Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Ownership of the Resolution Process

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand that much of the effectiveness of a conflict resolution process depends on the parties' feeling ownership and joint control of the process, and will be able to use techniques to...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Good Resolution

For Students 2nd - 4th
A scanned copy of the 1851 publication of The Good Resolution by Daniel Parish Kidder, a fiction book for children.
Article
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: The Resolution of Conflict Book Summary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a book review of Morton Deutsch's book, "The Resolution of Conflict." The summary is mainly about conflict and how to determine if the outcome will be productive or destructive. The second half of the summary applies...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Character, Conflict, Resolution, Setting

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive lesson allows learners to study and analyze the text concepts of character, conflict, resolution, and setting in a "Broadcast news," format.
Primary
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Turtle Bayou Resolutions

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about early struggles between Americans and the Mexican government in this article from the Texas State Library. The Turtle Bayou Resolutions were made by rebels against Mexican rule. Click on the document to enlarge it and to read...
Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

For Students 9th - 10th
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Joint Resolution for the Maintenance of Peace and Security in Southeast Asia, known as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, on August 10, 1964, giving him a free hand to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Identity & Conflict

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand that identity is a major source of conflict. It includes a video on Conflict Resolution and a list of terms with definitions.
Primary
Yale University

The Tonkin Gulf Incident; 1964

For Students 9th - 10th
A part of the Yale Avalon Project, this page provides the message from President Johnson to Congress the day after the incident and the joint resolution of Congress on August 7, 1964.
Article
US Department of State

U.s. Involvement in the Vietnam War: The Gulf of Tonkin and Escalation, 1964

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay on U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in 1964 and subsequent escalation in that conflict through the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Activity
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Deep Sea Drilling

For Students 5th - 8th
In this activity, students learn about the JOIDES Resolution, an ocean-drilling vessel. They then use string to estimate the length of the ship and compare their estimates to the real length. They look at how deep the ocean water under...
Article
Other

Mediate: Preventing Conflict Through Facilitation

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The role of facilitation is discussed in this article. Highlights the idea of facilitation as a pre-conflict tool versus mediation being a post-conflict tool. The term is analyzed and explained as well as the importance of its role.
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Mac Millan: Story Elements: Grade 6

For Students 6th Standards
This learning module focuses on analyzing story elements including the order of events, character, conflict, resolution, and plot. It provides a model story with questions and answers and then a practice story with questions.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Hawaiian Islands: Erosion and Giant Landslides

For Teachers 9th - 10th
High-resolution elevation data on land and in the ocean is used to examine the effects of erosion on the Hawaiian Islands. The remains of offshore landslides are also studied, and consistency with a hotspot model of formation for the...
Website
British Antarctic Survey

British Antarctic Survey: The Antarctic Treaty Explained

For Students 9th - 10th
A clear explanation of the Antarctic Treaty, a unique international agreement between scientists. Outlines the gist of the fourteen articles in the original agreement, signed in 1959 by twelve nations. Many more have signed on since. The...
Website
Library of Congress

Loc: Law: War Powers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find the reasoning behind the War Powers Act, passed over President Nixon's veto in 1973. Presidential actions taken during the Vietnam War were the impetus for Congress to make a declaration of war more codified. See the times...
Website
University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: John Adams: A Life in Brief

For Students 9th - 10th
A good look at John Adams as president and the struggles he had both domestically and in foreign affairs. Read about how he kept America out of war and his political isolation because of his hard-held beliefs.
Primary
American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm: The Equal Rights Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of Shirley Chisholm's speech to the House of Representatives on August 10,1970, supporting the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Lesson Plan
Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Aboriginal Youth Identity Series: Teacher Zone

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website provides educators with an opportunity to learn and teach about Aboriginal Leadership in Canada. The elementary section focuses on identifying Aboriginal role models and heroes such as Bill Reid, Buffy Sainte-Marie, or...
Primary
Other

Fieldston School United States History Survey: Populist Party Platform

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the Populist Party platform in the election of 1892. You will be surprised to see how many resolutions were eventually adopted by Democrats and Republicans.
Handout
US National Archives

Nara: Congress Establishes Thanksgiving

For Students 9th - 10th
From the National Archives, an essay on the establishment of the American holiday of Thanksgiving as a legal holiday starting with the original proclamation in 1789 celebrating it on different days or months up to the 1941 resolution...
Unit Plan
NASA

Nasa: Vectors

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA provides an excellent tutorial on vectors and their use in physics to describe the motion of objects. Vector addition and resolution are illustrated.
Article
Edutopia

Edutopia: Common Ground: Teaching Kids the Benefits of Working Together

For Teachers K - 1st
Article discusses how cooperative learning helps create the essential skill of working (and compromising) within a group.
Handout
Digital History

Digital History: Into the Quagmire

For Students 9th - 10th
Vietnam is one of the longest wars fought, spanning multiple decades and U.S. presidencies. In this article, students will learn about France's defeat at and withdrawal after Dien Bien Phu, the Geneva Accords, and the policies of the...
Article
Cengage Learning

Houghton Mifflin: Chapter 20, Global Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief article overviews how American foreign policy perspectives have changed over time. Learn how the media has provoked some of the changes, how media coverage during the Vietnam War, for example, influenced society's perspectives...

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