A read-aloud of The Four Friends, a Tale from the Far East.

This fierce-looking king is a symbolic protector of the Buddha's sacred law and also a fighter of evil spirits. His right foot is raised to stamp upon the head of a demon (now missing). His armor consists of tunic, trousers, chest and...

Through this colorful and engaging website, students can come to a better understanding of the First Nations communities as they explore the teachings of the Blackfoot, Cree, Ojibwe, Mohawk and Mi'kmaq. Ceremonies, creation stories,...

Prior to 1948, Jewish communties were found discontinuously in an area stretching from southwest Asia across North Africa, from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the north to Yemen in the south, and from Afghanistan in the east to Morocco in...

The term "Middle East" is generally recognized today to refer to a region that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to Afghanistan in the east. It encompasses the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Israel,...

While consumers and producers obviously make most decisions that mold the economy, government activities have at least four powerful effects on the U.S. economy.

U.S. Government report on the history, society, economy and government of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from its establishment in 1949 until 1987, or two years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and four years before...

Information is summarized about the Crow and includes a time line tracing their history from 1400 to 1983. Total population records are listed from 1700 to 2000.

Hammurabi's famous legal code survives in partial copies on a stele in the Louvre and on clay tablets. Read a short description of Hammurabi's Code in this article.

Can a mound of dirt represent the Buddha, the path to Enlightenment, a mountain and the universe all at the same time? It can if it is a stupa. The stupa ("stupa" is Sanskrit for heap) is an important form of Buddhist architecture. View...

The online home of "Word into Art," an exhibition mounted by the British Museum that details the way in which artists from across the Middle East and North Africa use written language in their art. The exhibition follows four thematic...

Defines the many rules that govern the use of nouns, including their use as subjects, and the requirements for agreement; predicate nominatives; four types of objects (direct object, indirect object, object of preposition, and object of...

Students learn about four forms of equations: direct variation, slope-intercept form, standard form and point-slope form. They graph and complete problem sets for each, converting from one form of equation to another, and learning the...

You can make a model of the eardrum by following the simple directions on this site. Only four common items are needed to create this model.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a printable worksheet to help learners think about how they would direct the fight scene in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Students answer questions about how and why four of the characters...

See if you can arrange the cubes according to the directions to solve this challenge. This one page website includes the solution.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to develop students' vocabulary skills including understanding prefixes, using context clues, and using a glossary and a dictionary. Lessons are based on the books...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify the difference between explicit information and conclusions and to make text-to-self and text-to-text connections. Lessons are based on the provided text "The...

This guide focuses on twenty-four paintings from the impressive collection of American art housed at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The earliest work, a portrait of the children of a Puritan family, dates from 1670. The last piece...

This site gives advice on how to write an effective purpose (thesis) statement. The summary is given as answers to four questions: what? why? when? how?.

The BaKongo, numbering three to four million, live in west-central Africa The unitary character of the Kongo group and the identity of the various subgroups are artifacts of colonial rule and ethnography. Most men and many women work, or...

The Circassians are a people indigenous to the northwestern Caucasus who are also found today as minority communities in four Middle Eastern countries: Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and Israel. They call themselves "Adyge," the term...

This web site presents four different sets of directions for how to make bug catchers. Teachers could use these to direct students, or students can follow the directions on their own.

Click on the Print Version to see the four-page essay that provides an example of a Persuasive Paper. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and...