Curated OER
Mac Millan: Story Elements: Grade 6
This learning module focuses on analyzing story elements including the order of events, character, conflict, resolution, and plot. It provides a model story with questions and answers and then a practice story with questions.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Multi Track Diplomacy: Lesson 3
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand the concept of multi-track diplomacy as a means of international conflict resolution. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Multi-Track Diplomacy."
Marxists Internet Archive
The Patriotes Rebellion Quebec 1837 1839
This addresses class conflicts in Lower Canada by understanding the The Patriotes Rebellion in terms of frustrations with the British Government and their slow response to the 92 Resolutions. It is an interesting read, with related pages...
United Nations
Un: Question of Palestine
An official website of the United Nations on the subject of Palestinian Rights provides chronicles of UN resolutions on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Other
Vietnam War Bibliography
A great resource for print resources on the Vietnam War. The Table of Contents provide a good organizational tool of bibliographic information for anyone trying to understand the conflict.
Yale University
Avalon Project: Middle East 1916 2001: A Documentary
Yale Law School does an excellent job in presenting historical documents centered around the Middle East crisis beginning with the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement up to present day UN resolutions. This site provides a complete timeline that...
Northern Virginia Community College
Introduction to Theatre Plot
This site contains, in outline form, Aristotle's "six parts of a tragedy." The Plot is discussed in length on this site. The author goes into the exposition, conflict, climax, and resolution of the plot.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Elements of a Story
Explore the elements of a story using the well-known Cinderella story as source material. Learn about setting, character, sequence, exposition, conflict, climax, and resolution.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Confucius Changes China
In this lesson students analyze Confucianism and its effect on conflicts in China. Students will evaluate an excerpt from The Analects of Confucius to realize the usefulness of Confucius' teachings and create an original cartoon using...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Managing Anger
Reflect on what makes one angry and how one responds to anger. Practice anger management and conflict resolution through the "I-Message" communication technique and other group activities.
Other
The Earth Times
The Earth Times newspaper covers the latest in environmental issues such as world population, conflict-resolution, governance, human-rights and trade.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Larger Than Life
Students will write a tall tale narrative including larger than life characters with unusual skills or abilities using exaggeration, humor, surprise endings, and story elements (setting, characters, conflict, resolution).
Quia
Quia: Story Elements Practice
This series of flashcards from Quia helps students perform a quick check of their understanding of student elements, such as setting and conflict.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Building Blocks of Agreement and Disagreement: Lesson 2
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand that each point agreement builds on itself and increases the chances of resolution, while the opposite is true for each disagreement. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Building...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Creating Effective Agreements: Lesson 1
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand how to select and assemble options to create an effective solution to a conflict. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Creating Effective Agreements."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Gain and Risk: Playing to Win vs. Playing Not to Lose: Lesson 2
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand that in a conflict or decision-making situation, parties may evaluate potential gains and risks of loss in different ways. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Gain and Risk: Playing...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Accommodating: Lesson 1
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand how the accommodating conflict style presents itself in various situations. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Accommodating."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compromising: Lesson 1
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand how the compromising conflict style presents itself in various situations. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Compromising."
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Fable Chart [Pdf]
This is a PDF Fable Chart designed for students to complete as they read a fable; it includes the title and author, the animal character, human characteristics, the individual elements of a short story, and the moral or lesson.
US Department of State
U.s. Involvement in the Vietnam War: The Gulf of Tonkin and Escalation, 1964
Essay on U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in 1964 and subsequent escalation in that conflict through the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Other
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War is a series of articles that discusses the origins, battles, and outcome of this conflict that involved much of Southeast Asia during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. This introduction gives the background for U.S. involvement.
Other
Project Ploughshares
Website for an ecumenical peace center of the Canadian Council of Churches. Organization formed to work towards control of weapons trade, reducing reliance on military force, abolishing nuclear weapons and building peace in the world.
Other
Classroom Connections: Cultivating Peace
Here you will find free teaching resources for secondary teachers on cultivating peace and teaching students how to take an active role in promoting peace in the world around them.
Other
The Critical Thinking Consortium: A Teacher's Guide to Feathers and Fools [Pdf]
Feathers and Fools by Mem Fox is an animal story about tolerance of differences and learning to accept one another. The activities in the guide help students explore the concept of tolerance and how to stand up for others when they are...