TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineers Speak for the Trees
Students begin by reading Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax" as an example of how overdevelopment can cause long-lasting environmental destruction. Students discuss how to balance the needs of the environment with the needs of human industry....
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Chicago Legacy: Burnham's Plan [Pdf]
"Chicago Legacy: Burnham's Plan" is a one page, nonfiction passage about Daniel Burnham, an architect and city planner for Chicago. He planned the layout of the city including Navy Pier, railroads, streets, and public buildings. It is...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Learning Sustainability With Sim City
Helps educators develop SimCity-based lesson plans that will encourage students to think critically about the challenges facing modern cities. SimCity is a city-building simulation computer game where players become the mayor and design...
Other
City of Vancouver: Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation
This page has information on the responsibilities of the City of Vancouver Parks department and how it is organized. Also found here is information about its many programs and longterm planning for parks development.
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Cities and Towns in Texas [Pdf]
An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this instructional activity, they investigate changes in population for different Texas...
Volunteer Voices
Volunteer Voices: Teaching Tennessee History Volume Viii [Pdf]
The East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS) presented its ninth Teachers History Institute on June 4-8, 2007. It was funded by Humanities Tennessee and Mrs. B.W. Grimes. Taking as its theme "Voices of Opportunity: Industrialization...
9/11 Memorial & Museum
National September 11 Memorial & Museum: Planning for Emergencies [Pdf]
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum has partnered with the New York City Department of Education and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education to develop a robust set of 9/11 lessons for K-12 classrooms. Each lesson is...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: The City (La Ciudad): Pronunciation/sonidos
Extensive site focusing on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition - contrasts sounds as in "cap/cup, ran/run." Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a "Teacher's...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Teaching Geography: European Union
Explore the European region and consider what makes a successful city and how effective is supranationalism? A video features Berlin and Amsterdam for urban development and then looks into the concept of supranationalism in the European...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Complex Numbers
A wealth of material to help you plan classroom instruction on complex numbers: several lessons that cover the number i, square roots of negative numbers, and operations involving complex numbers; practice activities, some of which...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Circles and Angles
A wealth of material to supplement classroom instruction on circles, angles in circles, and arcs. Find lessons with formulas, diagrams, and example problems with step-by-step solutions, multiple-choice practice quizzes, and activity...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Community Garden
Orville Edwards describes how community gardens help improve the quality of life in the city in this video segment from WILD TV.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Primary Sources: The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
An hour-long professional development workshop on investigating the Chicago Exposition as a vision of America's future. Features experienced classroom teachers. Materials and a complete lesson plan are also provided.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Quadratic Equations, Discriminant, Quadratic Formula
A wealth of resources for teachers planning classroom instruction on quadratic equations, discriminant, and the quadratic formula: six lessons covering various ways to solve equations, complete with definitions and step-by-step solutions...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Negative and Fractional Exponents
A wealth of resources for classroom instruction on positive, negative, zero, and fractional exponents. Lessons offer guidelines for evaluating and working with exponents as well as step-by-step solutions to example problems. Practice...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Building Perspectives App
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.
Curated OER
Unesco: Israel: White City of Tel Aviv the Modern Movement
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate in Palestine. The White City was constructed from the early 1930s until the 1950s, based on the urban plan by Sir Patrick Geddes, reflecting...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: An Educator's Guide to Expanding Narratives About American History & Culture
This collection has been carefully selected by New York City educator and curriculum consultant Vivett Dukes to showcase ideas, achievements, and contributions by American people of all backgrounds across eras. The content highlighted...
BBC
Bbc: Primary History: Ancient Greece
Resource for primary students and teachers studying Ancient Greece. Students navigate through animated multi-media and interactive features to play games, watch videos, view photos and read all about Ancient Greece. Teachers can find...
Curated OER
Unesco: Russian Federation: Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl
Situated at the confluence of the Volga and Kotorosl Rivers some 250 km north-east of Moscow, the historic city of Yaroslavl developed into a major commercial centre from the 11th century. It is renowned for its numerous 17th-century...
9/11 Memorial & Museum
National September 11 Memorial & Museum: Nino's Restaurant Presentation [Pdf]
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum has partnered with the New York City Department of Education and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education to develop a robust set of 9/11 lessons for K-12 classrooms. Each lesson is...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Understanding Maps and Directions
Extensive site for teaching Spanish speaking ELL. The theme of this unit is the directions - An "e-mail" is presented, giving directions to a house party - Interactive exercise follows, asking comprehension questions - A guided writing...
Curated OER
Unesco: Netherlands: Seventeenth Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam
The historic urban ensemble of the canal district of Amsterdam was a project for a new 'port city’ built at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. It comprises a network of canals to the west and south of the historic...
Curated OER
Unesco: Germany: Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. The property consists of six housing estates that testify to innovative housing policies from 1910 to 1933, especially during the Weimar Republic, when the city of Berlin was particularly progressive...