What You See Is What You Get

Making inferences is a skill that goes beyond the comprehension of written text. In this simple exercise, young learners are provided with a photograph and asked to answer a series of inference questions using only on the information...

It's the beginning of the school year, and you want to learn all about each of your pupils. Use this organizer as a tool and one of your first assignments. Individuals fill out each box by completing the sentence starter provided or...

Get your youngsters to open up about themselves with a quick activity. Class members fill in six colorful and patterned boxes with information such as name, birthday, favorite food, and more. 

Determining whether or not something is living can be more difficult than it seems. Put your young scientists to work defining their own criteria to identify life, then work with three samples to see if they are alive or not. 

The national epidemic of opioid addiction is making its way into high school populations. Educate the students in your class about the ways prescription opioids can both block pain and deliver large amounts of dopamine that make it very...

Challenge your class with this innovative method for discussing sayings. Using the rebus format, learners identify the sayings referred to in a series of slides. The examples include such things as the word hand with a smaller version of...

Send this "About Me" PowerPoint template home with your students to bring and present to class during the first week of school. Step-by-step instructions to create a simple autobiography is laid out withing six slides. Tip: If you would...

Most people believe the equinox is the day with an equal amount of night and day, but they are wrong. The video explains what an equinox actually is, why day and night aren't equal on that day, and what an equilux is.

DNA forms a double helix, but that is not what it looks like. A fact-filled video takes on this inaccuracy as part of an extensive playlist on biology. It shares the recent discoveries about what DNA looks like as well as the many...

Can your diet change the smell of your armpits? Scholars learn the truth behind this and other factors that influence body odor. It covers the biology of what is happening as well as the ways to prevent or cover the offensive odor. To...