[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart can be used in upper elementary and middle school and uses children's literature to demonstrate various types of story beginnings (leads). Students are given opportunities to identify...

A lesson plan requiring student to analyze primary documents from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. Students interpret what these historical artifacts say "about the lives and values of Americans in 1876" among other things.

Gathered from classes taught at George Mason University, this group of resources offers information on the Natural Setting, Places, People, and Development of Virginia. The author uses a nice conversational tone (as in "Using Cereal...