What's Rome Got to Do With it?

What does the ground around your home have to do with water pollution? Young ecologists learn about their local watershed and create their own cause-and-effect models of the hydrosphere.

Inspire scholars to do their part for planet Earth with a read-aloud of Dr. Seuss's The Lorax, and variety of activities designed to boost the environmental activist in us all. Activities include writing poems about the Earth, sorting...

What do cereal, fog, and space shuttles have to do with newspapers? A collection of science investigations encourage critical thinking using connections to the various parts of the newspaper. Activities range from building origami seed...

Armstrong Sperry's Newbery Medal winning Call It Courage, the story of the journey of Mafatu, a young Pacific Islander, is the core text of a 26-page resource guide.

A time capsule probes scholars about their aspirations for the new year. Questions include what they wish to learn, try, and be when they grow up now that they are back to school. 

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...

Is this presentation the perfect addition to a grammar unit? It must be! Learn about drawing conclusions with different levels of certainty, using must, might, could, and can't.

What is on your to-do list today? The second lesson of a three-part series on Lost Heroes of America investigates the laundry list of items in front of the second Continental Congress. Scholars research, analyze, and present information...

Alaric grows tired of Atalus, and Honorius agrees to meet with him. On the road to Ravenna, Alaric and his small group of body guards is attacked. Will Alaric make it to Ravenna, or will Alaric head for Rome? What will happen to...

Would you stand up for your beliefs, no matter the cost? Scholars investigate their own families to uncover examples of how and when someone stood up for their ideals. Using video clips, interviews, and eulogies, they come to understand...