This introduction to time allows students to explore the terms we use with time and connects telling time to measurement. Included in this lesson is a video of the lesson in action, a sample anchor chart, and a "My Day" printable booklet...

On this interactive site students practice with both simple addition and time. At the end of the lesson students will be able to use the term "one minute" to describe time and create and solve simple addition stories in similar contexts.

On this interactive site students practice time and mass skills. By the end of the lesson students will be able to describe the mass of more than two objects and record the mass of three objects by lifting.

Second graders worked on telling time to the hour and half hour earlier in the year. Now they will apply their understanding of counting by 5s to telling time to the five minute interval.

Let's take it from the top! This week's adventure, Operation: Lights, Camera, Action!, takes children to a movie set where they work behind-the-scenes and explore different kinds of jobs such as production assistant (keeps track of the...

This site is really a gateway for a number of other sites about the Caddo tribes. There is a site that introduces the Caddo, telling who they are, about their homeland, and the like. An interactive map traces the Caddo homeland. Caddo...

This article tells about the 1971 Supreme Court ruling in which Native Americans were able to keep fishing rights promised in earlier treaties.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This site tells the story of Harriet Tubman's life and the development of the Underground Railroad. The author takes us on a journey to sites along the Underground Railroad, beginning at the farm where...

Geologists generally know the age of a rock by determining the age of the group of rocks, or formation, that it is found in. The age of formations is marked on a geologic calendar known as the geologic time scale. Development of the...

Students calculate elapsed time using analog clocks. Included in this lesson are a detailed plan, clock template, and video of students making their clocks.

Students need to have lots of opportunities to share their opinions based on text. For this lesson, the teacher will read the story, Jack and the Beanstalk, multiple times before the students create their opinion. The detailed process of...

Midterm elections are often a telling time in which to learn the mood of the voters. Are they happy with the current party and what the elected officials have accomplished? Or, will there be a big upset? This article provides information...

An article from 1993 outlines the compromise as a policy of "Don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue." "Homosexual conduct on or off base would still be prohibited."

Spooky stories featuring the supernatural were all the rage during the darkest time of the year. Towards the end of each year, as fireplaces are lit and hot cocoa is made, Americans have made it a tradition to revisit their favorite...

Unit explores, through a series of videos from notable scholars, the effects of the trade in slaves and of slavery itself on the new Americans of the time and helps students to understand how history, and the telling of history, affects...

"Canterbury, Connecticut, and Little Rock, Arkansas, are links in a chain of events representing the long struggle for equal educational opportunities for African Americans. This lesson plan highlights two important historic places and...

A collection of narratives by Americans and foreigners telling of their travels in America. Information about the people, the landscapes and the times.

A summary of Hipparchus' achievements as an astronomical observer, concentrating on the possibility that he invented the astrolabe, a device used to tell the time at night from stellar positions. Contains more links on Hipparchus.

We see numbers everywhere around us - measuring the temperature, counting money, telling the time, etc. The numbers that are used for counting objects are called "natural numbers". This article explains the properties of natural numbers...

James Baldwin is presented in this biography as a great African American contributor to the literary world during the civil rights movement. See "James Baldwin Activities" for more information.