Article reports on the financial cost to families of a 4-day school week. Includes an audio version of the story.

The last week of September is generally the time to celebrate Banned Books Week. Use this lesson plan from ReadWriteThink talk about censorship and why it is important to protect books.

This is the full text of the novel Five Weeks in a Balloon or Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863.

Syllabus: Week 12: Undocumented Immigrants/Immigrant Rights. Syllabus: Week 13: Border Walls and Border Policing. Syllabus: Week 14: Post 9/11 America, and Syllabus: Week 15: Deportation Nation.

Syllabus: Week 9: The 1965 Hart-Celler Act and the Remaking of Immigrant America. Syllabus: Week 10: Refugee and Asylum Policy, and Syllabus Week 11: How Globalization Produces Migration: Immigration Law, Economic Policy, and Global...

A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from Five Weeks in a Balloon" by Jules Verne, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...

Photos and video of a gorilla enjoying an Easter egg hunt at a zoo in Cincinnati. Includes video.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This matrix contains 42 spelling activities that are based on Bloom's Taxonomy Six Thinking Levels. The activities provide opportunities for each learning style.

On Sunday, November 4 at 2 a.m, clocks in U.S were set back by an hour as Daylight Savings came to an end. What is DST? Who first proposed the idea? Is it practiced around the world? Let's take a look in this video. [0:37]

Find out how scientists are working to increase the lifespan of frog populations that have been under attack by fungus.

A brief description of sulfuric acid, its reactions, and its uses. Includes reaction equations.

Learn about record-holding Japanese sprinter Hidekichi Miyazaki and his tips for success.

The task-force will work together anti-bullying charities to help make it easier for children and parents to get help if they are being bullied online.

Article answers the question, why do we sneeze?

Learn what scientists now believe about the formation of our universe. Includes video .

After researching how scientists drill into the ocean floor to retrieve core samples, students work in small groups to simulate the process in the classroom and report on their findings.

In this lesson, students learn about the different kinds of faults and plate boundaries and where they can be found. They research and report on the faults that are present in their state. They are also asked to develop models of three...

In this activity, students research hurricane data to discover their behavior and patterns. They map them across decades to see whether their frequency is increasing. They study Hurricane Andrew and investigate the relationship between...

In this lesson, students learn about EarthCaches and processes of the Earth. Using online resources, they find an EarthCache located near their school, visit it, and record the information required in its associated activity. They...

Text of the short story "In Passion Week" by Anton Chekhov. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

A man and woman who want to get married seek the approval from an Uncle who will only let them marry when there are three Sundays in a week. Read the full text of this Edgar Allan Poe short story on this site to see if the wedding occurred.

Watch these weaver ants as they weave nests using leaves and silk from their larvae. These ants are also well known for their use by farmers to control insects that attack crops.

Sixth graders will learn about each other from a toilet paper activity.

September 24, 1902. A new cooking school is set to open at Boston's 30 Huntington Avenue. The rooms will soon be filled with trainee cooks, who will watch in awe as the school's namesake and principal, Fannie Farmer, lectures on...