Reaching All Families, Creating Family-Friendly Schools, is the online version of the booklet published in 1996 by the U.S. Department of Education. The site presents accumulated knowledge and fresh ideas on school outreach strategies --...

Reaching All Families, Creating Family-Friendly Schools, is the online version of the booklet published in 1996 by the U.S. Department of Education. The site presents accumulated knowledge and fresh ideas on school outreach strategies --...

Information literacy can be practiced at home as well as at school. This article offers 12 suggestions for at home projects for parents and students to do together. Good for an open house handout.

This lesson was designed for our Grandparents and Special Friends day. It can be used for any visitation day, or an open house. The lesson is designed to review percent of a whole and the sector of the circle representing the percentage....

Tips for parents on what they can do to help their children learn to write well. These are specifics things, and not just a list of general suggestions. It would make a nice handout for open house or to send home with students.

Every year, thousands of students and parents are defrauded by scholarship scams. By understanding how scholarship scams work, students can better arm themselves against scholarship scam artists. For this activity, students will create a...

Students will set up a kiosk which has been created to display a multimedia presentation about the school's Commerce and Information Technology Department and student organizations. The kiosk demonstration may take place during the...

This is one of my favorite Open House activities. We use our shapes to create "mystery" glyphs that are hung in the hallway. Families use the legend to guess their child's glyph!

A brief description of the Opera House as well as phone numbers to call for reservations, a photo of the exterior, and other general information.

This 1750s house was built for George Tate, a British Royal Navy agent in charge of procuring ship masts. It is the only pre-Revolutionary house in the Portland area that is open to the public.

This well-preserved 18th-century house was the birthplace and lifelong home of Revolutionary War General and Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Benjamin Lincoln (1733-1810). The house, which is not open to the public, remains in Lincoln...

This is a rare example of an 18th-century American garden house. Designed in the 1790s by Samuel McIntire, it resided on the estate of Salem merchant Elias Hasket Derby until 1901, when it was moved to the Endicott family's Glen Magna...

Panoramic view of the front architecture of Australia's 'new' Parliament House built into Capital Hill and showing the 'boomerang' shaped design. Construction was completed at a cost of over AU$1.1 billion and the building opened in 1988...

John Muir lived here from 1890 until his death in 1914, the time period of some of his most notable achievements including founding the Sierra Club and laying the groundwork for the creation of the National Park Service. It is open to...

Also known as Stonehurst, this city-owned estate was designed by H. H. Richardson with landscaping by Frederick Law Olmsted for Boston lawyer Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (1835-1910). It is open to the public.

This site from Bibliomania houses a transcription of the full and complete text of Walt Whitman's classic "Leaves of Grass."

This site is Joseph Bruchac's homepage. It provides links to his biography, a listing of his major works, and other online resources for the author. It also provides links to several of his poems to open or download on mp3.

"Chicago Changer, Jane Addams" is a one page, biographical passage about Jane Addams, Chicago's first changer. She helped poor people and immigrants to find homes and learn English. It is followed by an open-ended question which requires...

Part of a larger website, this site focuses on a Saskatchewan Metis Fact Sheet. The information is in point form covering numerous communities. A link at the bottom of the page opens to several other themes within in the site.

This article gives a very brief account of the Boston Massacre, its causes and result.

Massive directory of the transcripts of all Senate and House committee and subcommittee hearings from the 105th Congress to the 109th Congress. Hearings are typcially open to the public and done for the purpose of attaining information...

This virtual tour of the slave quarters of the Hermitage Plantation tells of the family life of slaves, their skills, and their resistance to the institution of slavery.

Teachers will find a great resource for Back-to-School theme ideas. Helpful to both new and veteran teachers alike, learn to know students quickly, apply behavior management, and the like. There are also printable worksheets.

On the morning of March 7, 1949, builder William J. Levitt opened a sales office for a new development of inexpensive single-family homes in a potato field in the center of Long Island's Nassau County. In bitter-cold weather, more than a...