Unit Plan
Colby College

Spanish Language & Culture: Informal Commands (Part 2)

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice answering questions with affirmative and negative tu commands and direct and indirect object pronouns. Stem-changers, spelling changes, regular and irregular command forms are included in this exercise.
Unit Plan
Colby College

Spanish Language & Culture: Informal Commands (Part 3)

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice answering questions with negative tu commands, reflexive pronouns, and direct and indirect object pronouns. Stem-changers, spelling changes, regular and irregular command forms are included in this exercise.
Lesson Plan
New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: What's the Problem?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The aim of this unit is for students to develop their persuasive writing and information gathering skills using various forms of information and communication technology. It is hoped that the context of 'teenage problems' will provide an...
Lesson Plan
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Privacy of Personal Information at School

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What information can parents and students expect to be kept private in school data versus publicized on forms or in announcements? This lesson examines students' privacy expectations through possible scenarios.
Activity
Wolters Kluwer

Business Owner's Toolkit: Personal Financial Statement Worksheet

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information that would help when applying for a small business loan, because lenders are also interested in a person's personal finances. It also contains a form outlining the information bankers will require prior...
Unit Plan
Colby College

Spanish Language & Culture: Informal Commands (Part 1)

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice forming affirmative and negative tu commands with reflexive pronouns in this Spanish tutorial. Infinitives are provided as cues for the exercise as well as stem-changers, spelling changes, and regular and irregular command forms.
Handout
Other

Bowling Green State U: Informative Speech Topic Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a brief list of potential informative speech topics. Though the list is brief, use the suggestions as inspiration. Also includes helpful reminders and common topics to avoid.
Unit Plan
Colby College

Spanish Language & Culture: Commands and Si Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th
Great explanation of "if" clauses in the present indicative tense that are used in sentences with command forms. The exercise focuses on using the affirmative "tu" command and tests the student's mastery of a variety of present tense and...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Magnetic Personality

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about magnets and how they are formed. They investigate the properties of magnets and how engineers use magnets in technology. Specifically, students learn about magnetic memory storage, which is the reading and writing of...
Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Japanese Poetry Tanka? You're Welcome

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A poem "which expresses a personal response to nature," the tanka is a form of Japanese writing very similar to the haiku. This lesson plan is a great extension to any study or exploration of Japanese art, culture, and writing. Included...
Website
Other

Story Jumper

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students can create their own storybooks using this website. They can add backgrounds, props, characters, personal photos or artwork, text, and their own voices. Free registration is required in order to save their work. There is a cost...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, Internet

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan is designed to teach various methods students can use when researching background information on one another in order to introduce each other in written and oral form.
Handout
Other

Internet Geography: Rivers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover rivers with this informative personal site containing helpful information and an easy-to-understand map illustrating the parts of a river. Learn about the negative effects of a river and some case study examples.
Article
Caro Clarke

Caro Clarke: Writing Advice: Beginner's Four Faults

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is a personal site from Caro Clarke. The third installment in this series looks at the four major mistakes made by beginning authors. The main idea of this article is that the author needs to be able to combine dialogue with...
Unit Plan
Georgetown University

Georgetown Unversity: Edward Taylor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Very extensive site that contains information about Taylor's "major themes, historical perspectives, and personal issues" as well as poetic style, form, and artistic conventions. Contains analysis of "Huswifery," as well as other Taylor...
Website
Other

Dear Data

For Students 9th - 10th
Dear Data is a year-long, analog data drawing project by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec, two award-winning information designers living on different sides of the Atlantic. By collecting and hand drawing their personal data and sending...
Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: T S Eliot's the Waste Land

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Through close reading of "The Waste Land" in its original manuscript form, students will explore how the poem evolved in the process of editing. By reading contemporary letters and reviews, students will be guided towards a more informed...
Article
Other

Elk Grove Unified School District: Digital Citizenship: Digital Footprint

For Students 6th - 8th
A digital footprint is all of the information online about a person either posted by that person or others, intentionally or unintentionally. Filling out a form, leaving a blog comment, updating your status, checking into a location,...
Website
Cengage Learning

Heath Online Instructor's Guide: James Wright (1927 1980)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains useful information for teaching the Ohio poet James Wright. Includes sections called "Classroom Issues and Strategies," "Major Themes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues," "Significant Form, Style, or Artistic...
Handout
Other

Home Safe: What Is Carbon Monoxide?

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains how carbon monoxide is formed and how carbon monoxide poisoning occurs. Gives information on what to do to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning and what to do if it happens. Includes first-person account of chronic carbon monoxide...