Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech: Study Skills Checklist
Survey-style checklist that asks the students several questions in order to evaluate his/her study skills. The questions are categorized so the student can tell where to focus in order to maximize study time.
Cornell University
Cornell University: Study Design Tutorial: Cross Sectional Studies
This tutorial from Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine explains what a cross-sectional study is, its key characteristics, how to assess events and outcomes, and some special considerations when choosing sample...
Other
Middle Tennessee State University: Study Skills Help Page
The Study Skills Help Page offers many learning strategies for success. The website is based on a college course - it has a wide variety of online learning resources such as study skills course objective, notes, and practice tests/games.
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University of Northern Iowa: Study Skills
Collection of web sites that provide tips to help you study more effectively, manage your time, take better notes, and handle the stresses of school life.
Education Development Center
Digital Literacy: Skills for the 21st Century
This tool kit makes the case that critical and creative use of multimedia authoring tools such as PowerPoint must be taught to students. Lessons, background material, assessment and interactive activities are included.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spreadsheet Software: M5: L5: Show Me Your Skills: Practice Skills
In Module 5 Lesson 5 of this course on spreadsheets, students review what they have learned in the previous four lessons about working with large spreadsheets, using advanced functions to analyze data, working on more than one workbook...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Experimental Design
Video program explains the difference between observation and experiment and the principles of experiment design. Lesson draws on real-life example of heart disease study and a double-blind experiment. [28:39]
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Constitution Day: The 1965 Alabama Literacy Test
Constitution Day provides a good opportunity to review the Constitution in a new light by looking at registration obstructions that were common in the southern states.
Other
Linc Home Study: Grammar Central: Confusing Words 1
This is a tutorial for words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings.
Georgetown University
Heath Online Instructor's Guide: William Bradford
Here, one can find helpful information on studying the works of American author William Bradford (1590-1657 CE). This website provides insight into specific themes and styles prevalent in Bradford's writing as well as suggestions for...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Drawing and Writing Stories
Online lesson which allows elementary students to us the technique of drawing as a tool to create meaningful writing skills in fiction.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Coin Box
An interactive game involving coins to learn basic money skills such as counting money, making change and identifying coins of different denominations
Other
Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Understand Content Words
A short example of using context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar content words. Click on Practice to practice using context clues.
Other
Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Describe Text Structure
A short explanation of informational text structures. Follow links for more information on: chronological text structure, comparison and contrast text structure, cause and effect text structure, and problem and solution text structure....
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: What Can I Do With a Major In
Are you looking to explore possible career paths based on a college major? Explore possible career titles, major skills and characteristics, and websites related to your choice of college major.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Teaching Resources & Guides for Selected Plays
Classroom ideas, surveys, discussion guides and worksheets are featured on this site from the Arthur Miller Society.
Math Slice
Math Slice: Chart Slice Special Test
A ten question test assessing data collection and analysis skills with bar graphs. Assessment is scored online. An excellent tool for assessment.
University of Texas at Austin
Francais Interactif Me Voici
Discussing families, pastimes, nationalities - telling time all presented with extensive vocabulary lists and utilized in context through audio, video and interview clips - excellent for listening comprehension and cultural exposure. Has...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Mathematics Illuminated: Topology's Twists and Turns
What is topology? And how does this area of mathematics allow us to study the shape and interconnectedness of the universe we live in? Video presentation answers these questions via a lively presentation of discussion, examples, and...
Florida State University
Florida State University: Light and Color: Reflection of Light
An in-depth discussion on reflection of light can be found here. Among the topics discussed include are the difference between specular and diffuse reflection, concave and convex mirrors, facets, total internal reflection, and much more....
Columbia University
Columbia University: China and Europe 1500 2000 and Beyond
Learn about China and its growth throughout the world. Understand and compare the growth of Europe with China. Links to many different topics. Offers lesson plans and study guides (PDF, Adobe Reader required). Includes video (uses...
New York University
Music Literature: The Classical Period
Resource provides information on the Classical Period in music by discussing the three main composers most notably associated with that period: Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Polar Discovery: The Greenland Glacier Expedition: July 7 July 24, 2008
This polar expedition took place in 2008, but you can still experience the thrill of following these scientists as they engage in research studying the changes in Greenland's ice sheet. Meet the research team and learn about the...
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Gibb's Free Energy
With an overview of topics related to chemical equilibrium, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and energy. The site specifically addresses free energy and the Gibbs function.