Students participate in a gross motor and locomotor game of tag. A group of students, spaceship commanders, work together to capture all of the "aliens" in the class while wearing hula hoops and practicing a variety of locomotor movements.

In this ESL comparative groups worksheet, students practice conversation skills by discussing the differences between the different groups of thing listed on this page.

For this preposition review worksheet, students write the correct preposition on each of 20 lines in 11 questions. They work with on, in, with, for, and at.

Fifth graders analyze paintings that share a common theme of San Francisco as seen by some of the first travelers who arrived there. In this art history lesson plan, 5th graders consider the experiences involved with the arrival to a new...

Pupils study estuaries and are able to define one, and describe its features.  For this investigative lesson students participate in an activity that shows them the importance of estuaries. 

Students evaluate the effectiveness of current climate change solutions. For this global warming lesson, students look at the current measures implemented and analyze whether they are beneficial to the environment or not. Advance reading...

In this ESL London activity worksheet, students correctly identify places in London, choosing from drop down lists, write correct names for monuments described.

In this finding differences in pictures worksheet, students compare 2 pictures of airplanes taking off/landing and circle and list 10 differences they see. 

In this "find the differences" instructional activity, students compare 2 pictures showing fairies and flowers, listing and circling the differences seen. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.

Students explore language arts by completing a vocabulary activity. In this sight words lesson, students discuss the commonly used words that are seen often in writing and define 10 new words each week. Students utilize flashcards,...

This site describes how slaves were packed in the ships with barely enough room to sit or move, to maximize capacity.

After analyzing the engraving and accompanying text, students will discuss the point of view of the resources using a compare and contrast diagram.

Inquiry into the origins of the magnetic compass and how it came to and was used in Europe.

African captives aboard the deck of a slave ship.

Bridging the Years explores the creation of Britain's first commercial waterway, the Bridgewater Canal, and the construction of the Manchester Ship canal over 100 years later. Stories, multimedia clips, a timeline, and numerous maps are...

Information about John Cabot and Sebastian Cabot provided in a question-and-answer format.

This short analysis activity asks students to examine two claims filed by survivors of the April 15, 1912 Titanic disaster to understand the vast class differences between a first class passenger and a steerage passenger. Students will...

An interactive series of pages on the many treasures found at Sutton Hoo, the burial site of an ancient Anglo-Saxon king.

This site from the Arlington National Cemetery contains a memorial to the U.S.S. Maine, a ship that was sunk during the Spanish-American War. Includes some brief text, then a lot of pictures, and then some in-depth text.

Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman elected to both houses of Congress. She was the first woman to enter the Senate without being appointed to the position. During World War II, she was the only civilian woman to go to sea in a Navy...

PBS had a series called "History Detectives." The video is no longer available for this episode, but this transcript of the video is. Read about the Black Star Line, envisioned by Marcus Garvey as a shipping company in which African...

This USS Constitution Museum resources allows students to become ship builder and create their own version of the USS Constitution.

The lowest part of USS Constitution was called the hold and it was there that sailors stowed the many goods needed to keep the ship afloat and to feed the 480 men who served aboard for months at sea. In this lesson students use the...

Over 100 handouts with answer sheets you can print and use to help build English vocabulary. Numerous topics and themes are covered: everyday words, math terms, seasonal and holiday words, geographical terms, animals, opposites, parts of...