Students view the "I Have A Dream" speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. They use the Internet to research Martin Luther King's life and work.

Learners investigate the impact of the passage of the Homestead Act. In this Westward Expansion lesson, students visit selected websites to examine the lives of Americans who settled the American frontier.

For this reading log worksheet, students record on a chart, the names, titles, authors, and genres for their free reading books. This is meant to be used on a long term basis.

High schoolers brainstorm the qualities of a "free and fair" elections. They read background information pertaining to the upcoming 2007 presidential elections. Pupils compare the "free and fair" elections list composed by students to...

Young scholars summarize support for free market labor vs. slave labor in antebellum America. They explain how existing economic conditions influence support for free market labor vs. slave labor.

Students read the speeches of Abraham Lincoln and James Hammond. They discuss the speeches and answer questions about free labor vs. slave labor.

Young scholars demonstrate basic construction skills by building a free standing structure, using predetermined materials. They compute cost of structure by using multiplication skills or calculator.

Eleventh graders read actual arguments regarding the status of free blacks in Illinois and slavery in the United States more generally.

Students listen as the teacher explains what poetry is as well as describes several types of poetry such as haiku, free verse, limerick, cinquain, and an acrostic. Students read examples of each type of poetry. They compose a poem...

Students investigate the use of patterns and how they are used with stencils in order to create personal works of art. They write the story that is created with the repeating of a pattern. The final composition must be made from 3...

Learners consider the notion and purpose of truth commissions, They work in groups to predict the commission's effectiveness in its efforts to promote peace and reconciliation among Liberians. Finally, students create found poems that...

Students design, build and test a device to store headphones without tangling the wires. In this engineering lesson, students view web videos and documents about the design process. They work in groups to brainstorm, research, design,...

In this economics instructional activity, students respond to 10 short answer questions regarding free market economic systems and business.

High schoolers analyze antitrust enforcement. In this American economics lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture regarding the details of the free market system and antitrust laws. High schoolers respond to...

In this tower building and budgeting worksheet, learners attempt to meet the goal of building the tallest free standing structure on the smallest budget. They build the structures with straw, paper clips, and masking tape which all have...

Students compare and critically evaluate the different media as sources of news, develop criteria for defining "news", experience the editorial process of selecting news stories and detect bias in news reporting.

In this bass clef notes instructional activity, students recognize music notes. Students color each of the notes a certain color to identify what the note is. There are four lines of ten notes each.

For this music instructional activity, students add up three columns with the totals for the whole, half, and quarter notes. They also add up the values of each pair of notes and then calculate the column totals. No hints or examples are...

In this rhythmic values instructional activity, students explore musical notes and their values. Students add the note values together to get a total number of beats for the two notes in each of the 30 sets.