What is identity? What is bullying? What is identity-based bullying? After discussing these questions as a class, pupils engage in partner discussions before participating in a small group activity to act out bullying scenarios. Then,...

Disease prevention or designer babies? Use a set of slides to introduce the growing practice of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD. Teens read related articles and then break into groups to address different scenarios. Afterward,...

Mission Possible: Your task is to design a new highway route from Tunis, Tunisia to Cape Town, South Africa. If you accept the challenge, you must create a small map of the route that has already been rejected, a...

Explore the world's water without leaving the classroom! In this second of three uncomplicated but wonderful activities, physical science learners feel the pressure of water. They discover that the deeper the water, the stronger the...

Energy conservers investigate gravel size to discover if it impacts the amount of oil recovered in the extraction process. 

If the world were 100 people...17 would not have access to safe drinking water, 18 would not be able to read or write, and 52 would not have a primary education. Using the theme of "100 people," this resource explores other major issues...

Collaboration and complicity. Class members examine a series of photographs and consider how active participation and passive complicity represented in the photos contributed to the Holocaust. 

A comprehensive resource gets fourth grade physical scientists making observations about the period of a pendulum and then applying knowledge to a playground swing. Through seven different stations, they will record observations and...

In an effort to practice engineering design, STEM classes break out into teams and endeavor to make a working ink pen. To prepare, they read about writing implements through history, patents, and viscosity of liquids. Armed with this...

A variation of the Walkabout Review process, carousel brainstorming directs groups to rotate through a series of stations posting ideas on the topic or question posted at each stop. 

Though the walrus spends roughly one third of its time on land, it eats organisms that live on the bottom of the ocean. The first in a series of five, the activity uses a variety of plant and animal cards to have scholars build an arctic...

Students analyze how producers respond to incentives and allocate their scare resources to maximize profits. They write persuasive letters to government officials and others. They read "Dry Wells That Are Not So Dry." They take notes...

In this NY state English/Language Arts testing worksheet, 6th graders complete 30 questions, reading passages and completing the exercises after each passage.

In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts instructional activity, students listen to an article and answer reading comprehension questions.  Students compose an essay using information from the article.

In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test worksheet, students listen to an article twice while taking notes.  Students then answer reading comprehension questions and write an essay using details and examples...

In this NY state language arts test, 5th graders read passages and complete comprehension and writing activities after each. 

In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts activity, students listen to an article twice, then answer reading comprehension questions.  Students then use details from the article to compose an essay.

In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts worksheet, students listen to an article and take notes.  Students then answer reading comprehension questions and compose an essay using details from the article.

In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts learning exercise, students read two articles and answer reading comprehension questions.  Students answer two short answer questions and compose an essay using details...

Young scholars examine and discuss how water changes from a liquid to a solid to a gas. They explore this concept by having an ice cube race, competing to see which group can change the solid water back into liquid water first.

In this NY state grade 4 language arts test, 4th graders complete a total of 35 questions, reading passages and completing questions and instructions for writing that follow each.

In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts learning exercise, students read two passages and answer reading comprehension questions.  Students also write an essay in which they use details and examples from the...

In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts worksheet, students read two articles and answer reading comprehension questions.  Students also compose essay responses to the passages. 

In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts learning exercise, students read a story and a poem and answer reading comprehension questions.  Students then compose an essay using details from both selections.