PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Buoyancy Brainteasers: Buoyancy Question
This interactive brainteaser from the NOVA: "Voyage of Doom" Web site challenges you to figure out what causes an object to sink.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How the Woodpecker Avoids a Headache
This diagram from Rainbird Publishing describes the specialized physical characteristics that allow woodpeckers to create some of the most secure nests in the bird world.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Euclid: The Elements
The classic treatise in geometry written by Euclid is presented in English. It is the textbook used for more than 1,000 years in western Europe.
University of Alberta
Atlas of Alberta Railways: Land Grant System
Presented by the University of Alberta, this resource contains information on the land grant system in the Alberta region. Information on how the Canadian government used land grants in the late 19th century to spur population growth in...
University of Alberta
Atlas of Alberta Railways: Before the Railway: Trails, Canoes and York Boats
Presented by the University of Alberta, this resource contains information on the early trade routes used in western Canada before the construction of the railway. The site also provides digital maps showing the locations of the land and...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Spinner
This interactive learning activity allows students to explore experimental and theoretical probabilities using a spinner. Teacher resources are included.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Experimental Probability
This interactive learning activity allows students to explore experimental probability using spinners and dice. Teacher resources are included.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Multi Bar Graph
The interactive learning activity allows students to manipulate a double bar graph. Teacher resources are included.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Every Picture Has a Story
Smithsonian Education presents "Every Picture Has a Story". Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students examine some of the millions of photographs in the Smithsonian. This amazing teaching package comes...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Elements of a Japanese Garden [Pdf]
A multi-faceted activity where students learn about the elements of a Japanese garden, then construct a peepshow book that demonstrates their understanding of foreground, middle ground, and background to represent a Japanese garden....
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Sorting Shapes [Pdf]
This task challenges a students knowledge of 2-dimensional geometrical shapes to sort shapes and to design a shape that has a given set of attributes.
Other
City of London Festival: George Bridgetower Art, Liberty & Slavery 1807
A detailed look at George Bridgetower and his connection to many artists, writers, and musicians. All had a tie to the anti-slavery movement.
Alabama Department of Archives and History
A Map Can Tell a Story
An interesting lesson plan for students to attempt to locate the Alabama counties and identify voting patterns in the state.
Other
International Guide Dog Federation: History of Guide Dogs
This page from the International Guide Dog Federation explores the evolution of dogs as human companions, as well as the history of dogs as service animals. This resource also includes a timeline describing how dogs came to be used as...
Virginia History Series
Virginia History Series: Railroad Building in Virginia (1827 1860) [Pdf]
All aboard this slideshow on the building of railroads in Virginia. Study maps, charts and pictures of the major railways in Virginia and their impact on the economy. Be sure to take the quiz over the steam locomotive at the end!
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Our Solar System Lithograph Set
View these amazing high-quality images of our solar system from NASA with this lithograph set. Each lithograph contains images, facts, dates, and general information on a particular subject. Background information and teaching tips are...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Avalanche, Aztek, or Bravada? A Connotation Minilesson
Interesting lesson plan which stresses the importance of connotation in writing by examining car names. Learners participate in an interactive lesson plan in which they learn the value of connotation and begin to master the technique.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Qa Rs to Develop Comprehension & Reflective Reading Habits
Contains plans for three lessons that use the QAR strategy to develop reading comprehension and reflective reading within students. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Persuasive Essay: Environmental Issues
Contains plans for three lessons that teach students how to write persuasive essays about self-selected environmental issues. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues
Contains plans for eight 45-minute lessons that ask students to write monologues from different perspectives in the child labor debate. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies
A 7-lesson unit where students critically analyze how a film adaptation portrays a novel to see what impact it had on the retell of the story. They then design a movie DVD cover and write a DVD insert based on what they have learned. The...
eSchool Today
E School Today: Your Cool Facts and Tips on Land Pollution
Looks at types and sources of land pollution, the impact, soil contamination, what individuals can do to combat land pollution, and tips for recycling.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Free Reading Tests
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides reading comprehension practice passages. An answer key is provided for these passages. A passage has questions that focus on different types of reading comprehension questions.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Adapting Under Pressure
Students learn about James Cameron's Challenger Deep dive and about the marine animals that live in different layers of the ocean. They then study the characteristics of the hadalpelagic zone at the bottom of the ocean, and imagine and...