Learn about Thomson's cathode ray experiment and the plum pudding model and Rutherford's gold foil experiment.

Through the lesson provided here, students will not only learn about civil rights and civil liberty but also understand the key roles played by President Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement. The detailed...

Students will learn about the life stories of victims of the Holocaust in order to see the victims as people and not numbers. Using pages of testimonies written by relatives or acquaintances, students will discuss the life of the...

Great teacher resource for helping your middle schoolers learn about immigration and why people come to the United States. Help them understand the whole immigration process and why some immigrants may have complications. Includes a...

Two virtual labs offer practice for creating your own or science project: "How Does Your Garden Grow" and "Critters!" Learn how investigations are conducted from the first step to the finished product.

In this lesson, young scholars learn about the structure and function of the human eye and research how it compares to animal eyes. They will then choose an eye, write a description, and make an illustration of it, which other students...

Familiarize your students with South America by having them create a slideshow of a "Tour of South America" that focuses on its culture, geography, and history. This will help the students learn more about South America's people and places.

This lesson focuses on the importance of record keeping, in journal or diary form, by people in the past. Learners learn much about their lives from these documents and they study the Middle Ages as they create journal entries in the...

This lesson plan shows that by studying the population of the U.S. through census figures, middle schoolers can learn about interesting cultural and economic trends.

Introduce your students to South America with this physical map activity. The resource contains a detailed lesson plan to help students learn about the geography, people, and environment of South America.

For this lesson, young scholars conduct research on what paleontologists do when they study dinosaur fossils. They learn about some of the major paleontologists, what they discovered, and how opinions about fossils change over time as...

This module focuses on cell structure and how the organelles function together to form the smallest unit of life. The cell theory is also discussed along with the basics features of the cell. Site also includes an interactive practice...

The story behind Jocelyn Bell's role in the discovery of pulsars is told in this colorful, comic-book-style resource from A Science Odyssey Web site.

Things change about the 5th or 6th grade. Students don't want parents involved, and even if they did, parents often are not familiar with the educational subjects. How to handle? Perhaps some tips from the article will help.

This resource provides an overview of the life, explorations, and discoveries of Juan Ponce de Leon.

Learn how calcium, and other elements, were discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy, about its chemical properties, and about its uses and applications.

This site from Enchanted Learning presents several brief overviews of major early nineteenth century inventors and their inventions. The information is accessible by clicking on the corresponding link.

Until the discovery of Eris, Pluto was known as the largest Keiper belt object. This dwarf planet has replaced Pluto in size and is accompanied by a satellite that has been given the name Dysnomia. Learn about this distant world here...

This resource provides information about Cuba's history and Castro's rise to power, the development of the relationship between Cuba and the USSR, a description of the events of the crisis, Kennedy's response to the discovery of Soviet...

Lesson discussing quarter, eighth, and half notes and using them to create rhythms for students to clap. Includes instructions for 4 small group centers.

Learn about the reconnaissance operation, the gathering of intelligence, of the Corps of Discovery.

See a picture of the lightning rod Benjamin Franklin used in 1746 and learn about his discovery of electricity.

Learn why recent discoveries are causing scientists to rewrite the timeline of modern humans and Neanderthals.

For this lesson, learners will learn about Sacagawea and her contributions to the Corps of Discovery and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.