Students learn about Mound Cities and how they both started and stopped. In this Mound activity students explore how Mound Cities did not succeed and why. Students dig deeper then the activity as they discuss defeat and relate it to...

In this ESL idioms worksheet, students choose the idiom that matches a word or phrase shown in parenthesis in a sentence, 14 total.

Play a great interactive game where you become a fire manager and learn to deal with fire safety. Also, explore the lesson plans for presentation and the classroom.

Student will use primary and secondary sources to gain a richer understanding of women's activism and how the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire led to changes in labor and safety regulations in America.

This is the short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London. This website offers two versions of the short story which can be viewed side-by-side.

Learn about the Cabeiri, pygmy-like evil demons of fire who shook the earth and expelled fire, but were the protectors of sailors, the solvers of calamities, and the demons who punished perjury and profanity.

Article discusses the impact that the Triangle Company fire had on labor laws and unions.

This is the full text of the short story Fire of Beauty by L. Adams Beck, a part of the Ninth Vibration, a collection of short stories.

This is the full text of the novel The Fire Of The Forge by Georg Ebers, a Romance of Old Nuremberg.

This is the full text of the novel Fire-Tongue by Sax Rohmer, the second book in a series of five.

Gather information about forest fires including major human and natural causes, how they spread, firefighters, campfire safety, fun facts, and good wildfires on this site.

A chronicle of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. Click on Fire and Mud Contents at the bottom of the first page to see the contents of this report.

Wildfires have burned more than 100,000 acres across seven states in the southern Appalachian Mountains since late October. Will they end for good or is this a sign of what is to come?

This printable vowels instructional activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will read several words and identify the ones that possess the -ire. An answer key and lesson extension...

In order to use this source to assess students' historical thinking skills, students should understand the history of industrialization and the working conditions typical of late nineteenth-century factories. Students will analyze...

Account in which Private Charles Johnson Post relates his experience as he witnessed the eagerness of the 71st New York's Regimental band to fight.

An account of the danger associated with the Spanish American war vessels, powered by coal and steam, and the quick-thinking men who went beyond the call of duty.

Third grade students at World of Inquiry, School #58 created this set of cards as part of an expedition on natural disasters. To create their card, each student researched and wrote a descriptive summary on a specific natural event; each...

A huge forest fire rages in the background as two deer take refuge in a river.

This photo shows a small part of a larger forest fire still burning intensely as ash and smoke smolders in the background.

A huge amount of smoke emerges from a devastating forest fire. The smoke travels high in the air and is blown a long distance in the wind.

This is a container to hold cold, fresh water made especially for use in the Japanese tea gathering. Its shape reminds us of a wooden bucket used to carry water from a well, but it is made out of porcelain, a glazed ceramic fired at a...

A companion website to the film by the same name. Tells of the little known invasio. of Finland by Russia in the winter of 1939 that probably changed the course of WW II.

An image of "Interior with a Family and Two Nurses before a Fire", created by Cornelis De Man during the 1670's (Oil on panel, 52 x 45 cm).