1. When it comes to active learning, nothing beats presenting live in front of fellow classmates.
(News/News)

Ridgefield Park, New Jersey (March 12, 2012) – Samsung Techwin America’s Electronic Imaging Division (www.samsungpresenterusa.com), a leader in document camera technology, today announced the March ...

2. Why Do People Home School Their Children?
(News/News)

Author: Warren Yarnall   Of course in America there are many options to educating our children. There are public schools, private schools, charter schools, Montessori schools and, of course, the ...

3. Homeschooling In The Garden
(News/News)

... planting. Companion planting is the method of planting certain pairs or groups of crops in closer proximity because they benefit each other. Native Americans planted the "Three Sisters" together—corn, ...

4. Oregon trail diary (5-11)
(Lesson Plans/Elementary School (K-5))

Barbara Watson, Skyline High School, Idaho Falls, ID OREGON TRAIL DIARY Appropriate for grades 5-11. OVERVIEW: As America expanded across the continent, her settlement of the west by the pioneers ...

5. Laws - Who needs them? (7-9)
(Lesson Plans/Elementary School (K-5))

... be a law..." How many times has each of us uttered or thought these words? This phrase has almost become an American folk-saying like "You can't fight City Hall!" It is used most often by angry citizens ...

6. A review of American history (4-8)
(Lesson Plans/Elementary School (K-5))

  Dolores Carnahan, West Park School District, Fresno, CA A REVIEW OF AMERICAN HISTORY Appropriate for grades 4-8. OVERVIEW: A good knowledge of the past is essential to understanding the present ...

7. Women's History Month
(Software for teachers/Software for teachers)

... Other Resources Women in World History Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians Fathom Knowledge Network: Women's History Month Resources The National Women's History Project ...

8. New Online Educational Tool Detailing America's Most Important Agricultural Commodity - Cotton
(Software for teachers/Software for teachers)

... American industry and culture as a basis for discussing and illustrating broader historical events, Cotton Incorporated, the research and promotion company representing Upland cotton, has launched www.CottonCampus.org, ...

9. FORCING THE CITY GATES
(Lessons/Games for the playground)

... advisable under American school conditions.  ...

10. WALT WHITMAN
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... on his rounds through a hospital filled with those wounded young Americans whose heroism he has sung in deathless numbers. There were three rows of cots, and each cot bore its man. When he appeared, in ...

11. COON-HUNTING
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... of the truly American sports of the chase, though its devotees have found difficulty in persuading folks to take their sport seriously. It is, in truth, a comical aspect of hunting, and is scarcely less ...

12. SIGHT IN SAVAGES
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... subjects which have had a mild attraction for me as long as I can remember. When, as a boy, I mixed with the gauchos [Footnote: Gauchos: these people are of Spanish-American descent. They are the native ...

13. THE VILLAGE SCHOOLMASTER
(Lessons/Short Stories)

In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight [Footnote: Wight: a person.] of the name of Ichabod Crane; who ...

14. 42nd annual National School Bus Safety Week
(Software for teachers/Software for teachers)

    Monday, October 20th is the start of the 42nd annual National School Bus Safety Week. In honor of National School Bus Safety Week, the American School Bus Council (ASBC) unveiled enhanced ...

15. ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... killed immediately. An American writer gives another instance of ursine [Footnote: Ursine: pertaining to a bear.] irritability. A friend of his would persist in practising the flute near his tame black ...

16. AN AFRICAN PET
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... and was growing so accustomed to civilized life, that I began to have great hopes of being able to carry him to America. But alas! poor Tommy. One morning he refused his food, seemed downcast, and was ...

17. HENRY WARD BEECHER'S ACCOUNT OF HIS SPEECH IN MANCHESTER
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... anything with an English audience--I have never had any experience with an English audience. My American ways, which are all well enough with Americans, may utterly fail here, and a failure in the cause ...

18. TWENTY YEARS OF ARCTIC STRUGGLE
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... feast. Reaching the Roosevelt [Footnote: Roosevelt: Peary's ship.] at the end of July, the expedition returned to America a few months later. After twenty years of heroic striving, Peary had again missed ...

19. SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of these offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, He now ...

20. AN ARAB FISHERMAN
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... days a week they yoke his stout oxen before a great American plow, turn his soil, scatter his fertilizer, after the harvest help him sort out the best grain for the next sowing, and so forth; but the seventh ...