As citizens living in the United States, it is our civil duty to vote. But how does the voting process work? After reading a five-paragraph passage on the basics of elections and voting, young constituents respond to 10 questions...

A learning module that begins with "Nice Kids Finish First: Study Finds Social Skills Can Predict Future Success" by Audie Cornish, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be...

This tutorial focuses on active reading comprehension strategies including reading aloud, taking notes, summarizing, and writing in the margins of books to improve retention and class discussion. It includes two Flickr videos on active...

This is a collection of social emotional lesson plans. They were developed by the Project B.A.S.I.C. Child Development Specialist, and Child Care Consultation Staff via the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.

This site gives great tips for answering the phone in the most efficient and polite manner possible. Pretty good overview of basic telephone skills.

This set of interactive flashcards focuses on social studies vocabulary terms and a fill-in-the-blank sentence using each term.

For National Bullying Prevention Month, we're giving the words "friendly competition" a new meaning! How many of these kind acts can your students complete? This bingo card is available in English and in Spanish.

In this interactive game, students match social studies terms to the correct fill-in-the-blank sentences. These are drawn from a bank of 25 vocabulary words and there are multiple games.

Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience.

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.

You can feel the horror of the extermination camps during the Holocaust through the art of Tolkatchev. Tolkatchev was an official artist of the Red Army and saw first-hand the suffering in the concentration camps. View his artwork and...

Learn about the importance of being responsible at home, at school, and in your community. This website, meant to accompany a video on responsibility and good character, provides several discussion questions, writing prompts, and more.

Provides an overview of the culture of Vatican City. Gives basic information on topics such as geography, ethnic makeup, languages, symbolism, economy, food, customs, social stratification, family life, education, religion, politics,...

NewsFeed Defenders is a challenging game designed to sharpen students' news literacy skills. Students will join a fictional social media site focused on news and information. They will learn elements of high-quality journalism to be able...

This site features discussion questions to go along with each scene of the play "A Raisin in the Sun," by Lorraine Hansberry. Learners will gain a broader perspective of Hansberry's work when they visit this site.

This critical thinking exercise and checklist is designed for teachers and students. A lesson plan can be developed here that illustrates decision-making skills and a teacher can use examples of common problems that get in the way when...

This site includes an excellent WebQuest related to Kate DiCamillo's book, Because of Winn-Dixie. Vocabulary exercises, story frames, story pyramids, social studies, and science links are part of this WebQuest for students. As this is an...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks reading from the American Museum of Natural Anthropology's website called OLogy provides an interview with the cultural anthropologist named Laurel Kendall. A question sheet is available...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support elementary students' reading comprehension, students will learn about jobs that require them to conduct interviews to collect oral histories. Questions that assess multiple reading...

A great cross-curricular lesson that focuses on humanity in the time of the Stone Age. Students will study prehistoric cave paintings and then produce their own paintings as part of a large mural.

Students will learn how to use presentation software to enhance learning. Student-created digital slideshow presentations can span the curriculum. Each student will prepare a presentation in one of the following curriculum areas:...

Discussion of a landscape painting by George Inness will introduce students to the impact of the railroad on the countryside in mid-nineteenth-century America. They will depict this same scenery as they envision it in the past and in the...

See what you can learn about Chimpanzees with this World Wildlife Fund information page.

This site features a complete project guide for George Orwell's book "Animal Farm."