National Humanities Center
Teaching The Great Gatsby: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar
The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Picture Books to Teach Setting Development
Contains plans for two or three lessons that teach about setting using picture books as models. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...
Auburn University
Auburn University: Teaching Letter Recognition
How can you teach your students letter recognition? This site offers insight into this necessary pre-reading skill set. Come and explore this informative resource.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineer a Sneaker
The goal is for students to understand the basics of engineering that go into the design of a sneaker. The bottom or sole of a sneaker provides support, cushioning, and traction. In addition the sole is flexible and can have some fashion...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Introduction to Some Algebra Concelpts Using Cas
This series of activities provides an introduction to some Algebra concelpts using CAS. The activities start with Algebra tiles and CAS. Patterning is modelled for the students so that they can construct the knowledge rather than be...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Math Centers
This page offers a variety of math center ideas for general math and geometry. Instructions on setting up the center are not provided for most ideas, however, those lacking instructions are pretty self-evident.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Thinking Blocks
This lesson teaches students how to use colored blocks to model word problems. There are several sets of problems each for addition / subtraction, multiplication / division, and ratio word problems.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Forces and Graphing
This activity can be used to explore forces acting on an object, to practice graphing experimental data, and/or to introduce the algebra concepts of slope and intercept of a line. A wooden 2x4 beam is set on top of two scales. Students...
Other
University of Edinburgh: Glossary of Introductory Computer Graphics Terms
This website, from the University of Edinburgh, provides a lengthy glossary of computer graphics terms written by Olin Lathrop, author of "The Way Computer Graphics Work". This site provides simple definitions of basic terms; no graphics...