Young scholars dressed as "Snow Angels" run from "Jack Frosts" until a "Heat Meister" comes to unthaw them. They play this tag game in order to increase their heart rate and warm-up the large muscles (and to have fun.)

Students use Hudson River salinity data to create a line graph that shows the location of the salt front, and use math skills to explore how this location varies over time. They use the graph to estimate the location of the salt front...

Learners discuss definitions of estuary, salinity, and the salt front. They listen as the teacher explains the Hudson River Miles and ways the upriver and downriver sections relate to the north and south. Students graph the salt front...

In this solutions worksheet, students read about how people first learned to use metals and to combine metals to form alloys. Students write an essay telling the story of how ancient people first learned to cause physical changes in metal.

For this crossword puzzle worksheet, students read the clues about the Super Bowl games during the 1990's and complete the crossword puzzle.

In this biodiversity worksheet, students determine the relationship and complete the evolutionary tree for the plants listed. Students review genetic code and DNA sequencing. This worksheet has 1 graphic organizer, 8 multiple choice, and...

Young scholars create an Uncle Sam art figure. In this patriotic lesson, students use wood, paint, twigs, and glue to create a folk-art style figure of Uncle Sam.

For this word meanings worksheet, students how to use verbs in sentences. Students choose the correct word for each of the ten sentences and conjugate eight verbs.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "A Trip to the Store" and "Troy's Treat" have purchashing food in common. Question sets are available for each passage separately and combined.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Troy who saves money to buy his sister a treat for her birthday. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

This site provides an account of the legendary war between Greece and Troy. Begins with the legend of Helen and her possibly divine birth and finishes with the fates of the warriors involved. Also includes some nice comparative mythology...

This site provides the complete etext for Sara Teasdale's poetry, "Helen of Troy And Other Poems."

Letter from Thomas Troy, a coal passer aboard the USS MAINE serving in the Spanish-American War, written less than a month before the ship is lost.

Illustrated dictionary entry for most beautiful mortal of the time, Helen of Troy. Describes her lineage and details how her abduction leads to the Trojan War.

Einav Zamir Dembin investigates the story of the Trojan War.

Learn basic clay sculpting skills by completing this project.

This detailed, scholarly article examines archaeological evidence and draws conclusions about the reality of the Trojan War.

Read this passage to learn how Zeus abducted Ganymede, the handsome prince of Troy, and what happened as a result of Hera's jealousy.

This article surveys the history and excavation of the Bronze Age city of Troy.

A road map of Troy, New York, from the 1920 Automobile Club of Rochester, showing the Hudson River, neighboring cities, principal roads, railroads and stations, bridges, parks, and major landmarks.

A road map of Troy, New York, from the Official Automobile Blue Book (1919), showing the Hudson River, neighboring cities, principal roads, railroads and stations, bridges, parks, and major landmarks.

The Odyssey by Homer tells the story of the hero Odysseus' journey from Troy to Ithaca. The trip should have taken a few weeks but instead lasted more than ten years. Follow the famed journey on this map of locations in Homer's Odyssey.

Selected (6) reading passages (grades 8-11) to pair with the epic poem "The Odyssey" by Homer. Odysseus, an ancient Greek war hero and leader of Ithaca, embarks on a twenty-year long return to his homeland after the fall of Troy. It is...

This article tracks the many appearances of King Arthur, from a 9th-century history to a Hollywood blockbuster, via the works of Chretien de Troyes, Thomas Malory, and the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.