Curated OER
Kids Health: What Sleep Is and Why All Kids Need It
This comprehensive site defines sleep, its stages, and it importance. It also gives tips on how to get all the sleep you need. It also includes a game comparing the average amount of sleep that kids, adults, and different animals get...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Why Do We Dream?
Amy Adkins reveals the top seven reasons why we might dream. [5:38]
How Stuff Works
How Stuff Works: Discovery Health: Interpreting Your Dreams
This Discovery site provides a nice concise overview on dreams and dream interpretation on easy-to-read pages. Content includes a brief overview of what dreams are and why they occur, the history of dreams and their effect, what certain...
Read Works
Read Works: The Park
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about girl named Julie who had an odd dream. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Pieces of Mind: What's in a Dream?
Explore recent scientific investigations in sleep and dreams. Keep a journal to track sleep and dream activity, and find examples of ways sleep and dreams are used as images in popular culture.