Teaching young people how to communicate effectively helps them maintain healthy relationships, resolve conflicts peacefully, excel in school, and eventually get and keep jobs. In these lessons, students practice different forms of...

Here you will find examples of inventions created by children. They submit their ideas along with drawings and plans. Many of these are made into real objects and posted for the inventors to see what they would look like in real life....

This is a brief K-4 lesson summary that links to a Common Sense Media slideshow. It looks at what a digital footprint is and how it can be positive or negative and influence how people see you now or in the future. The slideshow can be...

This 68-page story book aims to teach children about the Internet and its possible challenges in a playful way. In the Online Zoo, the animals use the internet. During her daily tour around the zoo, Director Elsa discovers that Panda...

A 16-page textbook designed to give students in Grades 1 and 2 insights into various means of communication whilst drawing on real-life parallels of rights and responsibilities. Includes coloring pages for students and links to several...

This resource aims to teach the history of computing and the effect of landmark moments in computing history on today's world. Crosses different curriculum areas. Explanations of many of the world's significant computers were provided by...

Students will know and be able to use the formula for calculating compound interest and understand the effect of compounding on savings in this lesson.

The official site by The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Of interest is the history of ASCAP as well as articles for those wanting to learn more about the music business.

This is the home page of the Fine Art Museum in Basel, Switzerland. You can browse through the artworks in the collection online. Among the paintings on exhibit are ones by such renowned artists as Picasso, Gauguin, Monet, and Van Gogh....

This is the home page of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Click on the "hamburger" in the top right of the page to access the museum's collections, exhibitions, and activities.

Learn about the art collection covering about six hundred years of Nordic and European art. You can search the collection by artist, time period, or gallery, and even take online tours.

This is the home page of the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, Spain. The museum is an important resource for understanding Picasso's early years. There are descriptions of exhibitions, and of some of the individual works.

This is an engineering activity that requires students to build a mousetrap car based on certain constraints. Constraints include students having a virtual budget that they use to buy approved parts for their car, the car having...

A food web is a way of seeing how energy is transferred from organism to organism. All living things need energy. They use it to move, to grow, to reproduce. That energy has to come from someplace. Drawing a food web is a great way to...

In this lesson, 7th graders are shown how Great Navigators of the past stayed on course with the historical methods of navigation. The concepts of dead reckoning and celestial navigation are discussed. Using Vector Voyage students will...

This is a USS Constitution Museum resource that has learners compare the area of the size of the sails of the USS Constitution as it compares to their classroom.

Tell the class that they will be making collages of USS Constitution. Reproduce the sails and hull pages to hand out along with scissors, rulers, paste and pieces of paper 11" x 17" on which students may assemble their collages.

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

This USS Constitution Museum resource is a lesson plan that calls for students to work together in teams to create a new figurehead for the USS Constitution that was destroyed while on patrol.

Do you ever wonder what happens when a cloud gets too full? Find out in this easy and fun experiment.

For elementary students, this booklet of activities teaches basic money skills and concepts. Includes lesson plans.

Students can explore this iconic museum with exhibits dedicated to everything from Egyptian mummies to the Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies.

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...

This experiment is about bread. If you have used my website for long, you know that I like experiments with food, especially when it is tasty food. We regularly bake bread, and there are few smells that are better than the smell of...