Students examine the use of signal flags on vessels. They use measurements and symmetry to create their very own signal flag. Students work together and as individuals to solve problems and express their ideas.

Fifth graders identify the role succession plays in the adaptation of our environment. Students identify pioneer and climax species and order habitats in succession. They recognize that different characteristics of species make them...

Students examine journalism and its different styles.  In this effective communication instructional activity students create an editorial message and articulate an article.

Eleventh graders examine how in this volatile period, colonial powers and Native groups competed for trade goods and land, coming into conflict repeatedly. They also explore primary and secondary sources.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a short passage on volcanoes erupting and then answer 4 reading comprehension questions.

For this food worksheet, students pretend they are going to a slumber party and have to calculate food according to PKU. Students complete 7 questions and 2 charts.

Young scholars review multiple ideas for creating a self portrait including abstract versions, PowerPoint presentations, sculptures, ceramic plates, photography and shadow boxes. They create self portraits.

Students identify how archaeologists use typology to interpret artifacts. They interpret sample artifacts as if they discovered them.

In this probability learning exercise, students complete probability word problems about rolling dice. Students complete 9 problems total.

Middle schoolers experiment using a compass for navigation and consider how various instruments affect how we travel.

Students study trees and their growth.  In this investigative lesson students work in groups to reconstruct a 50 year climatic history using a simulated tree ring. 

Students discover where glaciers exist and how they move. In this glacier instructional activity, students work in groups to create a glacier in a replica valley and observe its properties.

Students explore trading and bartering. They participate in a Barter Day in which they bring in hand crafted or homemade wares to school to barter with classmates.

In this musical conductors worksheet, 9th graders read about Gustav Mahler, nineteenth European conductor. They use this information and further research to answer 10 questions about his life and accomplishments.

Students think about what people did for entertainment many years ago. To answer this, they should not only do library-type research but find and interview a senior citizen.

Students create a quilt-like fabric swatches using Crayograph crayons, emery paper and rubbing plates.

Students research and write an essay relevant to different themes in Canada's Constitutional History.

Turns of the Century chronicles three centuries, in side-by-side fashion, of American family life, of Native Americans, of African Americans, of newcomers to America, and of the American landscape.

Learning with primary resources examines the plight of workers during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and compares the perspective of sociologists to that of writers like Upton Sinclair.

This collection contains thousands of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company and gives viewers the opportunity to explore America from the period of 1880 to 1920. Images include rural America, city life, men and women at work,...

AP European History learning module on tensions within Europe during an age of Imperialism and national unification.

This site presents a general picture of what life was like in the United States at the turn of the century. Content includes compelling images, information, and documents about American life.

A short report on America by 1900: "..the American nation had established itself as a world power. The West was Won. The frontier -- the great fact of 300 years of American history -- was no more."