Sophia Learning
Sophia: Forms
This slideshow lesson focuses on forms of fiction: short story, novella, and novel. It describes the defining characteristics of each, provides examples, and explains how to identify each.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Forming an Opinion
This lesson will help prepare students to first form an opinion and then provide a correctly written response. Students organize their thoughts, agree or disagree, define the problem, support opinion, and conclude in 3-5 sentences. This...
ACT360 Media
Act Den: Microsoft Front Page 98 Tutorial
Are you looking to learn the basics of web page design with Microsoft FrontPage 98? This fun and educational tutorial offers interactive activities and quizzes. The tutorial covers: introduction to FrontPage, creating your first website,...
Other
Classical Music Navigator: Forms and Styles
This alphabetized list of musical forms and styles briefly defines and describes the types of musical sounds and genres created throughout history.
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So You wanna.com: So You Wanna Learn About Poetic Form?
Discusses poetic form and the basic unit of form, the stanza. Also defines many related terms including couplet, triplet (tercets), quatrain, sesten (sestina), rhyme royal, ottava rima, Spenserian stanza, sonnet, and villanelle.
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Literature Circles: Lesson Plans and More
What are the major roles in literature circles? Check out this site to learn more about the individual roles needed to form a literature circle. Includes links to various reading handouts and lessons.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Past Continuous Tense
This slideshow lesson discusses the past continuous tense, also referred to as the past progressive tense. It defines the tense, explains what is needed to form the tense, and provides examples.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Linear Equation
This site defines a linear equation in a very basic and understandable way. The opening page gives examples of linear equations and questions posed to the reader which may be answered easily by examining the definition given. Be sure to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Symmetry, Reflective Drawing, and Totem Poles
In this lesson plan, students will create a colored pencil drawing utilizing symmetry and forms characteristic of Northwest Coast art and write a critique of their work. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Investigating Equations of Lines
In this activity, students explore the equations of lines written in the form: y = mx + b. They move points defining the lines, and view the related changes in the parameters of the equations.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Paraboloid
This site from Mathworld.com defines and describes a paraboloid. Includes information about a number of the properties of the paraboloid, including the formulas for finding; volume, mean and Gaussian curvature, centroid and fundamental...
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Ed informatics.com: What Is Work, Energy and Power?
Defines work, energy, and power. Explains the work-energy principle, types and forms of energy, and presents some exercises to try.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: As a "Matter" of Fact
For this lesson plan site, students will define matter and compare properties of solids, liquids and gases.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Stanza
Contains a short explanation of the poetic stanza. Also defines Verse paragraphs. Unfortunately, no examples are given, but there are a few links to related terms.
Other
Idea House: Clinton Administration Challenges Vertical Mergers
An article from 1999 defining "vertical merger" which explains the difference between Clinton's treatment of such mergers as compared to George H.S. Bush and Ronald Reagan in their administrations.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concrete and Abstract Language
This video lesson focuses on concrete and abstract language by defining them in a comparison form, providing examples of each, and providing practice in the form of listing words and asking students to classify them as concrete or abstract.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Apostrophes and Possession
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of apostrophes in forming possessives; it defines apostrophe and lists its purposes. It lists two types of possessives, singular and plural, explains how to form each including the placement of...
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies
Famsi: Olmec Civilization at San Andres, Tabasco, Mx
A significant part of the research is a form of early writing. La Venta's hierarchy is defined by artifacts found during excavations.
PBS
Pbs Frontline: Sacred Ground: The Struggle to Design the Freedom Tower
The companion website for an episode of FRONTLINE that investigates plans for developing the site of the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center illustrates the design through pictures, video, and interactive models. Includes...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Aqueous Solutions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will define a solution and describe the parts of a solution. They will describe how an aqueous solution is formed from both...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What's the Problem?
Students learn of the impending asteroid impact scenario, form teams and begin to study the situation in depth. A simple in-class simulation shows them the potential for destruction and disaster. They complete worksheets and look at maps...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Introduction to Potential and Kinetic Energy
Energy is the ability of a system to do work. That system may be batteries powering an electronic game system or windmills capturing wind energy to power a city. When an object or an organism does work, energy is transferred to another...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: The New Nation
After the War of Independence, Americans were unable to agree on the form of their federal government. This unit explores how those conflicts played out as the new Republic defined its identity in relation to other nations.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Modifiers
This tutorial focuses on modifiers using three slideshows: modifiers, dangling modifiers, and misplaced modifiers and printed information about adjectives and adverbs. Each slideshow defines the term, gives examples, and provides...