Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Unlikely Lost and Found
What interesting and unusual items might you write a Lost & Found Ad for? Devote a page in your journal or writer's notebook to write several unusual Lost & Found Ads this year. Use the lost and found writing prompt generator to...
Read Works
Read Works: Lost and Found
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett, a real-life Indiana Jones. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
A&E Television
History.com: 9/11 Lost and Found: The Items Left Behind
From a bloodied pair of shoes, to IDs to jewelry, here is a look at some of the 9/11 Memorial Museum's more than 11,000 artifacts -- and the heavy stories they carry.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Lost and Found
Based off the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to chaos theory, and specifically Levy flight paths. These allow students to "trace back" where an object may have originated, given its endpoint. This lesson is...
NASA
Science at Nasa: Ocean Tides Lost and Found
This article explains what forces are at work on changing the tides of our oceans.
Seeker
Seeker: Week of 8 18 14: Ancient Maya Cities Found in Jungle
Read about three lost Maya cities that have recently been rediscovered in the jungles of Mexico.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: "Faith in the Human Spirit Is Not Lost"
Pictorial exhibit commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Righteous Program founded by Yad Vashem to honor rescuers who protected Jews from death and deportation during the Holocaust.
Scholastic
Scholastic News: A Lost City, Found?
Using a lasar system called Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), scientists have been able to uncover a city of ruins in the rainforests of Honduras. Read about this exciting discovery and the theories of what this lost city may be.
Curated OER
Wall Street Journal: Is This Stone Linked to the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
The Dare Stones have long been a thorn in the mystery surrounding the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. The first stone was found in 1937 and had an inscription that was originally thought to have been carved by Eleanor Dare, daughter of...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Found Yet Lost by Edward Payson Roe
This is the full text of the novel Found Yet Lost by Edward Payson Roe, a historical fiction set during the Battle of the Wilderness during the Civil War.
BBC
Bbc: The Lost Pyramids of Caral
A transcript of a TV documentary about the ancient American civilization found in Caral, Peru. The show features interviews with all three members of the original archaeological team that dated Caral to 2600 B.C. There is a nice...
Read Works
Read Works: Found at Last
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction text tells the story of Sabi, a military bomb-sniffing dog that was lost in Afghanistan and found over a year later. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Taking It to the Voters
After the Great War ended, women in Texas redoubled their efforts to gain the right to vote. Read this article to see how the Texas Equal Suffrage Association devoted their time to the passage of the amendment and how conflict emerged...
Huntington Library
Early English Exploration and Settlement of the Colony of Virginia
In this lesson, 5th graders learn about the individuals and groups who first founded the different colonies in America and what their motivations were. Students participate in a reader's theater activity, create a poster that would...
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: First English Colonies: Roanoke Island
A comprehensive resource dealing with the first and second attempts to found a colony at Roanoke, its mysterious end, and the people involved. From the State Library of North Carolina.
University of Chicago
Univ. Of Chicago: Lost Treasures From Iraq Slideshow
The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago has assembled a collection of resources aimed at helping to recover treasures from Iraq's National Museum that were looted in the spring of 2003. This slideshow contains examples of...
Curated OER
Will Smith Lost and Found
Contains a biography of rapper/actor Will Smith (aka The Fresh Prince), among the first Grammy-winning rap artists.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Creatures of the Deep: Spineless, but Smart
Investigate scientists' explorations of octopus middens, or garbage piles, and apply this scientific observation to an examination of a school lost-and-found collection. Create an inventory and analyze the objects from various perspectives.
English Verse
English Verse: Robert Herrick (1591 1674)
Quite a few of Robert Herrick's many poems are included here in full text. A brief biographical sketch can be found here as well.
Curated OER
Univ. Of Chicago: Lost Treasures From Iraq Slideshow
The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago has assembled a collection of resources aimed at helping to recover treasures from Iraq's National Museum that were looted in the spring of 2003. This slideshow contains examples of...
Folger Shakespeare Library
It's Elementary! Stomping and Romping With Shakespeare
In this elementary school-age lesson, children will learn about rhythm and meter through the lines of William Shakespeare. Students will recite and "act out" the song lines from "A Winter's Song" found in Love's Labour's Lost and "A...
US National Archives
Docsteach: From Dred Scott to Civil Rights Act of 1875: Eighteen Years of Change
In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that African-Americans were not citizens of the United States. Yet within 18 years, Black Americans would not only have citizenship, but would be guaranteed the right to...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th Century Chesapeake
This very thorough site will fascinate those interested in forensic anthropology. You will learn what you can read from bones, how a face can be reconstructed from a skull, clues you can read from a burial, and about forensic cases both...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Much of Human History Is on the Bottom of the Ocean?
Sunken relics, ghostly shipwrecks, and lost cities aren't just wonders found in fictional adventures. Beneath the ocean's surface, there are ruins where people once roamed and shipwrecks loaded with artifacts from another time. Peter...