Classroom-ready lesson plans and student activities to use the Internet as a teaching tool for language arts.

From its causes and impacts to its solutions, the issues surrounding climate change involve multidisciplinary science and technology. This handbook addresses all aspects of energy in the context of mitigation of atmospheric carbon and resultant climate change.

Choose from a huge assortment of lesson plans based on Web sites that are both informative and entertaining. Curriculum-driven activities cover a wide range of topics to engage students of all ages.

Students develop their Internet research skills as they learn about the body’s systems, the senses, health, genes, and more. Reproducible graphic organizers help students analyze and record information they find on the Web. Then they use what they’ve learned to conduct simple science experiments, create easy projects, and complete fun activities. Students will invent an animal with a unique skeleton, write a play about the digestive system, create optical illusions, and more. For use with Grades 3-6.

Twenty fun, Web based activities are accompanied by reproducible graphic organizers that enable kids to learn the very latest information on their own. Focusing on the U.S. government, activities include making a mobile showing the power of balance between branches of government, creating a personal "contacts" list of elected officials, and more. Illustrations.