Students analyze photographs for information about life in Virginia City Nevada in the late 1800s. In this Nevada statehood lesson plan, students work in teams to analyze photographs from Virginia City. Students brainstorm adjectives to...

Young scholars incorporate language from Twelfth Night into their own skits.  In this Hamlet activity, students use a handout to assist them as they dub over the skits created earlier with specific language from Twelfth...

In this capitalization activity, learners underline lower case letters that are used incorrectly in a set of 22 sentences. An answer key is included on page 2.

Students read the story "Countdown To Kindergarten" and choose 3, Tier Two vocabulary words to develop their vocabulary.  In this "Countdown To Kindergarten" lesson plan, students  define key words from story and refer to them...

Students explore history of the Olympics. They research and then create an 'Olympics Hall of Fame' for the classroom.

Students participate in an activity of a mock electrophoresis using paper chromatography to study DNA and genetic restriction mapping.

The ideas contained in these teacher notes are intended to present a range of creative activities to assist the development of independent research. It is hoped they will reinforce work undertaken collaboratively in class and develop...

A transcript of a radio address delivered from Franklin D. Roosevelt from Washington telling the nation that he hopes that the United States will not enter the war in Europe.

This unit teaches students about the importance of hope and remembrance during times of tragedy. Students explore the different ways characters and historical figures have embraced humanity and created civility as a response to...

Inspired by the music "Free to Be. . . You and Me" by Marlo Thomas, this lesson, which will take several days, asks students to compose stories that teach character traits that will be shared with elementary school children. They will...

In the upcoming months the Royal Canadian Geographical Society is hoping to name the gray jay the new national bird of Canada.

With links and resources, this organization uses federal funding (among other sources) to run a hotline for migrant farm workers and their families (National Migrant Education Hotline), to publish teaching kits (for teachers at all...

Aimed at teaching young cancer patients about the disease. Also available in Spanish and French, and can be ordered for free on CD by mail.

Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Hope Was Here" by Joan Bauer. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.

Instead of stapling posters advertising goods with contact information to power poles around town, a clever artist has presented a new spin on posters to spread something else around Toronto. Get the story here.

Run' by Eric Walters is a fictionalized account of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope run across Canada. This teacher's guide has discussion questions and response journal prompts for each chapter as well as extension activities for the novel....

The aim of this unit is for students to develop their persuasive writing and information gathering skills using various forms of information and communication technology. It is hoped that the context of 'teenage problems' will provide an...

This article describes a new approach to teaching children more than just memorizing a formula to find area and hope they don't confuse it with perimeter. This approach involves a project with real life situations....

The Dust Bowl and resulting western migration that occurred in the 1930s is explored in this video [5:44] segment from the American Masters film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning. The agricultural devastation and ensuing migration...

Explore the various points of view the British people had about fighting Hitler and Germany, in this video [1:26] excerpt from World on Fire, Masterpiece. Neither Robina Chase, an upper-class mother whose son is a soldier, nor Douglas...

Explore the Catholic Reformation that occurred in response to the Protestant Reformation. Learn how the Jesuit society rose out of the Catholic Church to help change the image of the church and bring people back. The Jesuits focused on...

An important key to teaching children is engaging their attention and facilitating their wonder, curiosity, and interests. We all hope reading will become a passion for our students, and the arts can play a significant role in...