Provide your class with this reading guide for chapter two of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. They grapple with new vocabulary words like swamper, cesspool, and mollified before checking out literary terms and answering a list of questions...

This New York Times "Learning Network" exercise on reading informational text poses 6 questions about a high-interest article on teen fashion. The article meant to be review with is resource, "More than meets the iPhone Lens", is rather...

Check out a resource made up of two separate exercises. The first page lists a series of higher-level questions about "The Inn of Lost Time" by Lensey Namoika. Use the questions to encourage discussion or as an assessment. Since they...

Explore the measures of central tendency through a challenging task. Given values for the mean, median, mode, and range, collaborative groups create a set of data that would produce those values. They then critique other answers and...

Discover relationships between linear and nonlinear functions. Initially, a set of data seems linear, but upon further exploration, pupils realize the data can model an infinite number of functions. Scholars use multiple representations...

Does pride really goeth before the fall, or can it be essential to one's development? Second graders read two of Aesop's fables that refer to pride in their morals, and write a short essay about whether pride is good or bad, based on...

In this tropopause worksheet, students read about the temperature of the air in the tropopause or the layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth. They answer four critical thinking questions about this layer and the energy changes that...

In this seventh grade mathematics worksheet, 7th graders are provided with questions that are reflective of the grade level expectations for New York State.  The twenty page worksheet contains thirty multiple choice questions. ...

In this personal needs worksheet, students draw 4 pictures that depict something that is needed in life. Students rate each need in order of importance by coloring 1 to 3 stars.

In this opinion survey learning exercise, students will work in groups of four to complete a survey of each group member's opinion on 20 topics.

Delve into the concept of economic growth with your class members, including why economic growth is important, what causes it, and how can countries encourage it.

In this number 2 worksheet, students practice tracing the number 2 four times, writing the number 2 two times and drawing 2 wheels on the picture of a car.

In this ocean waves instructional activity, 6th graders read 2 pages about different types of ocean waves, then answer 10 true or false questions. An answer key is provided.

In this political systems worksheet, students read the dialogue examples in pairs to explore political systems within Britain.