PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Natural Wonders
Many of the interesting landmarks around the world are formed over time by natural processes familiar to us in our everyday lives. This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features images of a variety of beautiful natural wonders.
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Cairo: Living Past, Living Future
Interactive web unit will allow both educators and students to explore the history, culture, society, geography, and environment of this fascinating city that sits at the crossroads between ancient and modern, east and west, tradition...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Measurement: An Elementary Resource List
University of Regina senior education mathematics students compiled this this in-depth resource list for elementary and middle school grades. The resources are categorized according to: supporting program materials, print resources,...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Arithmetic Four
Students try to connect four game pieces in a row by answering whole number and integer problems. They can choose the difficulty level as well as addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.
University of Iowa
University of Iowa Library: Famous People of Iowa
Find famous people hailing from Iowa. Search by name, date or topic of fame.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Guitar Jingle: Discovering the Locations of Harmonics
In this music science fair project, students will discover the locations of harmonics on an acoustic guitar and relate them to guitar string lengths.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: All About Lizards Lesson Plan
Students explore the diversity of lizards in terms of characteristics, behavior, and habitat. Activities feature five species of lizards and their special body structures needed for survival.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: The Music in Poetry
Smithsonian in the Classroom presents The Music in Poetry. Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package for exploring the rhythms in poetry. Includes background information, lesson extensions, student handouts, examples of...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing Across the Curriculum
Designed by groups of Nevada teachers, this collection of modules and lesson plans is continually growing. Find suggestions for incorporating good writing practices in non-language arts areas of the curriculum from history to science.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Lesson Plan: Black Wings: American Pioneer Aviators
With this resource, teachers can select the most appropriate academic level and download a lesson plan that contains images, Word documents and PDF resources for teaching about the history of black Americans in aviation. Excellent...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson
With this leasson plan, students will learn about prominent African American artist William H. Johnson and his influence both on the history of art and black American culture. Select a link for the desired grade level version of this...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Why Is an Apple Like a Suitcase? [Pdf]
A mini-unit on fruits and seeds for younger students. Students will learn that fruit is like a suitcase for seeds, and that together they help plants to reproduce. Includes ELL suggestions, extension activities, and worksheets.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Experiments in Tea Dyeing [Pdf]
An investigation for younger students to learn how plants were used in the past to dye cloth. Students will dye pieces of fabric using different types of teas and compare the results. Worksheets are included.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Angelina Ice Skates [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Katharine Holabird and Helen Craig's children's book, Angelina Ice Skates, is provided on these pages. Sixteen character roles are needed in this activity.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Retold by James Marshall [Pdf]
A reader's theater adaptation of Goldilocks and the Three Bears is provided on this script. Ten character roles are needed in this performance.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Living Things and Their Needs: Plant or Animal?
For this lesson, students investigate and compare the needs of plants and animals. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: The Brain: Communication
How does information from different parts of the body reach the brain? For this lesson students discover that their brains receive and act on information from inside and outside the body, and that the senses gather and process different...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution: Star Spangled Banner and the War of 1812
This site discusses the history behind the Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key, written during the War of 1812. Visitors can view an image of the actual American flag which flew over Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore and...
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention: Rti in Middle School: A Guide for Parents
This document was developed to help middle school parents and other family members understand the essential components of RTI (screening, progress monitoring, multi-level prevention system, and data-based decision making), ask questions...
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention: Rti in Middle Schools: Faq
This resource provides guidance for middle schools implementing RTI by answering frequently asked questions and providing snapshots of current middle school practices around the essential components of RTI.
University of California
Q Files: Misconceptions About Science
Many students have misconceptions about what science is and how it works. This module explains and corrects some of the most common misconceptions that students are likely having trouble with.
Other
Science4 Us: Living/nonliving
Students explore the similarities and differences between living and nonliving things and learn four characteristics that all living things share (they have needs, they are made up of parts, they respond to change, they reproduce)....
Other
Science4 Us: Materials
Students use a dichotomous key to sort materials into natural and man-made and sort further using the adjectives rough and smooth; this activity builds both science and language skills as students classify materials and build deeper...
