Your class can make custom interactive maps at Google Maps for any lesson. Have students find and mark battle sites for a history lesson, make an annotated map of your town, or identify locations in a book. Once you’ve made the map, you can save it and add to it… Continue reading
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel and Jill Pinkwater is a fun Thanksgiving book that your students might have seen as a TV special. It makes a terrific read aloud for elementary through middle school, with grades 3-4 as the epicenter, if you will, of enjoyment. Arthur Bobowicz is… Continue reading
We’ve illustrated key concepts about classification with a nice assortment of noodles. Continue reading
Use your noodle! Pasta is a fun way to study geography, math, and history. We have ideas and activities for all grades! Pasta is a food made from flour, water, and often eggs and flavorings. It can be cooked and eaten immediately, or dried for long storage. It is boiled,… Continue reading
Our society values peace highly, but our students still find medieval fighting pretty cool. Take advantage of the taste for mayhem by learning some science lessons from the fighters of the Middle Ages. Here is Mark Morley, a physics teacher from Heritage High School in Rogers, Arkansas, and a… Continue reading
Get medieval for inspiring lessons on social studies, science, and art. The Middle Ages lasted from the sack of Rome in 400 AD to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 15th century, so there’s plenty to work with. Let us share our favorite lesson plans for working on… Continue reading
The Colosseum, built between 70 and 78 AD by the Emperor Flavian, was an astonishing triumph of engineering and architecture, and continues to amaze visitors today. See our favorite Colosseum lesson plans below. Online resources: Our Ancient Rome lesson plans will lead you to a 3-D rendering of the Colosseum… Continue reading
Do your students think that Ancient Egypt happened and then Ancient Greece happened and then Ancient Rome happened — and so on? We love teaching history and geography in units, but we don’t like the way students learn to think of civilizations and time periods as completely distinct from one… Continue reading
FreshPlans is part of Google Earth’s Pangaean group, so we had the opportunity to attend the Google Earth Summit in Rome in October, 2011. There we learned a lot of great stuff about Google Earth and how to use it even better in the classroom, as well as a lot… Continue reading
