Design and construct a structure out of spaghetti and marshmallows. Although spaghetti doesn't seem like a strong building material, you can build surprisingly elegant and sturdy structures using it.

Teachers can assess students' knowledge of numerical expressions with these printable worksheets. You can even create your own worksheet or flashcards.

Teachers can assess students' knowledge of writing and interpreting numerical expressions with these printable worksheets. You can even create your own worksheet or flashcards.

Read about how peer pressure can negatively influence your decisions, particularly decisions about drug abuse. Learn the importance of thinking for yourself and of making healthy choices when it comes to drugs.

This resource which is designed to support teachers in exploring critical thinking online. The "Trust Me" resource has been created with teachers in mind after hearing from schools that they wanted a resource which would start the...

Students will explore what is involved in printer cartridge recycling, and look at its potential as a school fundraiser.

A lesson plan in which younger learners draw on prior experiences that made them happy or sad, build two-sided masks, work with Venn diagrams, and connect personally with the emotions conveyed by poems in The Way I Feel by Janan Cain...

This lesson plan will help students to learn about the goal of world peace and what they can do to positively impact the world.

Need some challenging problem-solving work for your students in the following areas: Discrete, Geometry, Numbers, and Code Breaking? This is the place for an enormous database of problems aimed at high school age students. They are...

This school site provides templates and ideas for using Inspiration Software, a visual thinking and learning tool, in your classroom.

A lesson plan based on a study unit of earthworms, using the inquiry model to integrate scientific processes with literacy practices. Instruction plans, related resources, and standards are included.

Questions about weather clear up when learners use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.

The Kurds and Arabs have had ongoing tensions throughout history. The presence of the U.S. in Iraq during the war has taken soldiers from helping create a free nation to smoothing the waters between these two cultures. This learning...

An exhibition of contemporary African art that pulls together the work of 28 artists from 15 different countries. Read artist biographies, view representative works, and think about two prominent themes that emerge from the collection:...

ExploraVision is a highly interactive site for both educators and K-12 students. It encourages them to create and explore future technology by combining their imaginations with the tools of science. All inventions and innovations result...

A media-rich examination of Leonardo's work that includes a timeline of the artist's life, animations of his drawings that attempt to unlock something of the genius in his thinking, up-close details from his notebooks, thematic looks at...

Students are introduced to the basic principles behind engineering and the types of engineering while learning about a popular topic - the Olympics. The involvement of engineering in modern sports is amazing and pervasive. Students learn...

This unit covers introductory concepts of mixtures and solutions. Students think about how mixtures and solutions, and atoms and molecules can influence new technologies developed by engineers. The first lesson explores the fundamentals...

Poverty shows children in unclean conditions and asks your student to write a description of what they think life is like for these children.

Designed for high school and college teachers and young scholars, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

Newspapers in Education and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists publish simple, inventive lesson plans and ideas for classes in editorial cartooning, caption writing, and news analysis. Lessons include "cartoon blanks" that...

How was the foundation of today's representative democracy established in early colonial America? Young scholars will be able to source three documents and corroborate evidence to draw conclusions about the development of democratic...

Based on sourcing, students will determine which of the two pieces of historical evidence depicting the same event, the surrender of General Charles Cornwallis and the British forces at Yorktown, Virginia on October 19, 1781, is the most...

This report from the Stanford History Education Group describes the conclusions of their work in field testing a set of assessments of civic online reasoning by young people from the middle school to the college level. Middle school...