Help young readers find, identify, and use their voices with a set of empowering activities based on Peter H. Reynolds' trilogy of books. Sky Color, Ish, and The Dot focus on recognizing moods and treating each other...

Students identify events of the environmental movement in the United States.  For this environment  lesson plan students study Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir, who had a great impact on the environmental movement. 

Students contrast friendships, dating, love, marriage and parenting, describe the reproductive systems and related disease prevention and define conception, contraception, abortion and pregnancy.

Accompany a reading of First Come the Zebra written and illustrated by Lynne Barasch with a teacher's guide equipped with before reading, vocabulary, and after reading activities. Additional social studies,...

Class members create their own social networks by collecting signatures before graphing the interactions with their fellow classmates. The degree distribution of the simulated social network is determined by calculating the degree of...

Students study the life of Christa McAuliffe who was on the Challenger space shuttle lost their lives when the ship exploded.

Students inspect psychology by answering a list of health study questions. In this puberty lesson, students identify the impact teenage years have on boys and girls. Students define a list of scientific terms and answer study questions...

Students investigate the process of constructing a bridge. They study the meaning of structural force and draw pictures of examples. Students identify the types of building materials have been used in history to construct bridges and how...

Third graders review ideas about sound and vibration to make their own stringed instrument. They review what a pictograph and bar graph are. Pupils conduct a survey within the classroom to choose the four favorite string instruments and...

Students take pictures. In this nature walk instructional activity, students read I Went Walking and brainstorm a list of things they might see on a nature trail. Students take pictures of things they see on the nature trail, write a...

Students read books by the author Keiko Kasza and complete critical thinking skills, and connections to different subjects. In this language lesson plan, students connect the books to language arts, social studies, science, math, health,...

Learners examine the phrases "Love your Neighbor" and "compromise". They interview another classmate to understand their opinions. They compromise with their classmates on a collaborative project.

Students explore placing a satellite into orbit, then about forces needed to keep an object in orbit. They examine how satellites orbit in elliptical paths and about properties of ellipses. They learn Kepler's 3rd Law of Planetary Motion

From the site: "It was supposed to be a short-term research project. Instead, it became a lifetime of learning. Along the way, people learned to see gorillas in a whole new light. 'A Conversation with Koko' tells the remarkable story of...

The story of America's first astronaut to orbit the earth during the Mercury Space program. After launching the program click on continue or on the numbers to learn about the story of the Mercury program and the first American to orbit...

Dinosaur Train sparks children's interest in life science and natural history. As they explore a variety of animals, children develop the inquiry skills and knowledge needed to help them think, talk and act like paleontologists. Choose...