Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Earthquake Faultline Earthquake Activities
This outstanding website provides an excellent variety of hands-on earthquake activities to help you understand what causes earthquakes.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Within Context (English 6 Reading)
You will learn how to use context (e.g., cause and effect or compare and contrast organizational text structures) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words.
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Basics
This site by University of St. Thomas focuses on the basics for writing any paragraph. It is developed in outline fashion and is very easy to follow. This site provides a basic overview of the process of writing without going into a...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Cause and Effect
Capital Community College gives excellent overview, assistance, and examples of using cause and effect in writing and composition.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Cause and Effect
This learning module provides an explanation of the cause and effect text structure. An explanation of the cause and effect text structure is provided, and a video tutorial lesson [0:53] provides additional examples to supplement the...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Analyze History [Pdf]
This graphic organizer will help students analyze a historical event. Students will carefully analyze the historical event's context and then determine the causes and their effects.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Analyze/infer Cause Effect Relations [Pdf]
Students will use guiding questions to help them infer cause-effect relationships in a story. Then students will use a graphic organizer as they analyze the cause(s) and effect(s).
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Analyze Cause and Effect [Pdf]
This graphic organizer will help students analyze tje causes of a change in a story or real life event. Students will use the graphic organizer to guide them as they critically analyze the change.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Analyze and Infer Causes & Effects [Pdf]
This graphic organizer will help students analyze and infer cause-effect relationships. Students will use the graphic organizer to guide them as they determine several causes for one effect. Then students will write to explain the...
PBS
Pbs the West: A Wound in the Heart
As many as three million buffalo were killed in two years after the coming of the railroad. This site tells the story through quotes from one of the hunters and from Native American writer Scott Momaday and others.
Other
Noaa: National Geophysical Data Center Images Faults
This is a great slide show with real examples of the different types of faults.
Other
Quoddy Loop: Tides
This resource gives an in-depth description of the Quoddy Loop of Islands within the Bay of Fundy. This area has the greatest tidal range in the world. Learn what causes these massive tides.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Test 9: Ben's Harmonica
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a reading assessment passage. This passage contains a brief biography about Ben Franklin and a few of his inventions.
TES Global
Blendspace: Cause and Effect
This eleven-part Blendspace is designed to be used while teaching students how to analyze cause and effect. Links include reference sheets, a SMART Notebook Lesson, posters, practice worksheets, and guided practice opportunities.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Causes & Consequences
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand how to map the causes and consequences of conflict and appreciate the difficulties found in separating causes and consequences of conflict.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Integrating Language Arts: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This instructional activity integrates reading, writing, listening, and speaking to boost students' comprehension skills. Students explore Laura Joffe Numeroff 's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie using a variety of techniques, beginning with...
Read Works
Read Works: Cause and Effect 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on cause and effect intended to improve reading comprehension. Young scholars learn to identify causes based on effects and effects based on causes. Students also use explicit...
Read Works
Read Works: Cause and Effect 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on cause and effect. Learners learn to use signal words to identify cause and effect relationships and to describe possible effects when given a cause in fiction. Students also learn...
Michigan Technological University
Michigan Tech University: Where Do Earthquakes Happen?
An informative site that explains how and where earthquakes occur and the different types of faults. Contains maps and charts of fault lines, plate edges, and the continental plates. There are other links within the site of related...
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: What Causes Earthquakes?
USGS provides the definition of a fault, the basics of earthquakes, the theory of plate tectonics, location of plates and earthquakes, and embedded links to related material.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Cause & Effect With "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears" Day 4
We are finishing up the story today. Today we are finishing analyzing the story by thinking about how the events and characters developed by the end of the text.
Other
Graphic Organizer: Cause and Effect: Smoking [Pdf]
This PDF resource provides a blank cause and effect graphic organizer for listing the effects of smoking. Requires Adobe Reader.
The Wharton Group
Discover France: The French Revolution
This is a site about the history of the French Revolution. The first section discusses causes of the Revolution. Also discusses its course and consequences.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Adverb Clauses Cause and Effect Relationships
Twenty sentences where students fill in the blank with the correct adverb clause to show a cause and effect relationship. Each answer can be checked to see if it is correct.