In this subtraction worksheet, young scholars solve a set of 6 simple word problems about a robot who has eaten items;students determine "how many are left."

Students explore alliteration and tongue twisters. They read and discuss alliteration examples, select and illustrate ten tongue twisters, and write original tongue twisters.

Sixth graders compare and contrast various forms of artistic expression associated with specific groups of people, geographic regions, or time periods, specifically, art of Australia, and create art works using procedures borrowed from...

In this heat transfer learning exercise, learners answer one true or false question about heat and three multiple choice questions about heat transfer including conduction, convection and radiation.

Young scholars identify the layers of the Earth and complete activities for the topic. For this Earth layers lesson, students chart their ideas about the Earth's layers and view a PowerPoint for the topic. Young scholars view an apple to...

In this chromosome instructional activity students complete a crossword puzzle by answering questions on DNA, nucleic acids, nucleotides and RNA.  

Students describe the properties of solids and liquids, and explain how a semiconductor works.  In this atom lesson students demonstrate the bonding properties of carbon and silicon.

Learners, by exploring a simple investigation system, see how technology can allow people to extend their senses and "see" beyond the world of their natural vision.

Students watch the program "Pieces of Mind" from PBS and participate in a class discussion about PET scans and their advantages. Students then brainstorm activities a PET scan could be used for.

In this plant pigments worksheet, students compare the function of 3 types of pigments: chlorophylls, carotenoids, and phycobilins. This worksheet has 23 fill in the blank, 3 drawing, and 2 short answer questions.

In this science worksheet, learners examine 25 words in a word bank; all are names of fish and sea creatures. Students locate the words in a word search puzzle.

High schoolers become aware of some of the objects studied in, and concepts associated with, high-energy astronomy. They do this by participating in card games that teach and review these concepts.

Students are introduced to a wide range of rock types when they examine pebbles and boulders exposed in a gravel pit. Students practice rock description and identification and categorize the rocks sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic.

In this picture dictionary learning exercise, students test their vocabulary skills in a picture dictionary vocabulary learning exercise. Students answer 20 exercises.

In this English dictation worksheet, young scholars take dictation from a passage concerning health.

In this math worksheet, students sketch the regions that give rise to the integrals. Then rewrite them as double integrals with the integration order reversed.

For this math worksheet, learners investigate different types of functions and coordinate systems. They review that when integrating a function over a region in the plane using polar coordinates, a “magical” factor of r appears in the...

Fifth graders plot out points on grid paper which correspond with the ordered pairs they are given. If done correctly, the points form a word.

Students engage in a instructional activity that teaches about the Bahai Faith and the manifestation of God found in the religious teachers of the world. They say prayers and meditate on the teachings of Krishna. The instructional...

A discussion of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) facility and its use in material analysis and medicine.

Students examine x-ray crystallography. The resource explores the structure of the proteins specified by tens of thousands of newly sequenced genes. Additional resources are included.

Peter Debye carried out pioneering studies of molecular dipole moments, formulated theories of magnetic cooling and of electrolytic dissociation, and developed an X-ray diffraction technique for use with powdered, rather than...

The innovative resource has students examine X-ray images of the ?hands? of different animals and then determine the function of each hand from its form. The activity has an interactive online version and a printable data sheet.

This biographical site includes a link to a United States House of Representatives resolution recognizing Antonio Meucci as the inventor of the telephone. It also includes information on Bell's (1847-1922) later scientific work.