The Supreme Court

Here are some good resources about the Supreme Court:

Take a virtual tour of the Supreme Court Building

Supreme Court Building Virtual Tour

FAQs about the Supreme Court Confirmation process from the National Constitution Center

Supreme Court Confirmation FAQs

A Look at the Supreme Court from Time For Kids-Elementary Grades

A Look at the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court: The Judicial Power of the United States. A Lesson Plan for Grades 6-8 from Edsitement.

The Supreme Court Lesson Plan

Learn more about historic Supreme Court decisions and find activities created by High School Government teachers.

Landmark Cases of the Supreme Court

National Geography Awareness Week

National Geography Awareness Week is November 13-19. Explore the Geography Action! website from National Geographic to find resources for this year's theme, Migration: The Human Journey. Also find resources for past themes like Habitats, Rivers, Biodiversity, and more.

Geography Action!

The National Air and Space Museum's Geography From Space offers the 2005 online quiz at this site on November 13-19. Photos from space are accompanied by clues and answers are provided. Practice before National Geography Awareness Week by taking a quiz from previous years.

Geography from Space Online Quizzes

More Geography resources at the Geography Center from Education World

Geography Center

Want to know more about how to get students in Grades 3-6 interested in learning about Geography? Read this Education Place interview with expert Sarah Bednarz.

Ask the Expert: Sarah Bednarz

Collaborative Projects

The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education offers links to several online collaborative projects. If you have missed the deadline for the fall, sign up for the spring projects.

CIESE Collaborative Projects

Search the Global Schoolhouse Internet Projects Registry for a great project for your K-12 classroom.

Internet Projects Registry

More listings and search strategies from Educscapes

Online Collaborative Projects: Locating Projects

National Museum of the American Indian

Step into the National Museum of the American Indian thanks to this virtual tour created by students. Zoom in to see artifacts up close. Quicktime required.

Creation's Journey and All Roads Are Good Virtual Tour

Other Online Exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian

Online Exhibitions

Download this free lesson plan filled with beautiful color photographs of Native American dolls from the Smithsonian. Grades 3-8.

Native American Dolls Lesson Plans

Other Resources for educators from Smithsonian

Educator Resources from Smithsonian Education

Photo above of Native American basket weaver from National Archives & Records Administration (ARC Identifier 281615)

High Resolution image of Native American Basket Weaver

Why Reinvent the Wheel? Use Templates!

Save time with these template resources:

Education World Teacher Tools and Templates

Meg Ormiston's Collection of Template Links

Elementary Technology Integration Activities - Canby School District

Pumpkin Magic

Try some Pumpkin Magic for students in the early elementary grades.

Pick a Pumpkin from Starfall
Create your own jack-o-lantern, see it dance, and print it out complete with lines for a written response.
Pick a Pumpkin


Pick a Pumpkin to Carve from BloomPetals
Click to create free-form polygons to make a unique Jack-O-Lantern from BloomPetals. Print out your Jack-O-Lantern, or send it as an email postcard to a friend.
Pick a Pumpkin to Carve


Interactive Pumpkin Carving Sequencer
Put the steps to carving a pumpkin in order from Read Write Think
Pumpkin Sequencer


Pumpkin Poems and Songs from CanTeach
Pumpkin Poems and Songs

Space & Astronomy

Inspire a new generation of explorers with these Space and Astronomy sites.

Science News for Kids-Space and Astronomy articles for Grades 6-8. See Saturn's spongy moon, or learn about the World of Three Suns.

Science News for Kids

Explore Mars Now-Pack your bags and get ready for take off with this simulation of a Mars habitat for Grades 6-12.

Explore Mars Now

Amazing Space for K-12-Online explorations based on Hubble Space Telescope discoveries. Check out Planet Impact and Solar System Trading Cards.

Amazing Space

Image of Jupiter and Io from

Pics4Learning

This Day in History

"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know."

Harry S Truman

Do you know what happened on today's date 50 years ago? 100 years ago? Do you know about a famous person born on your birthday? The daily format of each site below works well for anchor or enrichment activities. Search the archives to find resources for a specific historical event.

Historical photos and documents from the Library of Congress

Today in History from the Library of Congress

History Channel topic categories include general interest, the Civil War, literary, etc.

This Day in History from the History Channel

Do you know the mystery person of the day?

On This Day from Encarta

Short biographies for younger students.

Today's Birthdays from FactMonster

Click on a date on the calendar to see relevant lesson plans, web resources, print resources, and more. Bookmark this one for grades K-12.

Read Write Think Calendar

Digital Cameras in the Classroom

Put a digital camera to use in your elementary classroom to enrich your curriculum with one of these creative ideas.

50 Ideas for Using the Digital Camera

Picturing Literacy

Use this Kodak web page with side-by-side examples of digital photos to improve your photography, or to help your students understand how they can take better pictures, too.

Top 10 Photo Tips

Illuminations

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) partnered with the Marco Polo Internet Content for the Classroom web site to produce the Illuminations website. Use the links below to view carefully-selected standards-based mathematics content on the web for PreK - Grade 12.

Web Resources-Search by math standard and grade level

Web Resources

Tools-Interactive graphers, explorations, and more

Tools

Lesson Plans-Search by grade level and standards

Lesson Plans

The New York Times Learning Network

This free resource for grades 3-12 includes lesson plans, vocabulary and geography builders, daily news quiz, and On this Day in History. Go to News Summaries and turn on the vocabulary links to see pop-up definitions to key vocabulary terms found in the article, or turn on the geography links to see maps and other atlas information for key places featured in the story.

NYT Learning Network

NOAA Photo Library

The NOAA Photo Library includes weather and space images, images of our shores and coastal seas, and marine species images. See the NOAA scientists at work chasing tornadoes, tagging turtles, and more. Just give NOAA credit to use these public domain images.

NOAA Photo Library

The Monster Exchange Project

The Monster Exchange Project was designed to creatively engage K-8 students in reading and writing. Collaborate with another classroom through the site, or adapt the idea to have students exchange written monster descriptions and drawings with another classroom in your school.

The Monster Exchange Project

Adapt or supplement your Monster Exchange Project with these interesting online resources with a monster theme:

Monster Resources for K-6