British Library
British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway
In these activities, learners will use manuscript drafts, notebooks, and essays to study Woolf's experimentation with form and use of language during the lengthy process of composition. They will also consider the work in the context of...
Other
University of Washington Libraries: Starting Research
If you need help knowing where to start your research, or if you're a teacher looking for a way to help students understand the research process, this resource is terrific. Interactive tutorials on a number of topics offer review quizzes...
Other
Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
OCLC, a global library cooperative, supports thousands of libraries in making information more accessible and more useful to people around the world. Membership in OCLC provides library users around the globe access to information and...
Other
Monash University Library: Evaluating Web Pages
Use this guide to learn how to evaluate web pages. This concise guide also addresses why evaluation is important. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7
Cornell University
Cornell University: Library: Critically Analyzing Information Sources
A quick guide to help you determine the relevance and authority of a resource.
British Library
British Library: Teaching Resources: Aphra Behn, the Rover: Carnival
These activities allow students to explore how Aphra Behn uses character types and tropes associated with carnival in "The Rover". Students can relate this to the play's context of production, and comic theories relating to the...
Other
The Clarinet Pages
This site is a guide for clarinet players from beginner to advanced. The website includes a bulletin board, classified ads, sheet music, MIDI files, and numerous resources. Under "Clarinet Resources," there is an extensive list of useful...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Building a Paper Airplane Using Bernoulli's Principle
This is a culmination activity used after learners have studied Bernoulli's Principle as part of a unit on forces and fluids. Students will use the Internet, textbooks, library resources and their cooperative learning group to design...
Other
Santa Rosa Library: How to Evaluate Information Resources
Tips and information about how to evaluate resources, both print and electronic. Includes information about source authority, purpose, objectivity, currency, completeness, and relevance. It includes a printable handout (top right)with...
Other
New York State Library: Student Activity: Primary Versus Secondary Sources
Read about the Railroad Strike of 1877 using three excerpts from textbooks and three original newspaper articles. Compare and contrast the information in the primary and secondary sources.
National Institutes of Health
U.s. National Library of Medicine: Genetic Conditions: Huntington Disease
This resource provides a summary of the disease effects on the body and the genetics behind its inheritance. There are several links to other useful sites.
Other
University of Queensland Australia: Digital Essentials: Choosing the Right Tool
Finding the right software, tool or app can be challenging. This module will help you find a tool for a specific task and allows you to compare similar tools to find the best match. Some of the information is only useful for university...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Researching With the Alabama Virtual Library
After an introduction to the Alabama Virtual Library, students use the available resources to research and present information about a United States president.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Multiplicative Process Program
The mathematics resource uses a downloadable java applet to simulate the outcome of a product of random numbers. Examples of multiplicative processes include the distributions of incomes and rainfall.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Desegregation Integration, Making of African American Identity: V.3
This resource presents James Farmer (1920-1999), a major figure in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, and the distinction he draws between integration and desegregation, two terms often used interchangeably and often confused.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Building Research Skills 2 3
Check out this site to learn more about building research skills for grades 2-3. This site offers suggestions for activities that will sharpen your abilities.
Georgetown University
Legal Research Guides: Secondary Sources Research Guide
This tutorial discusses how to perform legal research in a library--from locating relevant cases, statutes, and regulation to using secondary sources that include Periodical Indexes, Treatises, Legal Encyclopedias, and Annotated Law...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Honey Bees
The students will do research to learn the various functions of bees within the hive and understand the process of making honey. Students will use numerous resources to find their information including the Internet, library books,...
Library of Congress
Loc: Primary Source Set: Thanksgiving
Teaching guide that uses primary sources to cover the history, traditions, and events of the American holiday of Thanksgiving. Provides additional online resources.
Robin Chew
Lucidcafe: Elizabeth I, Queen of England
This biographical resource for Queen Elizabeth I can help students collecting background information or for use in classroom discussion and assignments.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Transportation to the Western Frontier
There were several modes of transportation for early settlers to use when they moved to the west. Middle schoolers will research and document four modes of transportation using the Internet and print resources in the library.