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Signaling Satellites

The objective of this lesson is to use mirrors and angles to aim a laser beam at a target.

Making the Grade: Examining Grade Inflation

In this lesson, students engage in a debate on the issue of grade inflation after researching its recent history.

The Gramian and K-Volume in N-Space: Some Classical Results in Linear Algebra

Abstract -- We give a formula for determining when a set of k vectors in n-space is linearly independent, and if so, what is the volume of the parallelepiped with these vectors as its sides. This function, the gramian, allows one to partially apply the determinant when the number of vectors you have is less than the dimension of the ambient space. These results were classically known, but are not part of the standard linear algebra curriculum. Prerequisites: familiarity with matrices and determinants.

What does research say about the effect of parental involvement on the academic achievement of children?

This resource from the AskERIC Question Archive addresses parent involvement and its effect on academic achievement. The AskERIC Question Archive contains sample responses to questions sent to the AskERIC service. These responses may include ERIC citations, Internet sites, discussion groups, and/or print resource information.

Queen Victoria's Empire - A Victorian News Magazine

Students will create a special feature news magazine that highlights Queen Victoria and her reign over England. Students will include stories about key events, people, and politics of the time. Students will use proper writing techniques when creating news and feature stories as well as editorials. Magazines will focus on different decades of Victoria's life from 1819 to 1901.

The Gunpowder Plot

This resource is a comprehensive booklet providing numerous sources to guide pupils through an investigation as to what really happened during the gunpowder plot..

Archaeology and Storytelling

Students present family stories.

Barney - Tissue Paper Flowers

Reinforce student identification of the primary colors of red, yellow, and blue by making tissue paper flowers.

The 3 R's of Common Denominators (Math)

Students are shown an alternative method of determining the lowest common denominator of two or more unequal denominators.

How Did Britain Prepare for WWII?

This resource describes the preparations that the British people made when war was declared on Germany in World War II.

Writing Thank-You Notes

This lesson teaches students to write thank-you note using the writing process. Students will draft, revise, edit, and publish their thank-you notes. They will use a computer to view examples of thank-you notes and insert graphics into their own published thank-you notes.

High School Choir Visit to the Kennedy Center

This field trip helps the students to identify John F. Kennedy and Leonard Bernstein and their relationship to the Kennedy Center. Students will be able to briefly describe the history of the Kennedy Center. They will also be able to identify the theaters contained in the Kennedy Center and to identify proper etiquette for the theater.

Dinner Etiquette

Dinner is the main meal of the day. It is appropriate that correct table setting and etiquette be used at the dinner table.

Drawing a Rose

The aim of this lesson is to learn how to draw a rose.

Portraiture

The aim of this lesson is to draw a portratit using the 'inside-out' method.

When and how should keyboarding be taught?

This resource from the AskERIC Question Archive addresses keyboarding instruction. The AskERIC Question Archive contains sample responses to questions sent to the AskERIC service. These responses may include ERIC citations, Internet sites, discussion groups, and/or print resource information.

Composing Topic Sentences

This fourth grade lesson in Classroom Currents teaches students how to gain an understanding of topic sentences by reading diary entries that describe a vacation and summarizing the notes in topic sentences for each day and by entering the topic sentences in a PowerPoint presentation that summarizes and describes the vacation.

Sentence Fragments and Run-on Sentences

This eighth grade lesson in Classroom Currents teaches students how to identify, analyze, and write sentences using specific guidelines by: learning eight specific guidelines to correct run-on and incomplete sentences; practicing corrections with sentence examples; identifying, correcting, and rewriting mistakes in a paragraph using the Track Changes and Comments features in Word; writing a subsequent paragraph containing sentences that demonstrate the eight guidelines.

Recognizing the Four Sentence Types

This fifth grade lesson in Classroom Currents teaches students how to recognize the four sentence types. After teacher-presented examples of declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences are studied, students open a template of a generic advertisement and provide examples of each sentence type to sell the product effectively. Using desktop publishing, students not only practice writing different sentence types but also have the opportunity to individualize the advertisement with their own choice of formatting and graphics.

