In this career worksheet, students imagine that they are adopting a baby. They create a budget chart for all of the expenses needed to properly care for a baby. Students calculate the costs for a month, including babysitting.

In this ESL traveling vocabulary worksheet, students read 12 sentences that have a missing word; all pertain to travel by train, airplane or car. Students choose the correct word from 4 possible choices.

Learners work in groups examining the school's policy of no weapons on school property.

Eighth graders, in groups, study the law on the Internet.

Third graders compare experimental results with mathematical expectations of probabilities. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain practice with the concept of probability.

This resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions over discretionary and rule-making authority. These questions are intended for students taking high school or college level American Government and Civics courses, including the...

The aim of this activity is to teach students the steps involved in effective decision-making/problem-solving. This skill is a useful skill for students to learn, as it will assist students to consider all the options that are available...

This extremely well-written article is a thorough description of the powers, responsibilities and inherent problems of the current congressional oversight system. It is easily read and well organized. (Oct. 24, 2004)

"Dr. Math" provides an explanation on remembering when inequalities may be added and subtracted. The explanation is in response to a question submitted by a student.

This National Archives and Records Administration site contains John Quincy Adams' response to the "gag" rule in the House of Representatives, May 25, 1836, which restricted discussion about slavery in Congress . Also included are images...

A February 2007 news report detailing the frustration of Bosnians with the International Court of Justice finding that Serbia was not responsible for the massacre of 8,000 men at Srebrenica.

The U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works website provides a summary and description of its responsibilities.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, the Digital Citizens teach students how to be safe, responsible, and respectful online. Includes slideshow, video, lesson plan, song and lyrics, poster, coloring book, and resources for...

Find and use commas to set off dialogue, in tag questions, for direct address, and for yes-and-no responses.

This lesson includes a poem in two voices and is adapted from the poem by Eric Ode in Rolling in the Aisles, published by Meadowbrook Press. Learners will share the responsibility of reading lines of this poem about a boy who learns a...

Get independent practice working with the properties of exponents. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.

A good list of rules to govern your Internet use, with explanations for each. It also includes an Internet Safety Agreement that covers the same rules and that teachers or parents can print out and ask students to sign.

"Block Clubs" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about block clubs, which are groups of neighbors who work together to make rules and solve problems in their neighborhoods. It is followed by constructed-response questions which...

In this lesson, students will learn that there are rules to be followed or jobs to be done in the classroom. Students will also learn how to listen and speak to others.

Find out about the development of self-government in the English colonies and the responsibilities of the colonial legislatures.

Dr. Math discusses some of the "rules" of parabolas that are specific to the focal point.

Kids have to make a wide range of decisions on a daily basis. It can get overwhelming if kids aren't armed with the right tools to make good decisions. When children learn the decision-making processing steps, they make more responsible...

Choose to do the right thing when faced with tough decisions. This website helpd you use good judgment by providing simple questions and example situations. Includes ideas for writing and activities as well as notes for parents.

If you ever spend any time home alone, you know that there are pluses and minuses to the situation. Sometimes it is nice to just have your whole house to yourself, but other times you are lonely and bored. It is very important that you...