Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Mythology and the Odyssey: Background Mythology

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the story of the beginning of Greek Mythology. It tells the story of Uranus (Father Heaven) and his wife Gaea (Mother Earth) and their childen the Titans and the monsters. It follow the story through Zeus and the...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Tempest by William Shakespeare: Life of Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the life of William Shakespeare including links to historical documents about him including his Last Will and Testiment. It provides links to a Discovery Education video, stories from Encyclopedia Britannica's...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature: Poetry: Edgar Allan Poe

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Edgar Allan Poe and his poetry including "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee." Links are provided to study guides for each of the two poems above, the "Interactive Raven," Poe's biography, the Discovery Education video:...
Handout
Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Carnegie's Dinosaurs: Oviraptorosaur

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover the Oviraptorosaur in this impressive field guide presented by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning:20th Century and Modern Poetry:postcolonialism:george Orwell

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from 20th Century and Modern Poetry focuses on George Orwell and his autobiographical account of "Shooting an Elephant." It features links to the text of "Shooting an Elephant," a study guide/lesson plan, questions concerning...
Unit Plan
Bullock Texas State History Museum

Bullock Museum: Chapter Eleven: Oil Changed Texas [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A teacher guide designed to support a visit to the Bullock Museum, but can be used on its own using available resources. Includes information, discussion questions, activities, and worksheets. This module looks at the history of the oil...
Handout
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Meet the Corps

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet some of the members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They were fur traders, interpreters, hunters, guides, and enlisted men.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Issues: Texting While Driving

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the issue of texting while driving; it features links to articles and a video about the dangers of texting and other distractions while driving and a teen survey with their attitudes on the subject. Students read...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Animal Farm: George Orwell and Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson in the Animal Farm unit focuses on George Orwell, literary terms, and the Russian Revolution. It provides links to biographies of Orwell including text and video, links to literary terms fitting to Animal Farm, and links to...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Rational Expression Multiplication

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This StudyCards set uses guided discovery concepts to develop ideas for functions operations, building from rational expression multiplication and division algorithms.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How Clouds Are Made

For Teachers K - 1st
Introduce young learners to clouds and weather with guided discovery and inquiry to learn what makes up clouds.
Interactive
Math Science Nucleus

I. Science Ma Te: Integrating Science, Math and Technology

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site offers a wealth of online textbook-related materials that encourage the discovery of science in the world around us. Enter the site to access material on specific topics. Each section contains reading material (complete with...
Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Columbus Reports on His First Voyage, 1493

For Teachers 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Abridged from the full text located at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, this passage provides a primary source and a discussion of Christopher Columbus' first voyage. Paired texts, a...
Lesson Plan
US Mint

U.s. Mint: Which Came First? [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
Introduce students to the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark's Expedition. Then, using the tails side of the Keelboat Nickel as a guide, make a timeline of the westward journey.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv Science Fair: Plan

For Students 9th - 10th
So, you've chosen your topic and done your research, now, you need to plan your investigation. PBS site walks you through some steps to help guide you through the planning process.
Article
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Sacagawea

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Sacagawea (1788-1812), the Native American guide and interpreter on the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Website
Other

Gorp: National Historic Trails: Lewis and Clark Trail

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a chronology of Lewis and Clark's expedition to the West from 1804-06. There are also brief biographies of the two explorers and the site provides descriptions of 80 historic sites that now exist along the Lewis and...
Lesson Plan
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Climate Discovery Teacher's Guide: Investigating Climate Present

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plans on the following: Carbon cycle: Carbon Dioxide Sources and Sinks, Nitrogen Cycle: Traveling Nitrogen, Ocean and Atmosphere: Make Convection Currents, Energy Cycle: Albedo
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Pythagorean Theorem

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Use triangles and worksheets to guide the learning of triangles to the discovery of the Pythagorean Theorem.
Article
Story Behind the Science

Story Behind the Science: Detection of Black Holes [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Article outlining the scientific history behind the discovery of black holes. The writer discusses how scientific theories guide scientists in creating explanations for natural phenomena.
Website
Other

Virtual Museum Challenge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students study and interpret Native artifacts from the Museum of Civilization. An extensive teacher planning sheet includes links to other web sites. The challenge sheet guides students through the discovery process.
Website
NASA

Nasa: Saturn Arrival

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource outlines Cassini's arrival at Saturn. Describes in specific detail it's approach, arrival and orbit.
Activity
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Of Mice and Men

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1936 Steinbeck took a journalistic assignment to investigate the migrant worker situation. His discoveries are reflected in Of Mice and Men. Shmoop provides a summary, investigates themes and characters, and also offers a number of...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Using the Transform Application in an Algebra Class

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is intended to be a discovery activity for students to determine the effect that changing m and b have on the equation y=mx+b. There is a teacher guide and an activity to determine the student's level of understanding.

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