Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Archetypes: Themes and Situations [Pdf]
This 24-page PDF presentation focuses on Archetypes including themes and situations. It includes the discussion of themes such as supernatural world, human relationships, forces of nature, and many more.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of "Secret Places of the Heart"
This site provides the complete etext for H. G. Wells's story, "The Secret Places of the Heart."
Discovering Lewis & Clark
Discovering Lewis & Clark: Military Preparations
This section of a larger site from Discovering Lewis & Clark explores military preparations, the Schuylkill Arsenal, Clark's commission, and how Lewis evaluated his officers.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Balancing Chemical Equations
An interactive simulation with weights and scales that teaches about balancing chemical equations and conservation of mass. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online and includes handouts, lesson plans, and additional...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Nonfiction Passage Questions[pdf]
This site contains questions for each passage are provided. Graphic organizers are available for these copyrighted materials that may be used for educational purposes.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Biography Questions [Pdf]
This graphic organizer contains questions for students to answer as they read a biography. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be used for educational purposes.
Other
Maya Angelou Interview by David Frost
This site contains the full text of an interview with Maya Angelou by David Frost.
Other
Growing Carnivorous Plants
Do I need a terrarium? How do I stimulate seeds to germinate? Where can I buy a carnivorous plant? These questions and more are answered in this informative site.
Eserver
E Server: "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding"
Text of Hume's most famous work from "Harvard Classics, Volume 37." Select desired chapter from this classic work.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Guide Nonfiction Reading
This site contains 17 nonfiction articles that are appropriate for students with a 6th grade reading level, as measured by the Fry Formula. Questions for each passage are provided. These graphic organizers are copyrighted and may be used...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Fraction Matcher
An interactive simulation that teaches about fractions, equivalent fractions, and mixed numbers through a game of matching shapes and numbers. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online and includes handouts, lesson plans,...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Water on Tap: What You Need to Know
Downloadable booklets with basic information about the U.S. water supply, e.g., where our drinking water comes from.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Free Educational Games Online: What Is I Civics?
This Daily Teaching Tools resource explains the background of the free educational game designed by Sandra Day O'Connor, iCivics. Teachers can use this resource to assess understanding of the American government and citizenship.
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Our Solar System
Take a tour of our solar system and learn fascinating details and observations about the planets.
TES Global
Tes: Coriolanus by William Shakespeare: Approaches to the Text
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a complete seve-week lesson plan to teach Coriolanus by William Shakespeare including an introduction to the social, historical, cultural background of the play, character studies of Coriolanus...
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Quotations and Scripts
This resource from the Folger Shakespeare Library provides some of the most famous lines from Shakespearean works. A list of Shakespearean insults, compliments, and quotations are provided. Several adapted scripts for children, based on...
TES Global
Tes: Othello Resources
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resources offers scene by scene activites and assignments for teaching students Shakespeare's Othello.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Growing Global Power
A comprehensive teaching unit on the emergence of the United States as a global power after World War I. Learn about America's drive for expansion, first by the military, then by businesses. Contains video and text materials, web...
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Irregular Comparatives and Superlatives
Excellent lesson on irregular comparatives and superlatives, which include mejor, peor, mayor, and menor. The lesson is thorough and easy to understand, with ample examples. A quiz at the end of the lesson tests the student's mastery of...
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen's play is available here to download or read online in multiple digital formats.
Other
New York State Education Department: Eighth Grade Math, Book Three (2006) [Pdf]
Part three of three; The March 2006 8th grade Math test from the State of New York. The test is 12 open-response questions dealing with topics such as algebra (solve for a variable, write function rules), geometry (translations, parallel...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Comprehensive Assessment: Nonfiction [Pdf]
Questions are provided to help students determine the main idea, topic, purpose, and opinion of a piece of nonfiction. Students are prompted to write a summary of the informational text.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 3 the Real Number System
Use Glencoe's Math Course 3 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of the Real Number System. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Number Patterns and Problem Solving
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of number patterns and problem-solving. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the...