Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Historical Thinking Interactives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Six interactive activities are presented that walk students through how to use their critical thinking skills in the analysis of historical artifacts and documents. The sixth one explains how to balance the various perspectives that...
Graphic
Other

Insightful Interaction: Visualizations

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of interactive visualizations that were produced through analysis of economic, political, and market research data. Topics are diverse, e.g., military spending and trade, immigration, consumer spending, crime, unemployment,...
Professional Doc
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Balancing Sources

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is from an American history course designed for teachers to enrich their knowledge and their teaching practice. This interactive is a set of nine exercises where teachers evaluate primary resources related to a specific event in...
Interactive
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Teaching History: Interactive Historical Thinking Poster (Secondary)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an interactive historical thinking poster. History is an argument about the past. Constructing a narrative about history involves several tasks: Analyzing Primary Sources, Examining Source Information,Using Evidence to Support...
Article
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literature: Exploring Point of View

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains point of view by discussing examples of situations where mutiple people witness an event, but have different perspectives on what occured. It offers a link at the bottom of the page to information about types of point...
Professional Doc
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Why the Net? An Interactive Tool for the Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
This online workshop for integrating technology in the classroom features topics on how to use the Internet for educational purposes. Content includes a full explanation, demonstrations, explorations, and guidelines for implementation....
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Why Do We Have Seasons?

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore what causes seasons on Earth in this interactive adapted from NASA materials that features four cities at different latitudes. Use this resource to view how Earth's axial tilt causes seasons from different perspectives and to...
Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Ken Burns in the Classroom: Collection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ken Burns and his collaborators have been creating historical documentary films for more than forty years. Known for a signature style that brings primary source documents, images, and archival video footage to life on screen, these...
Website
Other

Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704

For Students 9th - 10th
This award-winning resource draws the reader into a consideration of history as witnessed from multiple perspectives. Discover the mystery of the French and Indian raid on colonial Deerfield, Massachusetts where five cultures clashed in...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Police Reform

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson featuring videos from FRONTLINE: Policing the Police. Using Newark, NJ, as an example, learners gather evidence of discriminatory policing practices, examine the perspectives of police and community, and learn about changes...
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 8: Flowers for Algernon

For Teachers 8th Standards
Eighth graders consider the nature of knowledge and the human desire to seek improvement. Through the various texts, 8th graders explore what we learn about ourselves through our interactions with and treatment of others. Even more,...
Unit Plan
Colby College

Spanish Language & Culture: The Future of the Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
Colby College offers exercises on the future of the environment from the perspectives of an optimist and of a pessimist provide great practice with the future tense.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Cyberspace Explorer Christopher Columbus

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson supports students' literacy skills by gathering multiple online sources concerning the explorer Christopher Columbus. Activities promote this literacy by attempting to research Columbus from multiple perspectives, including...
Website
Other

Pennsylvania Heritage Society: Pennsylvania Civil War 150

For Students 9th - 10th
The sidebar of this site reads "Understand the War Through People Then and Now." That is the mission of the site, and when you click on each word or phrase, you open up a world of information about the Civil War. Compiled resources help...
Website
BBC

Bbc History: World Wars: World War Two

For Students 9th - 10th
Website encompasses every aspect of World War II with particular emphasis on British roles and viewpoints. Resources include a range of audio, visual, and interactive media. Content coverage highlights include the war at sea, the air...
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra Ii: 5.6 Observational Studies, Experiments, and Surveys

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section explores how to design and conduct surveys that accurately reflect the perspectives of a larger group of people by identifying unbiased sample groups and by writing unbiased questions.
Graphic
PBS

Pbs Teachers:china's Top Water Issues

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate some of the most pressing water-related issues in China with this interactive map. Discover various viewpoints on topics such as dam construction, river flooding, sewage treatment and industrial pollution.
Interactive
Fourmilab Switzerland

John Walker: Your Sky

For Students 9th - 10th
You can produce sky maps for any date and time, viewpoint or observing location. See your sky map, horizon view, or track an asteroid or comet on this highly interactive site.
Interactive
Chiral Publishing

Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Molecular Structures: Carbon

For Students 9th - 10th
View the different molecular structures of carbon. A collection of interactive applets allows you to manipulate molecules and see them from all different viewpoints.
Handout
Curated OER

Kids Health: Brain and Nervous System

For Students 9th - 10th
The parts of the brain and the anatomy of the nervous system and how they function are explained. An interactive diagram shows the location of various parts of the brain from three different perspectives, and summarizes what each does....
Website
Middle East Policy Council

Middle East Policy Council: Teach Mideast

For Teachers 9th - 10th
TeachMideast, a comprehensive instructional portal home to a variety of resources on the Middle East and Islam, considers this region of the world from seven thematic perspectives: stereotypes, geography, history, language, religion,...
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Curated OER

Image From Churchill: The Gathering Storm

For Students 9th - 10th
Website encompasses every aspect of World War II with particular emphasis on British roles and viewpoints. Resources include a range of audio, visual, and interactive media. Content coverage highlights include the war at sea, the air...
Graphic
Curated OER

Image From the Ending of World War One

For Students 9th - 10th
Website encompasses every aspect of World War II with particular emphasis on British roles and viewpoints. Resources include a range of audio, visual, and interactive media. Content coverage highlights include the war at sea, the air...
Graphic
Curated OER

Image From Blitzkrieg

For Students 9th - 10th
Website encompasses every aspect of World War II with particular emphasis on British roles and viewpoints. Resources include a range of audio, visual, and interactive media. Content coverage highlights include the war at sea, the air...