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Interactive Journalism Institute for Middle Schoolers
IJIMS is a project designed to introduce students from underrepresented populations to digital, web-based journalism opportunities. Participants create an online magazine to learn computational thinking via digital media, interactive...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Sources
This slideshow lesson focuses on research sources by listing 10 types of sources: books, periodicals/magazines, newspaper articles, scholarly articles, databases, reviews, interviews, lectures, media (film, television), and websites. It...
Other
Tourism Thailand: The Official Website for Tourism in Thailand
Take an online tour of Thailand, learning about the country's festivals, special events, and tourist activities. Great source for general information about Thailand, including facts about its history, religion, geography, economy, social...
Other
Wired.com: The Age of Paine
An article from Wired Magazine describing Paine's use of the media to support the Revolution and comparing it to use of modern media such as TV, radio and the Internet.
CNN
Cnn: Business
CNN & MONEY magazine combine business news, stock quotes & financial market coverage with personal finance advice, tools & investing tips.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Made From Dots
Notice how magazines print photos using dots made up of percentages of only three colors and black. Try your hand at using percentages of cyan, magenta and yellow to match the magazine color displayed.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Collage [Pdf]
In this activity, students look at how non-human images can be used in a self-portrait to portray aspects of a personality.
SMART Technologies
Smart: The Interactive Educator Online Magazine [Pdf]
An excellent and thorough online magazine for educators, highlighting particularly the technological tools needed to help students be successful. Includes information about building online learning communities, the pros and cons of...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "The Roaring Twenties" by Mike Kubic
A learning module that begins with "The Roaring Twenties" by Mike Kubic, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
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Dawn: Pakistani English Newspaper
Online articles from DAWN, credited as Pakistan's oldest and most widely circulated English newspaper and one of its two largest English dailies. Site also includes DAWN Young World, a weekly magazine with articles of interest to young...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Rhythms in Poetry: Jean Toomer
This is a brief biography of Jean Toomer, an African American author of poetry and short stories, published in many magazines in the early twentieth century. Click on "Jean Toomer Activities" for related materials.
PBS
Pbs: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Proper Punctuation for Titles
This video focuses on correctly punctuating titles. Small works (short stories, essays, magazine and newspaper articles, etc.) are indicated with the use of quotation marks. Larger works, such as books or movies, are indicated either...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Creating a Works Cited
The intended learning outcomes are to identify the basic elements of a citation, and to understand that the elements of a citation vary with the format of the source cited (e.g. book v. magazine article v. online resource), and to know...
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Environmental Education for Kids!
This site is an electronic magazine that features information concerning the great outdoors. This site includes information on animals, nature, earth, careers, activities, teacher lessons, and media.
Curated OER
New York Times: World Trade Center
Page offers a number of articles, video and other multi-media covering the World Trade Center. Some of the resources are free, however, to have full access you have to register with the New York Times. Registration is free.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: An Apple a Day [Pdf]
Distinguish between fruits and vegetables through a sorting game, learn to appreciate new foods through a tasting activity, create funny food friends with magazine cutouts of healthy foods and dramatize preparing a health meal or snack.