DOGO Media
Dogo News: China Prepares to Welcome the Year of the Fire Rooster!
The Chinese New Year begins in late January or early February each year and involves exciting, worldwide festivals and parades to celebrate. 2017 is the Year of the Rooster.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Loving Decision: 40 Years of Legal Interracial Unions
A learning module that begins with "Loving Decision: 40 Years of Legal Interracial Unions" by NPR, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The 2400 Year Search for the Atom
How do we know what matter is made of? The quest for the atom has been a long one, beginning 2,400 years ago with the work of a Greek philosopher and later continued by a Quaker and a few Nobel Prize-winning scientists. Theresa Doud...
BBC
Bbc News: Technology: Fifteen Years of the Web
BBC News presents a timeline that shows the beginning of the World Wide Web introduced by Tim Berners-Lee in August 1991 as a tool for physicists through August 2006 when there are almost one hundred million websites online and it is a...
TES Global
Tes: Best Beginning to a School Year Ever
[Free Registration/Login Required] This learning module engages students in goal setting. A Power Point feauturing "famous failures" and goal setting activities are included.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The German Invasion of Poland
September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland beginning WWII. View primary sources curated by the Holocaust Museum to better understand the agony of this time period in Poland. Sources include videos, photographs, interviews, diary entries,...
Library of Congress
Loc: Country Studies: Age of Enlightened Absolutism 1648 1789
Europe following the Thirty Years War, focusing on the rivalry between Germany and Austria, in particular the competition between the Hohenzollern Dynasty of Brandenburg and Prussia, and the imperial Habsburgs of Austria.
A&E Television
History.com: Joseph Stalin
The History Channel provides a biographical look at the Russian dictator Joseph Stalin, beginning with his early career, rise to power, time as a Soviet leader, and the partial dismantling of his police state in the years after his death.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Playing Name Bingo With
Contains plans for two lessons of get-to-know-you activities that use a Name Bingo Game to help learners break the ice with each other. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
Other
The Story of the Us Told in 141 Maps
This collection of United States maps includes a year-by-year. Beginning from the Declaration of Independence and extending to present-day, students will learn explore and interact with these maps that change year-by-year.
Library of Congress
Loc: The World in 1898: The Spanish American War: Cuba in 1898
Read about the Ten Years' War the Cubans fought against the Spanish beginning in 1868, the economic ties the Cubans had with the United States, and the eventual independence of Cuba.
Other
The National Association of Science Writers
With beginnings in 1935, this group incorporated twenty years later and has grown steadily since. Visit its well designed information packed site here. There is a members-only section which requires a fairly simple registration.
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Sidney Poitier
A biography of actor Sidney Poitier. After a very humble beginning in life, Poitier struggled for years to overcome his lack of education and to break through racial barriers, eventually receiving recognition for his acting abilities. He...
University at Buffalo
University at Buffalo: Short History of Poland
Article from the University at Buffalo offers a history of Poland beginning with the events of the year 950 and moving forward through the 20th Century.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Illuminating Photography: From Camera Obscura to Camera Phone
The origins of the cameras we use today were invented in the 19th century. Or were they? A millenia before, Arab scientist Alhazen was using the camera obscura to duplicate images, with Leonardo da Vinci following suit 500 years later...
Other
Bbc: An Introduction to Pharaonic Egypt
The author presents an overview of 3,000 years of Egyptian history beginning with the time of the pharaohs.
Frontiers Media
Frontiers: Thanks for the Memories
Everyone wants a good memory but we don't often ask ourselves what memory is for. Let's begin our exploration of why memory is important and how it works with a little memory test: Do you remember what you learned in class last...
Other
Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum: Timeline
A timeline of the history of the Texas Rangers beginning in 1821 with Mexico's Independence from Spain and covering the years up until the present day. The information can also be downloaded in PDF format.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Here's Your Chance to Make Millions in the Stock Market (Part 2)
In Part II of this lesson, students will have the opportunity to complete an interactive exercise that will take them on a historical tour of the stock market from 1920 until just after WWII. Students will learn the difference between a...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Human Characteristics: Tools & Foods
Learn about the history of how humans have used tools to meet their need for food, beginning with the ancient tools our ancestors used millions of years ago. Non-human primates also use some tools.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Criteria for Success: Story Problem
Students learn the basics of "Modeling with Mathematics" (CCSS.MP.4) as they practice putting their thinking on paper in this beginning of year lesson. This lesson includes a video tutorial, differentiated worksheets based on skill...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching Tools: 6 Steps to Helping Students Set Strong Reading Goals
This site offers six steps to helping students set strong reading goals. It all starts with inspiring your students to think about who they are as readers.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Telephones
Telephones began to appear in North Carolina beginning in 1879, three years after Alexander Graham Bell's new invention had first been introduced at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. On 10 March of that year, a telephone was...
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