British Library
British Library: Hardy's Tess of the D'urbervilles: Fatalism & Sexuality
In this lesson, students will explore sources related to two key ideas in Thomas Hardy's work: that of people being unable to control their fate, and the imbalance between a man's place and a woman's place in society. Through their study...
British Library
British Library: Bronte's Wuthering Heights: Walking the Landscape
In this lesson, students will explore the landscape of Wuthering Heights from a range of different angles. They will compare the fictional landscape described in Emily Bronte's novel with a number of other sources and consider why a...
British Library
British Library: Dickens's Great Expectations: Social Mobility
This instructional activity will explore this theme of social mobility through a reading of extracts from Samuel Smiles's Self-Help (1859), the handbook that many young men in 19th-century Britain turned to in seeking advice as to how to...
British Library
British Library: Barrett Browning's Poetry: Social & Political Commentary
Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave a voice, in her poems, to many of those oppressed by contemporary injustice: child laborers, the poor, and the enslaved. In this lesson, students will give these voices dramatic form, using the techniques...
British Library
British Library: Austen's Emma: Social Realism & the Novel
In the course of the novel's development, Jane Austen was a significant contributor to the emergence of the modern novel as we know it today. The review of Emma in the Quarterly Review (October 1815) makes clear to a modern audience how...
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University of Washington Libraries: Starting Research
If you need help knowing where to start your research, or if you're a teacher looking for a way to help students understand the research process, this resource is terrific. Interactive tutorials on a number of topics offer review quizzes...
British Library
British Library: Teaching Resources: Aphra Behn, the Rover: Carnival
These activities allow students to explore how Aphra Behn uses character types and tropes associated with carnival in "The Rover". Students can relate this to the play's context of production, and comic theories relating to the...
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: What's Happening to Your Body?
This lesson plan site focuses on the changes that adolescents go through and delves into their nutritional, physical, and mental health needs.
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Library of Congress: Teaching With Primary Sources
This website is an excellent resource for teaching with primary sources. This resource features Holocaust lessons, lesson plan strategies, and podcasts.
Library of Congress
Loc: For Teachers: Holidays: Themed Resources
A rich resource page with links to primary source information about a number of holidays and special days, such as presidential inaugurations.
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Choosing a Career in Health
There are two lessons in this lesson plan site. The first gives the students an appreciation of the need for hand washing to prevent disease and the second allows the students to explore the health field and to describe a career that...
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Your Beating Heart
In this lesson plan site, the students will learn about the circulatory system and perform an experiment where they take their pulse after various activities.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Personal Stories and Primary Sources
Students will explore the value of personal stories and first-hand accounts when exploring history, in this case, the events of the early twentieth century, which included World War I and the Great Depression. Through this five-unit...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Star Search: How Do I Find the Books I Need?
Lesson which outlines the STAR process for finding resources in a library. Learners are taught to select appropriate search tools, subject headings, and resources.
Library of Congress
Loc: Learning Page: Lewis and Clark
A rich resource page with primary sources, online resources, student activities, and lesson plans.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Building a Paper Airplane Using Bernoulli's Principle
This is a culmination activity used after students have studied Bernoulli's Principle as part of a unit on forces and fluids. Students will use the Internet, textbooks, library resources and their cooperative learning group to design...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Research Process: Finding Sources
This lesson plan focuses on how to find sources including information on research strategies: preliminary, intermediate, and advanced. It provides a variety of resources available in each level including videos: " How To Google Like A...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Preparing to Write the Research Paper
This lesson introduces young scholars to research materials in the library and electronic materials available through the Alabama Virtual Library(AVL). The instruction emphasizes "how-to-use" multi-volume encyclopedias, multi-volume...
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Tesol: Sensory Details Worksheet: Adding Details Add Interest
Use this worksheet to practice enhancing your writing by using sensory language. Sensory details include words that describe sights, sounds, and smells of the setting, characters, and interactions.