Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Animal Assistants Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
The animals need help! In this week's Afterschool Adventure, children will take the role of Animal Assistants and use their spatial skills to help save the day. Each section of this weeklong adventure is introduced by a video clip or...
Handout
Boise State University

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online writing assistance offers help in the writing process, grammar and mechanics, usage, and four different types of essays, as well as help on deciding what and how to document.
Professional Doc
University of Southern California

Usc Rossier Online: Toolkit for Digitally Literate Teachers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A collection of resources to assist teachers in understanding the importance of digital literacy in today's world, ideas for the classroom, useful websites for implementing a digital literacy curriculum, and a list of skills teachers...
Professional Doc
University at Buffalo

University of Buffalo: Assistive Technology Training Online Project (Atto)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The Assistive Technology Training Online Project (ATTO) provides information on AT applications that help students with disabilities learn in elementary classrooms.
Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: The Assistant by Bernard Malamud

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel The Assistant by Bernard Malamud including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
Activity
Other

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: Freewriting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Paradigm Online Writing Assistant site clearly explains freewriting and gives three practice exercises. Includes links to more writing help.
Website
Other

Assistive Technology Products

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An online company that lists many assistive technology products, organized into categories of different needs. Products can be purchased directly from the site.
Professional Doc
International Reading Association

Reading Online: Reading Alone Together

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this educational research article, the use of reading partnerships in the context of classrooms where some students are learning a second language. The first part of the article discusses the benefits of adding extensive reading to...
Website
Other

Saskatoon Public Schools: Instructional Strategies Online: Independent Study

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teach your students to become self-motivated learners with these independent study strategies including essays, computer assisted instruction, journals, learning logs, and many more. Then click on some of the strategies to learn more...
Handout
LD Online

Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Reading Resources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
LD Online is an excellent resource for a variety of needs. The site has information on teaching reading skills and using technology as a resource. Many links are to specific products that you must buy however, there are other resources...
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Social Security Administration

Social Security Online: The Townsend Plan Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive site that includes information about Townsend and the Townsend Plan, links to the different sections of the text of the Social Security Plan, links to issues of the newsletter that was published by Townsend, editorial...
Website
Social Security Administration

Social Security Online: History

For Students 9th - 10th
This site addresses the history of social security. There is an invaluable amount of information on this site (timelines, audio clips, etc.).
Website
Internal Revenue Service

Irs: Online Services and Tax Information for Individuals

For Students 9th - 10th
In a conversational tone, the IRS answers many of the questions an individual would have when filing income tax returns for the first time. Many features are helpful even to experienced taxpayers, e.g., an IRS withholding calculator, a...
Primary
PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: Rice on Iraq, War and Politics

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcript of an interview of National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in September of 2002, discussing President George W. Bush's ideas about moving the US into war against Iraq.
eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: The Parent's Assistant: Or, Stories for Children

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Maria Edgeworth's The Parent's Assistant: Or, Stories For Children has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: The Parent's Assistant, Or, Stories for Children

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Maria Edgeworth's The Parent's Assistant, Or, Stories For Children has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
Handout
Other

Online Chinese Tools, With Chinese English Dictionary

For Students 9th - 10th
A great site that provides tools to assist people learning and using the Chinese language. Resources include flashcards, pinyin converter, Chinese-English dictionary, calendar converter, Chinese number and currency converter, and more.
Handout
Other

The Editing Process: Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What does the editing process consist of for your students? Use this informative site to learn more about editing.
Handout
Other

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: Occasions for Informal Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What are the occasions for informal essays? Use this informative site to learn more about when and how to write these types of informal essays.
Unit Plan
Other

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: Occasions for Thesis/support Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The basic thesis/support pattern promotes clear, systematic thinking on a single subject and can, therefore, be helpful whenever you want to set forth ideas and facts in an efficient, orderly way.
eBook
Estrella Mountain Community College

Online Biology Book: Transport in and Out of Cells

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is an article about the cell membrane, and its role in water and solute movement in and out of the cell.
Interactive
Media Smarts

Media Awareness Network: Co Co's Adver Smarts

For Students 3rd - 5th
Co-Co's AdverSmarts is an interactive unit whose purpose is to help children ages five through eight recognize marketing techniques used on websites that target them. As kids assist in designing the new Co-Co Crunch website, Co-Co...
Handout
Other

National Center on Disability and Access to Education: Accessibility Cheatsheets

For Students 9th - 10th
These one-page accessibility resources, or "cheatsheets," have been developed to assist anyone who is creating accessible content. They provide guidance for how to make documents accessible that are created with Microsoft Office and...
Primary
PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: Remembering Agnew

For Students 9th - 10th
A transcript from a news cast with David Keene, who was Agnew's political assistant at the White House, remembering Spiro Agnew. Also contains an audio clip of the segment.