A biography of Henry Hudson (1565-1611), an English explorer and sea captain. He made four voyages in an attempt to discover a northern route between Europe and Asia. Hudson never found such a passage, but he sailed farther north than...

Move over Van Halen because today we are all going to "Jump." So go ahead and jump as students solve an assessment piece and story problems involving jump lengths. If you are under 30, please Google Van Halen before proceeding.

In this multi-day activity, 3rd graders make 3 different models of an orphanage floor plan using Google Drawing, Virtual Graph paper, and a construction of rectilinear shapes, to calculate the area of each room using units square.

Dozens of African adinkra symbols and their meanings. A friendly warning: the site has extensive information but also has google search tool and pop-up ads.

Dozens of African adinkra symbols and their meanings. A friendly warning: the site has extensive information but also has google search tool and pop-up ads.

Dozens of African adinkra symbols and their meanings. A friendly warning: the site has extensive information but also has google search tool and pop-up ads.

Dozens of African adinkra symbols and their meanings. A friendly warning: the site has extensive information but also has google search tool and pop-up ads.

Dozens of African adinkra symbols and their meanings. A friendly warning: the site has extensive information but also has google search tool and pop-up ads.

Trying to make sense of RSS technology and wondering how to use it in your classroom? This research paper clearly explains the basics behind XML feeds and aggregators and how educators can use this new tool to share great resources with...

The World Wide Web is a great place to find more information about a topic. But there are a lot of sites out there - some are good and some are not so good. Here are some steps to help students use the Web to do research.

A biography of Hernando De Soto (1500?-1542), a Spanish explorer who led the first European expedition to reach the Mississippi River. His group arrived at the river in 1541 during a search for gold. De Soto also took part in the Spanish...

This New Yorker article discusses Fatty Arbuckle, a silent-film era performer at the height of his fame, is arrested in San Francisco for the rape and murder of aspiring actress Virginia Rappe. Arbuckle was later acquitted by a jury, but...