[Free Registration/Login Required] This two-page article summarizes the alignment of PBL with Common Core standards for ELA and math, plus the Next Generation Science Standards. It is an excerpt from the BIE book, PBL for 21st Century...

These are the lecture notes from a course on visual communication that uses Herbert Zettl's book "Sight Sound Motion." This PowerPoint outline (in PDF format) summarizes Zettl's guidelines for creating storyboards. It lists the main...

Bible Tutor discusses the significance of Ezra and summarizes the contents of the Book of Ezra. Also provides links to Biblical references.

This lesson outline summarizes the philosophical issues embedded in the book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst. This is followed by question sets that teachers can use to guide students in a...

Contains plans for five lessons for the book "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo. Learners create lists of ten to summarize the features of characters. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links...

This is a weekly blog kept by a student to explain what was being studied in a course on applied media aesthetics, the focus of Herbert Zettl's book "Sight Sound Motion." The student discusses and summarizes Zettl's ideas from various...

This book analyzes 30 Supreme Court cases chosen by a group of Supreme Court justices and leading civics educators as the most important for American citizens to understand. An additional 100 significant cases included in state history...

"Training for the Presidency" is a one-page, fictional, reading passage about Abraham Lincoln as a child. He does chores for a farmer because the book he had borrowed from him had gotten wet when rain came through the cabin walls. It is...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn what literacy circles are, how they work and some suggestions for planning. Included are reproducible worksheets that define the student roles of various jobs within the literary circle.

Contains post DNA discovery viewpoints held by Crick. Crick's book The Astonishing Hypothesis is summarized in this site.

This article summarizes the life of the delegate from New Hampshire to the Constitutional Convention. It gives details on his personal life, military and political careers.