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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...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: The Embryologic Perspective
Students learn how the different stages of embryonic development relate to the adult structures of the central nervous system, and understand the growth and differentiation of the neural tube.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective: Self Check Questions
This section provides a list of self-check study question to aid in understanding the content of Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective.
Understanding Slavery Initiative
Understanding Slavery Initiative: Usi Resources: Unlocking Perceptions [Pdf]
This comprehensive guide for teaching the history and legacies of the transatlantic slave trade contains suggestions for educators such as using sensitive language in classrooms, unlocking common misconceptions, working with artifact...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Around the Block Activities
Explore how people are alike and different in these ARTHUR activities. From interviewing classmates to establishing local pen pals to creating neighborhood maps, the activities will help children understand and appreciate what we share...
PBS
Pbs: Commanding Heights the Battle for the World Economy
A huge site dedicated to an understanding of the current global economic system. Includes the history, forces, values and perceptions that have shaped the world's economy. A comprehensive resource that includes a detailed economic report...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Does the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
For nearly a century, ten inkblots have been used as an almost mystical personality test. Long kept confidential for psychologists and their patients, the mysterious images were said to draw out the workings of a person's mind. But what...
PBS
Pbs: Pushing Boundaries: Science Fiction and Feminism: Ursula K. Le Guin
In this series of videos from the American Masters film Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, learn how Le Guin and her contemporaries pushed science fiction from a male-dominated genre into a more inclusive form. By redefining the parameters of...
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...
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...
Other
Pennsylvania Heritage Society: Pennsylvania Civil War 150
The sidebar of this site reads "Understand the War Through People Then and Now." That is the mission of the site, and when you click on each word or phrase, you open up a world of information about the Civil War. Compiled resources help...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Understanding Your Paycheck!
This lesson plan is for young scholars to understand forms to be filled out when beginning their first job. Further it is an analysis of the paycheck. Systematic deductions will be analyzed to gain an understanding of the purpose from...
Other
Odyssey: Teacher Zone: The Achievements and Challenges of Peru
This teaching unit is intended to focus on some of those aspects of Peruvian life and history that are of great significance to understanding the people of Peru today and their situation. Although some of the external links have expired,...
Library of Congress
Loc: Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband and Spies
This lesson uses primary sources - diaries, letters, and photographs - to explore the experiences of women in the Civil War. By looking at a series of document galleries, the perspectives of slave women, plantation mistresses, female...
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Teaching History: Doing History Is Like Solving a Mystery!
Use this interactive poster to explore how students understand history and find resources about teaching historical thinking to students.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Charting Characters for a More Complete Understanding
Contains plans for one 60-minute lesson that teaches about a reading strategy called Character Perspective Charting. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to...
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: Chapter 11: The Keynesian Perspective: Review Questions
This section provides 23 review study questions to aid understanding of the content in Chapter 11: The Keynesian Perspective from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Ap Us History: Unit 10: Understanding American History
This extensive learning module looks at how themes of American history can create a better understanding of the big picture of the nation's history.
Other
Heritage Preservation: Sos: Do We See the Same Way?
In proposing the question, "Do We See the Same Way?" this site examines the process of understanding sculpture by addressing several topics related to sculpture including how to look at sculpture, viewing perspectives, shapes around us,...
Other
Nelson Science: Healthy Ecosystems: The Needs of Living Things [Pdf]
A 4-page section of the Grade 7 Nelson Science and Technology Perspectives textbook. It looks at what organisms need to survive, specifically sunlight, air, water, and food. This is a visually-rich text with tips to help students'...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband, Spies
With this lesson plan, a collection of primary texts, including diaries, letters, and photographs help students understand how women were affected by the Civil War. Students will explore, through reading a collection of documents, the...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Mapping the Past
This lesson plan requires the students to examine past maps from various cultures in order to learn how the people from that time period interacted and understood their world.
BBC
Bbc: The Men Who Bombed Hiroshima
Published on 8/04/05, the BBC interviewed three of the men involved in the mission to drop the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. We get their viewpoints and an understanding of what their duties were on that day.