Notes for teachers who are reading Freeman's (1852-1930 CE) stories with their students, as well as links to other authors for comparison and a bibliography of source material are all available here.

Heat transfer is an important concept that is a part of everyday life yet often misunderstood by students. For this lesson, students learn the scientific concepts of temperature, heat, and the transfer of heat through conduction,...

What good fishing trip isn't without a good story or two? Today the students will solve comparison story problems involving different lengths of fish.

Detailed background information on Shakespeare's sonnets and the sonnet cycle with comparisons between the Italian and English sonnet form. Includes the story of the sonnets with a breakdown/synopsis by narrative patterns and groupings....

University of Alaska physics professor site explaining the concept of terminal velocity. Uses the terminal velocities of humans and cats for comparison. Site contains an interesting graph of the percent fatalities versus stories fallen.

Contains plans for short lessons that introduce the use of Venn Diagrams to kindergarten students. Uses interactive Venn Diagram exercises to make the concept easy to understand. In addition to objectives and standards, this...

A nine-part learning module with links to a video with biographic information about Edgar Allan Poe, a text about comparisons, and links to seven different video versions of Poe's short story "The Telltale Heart."

The point of this lesson is to introduce children to the idea of comparison through Venn diagrams. Children will compare two stories using the Venn diagram.