Lumen Learning
Lumen: Analysis: Overcoming Barriers to Analysis
This instructional activity focuses on understanding and overcoming barriers to analysis: Barrier 1: Analysis might challenge my worldview, Barrier 2: Analysis kills fun, and Barrier 3: Analysis invents meaning.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Analysis: Suspend Judgment
This article focuses on the need to suspend judgment and keep an open mind while analyzing a situation or researching a topic.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Analysis: Evidence
This lesson focuses on evidence in the analysis including being selective with evidence, being clear and explicit, and moving past obvious interpretations.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Analysis: Rhetorical Analysis
This activity focuses on defining rhetorical analysis and identifying and applying different types of analytic processes. It also provides a practice activity.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Analysis: Process Analysis
This lesson focuses on process analysis including processes by people, machines, and nature. They can be classified as descriptive and prescriptive. It also includes a practice activity.
Grade Saver
Grade Saver: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the play Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett including author information, literary elements, act summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Uvcs: Critical Reading Exercise
Students read quotations from different "interest groups" or "lobbies" in this exercise and then perform a multiple-choice test to evaluate the credibility of each lobby group.
Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center: Global Indicators Database
About the Key Indicators Database: Pew Research Center conducts public opinion surveys around the world on a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world...
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: History of Set Theory
This page, which is provided for by the University of St. Andrews, traces the history of Set Theory as well as the concept of infinity and the infinite set.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Analyze Nonfiction: Central Idea [Pdf]
This graphic organizer will help students analyze nonfiction pieces. Students will use the graphic organizer to guide them as they identify the central idea and supporting details.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Literary Essays' Inclusion of Personal Opinions and Facts
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify and discuss the use of facts, personal examples, and ideas and how they are woven into a literary essay.
Other
Csicop: Field Guide to Critical Thinking
This article, originally published in Skeptical Inquirer, outlines some of the key components of the scientific problem-solving process while addressing the many reasons for the popularity of paranormal beliefs in the U.S. (Published in...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Big Data
Check your understanding of large data sets (big data) in this set of free practice questions designed for AP Computer Science Principles students.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Computing Basic Statistics
Check your understanding of what simple statistics can be computed on a data set, in this set of free practice questions designed for AP Computer Science Principles students.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: New to Art? Get Started With This Activity
In this tutorial, think about how different art materials can create different impressions.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Leibniz Criterion
This page states the Leibniz Criterion, or the alternating series test that determines whether or not an alternating series converges.
University of Texas at Austin
College of Natural Sciences: Analysis of Exam After Test
This site gives some examples of things to do after the exam to improve for next time.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: "The Great Gatsby" 1920s Project
This is a lesson plan resource in which young scholars create a classroom magazine straight from the 1920s to enhance and expand understanding of The Great Gatsby.
Other
The Mahabharata
This resource presents a synopsis of one of the great epics of India, concerning an 18-day war among 18 armies.
Other
Ralph: The Naked and the Dead
The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities provides an online edition of its Winter 2001 issue (vol. 24, no. 1), which includes a detailed article on Norman Mailer's first novel The Naked and the Dead (1948).Late, Late...
Other
Florida Gulf Coast University: Young Goodman Brown
Florida Gulf Coast University's research and analysis of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. This is a comprehensive overview of his work.
Other
Music Theory First Aid for Struggling Students
This site provides music theory information on such topics as rhythm, intervals, scales, chords, etc. Also, there is a fine section which describes the basic concepts of form and structure.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: The Elements of Fiction
Analyzing a book takes the form of creating their own when young scholars complete this activity. The stated goal is to help students "Read like writers." Includes link to a template for student use.
Other
Web Log Analysis, Who's Doing What, When?
Offers ways to handle your web site's traffic using log formats and identifying visits.