Students will gain a strong understanding of the Great Depression with these lesson plans for a variety of academic levels. Topics include literature, government and migration.

This resource presents a lesson plan library which holds hundreds of lesson plans organized by grade level and subject area. Often rooted with an Internet research piece, each lesson plan contains specific objectives, procedures,...

Students will learn all about the history of suffrage for women and what influences were used to change people's attitudes. They will then use their understanding to create a modern-day election document of ephemera, for example, a...

A scavenger hunt where students find and study examples of leaf adaptations for different environments. This activity is designed to be used on a visit to botanical gardens or greenhouse but could be adapted and used with specimens in...

After learning about what pollen is, its health effects, as well as how it benefits humans, students take part in a lab activity. For this, they collect schoolyard pollen on slides, stain it, and then examine it under a microscope.

Implement one of USA TODAY's national aligned math lesson plans into your classroom. Learners will enjoy the real world context included in each of the lesson plans.

This excellent teacher resource features lessons that use primary source documents in an engaging way. Included are lesson plans created by teachers, themed resources, primary source sets, presentations and activities, and collections...

This resource provides materials for teachers on a huge array of topics. Search site by topic, grade level, and desired output (such as lesson plan, case study, assessment or tutorial). Site is focused on earth science, geography, and...

Lesson plan for Shakespeare's "Othello" that introduces students to the play's themes and language.

Lesson plan that uses online resources to provide fuller examination of "As You Like It."

In this lesson plan, learners learn to read and act out the shipwreck scene in Shakespeare's "The Tempest."

Lesson plan features a hands-on activity for uncovering the major plot points of "Macbeth."

Young scholars work with two document collections, "Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures: 1850-1920" and "Votes for Women: 1848-1921", to understand how the suffragists changed the requirements for voting in America.

A collection of experiments where students can learn about how friction works and affects the physical world. At the end, students design a tortoise to win by slowing it down using friction. Lesson includes explanation of the concept of...

The PhET website at the University of Colorado in Boulder has a large collection of science simulations for teaching chemistry and physics, available in many languages. This page describes the Activities Database, which is searchable by...

Newspapers in Education and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists publish simple, inventive lesson plans and ideas for classes in editorial cartooning, caption writing, and news analysis. Lessons include "cartoon blanks" that...

A vast collection of records and photographs that documents the struggle for equality in Arkansas by African Americans, women, and Japanese Americans. Timeline, lesson plans, and similar resources available for added depth.

Teachit.co.uk is a free online resource for English teachers. Content includes classroom materials, schemes of work, lesson plans, and teaching tools. Look at the Top 5s, the English Teaching Online, the Teachit Trails, and the Tweakits....

An extensive, printable study guide for Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" from the Glencoe Literary Library. Includes biography, background information, and Before, During, and After Reading Activities using graphic organizers, literature...

Parents and teaches can encourage reading with these author webcasts and links to teaching resources for novels, poetry, writing contests, and more.

Two-part lesson plan teaches students about the impact of the Progressive Movement on women's suffrage. Students will learn about rights, reform, Woodrow Wilson, and the 19th Amendment. Links to related learning material for students and...

Research activities for students commemorating the day in 1800 when Congress approved the Library of Congress. Provides lesson plans, web links, and a bibliography. From ReadWriteThink's calendar on April 24, 2007.

Using the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, source material for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," lesson plan teaches students to analyze the structure of a play's text in a way that will give them a clearer understanding of how to perform...

The OGA offers information about its organization, members, meetings, and conferences, as well as available grants and lesson plans and learning activities for the classroom.