Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Using Databases: Periodical Indexes and Abstracts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on using databases: periodical indexes and abstracts including the differences between periodical and journals, selecting the right number of keywords, and full-text databases.
Handout
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Annotated List of Useful Databases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an annotated list of useful databases including the difference between search engines and databases and between databases and catalogs, broad-based databases, source-type databases, and subject-type databases.
Activity
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Integers: Grade 6 (Using Thermometer)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Scroll partway down the page to find this lesson on decimals which incorporates the use of thermometers at an activity centre.
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spreadsheets: M1:l3: Operating System and Spreadsheet Applications Screen

For Students 9th - 10th
In Module 1 Lesson 3 of this course on spreadsheets, students begin learning how to use Microsoft Excel to create spreadsheets. Slideshows walk them through how to navigate the menus and tools of Excel.
Handout
Other

Concordia University: How to Find Articles

For Students 9th - 10th
While this site focuses on the resources available in the Concordia Library, it also gives clear information about what indexes and abstracts are, and how and why a student should use them. The general information is helpful, regardless...
Article
Other

Editorial Projects in Education: Teaching Students to Wrangle 'Big Data'

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article describes how students are learning how to analyze big data and and understand how it is used by organizations. The article also discusses data science as a potential career path. Includes a link to a page where you can...
Website
Careers New Zealand

Careers New Zealand: Media Producer

For Students 9th - 10th
An informative page on the career field of a media producer. Content discussed includes general tasks and duties, educational requirements, personal skills needed, working conditions, expected salary, and job outlook. Also given is a...
Website
Boston University

Sign Stream: American Sign Language Linguistic Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Interesting research project that provides a database tool for analysis of linguistic data captured on video. There is a free downlad available which may be used with possible upgrades available for purchase.
Website
Other

Barcode of Life Data Systems (Bold)

For Students 9th - 10th
The Barcode of Life Data Systems is the depository of DNA barcode information and specimens. While there is not actually much here for teachers or students to use, it is interesting to read about the work and how much has been collected...
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Bessie Stough Callender

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Bessie Stough Callender is described here along with information on her contributions to art through sculpture. Callender worked with stone sculpting techniques and favored the...
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Irving Dominick

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Irving Dominick is described here along with information on his contributions to art through sculpture, and specifically his work with sculptures of metal forms.
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Jack Earl

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Jack Earl is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his sculptures of porcelain.
Lesson Plan
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Rational Numbers Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This hands-on lesson discusses and explores rational numbers. Students construct personal fractional strip kits and use them to compare fractional amounts and investigate equivalence. The lesson plan includes instructions, materials, and...
Website
Careers New Zealand

Careers New Zealand: Kitchenhand

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains detailed information about a career as a kitchen helper. While this site is based out of New Zealand and contains information for that country, there is valuable data about this career that is useful.
Lesson Plan
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Journey of Discovery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The "Journey of Discovery" project through Yad Vashem serves to make sure we know the stories behind the victims of the Holocaust in order to see them as humans and not numbers. Using the database and information on Yad Vashem, students...
Website
Other

Massachusetts Studies Project: African Americans in Massachusetts

For Students 9th - 10th
The full title of this page is "African Americans in Massachusetts: Case Studies of Desegregation in 19th Century Nantucket and Boston." It features a timeline that covers the mid-19th century cases in Nantucket and Boston concerning the...
Lesson Plan
Other

Freedom on the Move: Telling Their Stories

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The "Telling Their Stories" lesson plan guides students through the era of enslavement through the lens of those who chose to flee as a form of resistance. Using the Freedom on the Move database of runaway ads, this lesson centers on the...
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Paul Cadmus

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Paul Cadmus is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his paitings (including his series "The Fleet's In") and his use of egg tempera.