Hey Kids! What do you know about Canada's Parliamentary Democracy

How do your pupils feel about reading? Hand out this survey to find of if your students read often, enjoy reading, talk about what they read, and more.

Establishing classroom rules within the first two weeks of school is important. But what do you do with the rules after they've been created, and how can you establish them so that they have a lasting effect all year long? Use an...

Students consciously activate prior knowledge in order to comprehend new information about a given subject.  In this comprehension and prior knowledge instructional activity, students use a graphic organizer to activate prior knowledge...

Middle schoolers can access a text more deeply and thoroughly with a video about tracking one's reading. An alternative to the traditional K-W-L chart, the video shows kids how to identify what they already know about the characters and...

In this Asian culture worksheet, students respond to 15 fill in the blank and short answer questions regarding animals, landforms, transportation, government, schools and festivals in Japan and China.

Kids age 13 and older are asked to read the provided Times article and background information in order to construct a thoughtful blog response to Obama's first Oval Office speech. They work to address each of the related critical...

The class discusses how they feel about war. They brainstorm emotions that teens have toward the war in Iraq, and then discuss their opinions of the war in small groups. The discussion is then opened up to the entire class. What do you...

Consider one of the most fundamental questions of philosophy posed by Rene Descartes in his Meditations on First Philosophy: How do we really know we exist? This animated video is accompanied by multiple-choice assessment questions,...

Did you know elections only played a small role in Athenian democracy? Take a look at the fascinating origins of Athenian direct democracy in ancient Greece, and compare their political structures to our understanding of representative...

It's not enough to see or just read a primary source document; one has to analyze them fully to understand their historical implications. First learners are introduced to what primary and secondary sources are, then they read a bit of...