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Evidence-led classroom resources and video deep dives that help students and curious viewers connect the facts to the ideas behind them.
Classroom resources
Print-ready readings, maps, data activities and teacher guides on Teachers Pay Teachers. Each grade edition is its own resource.
Antarctica Science Activities: IceCube & Neutrinos STEM
Explore invisible particles through Antarctic maps, detector diagrams, classroom models, and guided STEM writing.
View on TPTPhysics Reading Comprehension: Neutrinos, IceCube & Antarctica
Investigate how IceCube detects neutrinos through science readings, detector diagrams, historical data, and evidence-based writing.
View on TPTMidterm Elections Activities 2026: Reading, Maps & Graphs
A five-lesson elections unit combining reading, U.S. maps, graphs, source evaluation, and writing with differentiated learning routes.
View on TPTMidterm Elections Unit 2026: Civics, ELA, Geography & Data
Teach midterms through five connected lessons featuring constitutional evidence, maps, data analysis, source evaluation, and an election explainer.
View on TPTMedia Literacy Activities: 2026 Midterm Elections, Maps & Graphs
A focused election investigation combining maps, practice data, fictional media messages, and an evidence-based news note.
View on TPTHow a Bill Becomes a Law: Reading & Timeline
Introduce lawmaking with an accessible Congress reading, process diagram, Juneteenth timeline, and comprehension questions.
View on TPTHow a Bill Becomes a Law: Reading & Timeline
Trace how Congress turns bills into laws using informational reading, a process diagram, and a documented Juneteenth timeline.
View on TPTHow a Bill Becomes a Law: Reading & Timeline
Examine the legislative process through a Congress reading, Juneteenth timeline, process diagram, and evidence-based comprehension tasks.
View on TPTElectoral College: Map & Reading Comprehension
Introduce the Electoral College through factual reading, a U.S. electoral-vote map, and guided map-analysis questions.
View on TPTElectoral College: Map & Reading Comprehension
Explore electoral-vote allocation with informational reading, labeled state totals, and purposeful U.S. map analysis.
View on TPTElectoral College: Map & Reading Comprehension
Examine the Electoral College using factual reading, a state allocation map, and evidence-based map-analysis questions.
View on TPTFederal Budget: Reading & Bar Graph Analysis
Introduce federal revenue, spending, deficit, and debt through accessible reading and clearly labeled budget graphs.
View on TPTFederal Budget: Reading & Bar Graph Analysis
Build budget and data literacy with Treasury figures, bar graphs, and questions distinguishing spending, revenue, deficit, and debt.
View on TPTFederal Budget: Reading & Bar Graph Analysis
Analyze federal budget figures through informational reading and bar graphs while distinguishing revenue, spending, deficit, and debt.
View on TPTGhost particles under the Antarctic ice
Students follow the evidence trail from a neutrino interaction to a sensor record, read a polar map, and explain how the IceCube Neutrino Observatory turns deep ice into an instrument. The investigation connects to the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Francis Halzen for his contributions to IceCube.
- Two lessons: readings, geography, detector diagram, data and engineering
- Includes: student PDF, editable student file and teacher reference with answer guidance and sources
- Sources: IceCube, NSF and the Nobel Prize organization
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IdeaAxis is created by Chris, a Civics and U.S. History educator with an economics degree. Every resource and video aims to be clear, accurate and grounded in sources teachers can check.