Ways to take advantage of children's natural curiousity to ensure that your next museum visit is a lively and engaging learning experience. Provides excellent question prompts, along with advice for tailoring a visit to suit your child's...

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ways to organize cooperative groups so that meaningful discussion will occur. It also offers a worksheet for determining learning styles that is useful to develop groups. SL.9-10.1c Active Partic

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative learning strategies. Learning style assessments is a strategy suggested, along with several ways of randomly assigning students to groups.

This lesson is about teaching our students and adults how to understand their social learning challenges in the context of their overall abilities and then how they can use their strengths to learn more strategies related to their...

This is a seven-page PDF of an MLA style research paper entitled "A Call to Action: Regulate Use of Cell Phones on the Road" by Angela Daly. It is provided as a positive example of a research paper in MLA style. The MLA style information...

Take a tour about jazz with jazz musician Wynton Marsalis. Through video segments, you'll learn about the trumpet, the history of jazz and key famous jazz legends.

A teaching resource on cooperative learning including topics such as Collaborative Learning 101, Benefits of Collaborative Learning, Initial Considerations, Assessing Preferred Learning Styles, and Disadvantages of Collaborative Learning.

A teaching resource on cooperative learning including topics such as Collaborative Learning 101, Benefits of Collaborative Learning, Initial Considerations, Assessing Preferred Learning Styles, and Disadvantages of Collaborative Learning.

A teaching resource on cooperative learning including topics such as Collaborative Learning 101, Benefits of Collaborative Learning, Initial Considerations, Assessing Preferred Learning Styles, and Disadvantages of Collaborative Learning.

A teaching resource on cooperative learning including topics such as Collaborative Learning 101, Benefits of Collaborative Learning, Initial Considerations, Assessing Preferred Learning Styles, and Disadvantages of Collaborative Learning.

A teaching resource on cooperative learning including topics such as Collaborative Learning 101, Benefits of Collaborative Learning, Initial Considerations, Assessing Preferred Learning Styles, and Disadvantages of Collaborative Learning.

This lesson focuses on using Modern Language Association (MLA) Style including the major components of a research paper written using MLA style, reasons to use MLA Style, formatting an MLA paper, general MLA guidelines, a comparison of...

A learning module that begins with "In Pakistan, A Self-styled Teacher Holds Class for 150 in a Cowshed" by Philip Reeves accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as...

Notes introducing how author's vary the length of sentences in order to express their voice and style. Examples from three literary texts are provided, "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Hills Like White Elephants" by...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Gain a better understanding of tone and style by understanding formal and informal style, learning to write clearly, correcting vague sentences, distinguishing...

A new cartoon joke weekly and an archive of previous strips organized by topic (animal, family, doctor). All involve a pun or play on words, and are drawn in a non-busy, ELL/ESL friendly style.

This is an English style guide article focusing on comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs. It explains how to form these adjectives and adverbs, how to use them, and provides examples.

The story behind Jocelyn Bell's role in the discovery of pulsars is told in this colorful, comic-book-style resource from A Science Odyssey Web site.

This site discusses the purpose and format of a memo and helps understand effective strategies for business memos.

In this lesson, students watch two videos from China depicting public speeches about the first school government election. Then, they will create and give persuasive presentations of their own that will describe ways in which they would...

A treasure trove of ideas for assessing the progress of English as a second language students other than traditional testing. Examples of a variety of measures that focus on growth over time, emphasis on student's strengths, and...

Lesson where students learn about Eric Carle, create an online Project Poster about him, and create a collage using his style of illustrations. Students will discuss their art in small groups using vocabulary learned during the lesson plan.

This site focuses on group discussion-style teaching. It provides links to topics such as follows: Creating Discussion Guidelines, Classroom Activities, Group Work, Group Work: Techniques, Group Work: Design Guidelines, Encouraging...

Students are aware of most their personal rights and freedoms. However, many have not critically evaluated the significance of the Bill of Rights and are unaware that the Bill of Rights only applied to the federal government from 1791...