Curated OER
Dazzling Digital Poem Project
Eighth graders create a digital poem using PowerPoint, Audacity.com, and www.freeplaymusic.com. In this digital poem lesson, 8th graders write and edit original poems. Students utilize figurative language and imagery in poems and review...
Curated OER
Test Your Research Skills-- You Either Know It Or You Don't! 3
In this research instructional activity, students use Internet searches or a research library to find answers to 15 questions about a variety of subjects.
Curated OER
Search and Research
Fifth graders participate in a scavenger hunt on the internet trying to develop a general overview of content and how to locate specific information. They also explore how to receive, store and send electronic information.
Edutopia
Edutopia: Ideas for Digital Citizenship Pbl Projects
Explore ideas for project-based learning with a focus on digital citizenship skills.
Other
The Information Literacy Game
Play this game with up to 3 other people, or by yourself. Answer questions from different categories to advance your player to the finish. Requires JavaScript, and popups allowed from University of North Carolina site.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Advertising Detectives
Students learn to recognize five different kinds of online ads prevalent on children's sites. They learn how to distinguish advertising content from other content on a website. Free membership required.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Keep It Private (K 2nd Grade)
This lesson plan for young students will teach them the basics of staying safe online. Students review what information is private and should not be shared without a trusted adult's permission. Students then view sites that ask them to...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Strong Passwords (3 5)
Students learn how to create secure passwords in order to protect their private information and accounts online. They learn tips for creating safe passwords. They explore scenarios in which two characters choose passwords, and they use...
Other
All About Explorers
This resource provides information about historic world explorers...with embedded false information. It was designed by teachers to help their students discern truthful information from false information.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter
Through the vast online resources available from EDSITEment, students can read the correspondence of the famous, the infamous and the ordinary, some of whom lived through extraordinary times. Use these fascinating letters as a starting...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center Real World Investigation: Symmetry Around Us [Pdf]
Use this internet lesson to explore different types of symmetry in nature. Learners examine line symmetry, rotational symmetry, and bilateral symmetry. An integrated math, language art, and art lesson. Acrobat Reader required.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Real World Investigation: Elevation Changes [Pdf]
Math and geography are the focus of this internet investigation. Learners must plan a road trip to several cities and plot the elevations of those cities using a line graph. Acrobat Reader required.