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Transforming Education

Social Awareness Strategies

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
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...
Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: The Embryologic Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective: Self Check Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides a list of self-check study question to aid in understanding the content of Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective.
eBook
Understanding Slavery Initiative

Understanding Slavery Initiative: Usi Resources: Unlocking Perceptions [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Around the Block Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
Website
PBS

Pbs: Commanding Heights the Battle for the World Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Does the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Pushing Boundaries: Science Fiction and Feminism: Ursula K. Le Guin

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Shifts in Perspective in Informational & Persuasive Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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...
PPT
Tom Richey

Genesee Community College: Chapter 2: Perspectives on Mass Communication

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Other

Pennsylvania Heritage Society: Pennsylvania Civil War 150

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Understanding Your Paycheck!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
Lesson Plan
Other

Odyssey: Teacher Zone: The Achievements and Challenges of Peru

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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,...
Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband and Spies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
Interactive
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Teaching History: Doing History Is Like Solving a Mystery!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this interactive poster to explore how students understand history and find resources about teaching historical thinking to students.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Charting Characters for a More Complete Understanding

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
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...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Human Geography: Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 11: The Keynesian Perspective: Review Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
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.
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Ap Us History: Unit 10: Understanding American History

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

Heritage Preservation: Sos: Do We See the Same Way?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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,...
eBook
Other

Nelson Science: Healthy Ecosystems: The Needs of Living Things [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
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'...
Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband, Spies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
Unit Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Mapping the Past

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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.
Primary
BBC

Bbc: The Men Who Bombed Hiroshima

For Students 9th - 10th
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.