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Students participate in a group juggling game in which they use skills such as coordination, concentration, and team work to pass a series of tennis balls around in an established pattern. During reflection, the class discusses how this...

Students read and study an article then answer questions on Saturn.  In this investigative instructional activity students identify ways space exploration has helped humanity and then they search the Internet for space pictures and...

Fifth graders discuss the cooperation of the civilian population during World War II. In this social studies instructional activity, 5th graders read My Secret War and complete reflection strips over the reading. Students discuss primary...

Students examine news about an espionage case. They work in small groups to research espionage and spy trials of the Cold War era. Students create oral presentations detailing presentations in specific cases.

Students celebrate St. Valentine's Day. In this holiday lesson, students discover details about Lupercalia, St. Valentine, and modern traditions of the holiday.

Young scholars examine early European maps and explore geographic errors. They also view maps of the geography of North America. Students discuss the obstacles faced by early explorers in mapping unexplored territory. They consider what...

Students experience life in the Secret Annex. For this Holocaust lesson, students participate in a simulation. The simulation places them in the Secret Annex for dinner as residents. Students journal about the experience and the quality...

Young scholars determine what objects tell about a person. In this historical object lesson, students share an object that they feel tells a lot about themselves. They pass the object around a class circle, while others comment on what...

Students examine the rights of women in Ancient Rome. They discover laws that were passed to keep women from speaking out. They participate in activities and answer discussion questions.

In this English worksheet, students read "Working Mothers Pass on Stress to Kids," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.