This is a free downloadable teacher's guide (PDF) to teach young children (grades K-2) about living things and their needs.

This is a pre-assessment to be done at the beginning of a unit on the needs of living things. Students draw themselves and what they need to survive. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.

In this science fair project you will examine real data from a California research scientist of over 3,000 video game players. The objective is to see if there is such thing as a videogame addict.

This site, part of online course materials for a poetry class at the University of Pennsylvania, provides an overview of Soto's life and career, as well as the full text of his poem "How Things Work."

Our sense of ownership emerges incredibly early. But why do we become so attached to things? Christian Jarrett details the psychology of ownership. [4:34]

This article from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis discusses how a recession effects the economy. It goes into great detail on why a recession can never be a good thing. (Published Sept. 1, 1989)

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is "Concerning a Provost Who Did Not Recognise Things," a piece from the early 1800's. This story was written by the French author named Honore de Balzac.

A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Aunt Louisa's Book of Common Things by Laura Valentine, a fiction book for children.

Discusses the interrelatedness of all living things and of ecosystems and biomes, and what organisms need to survive and to maximize the carrying capacity of an ecosystem. This explanation is followed by a series of activities including...

Set up a miniature greenhouse to help with understanding how nonliving things affect the growth of living things.

Students participate in a bubble blowing activity where they learn about air and breathing. The instructional activity can be downloaded in PDF format.

Students learn about how cells fuel themselves by examining how carbon dioxide is produced by yeast cells when the cells feed on sugar. The carbon dioxide is detected through the use of a red cabbage indicator that reacts in the presence...

For this lesson, students investigate and compare the needs of plants and animals. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.

Algae is a good thing, but too much is a bad thing. In this environmental science fair project, grow algae in several concentrations of fertilizer and observe its effect on algal growth.

A site maintained by A. Bloomfield, the author of "How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life." You can read old questions or ask Bloomfield your own. Great explanations of everyday physics.

The complete text of this literary work is available to download or read online in multiple digital formats.

Similarities and differences within school and neighborhood communities.

The full text of the short story "The Thing at Nolan" by Ambrose Bierce. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

Students explore the similarities and differences between living and nonliving things and learn four characteristics that all living things share (they have needs, they are made up of parts, they respond to change, they reproduce)....

This lesson poses the question "can you always take something apart and put it together in different ways?". Students will take part in designing an investigation using snap cubes to help figure out an answer. Videos of the lesson in...

Multiplication sounds cool to second graders, but we have to know what it is first. Creating and counting sets is one way to get there.

In this game, children move the track and drop a berry to move along the track to the bird.

Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he tells his story publicly for the first time....

A list of facts, with explanations, about the Freemasons. [Published: Dec. 8, 2013]