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"Find and use activities crafted by educators using documents from the National Archives. Turn your students into historians with primary-source based activities that develop historical thinking skills. Activities are ready to use in your classroom. Or alter an existing activity to fit your unique needs. Exchange primary source documents and modify activity instructions. Log in to borrow from an even larger selection from fellow educators."

Johnnie's Math Page is the site to find fun math for kids, math games, and even a little math homework help.    Interactive math activities from across the web have been organized by topic to make math learning enjoyable and interesting. These activities have been chosen to represent the range of math learned from kindergarten to middle school.  

This family-oriented resource brings together in one lively, activity-packed book a selection of forty art features from the National Gallery of Art's popular quarterly NGAkids. Each feature introduces an artist and several works from the Gallery's collections and is paired with activities to inspire creative writing, focused looking, and artistic development in children ages 7 and up. Seven child-friendly chapters ranging from studying nature to breaking traditions are populated with a wide spectrum of artists, art mediums, nationalities, and time periods. This is an attractive gathering of art and information from the nation's collection that lends itself to family enjoyment, classroom instruction, and homeschooling for the young. Artists included: Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Romare Bearden, Osias Beert the Elder, George Bellows, Alexander Calder, Canaletto, Mary Cassatt, Chuck Close, John Constable, John Singleton Copley, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Edgar Degas, André Derain, Dan Flavin, Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Andy Goldsworthy, Martin Johnson Heade, Willem Claesz Heda, Winslow Homer, Jacob Lawrence, Leonardo da Vinci, Roy Lichtenstein, Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Claude Monet, Thomas Moran, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Martin Puryear, Raphael, Rembrandt van Rijn, Diego Rivera, Peter Paul Rubens, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Jan Steen, Wayne Thiebaud, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Johannes Vermeer, Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun, and Rogier van der Weyden

Indian House School Programs A replica of a house which survived the 1704 attack on Deerfield, activities include: Fireplace Cookery (seasonal), Colonial Life, Native American Life (in a bark wigwam, weather permitting), Textiles, Taverns, Historic Lights, Dame School (a 17th-18th C. school lesson), Early Farming, Stenciling (seasonal), and Neighbors and About Town (two different tours of the center of town). The Indian House Children's Museum is also open to the public during the summer and early fall.

Indian House School Programs A replica of a house which survived the 1704 attack on Deerfield, activities include: Fireplace Cookery (seasonal), Colonial Life, Native American Life (in a bark wigwam, weather permitting), Textiles, Taverns, Historic Lights, Dame School (a 17th-18th C. school lesson), Early Farming, Stenciling (seasonal), and Neighbors and About Town (two different tours of the center of town). The Indian House Children's Museum is also open to the public during the summer and early fall.

Lesson on King Josiah, minus the activities 

The interactive activity is designed for students to learn Colors in Spanish and has audio elements.

"Etching as a printmaking medium emerged in the early 16th century in Germany and Italy, but its full creative potential only was realized with Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn's activity as an etcher from 1630 to 1661. This exhibition of 45 works, drawn primarily from the MFA's collection,..."

Lincoln- The Constitution and the Civil War (Teacher's Guide) This resource includes student activities based on the 13th Ammendment.

"As this happens, certain mental skills will become less valuable because computers will take over. Having a great memory will probably be less valuable. Being able to be a straight-A student will be less valuable - gathering masses of information and regurgitating it back on tests. So will being able to do any mental activity that involves following a set of rules. But what human skills will be more valuable?" 5 Traits...

Affixes/Morphemic Analysis Activities from the Florida Center for Reading Research

IRA research guide for writing; includes a variety of activities

Students will participate in activities designed to explore the themes, characters and volatile moral issues raised in Shakespeare's Macbeth.  Students will explore the themes of power, ambition and the social status of women in the play and in this production set in the 1920's.  By engaging students with text from main characters in the play, students will explore their response to the play's key question:  what is the tragedy of Macbeth?  

These 160 math projects, from schools across the US, provide overviews, activities, assessment rubrics, work product descriptions, and ideas for reflection. 

Math-Kitecture has a number of activities, including "Floor Plan your Classroom," which offer engaging ways for students to study mathematics by doing real-life architecture.

"Our brain uses two different types of cognitive processing when doing these two operations: typing and writing. As tested on a group of undergrads, the research proved that laptop users type almost everything they hear without processing the meaning or devoting much thought to what it is they're taking notes on. Basically, when you type, all you're doing is mindlessly transcribing, and that does not require much cognitive activity."

This family-oriented art resource introduces children to more than 50 great artists and their work, with corresponding activities and explorations that inspire artistic development, focused looking, and creative writing. Grouped around seven general themes, the book highlights works from different time periods to encourage comparisons among them. We hope the book will inspire children to develop "an eye for art."

The application of engineering principles is explored in the creation of mobiles. As students create their own mobiles, they take into consideration the forces of gravity and convection air currents. They learn how an understanding of balancing forces is important in both art and engineering design.

ReadWorks provides over 1,000 non-fiction reading passages with question sets to support reading activities. Good practice for standardized tests.