Transforming Education
Social Awareness Strategies
What are the benefits of developing social awareness? Using the resource, readers learn strategies for fostering civil discourse, creating a participatory classroom, and enhancing family involvement. Scholars also take a personality...
Transforming Education
Self-Management Strategies
What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...
Intersectional Black Panther Party History Project, IPHP
Teaching the History of the Black Panther Party: 5 Essential FAQ’s
What are the facts about the Black Panther Party? Was it, as J. Edgar Hoover contended, a terrorist organization and a threat to national security? Or a group of indviduals bound together by a desire to protect and nurture their...
Other
Animoto
Tired of slideshows? This powerful site will turn your photos, music and video clips into "beautifully orchestrated videos" in less than a minute! You will be able to narrate your pictures with text, send messages, and create event...
Other
Bird Friendly Gardening
Would you like to attract birds to your backyard? Look here to learn how to create an inviting garden for birds.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Creating Maps That Convey Critical Ecological Characteristics
Get to the heart of this citizen science project that invites citizens from all over the country to map and identify their habitat ecology.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Invitations: Reading Lessons From Preservice Teachers
Links are provided for leveled reading lessons created by preservice teachers at Auburn University. Levels include emergent literacy, beginning reading, growing independence and fluency, and reading to learn.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Party Time!: Planning a Kid's Birthday Party
For this lesson, groups of middle schoolers will plan a kid's birthday party by creating an online invitation, baking and decorating a cake, and decorating the room.
Amby Duncan-Carr
Amby: Cover Letter Samples
Do you need to create a cover letter? Check out some samples to help you get started.
New York Times
New York Times: Lesson of the Day: 'The Lost Diaries of War'
Volunteers have begun an effort to transcribe the pages of more than 2,000 diaries written by ordinary people during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Their voices, filled with anxiety, isolation and uncertainty, resonate...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Skillful Slideshows
During this technology-based lesson, students learn how to create slideshow presentations that are creative and inviting to the audience. They use fonts, graphics, effects, etc, to capture audience attention.
Amby Duncan-Carr
Amby: Cover Letters
Do you need to create a cover letter? Explore cover letter basics to help you through the process.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: A Giant Bubble for Debate
How do you make a great public space inside a not-so-great building? Liz Diller shares the story of creating a welcoming, lighthearted addition to the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. [12:06]
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: God Inviting Christ to Sit on the Throne at His Right Hand
An image of "God Inviting Christ to Sit on the Throne at His Right Hand", created by Pieter De Grebber in 1645 (Oil on canvas, 115 x 133 cm).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Invitation to Dance; Playing Cards
An image of "Invitation to Dance; Playing Cards", created by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo, c. 1570 (Fresco).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Invitation to Dance
An image of "Invitation to Dance", created by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo, c. 1570 (Fresco).
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Paleont O Logy: The Big Dig
This colorful and inviting resource houses tons of paleontology activities to explore. Play the Layers of Time puzzle game, create your own make-believe dig site by burying chicken bones in plaster of Paris, learn how to draw dinosaurs,...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sf Mo Ma: Country Dog Gentlemen Travel to Extraordinary Worlds
Two characters from "Country Dog Gentlemen" lead you on explorations of artwork by Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, and Sargent Johnson. Accompanying interactive invites you to create your own masterpiece inspired by these artists and to...
Other
National Gallery, London: Take One Picture
Teachers of all disciplines are invited to take this one day course that inspires ways to incorporate art into every subject in the school. You can follow the process that the participants take and see some of the ideas that have been...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Civil War Personalities [Pdf]
This instructional activity invites students to derive inspiration from photographs (portraits and people) from the Civil War era. These images serve as impetus to write monologues and create improvisational skits.
Smithsonian Institution
Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Invent Your Own Gelatin Dessert
Students learn about the history of Jello and create their own dessert. They analyze the success of their dessert afterwards and make suggestions on how to improve it. They are also invited to take a photo of their creation and email it...
EL Education
El Education: The Natural Playscape Book
In this lesson, inspired by the book Childhood and Nature: Design Principals for Educators by David Sobel, students design a playscape area on school grounds. After designing the playscape and creating a list of materials, the students...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Egypt Horizons
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces the ancient Egyptians' use of symbols to represent their letters and numbers. It refers to the Rosetta Stone and links us to some websites for further information. Activote...