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...
American Psychological Association
Sexual Orientation and Youth
A 24-page manual provides principals, educators, and other school personnel with factual information about sexual orientation development, important legal principles they must consider, and problematic efforts to change sexual...
Tom Richey
Genesee Community College: Chapter 2: Perspectives on Mass Communication
A 30-slide presentation on three different perspectives for understanding mass communication. These include the functions of mass media, the critical/cultural perspective, and the research-based empirical approach. It looks at the many...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Perspectives on the French and Indian War
A collection that uses primary sources to explore perspectives on the French and Indian War.
Other
Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives (Chapter 2) [Pdf]
This is Chapter 2 of the third edition (2010) of the book "Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives" by Norwegian author Thomas Hylland Eriksen, a professor at the University of Oslo. He has been studying ethnicity for...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Human Geography: Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
AP Human Geography course learning module on the nature and perspectives of geography explores mapping, the importance of location and understanding place, and the fundamentals of geographic thought.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Shifts in Perspective in Informational & Persuasive Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will read informational texts and identify varying perspectives in different arguments on the same topic. You will also analyze the reasoning and the...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Chinese Experience in 19th Century: Exclusion: Chinese Perspectives
This lesson uses primary sources to take a look at the Chinese perspective on the issue of the Exclusion Act and the effects of prejudice and discrimination on the Chinese population in the United States in the late 19th century.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Macroeconomic Perspectives on Demand and Supply
Read about the differing macroeconomic perspectives of Keynes and Say.
Library of Congress
Loc: African American Perspectives: Time Line of African American History
Timeline of African American History which links to other timelines and a larger Library of Congress site on African American perspectives.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Identify Author's Viewpoint
This reading resource discusses the strategy of identifying an author's viewpoint. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they analyze the author's viewpoint.
PBS
Pbs: Foreign Perceptions of Bhutan
PBS site that traces the history and nature of foreign perceptions of Bhutan, a country which was closed to tourists until 1974.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Seeing Integration From Different Viewpoints
What does the world look like through someone else's eyes? Guide students in using colorful paper glasses to examine a story of school desegregation from multiple perspectives.
Harvard University
Harvard University: Project Zero: Agency by Design: Parts, Perspectives, Me
This routine helps students explore complexity by encouraging them to look closely at the details of something, considering its various viewpoints, users, and stakeholders, and reflecting on their own connections and involvement with it.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Shifts in Perspective in Informational & Persuasive Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will read informational texts and identify varying perspectives in different arguments on the same topic. You will also analyze the reasoning and the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Social and Cultural Perspectives of Dogs
In this video segment from Nature, learn about the role of dogs in the lives of humans.
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention: Practices and Perspectives From Five Schools
This document, released by the Center on Instruction (COI) in 2009, provides a response to the common question "What are states, districts, and schools doing about RTI?" Through site visits and phone calls to five U.S. public schools...
Library of Congress
Loc: African American Perspectives
Library of Congress collection of books, pamphlets, and photographs that are tied together for a special presentation "The Progress of a People." Proceed through the three sessions: Segregation and Violence, Solving the Race Problem, and...
The Newberry Library
Newberry Library: Perspectives on the Mexican Revolution
Primary source material and learning excercises for students to explore the social conditions that contributed to the Mexican Revolution and examine how the U.S. influenced Mexico as well as how artists and writers responded to the war.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Social and Historical Perspectives of Dogs
Learn more about the theory that dogs evolved from wolves in this video from Nature. [5:03]
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Energy Perspectives
Students utilize data tables culled from the US DOE Energy Information Agency to create graphs that illustrate what types of energy we use and how we use it. An MS Excel workbook with several spreadsheets of data is provided. Students...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/conrast: 5 Voice Storyboard: Perspect [Pdf]
In this PDF lesson young scholars study a topic on which people tend to have differing opinions; they create five dialogue bubbles that would represent five different viewpoints: one in complete support of the topic, one completely...
Other
Marketography: Conflict Perspective: A Mediated Culture
Examines mass media and its relationship with society. In the past, it was a one-way relationship and mass media influenced society. Now it works in both directions, with society providing feedback to and influencing mass media. The...
Cengage Learning
Themes, Perspectives and Issues/edwin Arlington Robinson
In depth site including comparisons, contrasts, form, style and artistic conventions. Great research site!