Charting Neptune's Realm: Profiles

Most twenty-first century pupils don't know how to interpret cuneiform. Examining images of cuneiform and papyrus writing and using a chart and Venn diagram, young historians extrapolate what life may have been like for people who lived...

In this country comparison instructional activity, students complete the graphic organizer that requires them to respond to 7 questions that address 2 Balkan nations that they choose to compare.

Explore the inventions of the past with a project on ancient tools. After reading an article about hunting during the Archaic period, the Late Prehistoric period, and the Historic period, kids fill in a cause-and-effect chart about the...

A biography is a type of literary genre that everyone needs to be familiar with. Here, the class will read two different biographies of George Washington and discuss how they are similar and different, then decide weather they can glean...

Students discuss the importance and function of nautical maps for sailors. They, in groups, take soundings of a simulated bay in a shoebox and develop a nautical chart that enable them to navigate the shoebox safely.

Students research and write newspaper articles about current world leaders, using a New York Times International article as a model. They research a current world leader's personal background and political history.

Students investigate the cost of living. In this financial awareness activity, students play a game to simulate various family situations and their incomes. Students choose activity cards and record information on their family profile...

Young scholars write a winter "shape poem," draw the outline of an object that complements the poem and copy the poem inside the outline in a pattern.

For this online interactive geography quiz worksheet, students examine the chart that includes details about 18 major world suburbs. Students identify the names of the suburbs in 3 minutes.

Students examine the mercator projection or nautical chart and observe how global maps do not have the same distance as flat maps. They design handmade globes using the meridians and equator as guides to draw in the land. They paint and...