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.

A lesson plan that examines the trade in ivory tusks from African elephants. Students research the problem, learn about legislation that surrounds the issue, and find out about the economics of the ivory trade as well as the impact on...

Comprehensive resource focusing on the men and women who fought for civil rights. Extensive links to discussion questions, related information, timeline, and activities.

This project is designed to help students recognize that even though the Battle of the Alamo took place in 1836, people today still think about and debate questions and issues surrounding the event.

Excellent lesson in which students make predictions and collect information about the United States, China, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. After collecting data, students compare the information and create graphs to display the data.

This lesson plan designed around Heller's novel includes a research component for collaborative work with a librarian, comprehension questions, extension activities, vocabulary, some suggested reading, a few web links, and correlation to...

Students learn about Asian cultures through national festivals and compare them to other cultures around the world.

A 6-8 grade level lesson on the many accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson.

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

This site provides a lesson plan to teach the importance of analyzing artifacts, past and present.

This activity provides activities to demonstrate how "A pebble calculator works in a way similar to an abacus," which will allow learners to increase their understanding of how computers work. The activity also provides discussion...

Contains a lesson plan that incorporates audio and video resources to help teach the book "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells. Also includes a number of discussion questions and links to additional information.

Teaching wartime literature through "All Quiet on the Western Front" is made easy with a 2-day online lesson plan that covers: procedure, writing, discussion questions, extension activities, strong links, vocabulary, and Colorado state...

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

This lesson plan surveys the climate of Australia and compares it to the climate of other regions around the world.

Start with "The Fisherman and His Wife" and then expand criticism skills to include other Grimm's Fairy Tales. Here you'll get an art project and discussion questions and then further instruction for teaching young students literary...

Students use websites and other resource materials to compare and contrast features of Mars and Earth.

Students are introduced to the electromagnetic spectrum through this group research activity. Each group investigates a different wavelength range within the em spectrum and reports back to class. Discussion ideas also included.

A detailed lesson plan designed to teach students about the republican form of government established by the Romans in their early history and also how it relates to American government today.

Introduce students to the ideas of motion and force in this hands-on lesson plan.

After discussing important flying inventions, students explore technological design by making paper airplanes.

This Fibonacci sequence lesson plan is aimed at grades 9-12, but would be appropriate for some junior high classes. It includes historical background and examples of Fibonacci numbers in nature, as well as suggested readings and ties to...

A lesson where students investigate how paleontologists interpret evidence from dinosaur finds in order to develop hypotheses and theories about how they lived. Includes downloadable worksheets.

At the end of this lesson, students will have a better understanding of the size of the African elephant. This could be used in an animal science unit, a measuring unit in math, an extension to literature, or for social studies...