Berenstain Bears - Outward Appearances

Students will discuss first impressions, and how people are the same on the inside. Students will dress up in Halloween costumes and how discuss how they look compared to how they really are. (Section 4)

BodyWise Handbook: Eating Disorders Information for Middle School Personnel

The BodyWise packet customized for school personnel contains fact sheets designed for teachers, nurses, coaches, and other educators, as well as resource lists. The fact sheets include suggestions for integrating eating disorders prevention into existing curricula and for initiating school-wide activities to promote prevention of unhealthy eating and preoccupation with body weight.

Art & Life in Africa Online

This site explores African works of art in the context of the lives of African peoples. Currently, the Art and Life in Africa Online web pages serve as an introduction and guide to the related CD-ROM project in general, as well as providing online resources such as the online searchable Catalogue of the Stanley Collection of Africa Art at the University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA), along with information on 106 Peoples and 27 African countries profiled in the ALA CD-ROM. The Online site also contains a version of chapter Key Moments in Life from the CD, which contains an overview of Art and Life in Africa. Also online is the complete version of the Art and Life in Africa Teacher's Guide, designed to help teachers in the K-12 classroom integrate the ALA CD-ROM into their curricula.

Simple Things You Can Do To Help All Children Read Well and Independently by the End of Third Grade

Provides a guide that all community members can use to help children learn to read and become better readers. This publication includes a general outline for starting a literacy program, with suggestions divided according to the type of group involved.

Shoulder That Bag

In this activity, students learn what happens to bones and muscles in space and the safe way to use a backpack.

Isometric or Isotonic?

The objective of this lesson is to learn the difference between isometric and isotonic exercises, while relating the issue to astronauts.

ARTSEDGE Celebrates Louis Armstrong- Printable Version of Timelinks

This printable timeline has links to some of the important events in the world over the last century, with an emphasis on politics and the arts. There is another version available with hyperlinks.

All Music Guide Glossary - Styles

The All Music Guide Glossary section on Styles includes definitions of musical terms having to do with all the different styles of music.

Dealing With Discipline

This resource sheet offers strategies for parents on disciplining children. Topics include the differences between discipline and punishment, understanding schools' codes of conduct, tips for dealing with teens, and more.

San Francisco Ballet & Pacific Northwest Ballet: Lecture/Demonstrations

Cuesheets are performing arts study guides published by the Education Department of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO). Cuesheets are designed for teachers' use before and after attending performances for school groups and families at the Kennedy Center and at various sites across the country as part of the Imagination Celebration on Tour program. Cuesheets are wonderful resources containing introductory information and activities appropriate for all children, even without experiencing the performance. Lecture/demonstrations are informal presentations used by Ballet companies to introduce their dancers, dance styles, and repertory to an audience. The lecture/demonstration offers students a backstage peek at the discipline, dedication, hard work, and artistry required of a professional dancer. This Cuesheet discusses the "role" that the audience plays in a performance, plus definitions of common terms in ballet. Complete with diagrams and definitions, this Cuesheet is an excellent guide to ballet movements and exercises which students can identify and recognize in a ballet performance.

Students as Historians: Exercises for the Elementary and Middle School Student

In this workshop, participants will use photograph collections focused on the Civil War and African Americans to identify ways students can use American Memory collections as a basis for historical investigation.

Harper Collection Lesson Plan

Several of the photographs of Alvan S. Harper have shaped our nation's view of the past. In recent years, a few of Harper's photographs have been used in books and exhibits. Time-Life's five-volume series This Fabulous Century used three in the 1870-1900 prelude volume. In this lesson, students will look at the Harper photos that appear in This Fabulous Century. By examining the photos, students will broaden their understanding of the historical record created by the photographs of Alvan S. Harper.

Lesson Plan for Guernica: Testimony of War

In this lesson students explore both the passion that inspired Picasso to take political action and the thought process behind the work. Students will reflect on their own decision-making process when they feel compelled to take public action. This lesson will lead students to investigate the following Life-long Learning Question: How does passion inspire public action?

Gene Hester's Wildlife Photography

This site contains a collection of wildlife images made from photographs taken by Gene Hester.

Welcome to the Americas Museum of Art

This resource is the home page for the Art Museum of the Americas. This page provides you links to different artists throughout the Century.

