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- Internet Field Trips
- Bats
3-5, 6-8
Navigate the Web to answer questions about this misunderstood mammal.
- Chinese New Year Cyberhunt
3-5, 6-8
Find online resources to celebrate the New Year, and learn about Chinese culture and history.
- Clouds
3-5, 6-8
Do online research to learn more about clouds.
- Families: The Roots of History
3-5, 6-8
Research your genealogy and family history with these online resources.
- George Washington
3-5, 6-8
Learn more about our first President by using the Web.
- Internet Field Trips Teacher's Guide
Teacher's Guide to using selected sites from the World Wide Web
- Library Treasures: At Your Fingertips
3-5, 6-8
With online library collections, you can discover everything from rare documents to maps.
- Research Starters Home
3-5, 6-8
Jump-start your research paper with a variety of social studies and science topics.
- Who Said That?
3-5, 6-8
Find the source to familiar quotations with these online resources.
- Lesson Plans
- Develop Powers of Persuasion
6-8
Children must create a persuasive public service announcement that focuses on seat belt safety for teens.
- Grade-Perfect Theme Club: Building Research Skills, Grades 2-3
K-2, 3-5
The activities and reproducibles in this cross-curricular unit will help your students build research skills and handle information.
- Grade-Perfect Theme Club: Let's Find Out, Grades K-1
K-2
The activities and reproducibles in this cross-curricular unit will help your students build research skills and handle information.
- Grade-Perfect Theme Club: Serious Fun With Research, Grades 4-8
3-5, 6-8
The activities and reproducibles in this cross-curricular unit will help your students build research skills and handle information.
- Home Sweet Home
Early Childhood
Explore the uniqueness of your own family and learn about other families.
- Measuring Marvels
K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Test knowledge of both standard and metric measuring systems with this activity based on Millions to Measure by David Schwartz.
- Mission: Define Your Future
6-8
An educational program for grades 6–12 that challenges students to relate practical math and science skills to real-world experiences in engineering.
- Narrowing the Topic
3-5, 6-8
Show how students can take an active role determining a research topic. (PDF) Source: Easy Steps To Writing Fantastic Research Reports
- Presidential Best Friends
3-5
Check your comprehension of a story by answering key questions from the book, First Pets: Presidential Best Friends.
- Rainforests
3-5, 6-8
Start researching rainforests with these great resources.
- Space Science: Adventure Is Waiting
3-5, 6-8
A dynamic education program to build student skills for grades 3-5 and 6-8 in both science and language arts.
- Unit Plan: A Wild Family Album!
3-5
Select and research a favorite animal to make a scrapbook-style album to share.
- Unit Plan: Beyond Book Reports
3-5
Find tips and ideas to help students feel confident and prepared when standardized testing season rolls around.
- Unit Plan: Blast from the Past Travel Guides
6-8
Become an expert on Ancient Roman civilization by creating travel brochures.
- Unit Plan: Celebrate Your Heritage
3-5
Conduct an interview, record family history, chart your family's path to America, and more.
- Unit Plan: Democracy: A Big Challenge
K-2
Explore the drafting and signing of the Constitution and develop interviewing and persuasive writing skills.
- Unit Plan: Discovering the Deep
3-5
Discover the answers to big questions about the ocean and its ecosystems through an active, hands-on approach.
- Unit Plan: Geography Research Report!
6-8
Research such topics as a famous place, an historical event, or an invention, then take this information and turn it into a PowerPoint™ presentation.
- Unit Plan: I Believe I Can Fly
K-2
Explore various occupations and research a future career choice.
- Unit Plan: Impromptu and Extemporaneous Speeches
6-8
Develop children's confidence by teaching them to formulate their thoughts quickly and to research and deliver a well-organized, engaging speech.
- Unit Plan: Interdependence: A Colonial Example
3-5
Make your classroom a small town in Colonial America where each student takes on the identity of a colonist.
- Unit Plan: Liberty and Justice for All
K-2
Explore significant events of the Civil Rights Movement during the late 1950s and discover why everyone deserves to be treated respectfully and fairly.
- Unit Plan: Our City and State
K-2
Respond to fractured fairy tales by writing in many styles, including a persuasive essay, a personal narrative, a letter of complaint, an advertisement, and even a resume.
- Unit Plan: Women in History: Research for Expository Writing
6-8
Read nonfiction literature to learn about Amelia Earhart and write a short newspaper article.
- Wildfires Instructor Online Theme Unit
3-5, 6-8
Find out all about wildfires with this series of cross-curricular activities focused around various Web sites.
- Women During World War II
6-8
Interview women about their experiences during World War II.
- Women in Television
6-8
Evaluate the roles played behind the scenes by women in the field of television.
- Women in the News
6-8
Study the portrayal of women in their hometown newspapers.
- Writers' Workshop: Nonfiction
3-5, 6-8
Nonfiction writing lessons from the Teachers and Writers Collaborative
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