This article provides links to six web sites that provide an overview of cause/effect relationships, graphic organizers, and teaching strategies for elementary teachers.

This article describes how to help students engage with nonfiction text by asking questions, identifying facts, making connections, and reflecting on the text. A template for use with students is included.

In this video segment from WILD TV, a guide describes how to camouflage a person's body to avoid being detected in the wilderness.

These activities can be used for any novel study in the upper elementary grades. Graphic organizers allow students to demonstrate understanding of ELA skills. Book Trailer project shows understanding of the novel.(This resource's preview image was created by the author using iMovie trailer templates.)

In this video segment from Nature, animal lovers talk about their experiences having pigs as pets.

This article describes the principle of Universal Design for Learning and how teachers can use this principle when designing lessons.

This article provides ideas, lessons and resources on how elementary teachers can integrate map skills, math, and art into lessons about the geography of the Arctic and Antarctica.

This article explains how hands-on science activity can support vocabulary development and links to two books and six web sites that provide more information.