In the following lesson students are asked to devise a plan to measure the distance of a balloon's flight, predict the direction a balloon will travel as it deflates, learn about Newton's Laws of Motion, experience Newton's Third Law,...

This lesson plan helps students understand and use the scientific method. It also helps helps students understand the importance of good scientific experimentation to the scientific method.

In this instructional activity students will explore some of the contrasts that Esperanza experiences when she suddenly is forced to leave the life of a wealthy landowner's daughter surrounded by servants to become a servant herself...

In this lesson, learners practice working with primary documents by comparing accounts of the Chicago Fire and testing the credibility of a Civil War diary.

Use this interactive lesson to practice evaluating evidence from primary sources in order to draw conclusions about a historical event. In this particular case, the event is the Civil War. The challenge is to decide for yourself which of...

This detailed, scholarly article examines archaeological evidence and draws conclusions about the reality of the Trojan War.

A scholarly paper on the U.S. banking debacle of the 1980s and the lesson it holds on government mismanagement. Provides background on the history of savings and loans and draws the conclusion that the banking debacle was primarily an...