What does a secret agent really do? After reading an article, students discover the connection between intelligence and espionage. Using the Internet, they will research the history and motivations of intelligence agencies throughout the...

Pupils change words or phrases into the correct abbreviation, acronym or initialism in ten sample sentences. After rewriting the word or phrase, they must identify whether it is an abbreviation, acronym or initialism. For...

Students participate in a travel simulation and have just arrived in Canada. After choosing activities to research, they define their methods of exploration and development on plan sheets. Among the scenarios from which they choose...

Students access prior knowledge to choose a country and research the living conditions in that country. In this living conditions lesson, students recognize the differences and similarities of conditions of another country to ours....

Students explore current events by completing worksheet activities in class. For this Osama Bin Laden lesson, students read the news article of Bin Laden's death and subsequent photo while discussing the event with classmates. Students...

Young scholars investigate the needs in emerging nations. In this emerging nations lesson, students research the conditions for needs in the given countries. Young scholars are assigned to the country groups of Honduras, Nigeria, Bosnia,...

Students explain that a code is a system of symbols, letters, words, or signals that are used instead of ordinary words and numbers to send messages or to store information. They practice deciphering a variety of secret codes used in...

Students explore an international terror alert originating in Yemen.  In this lesson, students read an article that explains a terror alert in Britain, then complete several activities that reinforce the reading, including a...

For this fact and opinion worksheet, students identify sentences as being facts or opinions or choose the fact or opinion sentence. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions.

For this movie title worksheet, students read a summary of the movie and try to guess the title. Students read and guess 8 movie titles.

In this English worksheet, students read "China Regulates News Websites," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.

A great resource from the CIA World Factbook for general information on Nigeria. Includes geography, population, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.