Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Chromosome Connection

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students evaluate the degree of chromosome similarity and difference between humans and apes. Students infer about the relationship between a human and ape based on similarities found.
Interactive
Geffrye Museum

Geffrye Museum: Interactive Journey: Travel Back to Victorian London

For Students 3rd - 8th
Travel back in time to the Victorian era in this interactive journey to help Ruby & Michael search for Sam, their missing dog. While you are searching, you can learn about Victorian life by examining the objects in the house,...
Handout
City University of New York

Cell Biology: An Interactive Journey

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive website about microscopes and microbes provides students with an introduction to cellular biology.
Unit Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Blues Journey

For Students 9th - 10th
Trace the history of the blues in America through the play, Blues Journey, based on the book by Walter Dean Myers. You can see video clips of the stage play, listen to blues radio shows, and learn about different types of blues music.
Interactive
Other

The Journey of Water

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive tour helps you to understand the journey of water to the springs. Learn about the water cycle and the Florida aquifer, supporting springs and the residents of Florida and how their activities impact the quality and...
Interactive
Other

Bradshaw Foundation: Journey of Mankind

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive map that shows how early humans traveled out of Africa and spread throughout the world. Starts from pre-150,000 B.C. and shows the history of how humans were able to populate the world. At each step there is information...
Interactive
BBC

Bbc: Middle East: Syrian Journey: Choose Your Own Escape Route

For Students 6th - 8th
In this interactive, students take on the role of a Syrian refugee and must make decisions at each stage of their journey in their quest to reach a safe place to live. There are many dangers along the way and people who try to take...
Website
PBS

Pbs: American Family Journey of Dreams

For Students 9th - 10th
Using their drama series "American Family" as a kick-off point, PBS explores Latino family issues and what it means to be Latino. In addition to extensive information about the series itself, they have articles on mural art and East LA,...
Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Van Valen's Gold Rush Journey

For Students 9th - 10th
In this superb interactive exhibition, students explore primary resources and learn about the reasons people left their homes to search for wealth during the California Gold Rush. Van Valen, along with four other men, set out in 1849 to...
Unit Plan
Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Earth Science: The Hydrologic Cycle: Water's Journey

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructional module focusing on the hydrological cycle. Discussion includes the movement of water through the different reservoirs on earth and its impact on climate and weather patterns. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz...
Interactive
Scholastic

Scholastic: An Interactive Tour of Ellis Island

For Students 9th - 10th
Brush up on immigration history while taking a virtual tour of the immigration station at Ellis Island. Listen to immigrants tell the fascinating story of their journey.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Taco Cart: A Pythagorean Journey

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
This interactive exercise uses distance and speed of travel to solve a real-life problem focusing on the Pythagorean theorem and rate of change.
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive exhibit takes learners on a literary journey through the classic short story.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Journey Into the Abyss

For Students 9th - 10th
Go on an interactive journey to the Pacific Northwest Coastline. You will be able to view a black smoker chimney along with the scientist. GREAT SITE!
Interactive
National Geographic

National Geographic: Underground Railroad: The Journey

For Students 2nd - 8th
Interactive resource in which students choose their fate by making their own decisions as they travel the Underground Railroad.
Interactive
A&E Television

History.com: The Space Race: Interactive Universe

For Students 9th - 10th
A virtual journey through space offers photos and facts about Earth and its neighboring planets, comets, other celestial bodies of the Solar System, and the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies.
Website
Other

Simon Frasier University: A Journey to a New Land

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive site examines questions about early human migration to North America offers grade-level appropriate information for primary, elementary, middle, secondary and post-secondary levels. Teacher resources, simulations, video,...
Website
Curated OER

Cbc: The Great Human Odyssey: Homo Sapiens: Child of the Ice Age

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating look at where humans came from. The interactive journey begins in Ethiopia over four million years ago with our ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus. It continues at intervals along a timeline up to the present. The journey is...
Website
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark

For Students 9th - 10th
A hyperhistory that takes the student on an interactive journey along with Lewis and Clark.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Whale Watcher

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS site invites you to join Jean-Michel Cousteau's team as they journey along with a team of gray whales as they make their way to Alaska.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Journey to Mars

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about Kepler's Laws of motion by planning a trip to Mars using a Hohmann transfer orbit.
Unit Plan
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Buoyancy

For Students 1st - 7th
Ever wonder why/how things float? This concept is called buoyancy. Take this interactive journey to learn and understand how and why certain materials float and others sink to the ocean floor.
Graphic
PBS

Classics for Kids: Composers Timeline

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is a timeline of composers; take an interactive journey through our timeline of classical music composers and see what was happening during the composers' lives and how it influenced their music.
Website
Other

California Missions Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow behind the wheels of two bicyclists who rode from mission to mission and documented their journey. They kept in contact with fourth graders in Palo Alto, California who have been studying California Missions.