This video describes the role of the brain in regulating body temperature and how sometimes fever is employed to fight off infection.

The students will get an overview of basic fibers by acting out a short story. They will learn about fabrication and how a yarn is made. They will also learn some basic weave patterns by weaving paper strips together.

This activity is an interactive “out-of-the-seat” demo that allows the students to become involved in learning about fibre optic cables by imitating the way that one basically functions. While enjoying the physicality of the demo the children will pick up basic details of light, reflection, optical properties, and applications to technology. Additionally, the activity will go into details of how fibre optics are used in astronomy technology and how it is used to improve our understanding of the universe. An emphasis should be placed on asking direct questions to the children about how these concepts can influence technology, astronomy, and our world to reinforce the concepts that they are learning about.

This activity is an interactive Òout-of-the-seatÓ demo that allows the students to become involved in learning about fibre optic cables by imitating the way that one basically functions. While enjoying the physicality of the demo the children will pick up basic details of light, reflection, optical properties, and applications to technology. Additionally, the activity will go into details of how fibre optics are used in astronomy technology and how it is used to improve our understanding of the universe. An emphasis should be placed on asking direct questions to the children about how these concepts can influence technology, astronomy, and our world to reinforce the concepts that they are learning about.

This is a short video describing what some of the aspects of the Fantasy Genre. It is engaging for upper elementary and lower middle school aged students. It touches on magic, other worlds, magic creatures, quest, good vs evil.

The Big6 is a six-stage model to help anyone solve problems or make decisions by using information. Students can use this model to guide them through the research process. This resource guides students through writing a fiction book report.

1st/2nd grade: Students will use a visual, physically involved activity to understand and categorize fiction/narrative and non-fiction/informational books.

This video segment from the teacher video series Learning That Works uses a case study to highlight the effectiveness of a project-based, real-world approach to teaching science.

This task allows students to relate addition and subtraction problems to money in a context that introduces the concept of scarcity.

Field Trip to the Moon. This is from the American Natural History Museum and it will take your students on a Field Trip to the Moon.

This problem reinforces addition fact fluency, develops reasoning, and encourages working systematically. Solvers determine which seven cards, out of a set of 15 numbered cards 1-15, are used to satisfy the given sums of each consecutive pair of cards. The resource includes hints for getting started, printable copies of the problem and number cards, suggestions implementation and differentiation, discussion questions, and sample student solutions.

The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1870, the third of three “Reconstruction Amendments” ratified in the wake of the Civil War. It prevented the U.S. government and States from denying citizens the right to vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Prominent suffragists, including Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, advocated for the inclusion of “sex” among these categories, but were ultimately unsuccessful.

This activity is designed to accompany the contextual essay “‘The Fifteenth Amendment in Flesh and Blood’: The Symbolic Generation of Black Americans in Congress, 1870–1887,” from the Black Americans in Congress website, history.house.gov/exhibitions-and-publications/baic/black-americans-in-congress/. Students have the opportunity to learn more about the Black Americans who served in Congress from 1870 to 1887. Students are encouraged to analyze the role African-American Representatives and Senators played in Congress during this era, as well as the ways in which they may have changed the institution.

To help improve the students oral reading fleuncy, this activity can be applied to any grade appropriate reading material.

Wait, did that really happen? Fake news, clickbait, misinformation, disinformation, and even deep-fake technology are everywhere and their spread can have devastating effects. In a country where almost half of its citizens get their news from social media, individuals regularly diagnose themselves using google, but only 9% of Americans trust the media “a great deal,” we need to arm our students with the tools they need to navigate the media they encounter on a day-to-day basis. Students share stories within 15 seconds, often before reading it completely, so they need a simple, effective way to check whether something is legitimate or not before passing it on. Come and learn some quick and easy ways to teach this important skill to your students, and maybe even yourself.

Article looking at Slavery and what side they chose to side with during the American Revolution. This could be used as enrichment/extension, or annotated as a class.

Social injustice occurs every day all over the world. In this lesson, students research a few historical examples of social injustice, including the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, and Japanese internment.

Black men in Kentucky who wanted to fight for the Union Army faced extraordinary challenges. In January 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation had declared that all enslaved people in the Confederate States were free. Black men could officially enlist in the Union Army as combat soldiers. But this did not apply to Kentucky because Kentucky had declared that it was on the side of the Union. Although Kentucky was on the Union side, the state did not want to end slavery.

This activity utilizes primary source documents, video from The Good Stuff: Time Capsule and the PBS series Mercy Street to examine the Black Lives Matter Movement and the racial conflicts of today and trace their roots to the Abolitionist Movement of the nineteenth century. For more resources from Mercy Street, check out the collection page. For more resources from Mercy Street, check out the collection page.