+
Handout
Curated OER

Participant-Observer Guidelines Handout

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
Take your collaborative group work to a higher level with this informative handout about the nature, aims, and tasks of participant-observers. Teaching middle and high schoolers how to improve group process advances collaboration skills...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Poetry Pop-Up

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, after exploring the process of writing poetry through imagery words that go beyond pen and paper, create a Poetry Pop-Up Book. They incorporate the use of the Thesaurus and clip-art/digital photography to assist them in...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Stroop Effect

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the specific areas of the brain that process different types of information. They examine processing conflicts. Students participate in a hands-on minds-on activity using the Stroop Effect. They design psychological...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Earthquakes Rock!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the main methods to measure earthquakes; the Richter Scale and Mercalli Scale. They make a model of a seismograph and investigate which structural designs are most likely to survive an earthquake.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Experimenting with Erosion

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students investigate the process of erosion and factors that influence the rate of soil loss.  In this erosion activity students formulate a hypothesis and analyze the results of their experiment. 
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Investigating Our Past: Where Did Humans Come From?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students brainstorm about evolution and explore the processes of evolution.  In this investigative lesson students map out evolution and compare the two theories after researching them. 
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Materials and Process: Plastics

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students investigate the development of plastics in the twentieth century. For this plastics lesson, students complete image based discussion activities for the pictures and methods of polymers. Students create an object timeline...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Describing How Something Works/ Describing a Process

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students browse through and take notes from the "How Stuff Works" website and choose a topic to describe in writing. They draft a summary of the text and present their writing for feedback. They revise their writing based on feedback given.
+
Article
Arizona State University

Asu: Chicana and Chicano Space

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
+
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: American Chestnut Tree

For Students 9th - 10th
This annotated slideshow adapted from KET's Electronic Field Trip to the Forest illustrates how blight decimated the American chestnut tree and the methods scientists use to identify and pollinate the remaining trees to create...
+
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Time Is Money

For Students 3rd - 5th
By applying principles of industrial engineering and time management, you will learn how you can speed through your chores and still have time to kick back and relax. You will also learn that time-efficiency is not the only factor...
+
Article
Other

University of St. Francis: Sam Walton

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the life and work of Sam Walton.
+
Interactive
The College of Physicians

The History of Vaccines: How Vaccines Work

For Students 9th - 10th
Animations showing how the different parts of the immune system respond to vaccination and how that response protects the body from a specific disease in the future. After viewing the animations, students do an activity to test their...
+
Website
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Libraries: Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive site focuses on the power of illustration in books. It discusses illustrations that inspire, inform, influence, and show a process; it provides examples and book references that use each.
+
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Entrepreneur in You

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website is a valuable resource in finding out more about being an entrepreneur. It contains a comprehensive lesson plan detailing what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
+
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Writing Essays for Exams

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This handout provides a comprehensive look at writing essays for exams including what a well-written answer to an essay exam question includes, a step-by-step decription of how to write an effective essay exam, an explanation of patterns...
+
Website
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: A Brief History of Vaccination

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents a detailed history of vaccine science.
+
Website
Joe Landsberger

Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Basics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site by University of St. Thomas focuses on the basics for writing any paragraph. It is developed in outline fashion and is very easy to follow. This site provides a basic overview of the process of writing without going into a...
+
Website
Arizona State University

Chicana and Chicano Space: Inquiry

For Students 9th - 10th
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
+
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primitive Insects of the Congaree Swamp

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this video segment from NatureScene, observe dragonflies and mayflies near Cedar Creek at Congaree Swamp National Park. [5:25]
+
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Diffusion

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain the process shown as the red material is placed in the colorless liquid.
+
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Moving Through a Machine

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
After enjoying chapter 3 from Robert McCloskey's classic chapter book Homer Price students will work together to expand upon McCloskey's description of how the donut-making machine works. Focusing on a variety of transitions, students...
+
Unit Plan
Other

Data Guru: The Communication Process

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This communication tutorial focuses on online communication in which interpretation can lead to conflict.
+
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Selecting a Method or Crafting Your Own: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will know how to adapt given conflict resolution processes to address a particular conflict. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Selecting a Method or Crafting Your Own."