My Great-Aunt Arizona

This CyberGuide designed to supplement the teaching of My Great-Aunt Arizona , consists of five Internet activities in which the students explore the following: Setting and geographical location of the book. Biographical details of Arizona as a child and adult teacher. American life and the one-room school in the late 1800s through mid-1900s. Discovery of "faraway places" today.

Spotlight on Leni Donlan

The Spotlight Interviews collection features a variety of examples of Internet use from teachers at all grade levels and from all over North America. Some include samples of student work and assessment strategies. Case studies and articles from teachers in the other sections of the Spotlight are tightly- focused vignettes. ED's Oasis asks Leni Donlan about developing the Student Technology Team at Town School.

The Virtual Science Fair: Laura Cohn

The Spotlight Interviews collection features a variety of examples of Internet use from teachers at all grade levels and from all over North America. Some include samples of student work and assessment strategies. Case studies and articles from teachers in the other sections of the Spotlight are tightly- focused vignettes. This Spotlight focuses on Laura Cohn, the technology coordinator at Park Maitland private co-ed school in Maitland, Florida.

Spotlight on Shannon Carroll

The Spotlight Interviews collection features a variety of examples of Internet use from teachers at all grade levels and from all over North America. Some include samples of student work and assessment strategies. Case studies and articles from teachers in the other sections of the Spotlight are tightly- focused vignettes. This Spotlight focuses on Shannon Carroll and her experience as a technology specialist.

"If You Build It - Will They Come?"

This resource is an essay by Cathy de Moll, OnlineClass Producer, about important considerations for the education web site creator.

Spotlight on Al Bode

The Spotlight Interviews collection features a variety of examples of Internet use from teachers at all grade levels and from all over North America. Some include samples of student work and assessment strategies. Case studies and articles from teachers in the other sections of the Spotlight are tightly- focused vignettes.

CyberEnglish, Mentoring, and Professional Development

The Spotlight Interviews collection features a variety of examples of Internet use from teachers at all grade levels and from all over North America. Some include samples of student work and assessment strategies. Case studies and articles from teachers in the other sections of the Spotlight are tightly- focused vignettes. This Spotlight focuses on Ted Nellen who is best known for his Mentoring strategies, and has received international acclaim for his CyberEnglish project.

Atoms, Electrons and the Periodic Table

This 38-page resource is the first chapter in a college-level introductory chemistry reference text. A major objective of this chapter is to introduce the reader to 'the quantum way of thinking', and to show how this way of thinking led to a profound break with the past, and a shift in our way of viewing the world that has no parallel in Western intellectual history. It summarizes the major ideas of quantum theory that will be needed to treat atomic and molecular structure later on in this course. It covers the following basic quantum concepts: wave motion; energy units and magnitudes; and electromagnetic, continuous/thermal, line, and absorption spectra. Also included in this chapter is an explanation of how the arrangement of the periodic table of the elements must follow as a necessary consequence of the fundamental laws of the quantum behavior of matter. In this explanation, the following models of the atom are described: planetary, Bohr's, and shell.

The Universe in the Classroom: On Mars

Our neighbor planet, Mars, is a fascinating place, a world that is both tantalizingly familiar and strangely different. Since Mars will be closer to Earth, brighter, and easier to spot in the sky in the fall of 1988 than it has been for many years, this coming school year will be a perfect time to acquaint your students with Mars's history and geography and its important place in our exploration of the solar system.

The Universe in the Classroom: Going to the Ends of the Earth

They call it the Dark Sector. It's upwind from the base, away from any bright lights, bulldozers, and radio beacons that could interfere with observing. The telescope buildings sit on stilts, so that snow drifts won't bury them. Here, a 5-minute snowmobile ride from the South Pole, is the most remote observatory on Earth.

The Tragedy of the Commons

Tragedy of the Commons is the mind set: "If I don't use the resources then someone else will." This is a simulation that allows students to explore how the common usage of a potentially renewable resource can lead to its exploitation. Students will complete an activity, a data sheet, an analysis of the data, and a comparison of this problem to a local environmental issue. Students will pose solutions to this problem.

