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Nationalism Project
Don't just ask your class to define nationalism, but invite them to experience it with an engaging project. Learners are divided into groups to design four items—a flag, slogan, national anthem, and historical tale—for a fictional...
National Park Service
A Peace Park
Piece together American and Canadian culture by learning about peace parks! Scholars discuss differences between Waterton Lakes National Park and Glacier National Park as a group. The newly-informed pupils answers questions about this...
The New York Times
News and News Analysis: Navigating Fact and Opinion in the Times
Help your class understand the difference between fact and opinion by exploring the New York Times homepage and articles. In pairs or small groups, pupils complete a scavenger hunt, answering the provided questions. Next, discuss the...
Curated OER
Civil War Literature Circle
Historical fiction can be a valuable asset when learning about the past. Integrate several novels written about the Civil War into your social studies unit, with groups of four working collaboratively to comprehend the novel from...
Environmental Education in Wisconsin
Biome Travel Guide
In a perfect marriage of social studies and science, groups work together to research and create a travel guide presentation to share with the class. Not only do kids learn about the climate and geography of a biome, but also the...
PLS 3rd Learning
Health Project
Two options for a health class project are presented in this assignment: a persuasive paper or an advocacy project. The persuasive paper is on students' choice of controversial topics, most of which require a high level of maturity. The...
Seneca Valley School District
World War I PowerPoint Projects
Use these project guidelines as a start to designing your own class PowerPoint project and to consider what elements you would like to assign and assess in your class. While the resource begins with instructions for researching World War...
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Ladybug
This competent site delves provides factual information related to appearance, diet, habitat, predators, interesting behavior, impact on the ecosystem, and collecting live ladybug beetles.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: World Myths and Legends in Art: Compare/contrast
Students choose two works of art from twenty-six choices available. Each work has a picture followed by brief factual information. Students compare and contrast the two works based on information presented with both words and pictures....
Digital History
Digital History: The Postwar Red Scare
Presents factual information on the history of the Red Scare that caused hysteria and panic in the United States after World War I.
Michigan Reach Out
Michigan Reach Out!: Teacher's Guide to Sharks
Some factual information about sharks is presented in the first half of this website.
US Department of Agriculture
Us Department of Agriculture: Sci4 Kids: Build a Mite Construction Site
This interesting site provides not only factual information about mites and but also fascinating electron microscope photos. You can also create your own 3-D box photo of a female mite.
Arlington Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery Website: Abner Doubleday
This site from the privately owned site, The Arlington National Cemetery Website, contains factual information on Abner Doubleday, Major General, U.S. Army. Although he has a fascinating history, his claim to fame of inventing baseball...
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Division by 1 Through 9
This site gives practice problems for division by 1-9 and games to use this skill. The information is very brief, but factual, and worth checking out for helpful tools on the subject. CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.C.7 Fluently multiply and...
University of Richmond
University of Richmond: Brainstorming
This site from the University of Richmond provides step-by-step guidelines through the prewriting brainstorming process. Recommended as a solution to writer's block. Though brief in its content, the site is factual and informative.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: "Letter From Spain"
This site from Modern American Poetry provides a review of the famous poem by Langston Hughes. The information that is provided is somewhat brief, but factual, and worth checking out.