Take your Spanish speakers on an island adventure cruise! First, they read a flyer for a cruise company and answer the short-answer questions that follow. Then, they complete the prewriting activity before writing a solid paragraph to...

Read this bizarre story with your French class! The story is about a half-page in length, but the word choice and sentence structures are geared towards intermediate and advanced Francophones. Activities focus on vocabulary development,...

Designed to accompany Focus on Contemporary Arabic by Shukri Abed, this document provides 41 pages of Arabic terms with English translations. The words are organized alphabetically in Arabic and include notations that indicate colloquial...

How do you properly illustrate the extreme size difference between two planets—Earth and Jupiter? With the help of jellybeans, of course! Create a scale model of Jupiter's mass compared to Earth using a fishbowl, 1,400 beans, and a...

Imagine computer science all summed up in one book. This resource provides 16 chapters that cover many aspects of computer science, ranging from algorithms to software engineering. The e-book contains links to applets to help explain...

In this T chart worksheet, students can fill in this T chart with many different language, math, social studies, and science concepts. Students fill in 1 chart.

Provide your ESL or ELA pupils with some skills practice for identifying various kinds of pronouns. Comprised of 40 problems and broken into four parts, pupils first underline all the pronouns in each sentence, then identify them as...

Exploring the ranges and applications of humor in the aging process, this presentation provides numerous examples and statistics about how aging is seen in modern society. The slides explore how the elderly regard themselves versus how...

Students examine the motion of objects in two dimensions. In this dimensional lesson students view several demonstrations, complete a worksheet and a lab activity.

In this math activity, students examine the concept of floating point arithmetic. They compare the tools of chopping and rounding to measure accuracy.

In this fold-ins worksheet, students color and illustrate a fold-in bird of prey and then fold the panels from right to left to reveal a common roadside bird of prey.

Students identify and describe the importance of U.S. holidays and social customs. In groups, Students write a detailed description of a U.S. holiday and how it is celebrated. Descriptions are presented to the class. This lesson plan...

Second graders examine the designs on nickels before 2004 and after when the new Peace Medal nickel was minted. They research the events that preceded the new design and explore the symbols of friendship on the new coin. They work in...

Students locate and identify the four major oceans and the seven continents on a world map. They use an unlabeled world map and compass rose to describe relative locations of the continents and oceans.

Students investigate the influence of political and societal forces on judicial decisions. Among the topics they examine are the selection of judges and the cause and effect relationship between politics, society, and the law. to...

A "friend of the court" document in which the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press explains why it believes that The Columbus Dispatch newspaper had the right to access government information for possible publication.

A scholarly article from the Council of Foreign Relations which focuses on the issues facing the Iraqi people as they try to rebuild a new government. The authors argue that the Iraqi people do have several advantages in helping them...

A released question from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test about the conservation of matter. Includes scoring guide.

A released question from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) assessment about change of states of matter. Also included is a scoring guide for the released question.

A released question about water vapor from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) assessment. Question also includes a scoring guide for students' answer.

An assessment question requiring knowledge of water cycle science with the opportunity for the student to use reasoning skills.

An assessment question requiring knowledge of the water cycle with the opportunity to use application skills.

An assessment question on the impact of ozone depletion in the atmosphere. Includes sample student responses for each level of understanding.

A quick list of the 100 most frequent words in books for beginning readers. An excellent resource to print and give to parents to practice site words with students!