This learning module includes several lessons that help promote kindness, empathy, and resilience among students.

Contains plans for mini-lessons that ask students to put the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in action by performing 100 acts of kindness. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used...

In this blog, Second Step provides a downloadable list of books that will promote empathy and kindness in the early grades.

This is a summary and analysis of The Twenty-six Malignant Gates: "Half and Half" & "Two Kinds" from Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. It provides a summary "Half and Half," a summary of "Two Kinds," and an analysis of "Half and Half" &...

This is the complete text of the short story "The Cost of Kindness" by Jerome K. Jerome.

Recalling an act of kindness helps students practice narration skills. The teacher will read "Because Brian Hugged His Mother" and discuss the idea of "paying it forward" as a class. Then students will write and draw about a time when...

A lesson on sustainability of urban farms in particular in New York City. Students learn how to apply sustainability principles to environmental problems. Students will look at the need for sustainable farming practices that maximize...

Text of the short story "Kind William and the Water Sprite" by British author Juliana Horatia Ewing. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "One Kind of Officer" by Ambrose Bierce. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Certain strategies can help us develop deeper connections with our peers and our learning, allowing us to get comfortable more quickly. This activity will introduce these relationship-building activities.

This entry focuses on the kinds of conjunctions including coordinating, correlative, subordinating conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs and the punctuation needed with each kind. It explains, gives examples, and provides lists of each kind.

This article describes seven ways that technology use can benefit children.

In this activity, students will analyze video clips, photographs, and written documents related to General Douglas MacArthur to explore the controversy surrounding his career, especially the decision by President Harry S. Truman to...

After Baylor University and University of Texas opened their doors to women in the late 19th century, more Texas women had access to education as well as paying jobs. Read how this new opportunity for women as well as the formation of...

This OncoLink page contains many links to pages with all kinds of information about different kinds of cancers.

Learn about the different kinds of forests, how forests are structured, their importance, deforestation and its impact, forest degradation, and what individuals can do to protect forests.

Learn what it takes to build an igloo from the best kind of snow to the most effective tools and other little-known facts about these traditional Canadian Inuit structures in this interactive activity from NOVA.

This video segment from Evolution: "Why Sex?" explores the "sweaty T-shirt experiment," which showed that humans may unconsciously be drawn toward a specific kind of genetic variation in a mate.

Introduce polynomial operations to your middle school students using the highly engaging story of ?IntelliGum?. This one-of-a-kind gum, when chewed regularly, and in appropriate quantities, will make you smarter. As part of this creative...

There are so many kinds of engineers. The environmental engineer has the opportunity to have an impact on the quality of life of thousands, if not millions, of people because of the solutions to environmental problems they develop. This...

With the advent of many crime-solving television shows, there is increased interest in the career of forensin science technician. Read this Science Buddies career profile to find out all the kinds of things the forensic scientist gets to...

When you open up your presents on your birthday, you probably don't spend a lot of time admiring the wrapping-you'd much rather see what's inside. It can be the same way with the packaging that products come in, but packaging is...

If you're the kind of person who has taken apart your Rubik's cube in order to grease the inside parts so it will move more smoothly, this could be a great project for you. This will show you three sets of move sequences that accomplish...

Here's a project that involves a different kind of sandbox than the ones you usually think of. This one has a moving wall inside, acting like a piston, to compress the sand. You can make layers using two different colors of sand, and...