Curated OER
How to Celebrate Kwanzaa on Your Campus
An article details everything you need to know about celebrating Kwanzaa at your school. An opening-day ceremony starts the seven-day holiday celebration followed a daily routine that includes a greeting, candle lighting, reciting an...
PBS
Tiger of the Snows: Tenzing Norgay
Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa man who made history when he reached the summit of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary, is the focus of an informative article. Class members read about Norgay's perspective on the way up the mountain, the...
College Board
Seeing Is Believing
Students read about AP calculus online. In this calculus lesson, students learn real life usage for calculus. They read about instructors and their experience teaching and incorporating calculus into the real world.
NASA
From Smoke Signals to Cell Phones: Tracing How Technologies Evolve
Explore the science of space exploration. Pupils consider technological advances in propulsion, communication, power, navigation, and imaging. They select one of these areas and create a timeline of historical progress that contributed...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: A Bottle and a Toy: Objects From Daily Life
The wall paintings from Nebamun's tomb-chapel show an idealized vision of daily ancient Egyptian life. Much less is known about the lives of the majority of society. The study of human remains in poor cemeteries is often the only way of...
CNN
Cnn: 10 Ways a Government Shutdown Will Affect Your Daily Life
With the deadlock between Republicans and Democrats over Obamacare, the government had to shut down in 2013. This article explains the ramifications of this for the average American. (Published: October 1, 2013)
Other
21st Century Skills: Will Our Students Be Prepared?
This article discusses the importance of 21st century skills and the need for students to be fully prepared as they enter the workforce.
Buddha Dharma Education Association
Buddha Net: Daily Life of a Thai Monk
Buddhanet profiles the daily lives of monks in Thailand and an itinerary of a monk's day-to-day activities.
BBC
Bbc News: Smart Chips Making Daily Life Easier
This article reports on "ubiquitous computing", which means sticking programmable microchip sensors onto everyday household objects to make them a little bit smarter. It gives specific examples of how smart chip technology is being used...
Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center: Stories From Experts About the Impact of Digital Life
While many technology experts and scholars have concerns about the social, political, and economic fallout from the spread of digital activities, they also tend to report that their own experience of digital life has been positive. This...
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: Asteroid Impacts May Have Sparked Life
Article reports on a new study that claims that the energy released from asteroid collisions may have sparked life on Earth. Includes a list of key vocabulary.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Studying Abroad
Moving away from home after high school can be intimidating. Some choose to move much further than a few miles though. Choosing to live and study abroad can be a life-changing experience. Learn more about the process and the...
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Biotechnology Institute
Biotechnology Institute: Your World: The Secret of How Life Works [Pdf]
In this Biotechnology Institute issue, get a glimpse the ethical implications of work done on the study of DNA and genetics.
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: Olympics: Science of the Sporting Life
When the Winter Olympics begin we can study the science of sports: biomechanics, figure skating, high jumping, mental preparation, alcohol and athletes, sports doctors, staleness, and training in the ancient Olympics.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: On Making Life Livable
Being able to withstand heat and cold is a need shared by rich and poor alike. The author of this speech to the American Society for Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) provides an anecdotal history of climate...
Other
Boston Globe: Arts Skills Are Life Skills
According to this article "the ability to think outside the box" is exactly what businesses are looking for from prospective employees. This article explains how the arts foster creativity in students thus preparing them for the workforce.
Read Works
Read Works: City Life and Country Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage compares and contrasts country life to city life. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included....
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Lessons From Ny Life's Revitalizing High School Libraries Initiative
Learn how pilot libraries in the Revitalizing High School Libraries Initiative, seeking to support adolescent literacy, doubled their circulation, increased visits from students and teachers, and expanded the role of library media...
Edutopia
Edutopia: New Skills for a New Century
Doing Project Based Learning in schools is one way to prepare students for life in a new century. The article explains the basis for PBL in schools.
Other
Stanford Psychology Expert: The No. 1 Skill Parents Need to Teach Their Kids
This article discusses the importance of learning to be 'indistractable' and how most parents are not teaching this skill to their children. The author, an instructor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, shares tips on how to help...
Other
Beanz: Day in Life: Paul Seal, Programmer
Paul describes his daily life as a programmer from Derby in the United Kingdom.
Ibis Communications
Eye Witness to History: Everyday Life in Ancient Greece (Fourth Century b.c.)
This article provides a glimpse into the everyday life of the ancient Athenians in the words of Xenophon, the Greek historian and pupil of Socrates.
Other
Uiw: Journal of the Life and Culture of San Antonio: Naming San Antonio in 1691
Two men wrote accounts of how San Antonio got its name. See excerpts from their journals with explanation and discussion.
Virginia Tech
Journal of Career and Technical Education: Teaching Vocational Work Ethics
This article discusses teaching vocational work ethics using various methods. Author includes notes on key concepts, the background, design, setting, subjects, findings, reflections, and conclusions of the study.
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