Curated OER
Kids Health: Talking to Your Parents or Other Adults
Making Conversation with the same people that put limits on your freedom can sometimes be a difficult task. It can however help you better understand where they're coming from and that they don't want to control you, just provide...
Other
Channel One: Lesson Plan: How to Spot Fake News
A lesson plan explores the problem of fake news sites, featuring a Channel One News video about the issue. What are the best approaches to decoding the real from the fake?
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Fake or Real? How to Self Check the News and Get the Facts
Read a story on Facebook. Read the headline and think it's too good to be true, but it looks like it's from a news site. Experts offer tips to help sniff out fact from fake. One of today's greatest challenges in a media bombarded culture.
Other
Student Press Law Center: Student Press Law Center
Based in Virginia, this site provides legal help and information to student journalists and journalism teachers.
PBS
Pbs: How to Help Kids Cope With Disappointment
This resource will assist adults with helping students to understand how to train students to deal with disappointment in a constructive way.
PBS
Pbs: Tips for Helping Your Child Focus and Concentrate
Concentration is like a muscle that requires regular exercise to strengthen. This article gives tips to help your kids build their concentration muscles.
Other
Six Nations: The Great Iroquois Confederation
This website provides information on the Six Nations or Iroquois Confederacy. Primarily aimed at defeating mistaken assumptions about the history and social organization of the Iroquois, it fails to include sources. Students should look...
University of California
Ucla College Library: Thinking Critically About World Wide Web Resources
This site teaches readers how to evaluate the content and quality of web resources, offering questions and checklists to consider.
Other
Advanced Thermoelectric: Fundamental Thermoelectrics
Discusses the scientific principles (the Peltier effect) and the reliability and operation of thermoelectric modules. Includes a link to several other pages, one of which contains an animation of their operation.
Other
Nn/lm: Is This Health Information Good for Me?
A useful list of questions to ask as you use sources of health information and health news reports.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Help Your Child Cope With Teasing
Identify your feelings in various social situations that make you happy or sad. Talk about how it feels to be teased, and work together with others to develop a list of coping strategies.
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tar Heel Reader: Firefighters
Find out the responsibilities of a firefighter.
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tar Heel Reader: Police Officer
Find out ways police officers help people in the community.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Teasing Is Tough
Get your children to talk about how it feels to be teased. Work together to create coping strategies.
Stanford University
Sheg: Reading Like a Historian: Intro to Historical Thinking: Lunchroom Fight
[Free Registration/Login Required] A fight breaks out in the lunchroom and the principal needs to figure out who started it. But when she asks witnesses what they saw, she hears conflicting accounts. Why might these accounts differ? As...
University of Maryland
Howard County Public School System: British Surrender at Yorktown [Pdf]
Based on sourcing, students will determine which of the two pieces of historical evidence depicting the same event, the surrender of General Charles Cornwallis and the British forces at Yorktown, Virginia on October 19, 1781, is the most...
Other
University of Idaho: Internet Information Literacy
A lesson module on identifying the types of information one finds on the Internet (popular/scholarly, primary/secondary/tertiary) and the different formats information can come in. Learning exercises are embedded in the module, and a...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Thar She Blows!
Students learn about wind as a source of renewable energy and explore the advantages and disadvantages wind turbines and wind farms. They also learn about the effectiveness of wind turbines in varying weather conditions and how engineers...
Other
Accra: Cost of Living Index
Relocating? Need reliable cost of living comparisons? A great source of information on cities across the US. You can compare two cities side-by-side.
Information Fluency
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy: Micromodules: Author
Tutorial explaining the importance of determining the authorship as one of the criteria to evaluating a website. Following the article is a post-test to assess your understanding of the material. The 21st Century Information Fluency...
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Netsmartz: Webster's Gecko Goof
Webster's found a website that claims all of its information is true. But some of its facts seem strange. Now Webster is wondering- can you really trust everything you read online?
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Assessing an Author's Claims
Learn how to evaluate resoruces and author's claims.
Energy for Sustainable Development
Kids and Energy: Hydro Energy
Hydropower is a clean, renewable and reliable energy source which converts kinetic energy from falling water into electricity, without consuming more water than is produced by nature. Quite simply the oldest method by which renewable...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: The Flip Side of Club Drugs
Discuss the cultural influences of club drugs, and increase community awareness on the issue. Identify specific club drug characteristics and ways they are used, and evaluate drug information sources for reliability.