Student can demonstrate their mastery of this standards by using different assessments, short answer, or graphic organizer.

A series of questions guides students as they view, decipher, and analyze the contents of a photo taken during the Civil War. Organized into six sections to help students look closely at its details, this single photo will aid students...

Through two classroom demos, students are introduced to the basic properties of lasers through various mediums. In the Making an Electric Pickle demonstration, students see how cellular tissue is able to conduct electricity, and how this...

Students learn the connections between the science of sound waves and engineering design for sound environments. Through three lessons, students come to better understand sound waves, including how they change with distance, travel...

This activity introduces students to the concept of sorting materials in different mediums and the sedimentary feature called graded bedding. Students will discover that water is a good medium to separate and sort particles and that...

In this physics lab students will observe light bending as it enters a medium. Students will then be able to calculate the angle of the bent light and compare that with other students observations for like and different mediums.

In this instructional activity, learners will define propaganda and study the various types of propaganda techniques. After viewing an assortment of World War II propaganda across different mediums, young scholars will create a piece of...

In this Physical Science experiment, students investigate how sound travels through different mediums, including solids, liquids, and gases. This particular experiment deals with solids by using a wire hanger and two pieces of cotton...

A gallery containing information about how different objects have been used as a medium of exchange.

A great lesson idea to set up stations in your classroom and let students experiment with art media. Let them discover on their own new ways of working with materials and how each medium could be used to evoke something from the viewer....

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What a mechanical wave is and what it travels through, and different types of mechanical waves.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Explore how water distorts the location of objects due to the speed at which light travels through different mediums by moving the red point to adjust the angle of the fisherman's line of vision.

Bob Davies offers free online drawing tutorials and videos. He will demonstrate for you some basic drawing skills and how to draw a variety of different subjects including the human face.

The home on the web of Great Britain's National Portrait Gallery is a repository of the likenesses of famous British men and women. Portraits stretch back in time into the the sixteenth century and run right up to the present. Includes...

This site breaks down the art of drawing into six subcategories, each encompassing a different drawing medium. Mediums include chalk, charcoal, crayon, ink, metalpoint, and pencil. Each subcategory has many visual examples.

Students use memory skills to match different kinds of themed cards, such as dinosaurs, bugs, musical instruments, colors, and animals. Players can choose different levels of difficulty--easy, medium, hard, or extra hard.

Students investigate different growth mediums for a lima bean seed: a wet paper towel and a paper cup with soil.

A comprehensive website covering artists and artwork from all time periods and styles. Navigate by artist name, by subject matter, by medium, by nationality, or by any number of different filters, such as women artists, to find images...

An activity asking students to compare two works of art by looking for similarities and differences in composition, medium, and subject.

Nice images of outdoor scupture by five different artists including Mark di Suvero. Various mediums were used such as steel, concrete, granite, and bronze.

This site from the Galileo Project of Rice University examines both Aristotle and Ptolemy's differing views of the universe. The article is medium in length and worth checking out on the subject.