Resources 
for Teachers

Language Arts:   Word 97 files

• Mini-Timeline

• Large Timeline

• Venn Diagram   example

• Ben & Me

Science:

• More of the Weather from NASA  

• Theater of Electricity 

• Movie of the kite being struck 

• Louie's Space

Lesson Plans

• Cloud Watching
• The Power of Static Electricity
• Current Electricity 

• Activities to explore: Static Electricity

• Louie's Space: Lesson Plans

Social Studies:

• Ben's Guide to U.S. Government 

• Ben Franklin's Philadelphia Gazette 

• Ben Franklin's Autobiography

• The Firsts Political Cartoon

• Ben Franklin on an Early Marriage

Primary Sources:

• Ben's Lightning Rod's as depicted in book
• Book Cover-Experiments and Observations
• Candle mold-image 1
• Candle mold-image 2
• Poor Richard's Almanack
• Plaque on Franklin's former home in England
• Treaty of Paris - 1783

Web Quests

• Weather Web Quest 
• Tornado Web Quest
• Weather Web Quest
• Weather Web Quest (5th grade) 
• Weather Web Quest (Gr. 4-8)