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Inside Penciling Comics: Two Point Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
On this website you can learn how two point perspectives are used to create pictures in comic books.
Handout
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Perspective Drawing

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses vanishing point and perspective drawing, including tips on drawing from various perspectives.
Graphic
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Nonfict Readers Analyze Structure/views[pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This graphic organizer contains questions for students as they analyze any nonfiction text. Students will read closely to determine the text's structure, viewpoint, and tone. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: Opposing Points of View in History

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
After reading/listening to the picture book I am the Dog I am the Cat by Donald Hall in which two characters have opposing viewpoints, students are asked to look deeply at opposing viewpoints of real people just before the Revolutionary...
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...
Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: African American Perspectives: Timeline of African American Hist, 1852 1880

For Students 9th - 10th
A timeline of important points of interest in African American history from 1852 to 1880.
Lesson Plan
Keene College

Geo Granite: Describing Places

For Teachers 6th - 8th
At this site, explore the concept of regions, learning that regions can be defined in countless ways, depending on a person's perspective.
Primary
PBS

Nova: The Elegant Universe: Viewpoints on String Theory: Sheldon Glashow

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcript of an interview with physicist Sheldon Glashow on his attitude toward string theory and its impact on the study of particle physics and cosmology.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Smoking Section

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn various perspectives on the issue of smoking in public places in New York City in this video segment from New York Voices.
Website
Other

Color Matters

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn to understand color from a variety of perspectives: physiology, psychology, philosophy, and art.
Lesson Plan
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: The United States in Afghanistan: Analyzing Political Cartoons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using videos, handouts, and online resources, students explore viewpoints on the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, interpret political cartoons and place them in the context of a political discussion about Afghanistan, and identify the...
Article
PBS

News Hour: Mexicans React to Immigration Crisis in u.s. (2006)

For Students 9th - 10th
Fascinating look at the Mexican viewpoint of the immigration debate in the United States. Transcript, audio, and video of this July, 2006, report available.
Website
PBS

Pbs the West: Cities of Gold

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS site recounts the efforts of Spanish explorers to find the fabled gold of the New World.
Article
PBS

Pbs News Hour: The Barrier

For Students 9th - 10th
An examination of the security fence that divides Israel and the West Bank. Reporter goes to both sides of the barrier for perspectives. Be sure to click on Palestinian perspectives for Part II. ( February 2004)
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Rivalry Iii, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
Two maps of English and French rivalries in North America, and two side-by-side accounts of the English and French perspectives on King William's war over power, trade, and economic dominance of the continent.
eBook
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 10: Intro to the Aggregate Demand/aggregate Supply Model

For Students 9th - 10th
In this chapter, you will learn about the following: Macroeconomic perspectives on demand and supply; Building a model of aggregate supply and aggregate demand, Shifts in aggregate supply; Shifts in aggregate demand; How the aggregate...
Lesson Plan
Live Wire Media

Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Fairness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn how to be a fair person. This website lists simple things you can do to be fair to others as well as discussion questions and activity ideas through which young students can think critically about what it means to be fair.
Lesson Plan
American Forum for Global Education

American Forum for Global Education: Hiroshima Through Japanese Eyes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan lets students research about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima from the viewpoint from a Japanese girl, Sadako.
Handout
Other

Jewish World Review: Stating the Obvious

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Is empathic listening so obvious as to be moronic? Does it work? Here's a dissenting viewpoint of some of the more popular listening, communication, and interpersonal relationship theories.
Website
Other

Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport: The Opium Wars

For Students 3rd - 8th
Resource summarizes the viewpoints of both the British and the Chinese during the Opium Wars of 1839-1842.
Website
Other

Copywriting Tutorial: Identifying Your Usp (Unique Selling Point)

For Students 9th - 10th
Every successful ad has a unique selling point even if you don't think there is one. Tips on how to determine/create USP for any product or service. Very readable & puts viewpoint across in interesting & memorable manner.
Primary
PBS

Pbs the West: The Battle of the Little Bighorn

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from PBS is an excerpt from an 1893 book "Picture Writing of the American Indians" by Garrick Mallery which offers an eyewitness account of the Battle of Little Bighorn by the Lakota Chief Red Horse.
Activity
Hunkins Experiments

Hunkin's Experiments: Sound Experiments

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This group of...