Does your class love The Simpsons? It might seem dated, but with reruns constantly popping up on television, this show still holds the attention of most of your learners. Play the opening sequence of an episode, and brainstorm any...

What do The Simpsons, Survivor, Sponge Bob Square Pants, and Nine Inch Nails all have in common? They all include allusions to Lord of the Flies. Strange but true! An 18-slide presentation introduces viewers to the...

Packed with activities, projects, and assessments, first-time instructors and seasoned veterans will find much to like in this overview of a nine-part unit based on William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies.

Do pupils know that the Vietnam War spanned a period of 30 years? A war that long is bound to leave devastating effects. Help young historians develop a comprehensive understanding of the war through multiple units on the subject that...

Scholars stretch their writing muscles with an exercise that asks them to describe the sky using similes and metaphors. 

After a close reading of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" individuals copy the rhythm and rhyme scheme and rewrite the final stanzas of the poem.

Readers of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings are asked to craft an essay in which they compare how Maya Angelou uses figurative language to depict herself and Mrs. Flowers. 

Motivation is key to learning. The author points out that it is important to engage intuition for aspects of statistics that pupils find counter-intuitive. Three strategies—using multiple representations, using intuitive analogies, and...

The Bradys, the Flintstones, and the Simpsons are some of pop culture's most memorable families. So how do the Applewhites stack up? Using a novel study for Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan, scholars answer text-based...

In this probability worksheet, students calculate  probability in ten problems concerning lottery situations and an episode of the television show The Simpsons.

Amazing high-quality satellite imagery, photos, informational graphs, and detailed diagrams comprise this presentation on the movement of estuaries and the continental shelf. Data used as an example is from The Chesapeake Bay and because...

Review basic French vocabulary with the Simpson family! Each of the 14 slides is easy to read, providing manageable text amounts for beginning French speakers. Vocabulary words such as mère, père, and frère are included. Do some choral...

Tired of 20-somethings portraying high school middle schoolers? Tired of athletes and principals always being the villains? Class members examine the student and teacher stereotypes presented TV shows and films that are et in schools. 

What's the difference between civil and criminal law? How do the court proceedings differ in these two types of trials? How do the standards of proof differ? Why do these differences exist? As part of their examination of the...

Most teens like to sleep in as late as possible, so testing the fastest way to get to school sounds like a great idea. A presentation walks through how to identify the controls, independent variables, and dependent variables in setting...

The first lesson of a five-lesson unit designed for eighth graders has class members reading and watching a video of Edgar Allen Poe's narrative poem, "The Raven." They then craft their narrative poem, illustrate it, and share their work...

In this word search worksheet, learners search and find vocabulary words as they relate to the television show The Simpsons. Words may be located forward, backward, up, down, and diagonally.

Eighth graders examine the role of South Carolinians in the American Revolution. For this American Revolution lesson, 8th graders examine primary and secondary sources regarding the skirmishes that took place in the state....

In this Fact Monster worksheet, students access the Internet to one specific site to find the answers to five questions with multiple choice answers.

In this calculus activity, students are provided with a translation of a scene from the Simpsons in which the teacher solves a calculus problem.  Students explain if her solution is correct. The one page...

In this calculus worksheet, students examine a situation form The Simpsons in whcih Bart falls from a tree house.  Students write and solve an differential equation that gives the height of the tree house. The...

In this search engine worksheet, 3rd graders will need to use factmonster.com to discover answers. Students will respond to 10 short answer questions using the given website.

In this online interactive reading comprehension learning exercise, learners respond to 12 multiple choice questions about The Red Badge of Courage. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

Lorna Simpson is a photographer who has put together a collection of photos from the 1950s in order to challenge the idea that primary source documents are objective in their portrayal of history. Learners are introduced to Ms. Simpson's...