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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Perspectives on the French and Indian War

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to explore perspectives on the French and Indian War.
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, students will read informational texts and identify varying perspectives in different arguments on the same topic. You will also analyze the reasoning and the...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Macroeconomic Perspectives on Demand and Supply

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the differing macroeconomic perspectives of Keynes and Say.
Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: African American Perspectives: Time Line of African American History

For Students 9th - 10th
Timeline of African American History which links to other timelines and a larger Library of Congress site on African American perspectives.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Foreign Perceptions of Bhutan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
PBS site that traces the history and nature of foreign perceptions of Bhutan, a country which was closed to tourists until 1974.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Seeing Integration From Different Viewpoints

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
What does the world look like through someone else's eyes? Guide students in using colorful paper glasses to examine a story of school desegregation from multiple perspectives.
Activity
Harvard University

Harvard University: Project Zero: Agency by Design: Parts, Perspectives, Me

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This routine helps students explore complexity by encouraging them to look closely at the details of something, considering its various viewpoints, users, and stakeholders, and reflecting on their own connections and involvement with it.
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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...
Professional Doc
American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: Practices and Perspectives From Five Schools

For Teachers K - 1st
This document, released by the Center on Instruction (COI) in 2009, provides a response to the common question "What are states, districts, and schools doing about RTI?" Through site visits and phone calls to five U.S. public schools...
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Social and Historical Perspectives of Dogs

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the theory that dogs evolved from wolves in this video from Nature. [5:03]
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Perspectives

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students utilize data tables culled from the US DOE Energy Information Agency to create graphs that illustrate what types of energy we use and how we use it. An MS Excel workbook with several spreadsheets of data is provided. Students...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/conrast: 5 Voice Storyboard: Perspect [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this PDF lesson young scholars study a topic on which people tend to have differing opinions; they create five dialogue bubbles that would represent five different viewpoints: one in complete support of the topic, one completely...
Website
US National Archives

Animal Welfare Act: Hist. Perspectives, Future Directions

For Students 9th - 10th
Information from the symposium of the 30th anniversary of the Animal Welfare Act as provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Website
Other

The Perspectives of Nietzsche

For Students 9th - 10th
University of Pittsburgh provides the perspectives of Nietzsche's philosophy on life.
Activity
Cyberbee

Cyberbee: Revolutionary Viewpoints

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Revolutionary War lesson for students based on the book April Morning by Howard Fast and the Battle of Lexington.
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Library of Congress

Loc: African American Perspectives: Pamphlets From Daniel a.p. Murray Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the...
Handout
OpenStax

Open Stax: Introduction to Sociology: Theoretical Perspectives on Deviance

For Students 9th - 10th
Why does social deviance occur? Read about three theories that are grouped according to the three major sociological paradigms: functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and conflict theory.
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of the American Indian: Perspectives on Thanksgiving

For Students 4th - 8th
Excellent resource for educating students on the American Indian perspective on Thanksgiving using the themes of environment, community, encounters, and innovations. Includes images, quotes, classroom activity ideas, and links to related...
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PBS

Art:21: Migrating Viewpoints

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use this lesson plan to take a closer look at what the visual arts can tell us about the emotional effects of migration, both voluntary and involuntary. Lesson includes sample video excerpts from the broadcast, slideshows of the work of...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Building Perspectives App

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use this App to develop their spatial visualization skills. They work with front, back, right, and left views of buildings in a city block to determine the height of each building in the city plan.
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PBS

New Perspectives on the West: Promontory Point, Utah

For Students 6th - 8th
A map and brief description of the events at Promontory Point, Utah where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads joined to make the first transcontinental railroad.
Graphic
PBS

New Perspectives on the West: The Sierra Nevadas

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief description and map of Sierra Nevada Mountains. Describes the struggle of Charles Crocker to build the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevadas.
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] Explain shifts in perspectives in the same argument and make decisions about support used in those arguments.
Handout
Gabriel Dumont Institute

Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis and Study of Canadian History

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an excellent paper to share with students to teach them to think critically about everything they read. It discusses how history has traditionally been written from a Euro-Canadian viewpoint, neglecting the aboriginal one and...

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