What does it take to make a town run smoothly each and every day? Scholars create their own Biztown with hands-on interactive activities. Using games, demonstrations, and decision-making skills, they learn what resources they need for a...

You don't have to travel far to learn about rocks, just step outside, pick up a stone, and begin investigating. After taking a class walk around the school grounds collecting rocks, young scientists practice their skills of observation...

Students complete internet based research on pet care in order to prepare a written and oral presentation for the class. They examine the life span, environment, food and grooming of the pet they chose to research. They complete the...

Fifth graders animate the Water Cycle using Sketchy on the handheld computers. They write an expository paragraph about the stages of the water cycle using "Word-to-Go" on the Handheld computers.

This preposition practice activity provides a paragraph from a Hemingway short story. Students click on all of the prepositions used in prepositional phrases in the story. These words will appear in a box below. When finished they can...

Provides some help with the difficult job of teaching writing by providing some strategies for students to follow. Easy to navigate from the top of the page, strategies are categorized into grade 3-6 and 6-12, in addition to lesson plan...

Classroom teachers will learn about previewing vocabulary words, an important instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement the previewing of vocabulary, find research that supports the previewing of vocabulary, and find...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students will apply what they have learned about nouns and adjectives to make complete sentences. This is a cloze activity which scaffolds learning by providing students with context...