This article introduces the concept of blogs, gives links to blogs that deal with topics in education, ideas for using blogs for student writing and information on setting up your own blog. After reading this article you should be able...

Fanschool provides a safe and simple blogging platform for students in both elementary and middle schools. Teachers have administrative control over all student blogs and accounts, and blogs are only viewable by classmates and the...

This infographic includes a calculation for how many grains of sand are on the Earth. It discusses what sand is, its history of use by humans, and its many uses in modern times.

This page focuses on the rules for the use of dashes. Explains what a dash is, what it does, and the three formats of dashes (em, en, and the double hyphen). Examples are provided with the "dash" used in different contexts.

Rules and examples for using parentheses and brackets correctly in sentences.

This blog article focuses on adjectives and adverbs including their purpose and the confusion between them. It offers links pertaining to adjective and adverb use and misuse.

This page focuses on modifiers including what modifiers are -- adjectives, adverbs, and descriptive phrases and clauses; misplaced modifiers and how to correct them; and limiting modifiers and how to use them. Examples are provided.

Rules and examples for using commas correctly with an introductory clause.

For this hands-on, technology-rich lesson, students will interpret data. The students will define words involving graphs, create a bar graph using M&M's, and post information from their findings on the internet. The students will...

An explanation with examples of intensive pronouns and how they are used in sentences, as well as how they differ from reflexive pronouns.

This page explains what future perfect continuous (progressive) tense means and how it is formed; examples are provided.

This page focuses on conjunctions including what conjunctions are; the types of conjunctions: Coordinating, Correlative, and Subordinating; how to start sentences with conjunctions, examples of each of the above, and lists for each type...

Get expert advice on how to use a Wiki in your classroom. Easy to follow thoughts and ideas.

Learn more about using quotation marks properly through this informative resource. Students and teachers will benefit from this helpful site.

This page, from a site for University of Oregon journalism students, provides definitions of a clause, an independent clause, and a dependent clause as well as some brief instructions on their uses. The page seems to contain some...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Google's Advanced Search tool to look for web pages, images, and videos. You will also learn about advanced search operator and shortcuts you can use.

Students will explore the differences among the three colonial regions of New England, Mid-Atlantic/Middle, and the Southern colonies. In small groups for each region, students will observe and note details of pictures, maps, and...

A detailed explanation of how to find a quadratic equation from its graph using different methods, including using software.

Maintained by the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications, this site offers a good definition and numerous examples of coordinating conjunctions. Also has hyperlinks to sections on subordinating conjunctions,...

In this video lesson [1:56], students learn how to identify the benefits of a healthy balance with technology.

A Kindergarten teacher offers 8 strategies for fostering problem-solving in the classroom. A free app is available to download.

A lesson about how to identify kindness online. [2:09]

This article describes the process by which an engineer at OXO looked at design, size, and variety when he redesigned OXO's line of POP containers.

Learn how to create a survey in Excel, Word, Google, Facebook, and SurveyMonkey.