Students create front pages of newspapers that document the historic attempt of a group of Sherpa women to summit Mount Everest.

Introuduce your scientists to the differences in air at varying altitudes with a colorful explanatory graph. After some discussion, they view unbelievable footage of mountain-climbing Leo Houlding and a narrative about how he might do...

Reinforce reading comprehension with a instructional activity about The Archer and the Sun, a Chinese folktale. Kids learn some background information about Chinese culture before reading the story, and answer literacy...

Develop a new measure of the properties of an object. Scholars develop a definition and formula to measure the bumpy-ness of an object. They utilize their formulas to find the property for several spherical objects.

In this geography worksheet, students will read 4 interesting United States geography facts and 19 fascinating world geography facts.

Students investigate various expeditions throughout history to new and/or uncharted territories. They work in groups to develop and 'produce' television news magazine segments about some of these historic expeditions.

In this geography word puzzle worksheet, students read 10 clues pertaining to geography terms. Students place the answers in a word puzzle grid. This is intended for ESL use but could be used by all.

Students solve and write riddles using similes and metaphors.  In this similes and metaphors lesson, students work in groups to solve descriptive riddles for famous landmarks.  Students are given pictures of landforms and write...

In this comparatives/superlatives worksheet, students fill in blanks with the appropriate form to correctly complete a set of 15 sentences. An answer key is included.

For this ESL worksheet, students read 15 sentences and complete them by filling in the missing comparative or superlative. A word bank is included in this worksheet.

Nepal lies between China and India in South Asia. The country is slightly larger than the state of Arkansas. Nepal has the greatest altitude change of any location on Earth. The lowlands are at sea level and the mountains of the...