What are some strategies for achieving the goal of every child reading? This site features several activities to achieve this goal with your readers.

How can you help the struggling readers in your classroom? This site offers some insight into activities to help develop your students reading skills.

"Changing Our Street" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about how the problem of people driving too fast in a neighborhood was solved. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Requires free membership.T his passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains...

Do words or colors have more influence over what you read? Try this interactive Stroop Effect test to find out what causes the results.

Gives specific advice on the most effective way to gain information through reading, especially necessary because the glut of information has created "an increasing need for the ability to scan." There are suggestions on how to decide...

Use this free, online typing program to improve typing speed and fluency. Does not require an account. A school portal is available for teachers to customize lesson plans.

Read a description and brief history of short track speed skating, and follow links for more information on famous skaters Ahn Hyun Soo, Apolo Anton Ohno, and Steven Bradbury.

The ultimate resource for fans of the U.S. speedskating team. Read about athletes, latest competitions, and results, news and more.

[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be preparing for a move to another state. Students must work in cooperative groups as they determine which moving company will be the best for...

In this lesson, 7th graders are shown how Great Navigators of the past stayed on course with the historical methods of navigation. The concepts of dead reckoning and celestial navigation are discussed. Using Vector Voyage students will...

Read how hurricanes are rated on the Saffir-Simpson scale and check out the hurricane record for each level of the scale.

Test your scanning skills by racing the clock with this exercise.

This site from Physics Web gives information on the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics. It was awarded to Zhores Alferov and Herbert Kroemer for the invention of semiconductor lasers, integrated circuits and other high-speed electronic devices....