Learners discover literature by conducting a free writing experiment. In this sonnet lesson, students read the sonnet "The Parting" and compare it to modern-day songs about breaking up. Learners listen to pop music in class and...

Students explore the basics of DNA and its history.  In this DNA lesson students extract DNA from fruits and understand how it is used in forensics.

Students extract their own DNA from cheek cells. In this biology instructional activity, students explain the replication process. They identify the structure and composition of DNA.

Students explain the current nationwide debate regarding the teaching of intelligent design alongside evolution in public schools. They examine the content of the debate and then analyze and critique the merits and flaws of both sides of...

Students examine the political and religious factors that influenced English, Spanish, French, and Dutch colonization of the Americas, and the economic characteristics of the early Spanish and Portuguese empires in the Americas.

Ninth graders construct and conduct a laboratory experiment illustrating the transfer of mutations. They compare and contrast natural selection in organisms with long and short reproductive cycles.

Learners explore genetics and evolution by examining a hypothetical mouse population. Using coin tosses, they determine mouse traits of parents and offspring. Finally, they consider the outcomes of changing environmental conditions on...

In this online interactive American history learning exercise, students answer 12 matching questions regarding late 1870's-1914 America. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

Learners investigate Social Darwinism. In this government systems lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture on the details of Social Darwinism and American laissez-faire capitalism. Learners respond to discussion...

Students study seabirds and how they have adapted to their environments.  In this activity based lesson plan students will play a card game that will allow them to have a better understanding of seabirds and their adaptations. 

In this Soviet Union worksheet, students read a 2-page selection about scientific work in the country and then respond to 4 short answer questions based on the selection.

Learners evaluate "humanity" and conditions associated with it.  In this activity lesson students take on issues and construct their own limitations by defining the "human" condition. 

High schoolers design a human genetic condition pamphlet which they present to the class and then take to a doctor's or pediatrician's office.

Students write a research paper in first person on a human genetics condition.

Fifth graders, in groups, write about things that happen as a result of interacting with their environment.

Eighth graders visit a local park to collect insects. They record the habitats, identify the insect and write a report including the kingdom, phylum, class, and order.

High schoolers act as forensic scientists to help solve a long-standing missing persons case. They study nuclear DNA and mtDNA.

Young scholars describe some aspects of known genetic defects on the human neurological condition. They participate in a variety of exercises including drawings, games, and analogies.

High schoolers research the events described as: In March of 1857, the largest sale of human beings in the history in the United States took place at a racetrack in Savannah, Georgia. During the two days of the sale, raindrops fell...

In this Magna Carta worksheet, students complete the chart about who the Magna Carta helps. Students fill out the chart for the church, barons, knights, and peasants.

In this psychology worksheet, students complete 5 short answer questions about traits, mutations and the theory of natural selection.

Students investigate variation in the beta globin gene by identifying base changes that do and do not alter function, and by using several Internet-based resources to consider the significance in different environments of the base...

Students do a collection of activities which deal with operations on integers and fractions.

Fifth graders engage in a discussion about learned vs. instinctive behaviors. They list of behaviors on the board with the help of Students. They go back through the list and use two symbols, one for instinctive and one for learned.