A learning module on free trade. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include the arguments put forward in support of and...

Relevant resource on free speech in which students examine how different societies define freedom of expression. Through multi-media sources students look at historical sources as well as current controveries over free speech.

Biography of Helen Free, detailing her life as a chemist and inventor who developed many products for consumer use, including a convenient at-home glocose level test.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, 2nd graders learn when it's appropriate to use technology and when it's not, and practice making family rules for device-free time at home. Includes lesson plan, slideshow, student...

Contains plans for five lessons that use Avi's "Nothing But the Truth" to teach about free speech and give students an opportunity to develop persuasive arguments. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...

This page provides a good working definition of free verse, along with some examples, information about its development, and mention of the poets who have made it popular.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students discover the concept of a spontaneous reaction in terms of enthalpy and entropy changes, and then investigate and calculate free energy.

Lesson in economics and democracy in which students study and analyze Adam Smith's concept of free market mercantilism and determine how it would apply to government interventions today. Includes text, questions for study, resources for...

A site that chronicles through documents the accomplishments of African-Americans, both slave and free, from colonial times through the Civil War.

From the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer a lesson plan that analyzes the concept of "Free and Fair Elections" using U.S. State Department and student generated standards to examine Nigeria's 2007 elections. Provides step by step...

Free choice centers offer many benefits for preschoolers. It allows them to direct their own learning, make their own decisions, and learn time management. Here are some ideas for implementing free choice centers in your classroom.

In this lesson plan, students will consider "After the American Revolution: Free African Americans in the North." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.

This lesson in high school physics on Newton's Second Law of Motion provides a discussion of free fall and air resistance, and answers, "Why do objects which encounter air resistance ultimately reach a terminal velocity?" and "In...

A look at what makes free jazz musically unique. Contains specific examples of free rhythm and tonality.

With this article, students get an idea of what globalization is, how it affects them, and how it will affect the world in the future. Gives questions and procedures on how to have a discussion about fair trade and globalization. The...

This is the full text of the novel The Free Rangers by Joseph A. Altsheler, the story of five young "trailers" and "forest rangers," helping the settlers against the Indians and the Spaniards.

An interview with Linus Torvalds where he explains his views on "free software" vs. commercial vs. shareware.

A virtual library exhibit about free speech, focusing on the principles that unite Americans and the conflicts that divide them.

Interviews with and narratives from former slaves who became free and letters from former slaves reflecting on their freedom.

This site offers a huge collection of free customizable Math worksheets for Grades 1-7. The worksheets are organized by grade level and by topic and can be downloaded in PDF format.

On this site, division worksheets can be downloaded and printed for free. Students can practice division facts, long division with and without remainders, and long division with decimal quotients.

This article by Jacob G. Hornberger is an essay in the book, The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration, edited by Richard M. Ebeling and Jacob G. Hornberger. In it, Hornberger gives a hypothetical view of how life in the United States...

Get the facts of this Schedule I highly addictive drug that is running rampant in cities across the United States right now.

Read about the groups of people who lived on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the mid-1800s and fought against slavery: the Quakers, former slaves, and fugitive slaves. This article describes the efforts of both whites and blacks, who...