REFERENCE
Read about the origins of halloween. This history of the holiday reviews All Saints' Day, All Souls' Day and Samhain.
ACTIVITIES
MENC (now NAfME) collected successful ideas and activities for celebrating Music in Our Schools Month (March).
LESSON PLANS
Students develop a script for Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes, the story of an apprentice who becomes involved with…
A list of Booker Prize Winners, from 1969 to the present day.
Information about work stoppages that involved 1,000 or more workers.
Statistics showing the the number of workers from 1840-2005.
TEACHING RESOURCE
Learn how teacher dispositions can affect student learning of mathematics. A student disposition's relationship to…
Distribute an article that gives timely advice to parents on how to foster science skill building in their child.
Margaret, a 12-year-old girl from Boston, tells about her Chinese New Year experiences. This is a great narrative to…
Use a School Readiness Activity to provide early mathematical thinking experiences for preschool children that will…
Dr. Seuss's Bartholomew and The Oobleck is a wonderful look at the perils of getting what you think you want, a great…
Explore Colonial times by reading the Mayflower Compact. This reference includes the text of this historic document and…
