How do you approach the difficult task of teaching students about scandals in our Nation's highest office? This lesson plan has students research, compare and contrast, and discuss Watergate and other political scandals.

This resource has a lesson plan on the origins of the Purple Heart medal, which is given to any soldier wounded in the line of duty. The medal was established by George Washington and is the oldest American medal.

Introduce your learners 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.

This lesson looks at the causes of tsunamis and the different types.

This lesson plan engages students in creating dramatic monologues from certain scenes in The Grapes of Wrath. Primary sources from the Library of Congress are used to provide essential background content about the setting of the story.

For this lesson plan, students 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 new...

A very comprehensive lesson plan that helps prepare students for a trip to Africa taking into consideration climate, customs, geography, and language.

Learners will work as a class to solve word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and simple fractions. To culminate the lesson, students will create their own word problems.

Each student is asked to become a herpetologist or snake expert in this lesson and research a snake species. They prepare a fact sheet for inclusion into a class field guide. The goal is for students to become more aware of different...

How can a reader determine how much fact is in a fictional book? This site features the book "1984" by George Orwell to illustrate this concept.

How can a reader determine how much fact is in a fictional book? This site features the book "1984" by George Orwell to illustrate this concept.

Discovery School provides a lesson plan on evolution by having students make a timeline of the history of evolution. This timeline will have dates and, above or below the dates, will provide details about the people who have played major...

In this lesson, students will learn what probability is; ways to express probability as a ratio, a decimal, and a percentage; and how to solve problems based on probability.

In this lesson, learners develop an understanding of the wide variety of traditions and cultural practices in the United States and North America.

This site provides a lesson plan in which groups of students will each investigate a different type of weather map use for weather forecasting. Also includes discussion questions, extension ideas, and links to additional sites for more...

The Virtual Economics Web Companion for K-12 economics and social studies teachers was created by the National Council on Economic Education. A wide variety of educational materials and lesson plans can be accessed through this site....