There are lots of activities that can increase muscle strength and coordination, preparing children for more advanced skills, from writing with a pencil, using a computer mouse, or playing a musical instrument. Help your child build fine...

This site highlights the conflicting points of view within the government of labor unionizing. Focuses on pro and anti union legislation througout history and the attempt to balance workers rights with economic success.

In this lesson plan, students will consider Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.

Research article released by the NIH that suggests a link between the body's immune system and the progression of the disease. (Published August 29, 2000)

The Study Skills Help Page offers many learning strategies for success. The website is based on a college course - it has a wide variety of online learning resources such as study skills course objective, notes, and practice tests/games.

Bioelectronics innovator Todd Coleman shares his quest to develop wearable, flexible electronic health monitoring patches that promise to revolutionize healthcare and make medicine less invasive. [9:39]

Contains plans for six lessons that use the book "The Bully" by Paul Langan to teach students how to deal with and deter bullying. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...

The opioid epidemic continues to devastate communities across the United States. This collection of videos, including three from the NOVA documentary, Addiction, can be used to engage students with media, encourage science practices, and...

The lesson examines the origins of mathematics. Strings of symbols, the mathematicians of Ancient Greece, Arabian scholars, and the Renaissance are discussed.

Contains plans for a lesson using "Kites Sail High: A Book About Verbs" by Ruth Heller to teach about identifying and classifying action, linking, and helping verbs. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan...

This PDF activity page offers a unique way to study spelling words. Students do one activity (such as make a crossword with their spelling list and definitions) from three of the four grocery store departments: meat, produce, bakery, and...

This article discusses the challenges that Somalia faces, in the reconstruction and development process, as a result of a variety of environmental, economic and political factors. (22 December 2005)

In a Stanford University study, a majority of high school students reported speaking with a teacher at least once about college admissions requirements, but teachers reported receiving very little information to answer their students'...

Resources to help you prepare for hurricanes and to help you find family and friends, get help, and health and safety tips.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse created a guide on the principles of drug addiction treatment. That guide is available here online. It's meant to help individuals answer questions such as finding the most effective methods of...

Brain breaks and focused attention practices help students feel relaxed and alert and ready to learn. Brain breaks create a state of relaxed alertness, while focused attention practices help students slow down and focus on a stimulus....

Paleoindians were great wanderers, traveling across the continent to the southeast. Read about the archaeological findings that give clues about their culture there. Be sure to click on the information on carbon dating to help understand...

Essay tracks the various religions associated with the African-Americans since their introduction to the New World. Different interpretations from historians are offered for discussion of whether Christianity was helpful to the slaves.

Standford University provides interesting biographical and professional information on Stephen Jay Gould and his many contributions to scientific thought, including his efforts to help people see science "As something that is important...

The bubonic plague, which killed around 1/5 of the world's population in the 14th century, is still around today -- but it now claims only a few thousand lives each year. How did that number shrink drastically? This learning module...

This series of videos introduces students to the brain, including why it is so special, its parts and functions and how it recalls memories and stores new information. Other videos explain how the brain processes sensory information and...

Learn how microbes can actually help solve crimes. Uncover some of the problems with using microbes as forensic evidence.

This document, offered on this PBS website, is the declaration of the people living in Texas objecting to the treatment by Santa Anna and asking for help from the Mexican government.

In this collection of lesson activities, students will complete an "Econ Explorers Journal" to help them learn how economics is involved in their neighborhood, the books they read, in earning a living, at their banks, in their homes, and...