There are a number of social, emotional, and physiological reasons why teenagers start smoking, and why they continue smoking into adulthood. Help class members understand why smoking begins in youth—and how to protect themselves from...

Winter, spring, summer, and fall—Earth experiences them all! But what about Mars? Scholars compare the planets in terms of distance, tilt, and rotation during a lesson from PBS's Space series. Great visual models of Earth and Mars, plus...

Enchanted Learning provides several examples of graphic organizers that can be used for gathering Who, What, Where, When, and Why information, either for reading comprehension or prewriting. These template suggestions can only be printed...

This site from Houghton Mifflin Company provides a simple, reproducible chart to help students gather details of Who, What, When, Where, and Why. This could be used as a reading comprehension tool, or as prewriting for expository writing.

This downloadable graphic organizer will assist students in taking notes about a news story. Students will use this resource to identify answers to the following five W's and H questions: What happened? Who was there? When did it happen?...

From Just-Right Reading Response Activity Sheets for Young Learners, this graphic organizer can be used when students read informational texts. As responses to nonfiction, students will write the following on each notepad response:...

Where did David Weisner get the idea for Tuesday? Did he have a pet frog growing up? Did he live near a swamp? David Wiesner answers these questions as you read through his Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for Tuesday on this...

The Peter Gurney Guinea Pig Health Guide offers an easy to read page on guinea pig diet and nutrition information.

A video slide show depicting portions of traditional Latin Mass, also known as Tridentine Mass. Listen to Latin as spoken during the Mass, and read captions explaining why Latin Mass faded in the 1960s and why it is starting to regain...

This article explains what shell rings are and why they are important in understanding the daily life and culture of Archaic Period groups living in the southeast United States. Read about the theories of the ring sites in terms of...

Flooding along the Mississippi River system has been a problem for many states and presidents. Look over this political cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast and read a little history behind the problem and see why President Arthur vetoed the...

Here is a political cartoon showing showing the split between those who favored the gold standard and those favoring the silver standard, and how the Populist Party took advantage of that split. Learn what this means by taking a look at...

Woodward English: Questions Words uses pictures and words to answer the 5 W's and H questions.

Read about John Kellerman, a man born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, who, despite being born with both brain and heart damage, not only survives but also earns his high school diploma. Read about the beginning of his life, his supportive...

Read about John Kellerman, a man born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, who, despite being born with both brain and heart damage, not only survives but also earns his high school diploma. Read about the beginning of his life, his supportive...

This Arizona State article suggests that the omnitonic horn and valved horns were invented in the same era and for the same reasons. However, further reading points out the differences between the two. The explanation for their invention...

This "Featured Author," selection speaks more about how and why Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) wrote his children's books than about his life. Hurst also suggests the Dr. Seuss books can be used to teach older students some literary...

Read about Oprah and why she is declared one of the 100 most influential people of the twentieth century.

Read about Oprah and why she is declared one of the 100 most influential people of the twentieth century.

Read about the history of chocolate and why we crave it.

Read about the history of chocolate and why we crave it.

Read about the history of chocolate and why we crave it.

Read about the history of chocolate and why we crave it.

Read about the history of chocolate and why we crave it.