Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Weather Instruments

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice making predictions about weather from conditions they observe on weather instruments and weather reports. Learners are introduced to the most basic weather reporting instruments: the thermometer, the wind vane, the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Weather Instruments

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders make predictions about weather and utilize weather instruments and weather reports. They match weather components with weather instruments, and demonstrate how to read a thermometer. Students also construct and use a wind...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Solar System: The Four Inner Planets and Earth's Moon and Astronauts

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read THe Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System. In this language arts and science lesson, 2nd graders explore the four inner planets. Students view the inner planets using Google Earth.
Website
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Presidency of George Bush

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site has information about the election and presidency of George H.W. Bush. Links within the text go to other pages with information.
eBook
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Presidency of George Bush

For Students 9th - 10th
Outline of the presidency of George H.W. Bush as part of a section on Conservatism and a New World Order, offers a brief discussion of President Bush's election and administrative policy.
Website
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Presidential Election of 2000 and the War on Terror

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the highly contested presidential election of 2000, George W. Bush Administration policies, and the changes brought about by the War on Terror.
Unit Plan
W. W. Norton

W. W. Norton & Company: Norton Anthology: Introduction to the Romantic Period

For Students 9th - 10th
The major Romantic poets cannot be understood, historically, without an awareness of the extent to which their distinctive concepts, plots, forms, and imagery were shaped first by the promise, then by the tragedy, of the French...
eBook
Other

American Revolution: A Naval History of the American Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
This online reproduction of the original 1913 text by Gardner W. Allen is organized chronologically beginning in 1775 and ending with 1783. An appendix includes source citations, a list of vessels, officers, privateers and other...
Primary
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission:battle of Coleto and Goliad Massacre

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a fascinating, first-hand account of the Goliad Massacre, written by an American survivor.
Handout
BBC

Bbc: Bitesize History: The Industrial Revolution: Causes

For Students 6th - 8th
An overview of historians' views of the causes of the Industrial Revolution in Britain and of the inventions, inventors, and industries that propelled it.
Handout
Other

Management wisdom.com: About Dr. W. Edwards Deming

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a general biography of Dr. W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993 CE).
Primary
Other

Texas Escapes: A Survivor's Account of the Goliad Massacre

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site read a vivid account from a survivor of the Goliad Massacre.
Primary
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Texas Navy: The Trial of Edwin W. Moore

For Students 9th - 10th
Commodore Moore was given a hero's welcome after returning to Galveston. But this didn't last long, as he was dishonorably discharged from the Texas Navy and charged with "disobedience and piracy" and "murder for the execution of the San...
Handout
Lone Star Junction

Lone Star Junction: James W. Fannin (1804 1836)

For Students 4th - 8th
A brief biography of James W. Fannin that describes the role he played in the struggle for the independence of Texas, and his tragic end at Goliad in 1836.
Unit Plan
W. W. Norton

W. W. Norton & Company: Norton Anthology: Victorian Age Topics in Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource discusses four controversies that concerned the Victorians: evolution, industrialism, what the Victorians called "The Woman Question," and Great Britain's identity as an imperial power. Includes multiple-choice quiz and...
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Other

Stanford University Press:institutionalization of Science in Europe,1650 to 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of chapter 3 from a book titled Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time by Paul W. Rhode, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, and David F. Weiman. The chapter looks at how the Second Industrial Revolution gave rise to...
Primary
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Texas Navy: "Friends and Citizens of Texas"

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the Texas Revolution through primary texts. Here you can read "Friends and Citizens of Texas," a broadside from March 2, 1836, that "called all citizens to arms and all armed vessels to the coast."
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Texas A&M University

Sons of De Witt Colony: Goliad Massacre: Execution of James Fannin

For Students 9th - 10th
Vivid account of the Goliad Massacre and the execution of Colonel James W. Fannin. Site excerpts primary source references.
Website
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The 2004 Presidential Election

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of the presidential contest between John Kerry and George W. Bush.
eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: Period 9: 1980 Present

For Students 9th - 10th
This Khan Academy resource provides a table of contents with notes for several sections of AP US History: Period 9: 1980-present.
eBook
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless u.s. History: Manufacturing

For Students 9th - 10th
A section of a textbook on U.S. history. It presents key concepts on manufacturing and its mechanization during the Second Industrial Revolution, vocabulary that students need to understand, several paragraphs of information, and links...
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Ohio History Central

Ohio History Central: The Iroquois Indians

For Students 3rd - 8th
Information about the confederacy of Native Americans known as the Iroquois. Details how they lived and their allies and enemies, both foreign and from other Native American tribes.
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Ohio History Central

Ohio History Central: Adena Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this brief, but informative description of the Adena culture and the change resulting in the people's turning to agriculture as a way of life.
Primary
Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College: Sir Isaac Newton (1642 1727)

For Students 9th - 10th
A valuable and lengthy biography from Trinity College by W.W. Rouse Ball is transcribed by D.R. Wilkins on this page. Mentioned are the important facets of his work in physics and astronomy.