Roman Italy: Lucania

The "Illustrated History of the Roman Empire" Web site is an extensive collection of Internet resources about the history, culture, religion, geography (including several interactive maps), and the rise and fall of Ancient Rome. This particular resource is a map of Lucania in Roman Italy.

Your World: The New Diagnostics

Your World: The New Diagnostics focuses on the fields of immunology, genetics, and biotechnology, including definitions, and how they can be used to help people's quality of life.

Students Friend, Part 2: Renaissance to the present, Unit 7 - Current Issues: toward a new world order

This file contains a description of some of the important issues faced by the world today.

Stem Cells for Cell-Based Therapies

Stem cells have the potential to cure many human diseases because they are like blank cells - they can become any cell in the human body, enduring-embryos, in particular, can provide an endless supply of stem cells, and regenerative-embryos can be used as a live source of self-repair.

Neurobiology

These activities help high school students to understand the basic structures and molecules that allow the nervous system to function through modeling and research. In addition, a behavioral study on insects allows students to examine some of the behaviors governed by the nervous system. All these activities are designed for group work and incorporate students in the design of projects and the assessments.

Perspective Six: Room Interior (CVP)

The aim of this lesson is to create a perspective grid using a single measurement and three vanishing points but vanishing toward the CVP. We will also introduce the freehand method of constructing curves.

Interactive Health Tutorials: Diseases and Conditions: Tuberculosis

The tutorial, Tuberculosis, is an interactive health education resource that uses animated graphics and sound to explain this condition in easy-to-read language. Also available in Spanish.

Do you have any information on K-12 summer programs?

This resource from the AskERIC Question Archive addresses finding resources on creating successful K-12 summer programs. The AskERIC Question Archive contains sample responses to questions sent to the AskERIC service. These responses may include ERIC citations, Internet sites, discussion groups, and/or print resource information.

Le Carrefour Culturel

What is American? What is French? The attempt to find a simple definition of either culture is impossible. The United States is made of numerous cultures. Similarly, the lives of inhabitants of former French colonies have been influenced by several cultures. In this scenario, students develop an understanding of the effects of French colonialism on Africa and/or the Caribbean as well as the concept of Ngritude, an expression of the cultural crossroads (carrefour culturel) experienced by those of the former French colonies. Students also take a look at the cultural crossroads in their own history and present-day lives. This lesson is aimed at advanced French speakers.

Creating a Freshwater Ecosystem

In this activity, students will make a replica of a freshwater ecosystem as it might appear in nature. Students will learn to correctly identify some fishes of Texas and parts of their ecosystem.

Understanding Our Planet's Food Web

This is a team-structured problem-solving activity that challenges the student's problem-solving abilities. Students understand man's tenuous position in the environment, and learn through a hierarchy of decision stages to conserve species diversity.

Fire Ecology

In this lesson, students examine the role that fire plays in maintaining the physical factors of the scrub ecosystem.

Fire

This resource contains factual information on the role of fire in the Florida Everglades.

NOVA - Secrets of Lost Empires

Ancient structures may generate awe and provide information about the people who built them, but they leave many questions unanswered. In this four-part, NOVA brings together experts from diverse fields to reconstruct how these monuments might have been built. For each structure, individual teams are challenged to create a scale model using the materials and scientific knowledge thought to be available at the time of original construction. By applying their knowledge of each culture, their expertise in building techniques, and a process of trial and error, the teams attempt to reconstruct these ancient technological wonders. The Teacher's Guide gives an overview of the program and provides discussion questions and activities for use with students before and after viewing the film.

Our Viking Settlement

The aim of this project is to develop an understanding of daily life in a Viking settlement through active learning.

Locator Booth: Mapping South America

In this lesson, students will see how human and physical factors define eight South American hot spots. Students will learn new geographic terms and use context clues in their reading to decide which map has the information they need to complete an interactive activity.

Can Scientists Discover a Limit to Discovery?

In this two-day lesson, students evaluate opposing sides to the debate regarding whether or not there is a future for scientific discovery. Students will analyze excerpts from the debate between John Horgan and John Maddox for both an understanding of the articles' content and an evaluation of different methods of persuasion. Students then assess quotations from the articles and write final reflections about their views about science's future.

