Elementary learners are not often shy about expressing what they want, but they could use a little help organizing their arguments. Help young writers work through a series of persuasive writing exercises that emphasize the importance of...

Put your feet up and grab a cup of coffee before going through this extensive field work unit plan! Based on folklorist studies of traditional culture and ethnography, several activities focus on topics such as cultural sensitivity;...

Learners explore the history of Montana's Native Americans by reading James Welch's Fools Crow. Set shortly after the Civil War, the novel focuses on a young Blackfoot Indian and his tribe. Over the course of several weeks, class members...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to revise your writing for clarity. You will begin by reviewing some major considerations for revision: genre, purpose, and audience. You will...

This multimedia exhibition examines Whitman's life and writing career, as he continually revised his masterwork, "Leaves of Grass."

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that it contains relevant information and valid inferences.

You will learn revision strategies you can use to strengthen your introduction and body of your paper. W.11-12.2a Intro/Format

Fossils found in Argentina have led scientists to change the way they think about the evolution of dinosaurs. A relative of the velociraptor has been found that demonstrated bird-like features. Learn more about these fossils here. [Date...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Solve word problems using the guess, check, and revise strategy.

This workshop helps students increase their skills in descriptive writing by following tips and suggestions from writer Virginia Hamilton. After reading about Hamilton, students write their descriptive pieces and publish them online. A...

This how-to site gives writing tips for business writing. Brief explanations are provided for how to revise writing to ensure that redundant pairs, redundant modifiers, redundance categories, meaningless modifiers, and wordy expressions...

Review the definitions and images of computer input and output devices. You can quiz yourself on page three by taking the Test Bite.

Learn about your computer's data storage, which includes understanding what ROM and RAM are. You may quiz yourself on page nine by taking the Test Bite.

Review and take a quiz on word processing (WP) and desktop publishing (DP). Both of these applications are types of software.

You can pick up some valuable pointers on how to apply the Pythagorean Theorem here. When you finish working your way through the pages you can take an on-line "Test Bite," and check your understanding.

Pick up some valuable pointers on how to simplify and factor algebraic expressions. When you finish working your way through the pages, you can take an online "Test Bite" and check your understanding.

A demonstration of how to find the standard deviation of a set of data. Several examples and a practice test are offered.