PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The World of Volcanoes
In this segment from Nature, Scientists travel to the top of Mount Kilauea to collect molten lava samples for testing.
Practical Money Skills
Visa: Practical Money Skills for Life: Financial Football
Football-themed game tests your consumer-finance aptitude regarding interest, banking, credit, budgeting, saving, and spending.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Financial Soccer
Put your financial skills to the test with Visa's World Cup-themed Financial Soccer, a multiple choice question video game. Are you ready to play?
Stanford University
Stanford U.: Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning
This report from the Stanford History Education Group describes the conclusions of their work in field testing a set of assessments of civic online reasoning by young people from the middle school to the college level. Middle school...
Social Studies Help Center
Social Studies Help Center: The Freedmen After Reconstruction Came to an End
This page helps the student put the grandfather clause (and poll tax and literacy test) in the perspective of the reconstruction time period.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Congressman George White
This page from PBS "The American Experience" relates the story of Congressman George White, the last African American congressman in 1900 who chose to retire rather than face certain defeat in the next election. He had ascertained that...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: African American Women and the Vote
Though the suffrage movement failed to exclude African-American women, and many obstacles came in the way of their voting (e.g., poll taxes, literacy tests, etc.), "African-American women were not strangers to community activism." Learn...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Improve Performance on Reading Comprehension Tests
This article describes some of the thought processes that can help students perform well on standardized tests of reading comprehension. It includes two reading passages along with sample test questions that call on skills that eighth...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: What Do Reading Comprehension Tests Measure? Knowledge.
The federal No Child Left Behind law requires more testing of students, and has spurred some frantic and ineffectual test preparation in many schools, says the author, E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Reading tests must use unpredictable texts to be...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Teach to the Test? Just Say No
It is possible for educators to make better choices about how and when to teach to the test than the alarmist newspaper articles and editorials would seem to suggest. This article from the Center for Comprehensive School Reform and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Sat Writing and Language Test: The Passages
The SAT Writing and Language Test asks you to edit and revise passages written by an anonymous author. You will encounter a variety of passages from four content areas: Careers, History/Social Studies, Science, and Humanities. Each...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: How Can I Help My Child Do Well on Tests?
Standardized testing is one form of assessment used in schools. Find out about standardized tests, how and why schools use them, and how you can support your child.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Teaching Content Knowledge and Reading Strategies in Tandem
Many areas of instruction can have a rippling effect for the expansion of readers' repertoire of skills, including pre-reading, predicting, testing hypotheses against the text, asking questions, summarizing, etc. Literacy-rich,...
University of California
Fifth Dimension: Following Directions Test
Two versions of a 12-question test to see if students can follow directions for simple procedures. Directions for administering the tests and answer keys are provided.
Ohio Test Prep
Ohio Test Prep: Module 1: Civic Participation and Skills
Learning module with video tutorials, practice games and assessment on civic participation and skill prepare students for Ohio test in Social Studies.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Common Application for Undergraduate College Admission
SCU uses StoryCorps' tested interviewing techniques-combined with outstanding radio broadcasts and animated shorts-to support high school students in the development of identity and in drawing connections between their unique strengths...
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BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: English: Reading: Dictionaries and Indexes Quiz: Basic [Pdf]
Quiz testing basic alphabetization skills required for real-world application. Three levels of difficulty with answers provided.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Common Sense Education: Identifying High Quality Sites
Learn how to "test before you trust" the sites and information found on the Web in this lesson plan and student handout from Common Sense Education. Assessing what you find on the Web is an essential skill for today's students. Use this...
Math Slice
Math Slice
More than three dozen math games, exercises and tools help students sharpen their math skills in engaging, interactive exercises. There are also a few literacy games available from this page.
University of Missouri
University of Missouri: Clear Writing: Ten Principles of Clear Statement
This page features a list of ten principles that lead to writing clearly and concisely, such as avoiding unnecessary words, writing like you talk, writing to express and not to impress, and the like. It also discusses "fog indexes" to...
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Common Core Standards: Formal Writing
Writing formally means writing using words that are precise, objective, and impersonal. This lesson gives examples of formal language and also provides games and a test. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.e
CommonLit
Common Lit: Let's Teach for Mastery Not Test Scores
A learning module that begins with "Let's Teach for Mastery - Not Test Scores" by Sal Khan, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Human or Machine? a.i. Experts Reportedly Pass the "Turing Test"
A learning module that begins with "Human or Machine? A.I. Experts Reportedly Pass the 'Turing Test'" by Scott Neuman, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Main Idea: Test 1
In this reading test focusing on the main idea, students read passages and answer questions concerning the main idea.