FNO Press
From Now On: Questioning as Technology
This article supports the concept that "Without strong questioning skills, information technologies contribute little to understanding or insight." Links provided to learn about and use the main types of questioning techniques.
Montgomery CountyPublic Schools
Mcps: Choices in Research and Products in Native American Project
Explroe how to incorporate choices into a research project for students to complete.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wildlife Biology
In this What's Up in the Environment? video segment, learn how various indicator species are used to monitor the environmental condition of the Everglades.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Improve Reading Achievement for African American Students
This article includes research recommendations in the areas of standardized testing, teacher quality, after-school programs, parent involvement, reading and study skills, and computer games and simulations.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Cross Disciplinary Proficiencies: American Diploma Project Benchmarks
Students must graduate from high school with not only a firm foundation in mathematics and English, but also with the ability to approach with confidence new and unfamiliar tasks and challenges in college, the workplace and life....
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Creating Podcasts With Your Students
Creating podcasts in the classroom has many educational benefits, including strengthening skills in research, writing, and collaboration - and podcasting is easy to do. This article walks you through the steps of preproduction,...
University of Kansas Medical Center
Univ of Kansas Medical Center: Careers in Human Genetics
This site from the University of Kansas Medical Center provides an excellent list of resources for additional information about careers in genetics.
University of Virginia
U of Virginia: Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Participants in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study were never told that they had syphilis. Instead, the doctors and scientists said they had "bad blood." Find out what took place during this study, and the social and political consequences...
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Stem Cells for Cell Based Therapies
Understand why stem cells are sought after for healing human diseases through cell-based therapies in this article and its supporting resources.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: States, a to Z
For this lesson students will collect information about the state they live in and create an alphabet book of information.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Impacto, Influencia, Cambio
This multimedia resource provides information about science, technology and invention in Latin America.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: History Facts and Fictions
There are many versions of historical events, people, and places. This PBL offers an opportunity to students to actively explore a disputed event or urban myth to decide which version they will argue in favor of with supporting evidence.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Mystery Object Challenge
With a brief story and photo of an image, students will do some digging to figure out how old the object pictured is and the history behind it.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Credibility Appeals
In this Boundless Communication, students will learn about the importance of credibility in public speaking. There are four sections: defining credibility, types and elements of credibility, building credibility, and ethical usage....
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Free Trip, but Where to Go?
For this lesson plan, students research information on 2 countries, estimate mileage over long distances, and present their information to the class.
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: The Big 6 Skills
This resource clearly explains the Big 6 steps for making decisions by using information.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Curiosity, Discovery and Gecko Feet
Robert Full suggests the possibility of finding world-changing results with less formulaic approaches than the scientific method. In his TEDYouth Talk, Full describes the unlikely way he studied gecko's feet and how these beneficial...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Incredible Collaboration Behind the International Space Station
The International Space Station is roughly the size of a six-bedroom house and weighs more than 320 cars- it's so large that no single rocket could have lifted it into orbit. Instead, it was assembled piece by piece while hurtling...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: K Plus [Pdf]
Students can use this information to collect facts about a topic. Students will collect information but record the "gold standard" of facts only.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: K Plus (Spanish) [Pdf]
Translated into Spanish, this graphic organizer can be used by student to collect facts about a topic. Students will collect information but record the "gold standard" of facts only.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Share Knowledge: Fact Bank [Pdf]
This graphic organizer can be used to collect facts during a research task prior to writing about the topic or sharing what was learned in a discussion. Students will place facts in the boxes and then number the facts, according to the...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Compartir Saber: Banco De Hechos [Pdf]
This graphic organizer, written in Spanish, can be used to collect facts during a research task. Students will place facts in the boxes and then number the facts, according to the level of importance.
University of Sydney (Australia)
The Write Site
This interactive home page provides improvement module links in the areas of grammar, citations, and writing. The University of Sydney's The Write Site provides online support to help students improve their writing skills.
University of Sydney (Australia)
The Write Site: Practice: Constructing a Working Thesis
In this interactive lesson, students will refer to a synthesis grid to determine the "best" thesis to use when answering a business management question.