With this lesson plan, teachers can foster learners' understanding of the devastating impact of the Holocaust. Highlights the racism of Nazi Germany and discusses the fact that many people still hold these types of beliefs today.

Use this lesson plan to teach young scholars what sexual harassment is, how to identify acts of sexual harassment, and how to respond to it. This instructional activity requires simple materials and Internet access, provides several...

Can you design a handle for Hot Stuff's new skillet?

Advance your way through everyday life by exploring the science all around you. Click on an innovation within each scene and answer each question to proceed to the next.

Travel through the decades to learn about the innovations that shape your life. Use the Decade Navigator below to start exploring. Transport yourself through the last 100 years to meet the innovations that have shaped our world.

First one to empty the jug wins! And it's not as easy as it sounds...

Detectable flashes of light are released as wintergreen-flavored candies are crushed in darkness.

Sharp Pencils and water-filled sandwich bags demonstrate the nature of certain polymers.

Salt crystals demonstrate how forces can be directed in mechanical systems.

Build a multistage rocket from two balloons.

Do you ever wonder what happens when a cloud gets too full? Find out in this easy and fun experiment.

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

Contains an article on the discovery of gold in California at Sutter's Mill that resulted in the California Gold Rush.

Come and learn more about the devastating effects of tsunamis. This site features video segments revealing the devastation tsunamis can cause and how tsunamis are formed.

This comprehensive exhibit focuses on the wonders of microorganisms, what they are, how they can affect our daily lives, and how they can be manipulated. Videos, games, and animations are included. Teacher resource link explains each...

Introduce students to the ideas of motion and force in this hands-on lesson plan.

After discussing important flying inventions, students explore technological design by making paper airplanes.

This lesson encourages students to explore the phenomenon of identical twins, with emphasis on behavioral as well as genetic aspects. Teachers will appreciate extension activities, suggested readings, and links in addition to lesson plan...

This Fibonacci sequence lesson plan is aimed at grades 9-12, but would be appropriate for some junior high classes. It includes historical background and examples of Fibonacci numbers in nature, as well as suggested readings and ties to...

A lesson plan on the story of Moses and the Exodus. It is based on the video/DVD entitled "Exodus: History Writ Large."

A lesson where students investigate how paleontologists interpret evidence from dinosaur finds in order to develop hypotheses and theories about how they lived. Includes downloadable worksheets.

Players move the pelican to catch the fish that shows the solution to the problem. Students review the relationship between decimals and fractions.

Students will work as a class to solve word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and simple fractions. To culminate the instructional activity, students will create their own word problems.

Provides fun ideas for exploring how to transform ice using shapes, light, and color.