Totem Pole

Native American rituals

A Blast from the Past: Revisiting Chernobyl Twenty Years Later

In this lesson, students revisit the April 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and compare the projected health, environmental, social and economic impacts to new scientific findings. They then create public service announcements educating the people of the region on these new findings.

Breathing Easier: Investigating How Asthma Affects Students and What Schools Can Do to Help

In this lesson, students learn about asthma, and then write proposals outlining how teachers, coaches, administrators and school support staff can be better prepared to treat students with asthma.

Scientific American Frontiers - Beneath the Sea: ROV Grid Search

Remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs, play an ever-expanding role in the exploration of the deep ocean environment. These relatively small submersibles are able to explore remote depths without placing humans in jeopardy. In order to locate target sites, underwater camera sleds and ROVs must often follow a well-defined search pattern. Using methodical sweeping movements, these craft will locate objects that might otherwise be overlooked if a more random searching method was employed. In this activity, you'll get to create a search pattern that will be used to uncover hidden targets.

The Aerodynamics of the Discus

Students will draw a cross section of the discus and illustrate how the Bernoulli principle works in relation to a discus as a symmetric airfoil.

Carlos Goes Sledding

These four coloring pages show a young boy sledding in the snow and enjoying hot chocolate afterward. To access the coloring pages, you must register at the Crayon House site.

Values/Ideals of American Citizenship

In this lesson, students examine letters of praise written to General Douglas MacArthur assist students in recognizing the values and ideals of American citizenship.

American Masters - Vaudeville: On with the Show

Using the tradition of vaudeville comedy as a starting pointing, this activity asks the students to think about comedy skits, based on family or domestic situations, and stage one of their own. The activity is divided into 3 parts: observing their family to come up with material for the skit, writing a script for the skit, and staging the skit.

K-6 Fitness: Football; Basketball; Volleyball; Soccer

Students practice skills used in ball games while doing teacher-guided physical activities.

MATHLINE - Voting: Plurality Method

Use the Plurality and Plurality with Elimination methods to determine the winner of an election and to rank a series of four football teams.

Planning for Fire Safety

Students draw floor plans of their homes and plan fire escape routes and actions.

Community Government

In this creative process of introducing community government and its function in the local community, students become active participants in the local government and handle a problem that has the entire community alarmed. The learner will identify the mayor/city council (city manager) form of government as the leadership of community government.

Driving Across Mars

The objective of this lesson is to simulate the movements of a Mars rover vehicle.

In What Direction Do Seeds Grow?

In this lesson students will predict and examine the direction seeds will grow and thereby learn about the effects gravity has on seeds and plants.

Popcorn Isn't Just for Movies Anymore!

According to The Popcorn Institute, Americans consume more than 17.3 billion quarts of popcorn each year. This week, Education World provides you with activities -- just in time for National Popcorn Month -- that will help your students discover that there's more to popcorn than good taste.

American Factfinder: Kid's Corner Why Counting Counts!

Visit the U.S. Census Bureau's Kids Corner, a fun and educational site for kids ages 7 through 11 where you can learn about the U.S. Cenus.

More parents are leaving school shopping to the kids

This fall, more and more parents are letting their kids take control of back-to-school cash, and retailers have taken notice. Parents are increasingly allowing adolescents to pick out their own clothes and school supplies, a trend that isn't just about trust. It's a sign that parents believe kids should learn to be financially responsible, and that teens are uncomfortable with their parents' penchant for conservative dress styles. This case study tracks teens on a mission at the mall!

Plants, Soil, and Nutrients

In this hands-on activity, students will conduct an experiment that will help them understand the functions of plants. Furthermore, the students will use the scientific method to assist them in their explorations.

Balloons Up!

Students will use a soda bottle, balloon, and hot water to discover that warm air expands.

Visible Light

Students will explore characteristics of light and heat.

Book 3: Lesson 19 (Topic 5, The Mission of the Prophets)

The objective of this resource is to connect the understanding of the missions of the manifestations with the personal recognition that those members of other faiths in ones neighborhood and community are part of the unfolding religious history of the world; and to demonstrate understanding of the mission of the prophets by seeking out and desiring association and friendship with members of other faiths.

