EngageNY
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 6
Is a college education necessary for success in today's world? The class investigates the question, along with others at the end of the sixth workshop in a 15-part series. The instructional activity has four parts with multiple...
New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 13
The six instructional shifts in this workshop definitely move math and science teachers' understanding of instruction. The workshop, 13th out of a series of 15, asks participants to examine sample tests and to look at how the six...
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Poster Art From World War Ii
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) explores how words and posters waged a constant battle for the hearts and minds of the American citizenry during World War II.
Other
Stomp Out Bullying
This resource will teach you about the many ways to handle and prevent bullying. Highlights activism ideas for the World Day of Bullying Prevention, October 7. Includes hotline information for kids. Includes video.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Balancing Act
Students are given the opportunity to visualize and interact with concepts they have already learned, specifically algebraic equations and solving for unknown variables. Students construct a balancing seesaw system (LEGO Balance Scale)...
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Living Language: Starting Out in Arabic [Pdf]
This is an introductory course teaching the basics of the Arabic language. You'll learn some basic expressions that you will find very useful in everyday interactions, such as greeting people, and how to introduce yourself to someone.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Living Language: Starting Out in Italian [Pdf]
This is an introductory course teaching the basics of the Italian language. You'll learn some basic expressions that you will find very useful in everyday interactions, such as greeting people, introducing yourself and some very useful...
abcteach
Abcteach: Fairy Tale Printouts: Abc teach.com
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fairy tale resource features activities, bar graphs, word searches, crossword puzzles and more. Teachers can print out many of these materials quickly and easily.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Walk the Line: A Module on Linear Functions
This module leads students through the process of graphing data and finding a line of best fit while exploring the characteristics of linear equations in algebraic and graphic formats. Then, these topics are connected to real-world...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Making Cents Out of Centimes: The Euro
Use this intermediate lesson plan to teach your students about the European currency, the Euro. Interactive links take the learner to France where they learn about French money and French culture.
abcteach
Abcteach: Earth Day Activities
[Free Registration/Login Required] How can you treat the earth with more respect? Check out this resource featuring links to elementary activities to celebrate Earth Day. You will find word searches, crossword puzzles, reading...
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Global Schoolhouse: Harnessing the Power of the Web
This online tutorial shows K-12 teachers how to harness the power of the World Wide Web for classroom use, and in particular for interaction, collaboration, distance education, cultural understanding and cooperative research -- with...
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Magazine Hunt
In this instructional activity, students find and cut out magazine pictures that show the definition of their vocabulary words and make a collage with them.
Social Science Education Consortium
Ssec: Inflation: Are Higher Prices the Only Problem? [Pdf]
This investigation begins with a discussion of spare change. Students are asked to compare and analyze peoples' attitudes toward coins today to those of the past. Students then complete an activity that teaches them how to compare...