus a variety of online...

This biography features Edgar Allan Poe who introduced the genre of horror and mystery to literature in the nineteenth century with stories such as "The Raven."

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published in 1909, one work is the short story collection entitled John Thorndyke's Cases. This detective story collection was written by R. Austin Freeman.

Learners read The Web Files by Margie Palatini and use the format to write three-scene detective stories of their own. Teacher instructions, student instructions, and student writing samples are provided, as well as an interactive...

This site is a professor's guide for students. This guide features information on how to distinguish between Poe and his narrators in his stories.

This site is provided for by the Christian Classics ethereal Library. Masterful detective fiction from G.K. Chesteron. Offered here in html, .rtf, .pdf, and plain text.

An introductory discussion of the publishing history of Poe's short stories, along with links to numerous text versions of the stories themselves, such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," which can be read online.

This is the full text of the short story "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes.