Texas Education Agency (TEA)
Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1 (English II Reading)
What do a colt and a boy in a tree have in common? More than might be first apparent. The fourth interactive in a series of ten introduces readers to intertextuality, the process of using abstract thinking to consider how one text...
Texas Education Agency (TEA)
Drawing Conclusions Based on the Sufficiency and Strength of Research (English III Reading)
High school juniors learn how to construct a strong argument by crafting a claim and using neutral language backed by evidence from reliable sources. To do so, they learn to evaluate sources and evidence to support claims. They then...
Texas Education Agency (TEA)
Reading and Writing to a Prompt (English III Reading and Writing)
Learning to read and write in response to a prompt is an essential skill. Users of this interactive learn how to analyze a writing prompt to determine the many facets that must be addressed, how to plan and structure a response, and how...
CK-12 Foundation
Fraction Ordering with Lowest Common Denominators: Test Your Strength
Young mathematicians use a bell and hammer to see how high or low the puck goes. Then, they order the fractional values to demonstrate the greatest to lowest hit. Students then respond to several questions that require them to use...
American Museum of Natural History
DNA Detective
DNA is like the fingerprint of genetics. A quick lesson introduces the topic of DNA sequences with a mystery about an endangered species. The lesson shows how DNA extraction, replication, and sequencing often provide undeniable evidence...
American Museum of Natural History
Fighting Dinos
A famous fossil of fighting dinosaurs holds as many questions as answers. Scholars first analyze the fossil itself by virtually highlighting the specific bones of the dinosaurs and read about their function and importance. They then test...
CK-12 Foundation
Frequency Tables to Organize and Display Data: Favorite Films
What information can your class determine if they know the number of people attending movie showings? Using the information about the number of people at each screening, learners develop a frequency table. The pupils analyze the type of...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Living Things Share Common Genes
Everything evolved from a common ancestor, but how did modern plants and animals develop so many more genes? Scholars use an online interactive to learn about the process. They begin to understand common genes with an animation, multiple...
DocsTeach
Confronting Work Place Discrimination on the World War II Home Front
Before the Civil Rights Movement was in full swing, FDR's executive order helped promote fair employment. The activity uses primary documents to explore FDR's executive order to help minorities gain equal employment and pay during the...
Curated OER
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 12 short answer and essay questions based on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Students may also access an online quiz on the selection using the...
Curated OER
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 short answer and essay questions based on Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Students may also access an online quiz on the selection using the link at the...
Judicial Learning Center
The Appeal Process
Why doesn't the Supreme Court hear testimony from witnesses? How do they complete an entire proceeding in less than two hours? A helpful lesson guides scholars of criminology through these and other questions by explaining how appeals...
Mr. Nussbaum
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension—The Presidential Years (Part 4)
How do you bring a nation back together after there is civil war? Readers learn how the United States Civil War concluded with a passage focused on the latter part of Abraham Lincoln's presidency. Multiple choice questions check pupils'...
Curated OER
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
In this literature worksheet, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.
Curated OER
English Vocabulary Skills: AWL Sublist 1 - Exercise 5b
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills instructional activity, students answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Curated OER
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
In this online interactive philosophy worksheet, students respond to 9 short answer questions about Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Students may check some of their answers on the interactive worksheet.
Curated OER
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
In this online interactive philosophy worksheet, high schoolers respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Evidence of Weather
Observe and annotate various images of weather phenomena in this interactive drawing tool. Students can use the images in this tool to observe weather conditions and document evidence of weather that happened earlier in the day. Teacher...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Claim and Support Vocabulary: Match
In this interactive game, students match vocabulary words relating to argumentative writing claims and support to their definitions. The game can be played multiple times to use all 20 words.
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Teaching History: Interactive Historical Thinking Poster (Secondary)
This is an interactive historical thinking poster. History is an argument about the past. Constructing a narrative about history involves several tasks: Analyzing Primary Sources, Examining Source Information,Using Evidence to Support...