Students create art projects outside. In these outdoor art lesson plans, students use items in nature to enhance their creativity. They are encouraged to paint rocks, use fences for collages, weave sticks/feathers through picket fences,...

Students differentiate between reproductive and therapeutic cloning and then use research, discussion, and writing in journals to examine their own personal opinions on these subjects.

Pupils examine grave markers in their local community. They identify how past generations contributed to life in their town. They discuss their feelings about death and how one is to act at a cemetary.

Students demonstrate that plants and animals are interdependent in a balanced ecosystem.

Students create environments to demonstrate how earthworms interact with their surroundings.

Students examine facts and recognize that racism, prejudice and discrimination can result from ignorance. They brainstorm for common myths based on stereotyping. Students share their findings with their classmates.

In this Brian Boru worksheet, students read about Brian Boru, answer short answer questions, draw a picture, and more. Students complete 4 activities.

Students build volcanoes. In this visual arts lesson, students use various materials to create paper model volcanoes.

Students write animal riddles. They write three or more sentences describing a selected animal, and draw a picture to go with their descriptive sentences. Students then create a three slide slideshow using Kid Pix 3 computer software.

Students research a sailing vessel. They create sailing vessel postcards which include research information they located. Students also include any experiences they may have had on a sailing vessel.

Students participate in a role-playing activity that demonstrates how whales use sound as an adaptation to their environment.

Students create a geometric cardboard sculpture covered with personal drawings.

A great description and explanation of the exchange that took place between the Old World and New World as a result of European exploration. Find examples of plants, animals, and diseases that were traded as a result of exploration and...

Kids learn about the Age of Exploration and Discovery of the European Renaissance including Henry the Navigator, Columbus, Portugal, and Spain.

Lesson where students explore the emergence of the American system of democracy and political parties between 1820 and 1850. Using paintings by George Caleb Bingham and Richard Caton Woodville, and a political cartoon depicting the...

This section of the exhibition gives the history of the discovery and study of space starting with the Greeks and Romans through to the early 1900's.

Take a tour of the King Tut Exhibition without leaving your classroom. Learn how King Tut lived from before he became a pharaoh up until his death. You can also explore his tomb.

This site traces the early voyages of explorers from Portugal and Spain who were trying to find new resources.

This lesson explores Decisions On Deadline, a free, fun, and fast-paced browser and tablet-based game where players take on the role of journalists running down stories, working against time and a limited budget while navigating a string...

Bite-size introduction to two scientists-Hubble and Lemaitre-who played key roles in formulating the theory of the origin of the universe known as the big bang. Includes an interactive timeline on which you can plot out the approximate...

An inclusive collection of maps, field notes, photos and letters of Harvard sponsored explorations and discoveries during the 19th and 20th centuries.

This is a set of practical online safety PSHE toolkits to explore online issues, including links to Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE), with pupils aged 11-14 years old. Crossing the Line covers the topics of cyberbullying,...

This PBS special explores the brain from birth to old age. Take a look at snapshots of brain development at birth, as a child, as a teenager, as an adult, and in old age.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This short nonfiction book passage is about Christopher Columbus and his contributions to exploration. This book in the SummerReads series, intended to work against the summer reading slide, reinforces...