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Build your own DIY science and lab equipment at home with easy-to-find materials to conduct experiments.

Have high schoolers find inspiration for stories in everyday objects or events and craft advice columns with these downloadable activities for at-home learning.

Help students in Grades 3–12 tap into what they're feeling with an informal writing activity.

Students will learn from reading diary entries written on the Oregon Trail how such writings preserve history and bring the past to life.

Andrea Barnes is retiring after nearly 30 years in the classroom. In this post she shares parting words of wisdom for future teachers, especially the need for collaboration during the current COVID-19 crisis.

High schoolers can sharpen their writing skills with activities including a reflective essay on the past school year and a playlist for a book they read.

Help students gain greater understanding of measures of central tendency and dispersion, outliers, transformations of data, and sampling techniques.

Download this free Wallace v. Jaffree lesson plan to teach students about an important Supreme Court case regarding prayer in schools and the First Amendment.

Students will read stories about people's experiences on the Oregon Trail and work on related activities that will help them build their skills in math, science, ELA, and other subject areas.

Down these World War II lesson plans and activities to teach your students about the war in history that claimed at least 50 million lives worldwide.

For this week's activities, students can create a how-to video, use research to defend their stance on an issue, and respond to summer writing prompts.

Help students build their skills in the areas of geometric probability, characterizing data, data displays, and matrices.

With these downloadable activities, high schoolers will memorize and recite a poem, take notes as they read a novel, and memorialize a book in memes.

Have your students explore haiku, analyze a podcast, and practice identifying literary terms with these downloadable activities for high schoolers.

High schoolers can sharpen their writing, language, critical thinking, and reading skills with these instructional resources.

See literacy in action with Literacy at Work. Paired with lesson plans, the web series features literacy leaders as they teach students poetry, speechwriting, and more.

Start a discussion with your students about the Eighth Amendment with this Miller v. Alabama lesson plan.

Esther Wojcicki shares her lesson on conducting an interview and writing a personality feature—​an intriguing, creative article about the interviewee.