Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

This travel brochure activity summarizes the fascinating history behind the birthplace of the Renaissance.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

This activity invites kids to explore Norway's history, attractions, and get to know its famous residents. After learning more about Oslo, your child will create a travel brochure and map of the city.

Encourage students to turn vacations into educational experiences. This activity asks students to research a famous destination, pull key information, and plug that information into a travel brochure.

Will visitors see leprechauns while visiting in Dublin? Tell your researching students to find out with this travel brochure activity!

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

About 14 million people visit the historic city of Berlin each year. Give your students the opportunity to study and share historic facts and places in Germany's capital with this brochure exercise.

What's the best way to get to know a city? Play tourist! In this activity, students create a travel brochure on the 2008 Olympic host city, Beijing.

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

As your students read the nonfiction text in this travel brochure activity, they will learn about the many cultures that have enriched the diverse city of Lisbon.

Students will pick their favorite facts about the city of Prague and create their own travel brochure, complete with a map.

Budding researchers will head Down Under to learn about Melbourne, Australia, in this engaging project.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

After reading a nonfiction text about the history, sights, and people of Vancouver, your student will create their own informational brochure about the city.