Book 3: Lesson 25 (Topic 6, The History, Laws, Teachings of the Major Religions)

The objective of this resource is to be able to articulate an understanding of the history, laws and teachings of Islam; to become familiar with the life history of Muhammad and the historical and social context of the time in which he appeared; to become familiar with the Qur'an and the spiritual and social teachings and laws it contains.

The History of "Taps"

Of all the military bugle calls, none is so easily recognized or more apt to render emotion than the call Taps. The melody is both eloquent and haunting and the history of its origin is interesting and somewhat clouded in controversy. In the British Army, a similar call known as Last Post has been sounded over soldiers'graves since 1885, but the use of Taps is unique with the United States military, since the call is sounded at funerals, wreath-laying and memorial services

Everyday Heroes

Following a unit on Greek mythology and mythological heroes, students design and maintain a website that features everyday heroes. Students submit candidates based on their everyday encounters with people in the community.

Mr. Marassa's Greek Mythology Course

Nine week course - classical Greek texts: Theseus, Oedipus, Hercules, and abridged version of Homer's Odyssey, broken into fourteen parts.

Judges on Trial: Examining the Selection of Supreme Court Justices

In this lesson, students investigate how different branches of government affect or aid the appointment of a Supreme Court justice nominee and the responsibilities of a judge.

Legislators and Representation: Executive, Federal and Interest Group Relations

This lesson provides an overview of the interaction between the Legislature and other governmental institutions or organizations that seek to influence the policymaking process. Segment One explores the relationship between the state legislature and two external government institutions the state executive branch and the federal government. Segment Two explores the role and interaction of lobbyists and interest groups within the state legislative process.

War-Making: The Use of a Congressional Power

The purpose of this lesson is for the student to understand the sharing of powers between the Executive and Legislative branches in the war-making power. Students will also gain an insight into the events surrounding the declaration of war in 1941 and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964.

Who Really Built America?

Students examine child labor in America from 1880-1920 to gain a personal perspective of how work affected the American child within a rapidly growing industrial society.

Japanese Extended Family

Using a flannel board and pre-cut paper dolls, students will engage in an activity that will assist them in understanding the concept of the Japanese extended family and how family roles have changed through the generations. This lesson will compliment a unit on Japan.

Japanese Kite Stories

During a unit on Japan, students will participate in an activity to assist them in understanding a segment of Japanese culture.

The Language of Love: Discovering the Cultural Aspects of Love and Courtship in the Social Studies Classroom

In this lesson, students examine the cultural aspects of love, courtship, and marriage around the world. After researching the rituals, language and symbols of love of specific countries, students create 'Valentines' exhibiting their newly acquired knowledge.

Cosmic Chemistry: The Sun and Solar Wind

The Sun and Solar Wind explores the development of the Standard Solar Model and its limitations by available instrumentation and analytical technology. Through understanding of NASA mission research on solar wind, students use their observations and data to investigate the reliability of present models.

Roman Empire at AD 54

The "Illustrated History of the Roman Empire" Web site is an extensive collection of Internet resources about the history, culture, religion, geography (including several interactive maps), and the rise and fall of Ancient Rome. This particular resource is a map of the Roman Empire at the death of Claudius.

Plants: To Dye For

Native peoples used natural plant dyes for hundreds of years to color their clothing. In this activity, students will collect plant parts to make dye, and dye clothes overnight.

Measuring Air-Sea Gas Exchange of Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon and Carbon Dioxide by Micrometeorology and Mass Spectrometry

Abstract -- Advancement in the mass spectrometric analysis of air permits measurement of small gradients in N2, O2, Ar, and CO2. This work shows the potential of the gradient method for detecting air-sea fluxes of N2, O2, Ar, and CO2, though only on a qualitative basis. Difficulties were encountered due to meteorological conditions, though possible effects due to thermal diffusion were shown to be insignificant. Refinement of the technique may eventually lead to qualitative assessment of air-sea fluxes.

Winglet Or Not?

In this activity, students compare a glider with winglets to a glider without.

Constantine II (Flavius Claudius Constantinus)

The "Illustrated History of the Roman Empire" Web site is an extensive collection of Internet resources about the history, culture, religion, geography (including several interactive maps), and the rise and fall of Ancient Rome. This particular resource is a brief biography of Constantine II.