Does having an addict in your family make it more likely to become one yourself? Explore the genetic risk factors, as well as the prominent environmental influences, for substance addiction in a lesson plan that encourages awareness and...

Students demonstrate how to say no to gambling. In this addiction prevention instructional activity, students define gambling and categories of gamblers, then practice saying no to gambling. Then, students work in small groups to...

Young scholars consider how the first supercasino in Britain will impact the nation. For this current events lesson, students visit the noted Web sites to gather information about the casino and the positive and negative effects of...

Middle schoolers study the components of a deck of cards and conduct an initial experiment in the probability of drawing various types of cards from a deck. They play two rounds of poker to discover the probability of drawing several...

Designed for teachers who use Norman Maclean's autobiographical A River Runs Through It, this one-page resource offers discussion question structured using Bloom's Taxonomy.

Students study biomes and their major characteristics. In this biomes instructional activity students draw a climatogram and discuss climate of a specific area.