ProCon
Cuba Embargo
President John F. Kennedy bought 1,200 Cuban cigars the night before he enacted the Cuban trade embargo in 1962. Should the United States maintain the embargo? Using the website, pupils explore the topic to prepare for a class debate or...
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills at Home: Allowance and Work
This collection of activities focuses on strategies for teaching teens how to balance allowance, chores, school, and work. Also provided are practical tips for parents regarding signs to look for that may indicated earned money is being...
Other
University of Georgia: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
A collection of downloadable resources for grandparents who are raising grandchildren. Topics covered include dealing with transitions, visitation with parents, self-care, abuse and neglect, legal issues, activities to do with...
Wessels Living History Farm
Wessels Living History Farm
The Wessels Living History Farm of York County, Nebraska, offers a look at what it was like to live on a Great Plains farm in the 1920s. The farm's attractive and well organized website includes interviews with people who remember life...
Sesame Street
Sesame Workshop: Talk, Listen, Connect, Military Families
Excellent videos, information and activities about emotional issues that military families go through such as deployment, homecomings, and dealing with changes.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Family Caregiving
When a loved one needs extra support, it can mean big adjustments for everyone in the family. For military and veteran families, these transitions can mean a unique set of challenges. But no matter the caregiving situation, embracing a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Dealing With Divorce
Separation and divorce mean difficult transitions, but they're also opportunities to learn that everything is always changing, in ways big and small. With love and support from the adults in their lives, children can emerge feeling...
Other
Paper Plate Education: Serving the Universe on a Paper Plate
Excellent resource for "paper-plate" activities that help simplify various astronomy topics. Learn how to build a "Moon Finder" and "Planet Pointer," and create a paper-plate model that explains the Transit of Venus.
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Basics
This site by University of St. Thomas focuses on the basics for writing any paragraph. It is developed in outline fashion and is very easy to follow. This site provides a basic overview of the process of writing without going into a...