Studens experiment with temperatures. For this science lesson, learners make their own weather station by heating one bottle and keeping the water in another bottle at room temperature.

Students play a computer game where they help deliver fruit that is on a plane to families. In this fruit food group lesson plan, students use the arrows to manipulate the plane. It gets more challenging as the plane goes faster.

Students play a computer game where they match the correct food into the correct food group. For this food groups lesson plan, students also rate foods as being their favorite foods or not favorite foods.

Students investigate Great Britain's landscapes, government and culture to help them explain why a bomb blast in its subways or to its transportation system is important.

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

Gives insight into improving reading speed by learning to read words in groups. There is an excercise to test your speed and suggestions on how to increase it.

Tutorial site for students that teaches them strategies so they can read faster. This then makes the student a more effective reader.

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

This lesson engages students in reading fluency practice. Teachers will modeling auditorily, use timed self-assessments, and ensure partners give feedback to motivate the students.

This is a great introduction to the winter sport of short track speed skating. Read a history of the sport, learn how it became part of the Olympic Games, find a list of short track events, and see several great photos and videos of...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the science behind roller coasters, including Kingda Ka, one of the tallest and fastest roller coasters in the world. A question sheet is available to help students build...

This resource provides great reading help for ESL students. You can use this helper to speed up reading time and improve your reading skills by providing definitions at a click for any passage you provide. Just copy and paste your text...

A lesson plan in which students read a list of wards from a passage three times and then take turns reading the passage while focusing on speed and accuracy.

[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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about tornadoes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about tornadoes and the scientists who study them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Using these rate of speed problems practice figuring out either the distance, time or speed. Read the interactive quiz rules and then click on the "Begin" ticket. If you answer incorrectly you get one more chance to try again then you...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage focuses on a new kind of driving school that teaches young drivers a different and more effective way to drive and to drive defensively. It is followed by a comprehension question set.

Here is a concise article on short track speed skating which includes great illustrations of the short track (it shows how it differs from the long track), the "glide stride" used by skaters, and the skates worn by competitors. Watch a...

Read the passage "The Speed of a Neural Impulse" and completed the related five-question quiz.

Learn about assistive technology tools - from audiobooks to variable-speed tape recorders - that help students with reading.

This page offers several different Cloze exercises to strengthen reading comprehension. Speed exercises are also available.

This lesson explains the different rates of reading. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.