Curated OER
All aboard the "Quiet Train"
Students identify and define that an orderly line means straight, one student behind the next, and facing forward. Then they practice boarding the quiet train where the teacher is the train captain and that if he/she hears anyone...
Curated OER
Bioethics and Humans
Students evaluate "humanity" and conditions associated with it. In this activity lesson students take on issues and construct their own limitations by defining the "human" condition.
Curated OER
Plot and Conflict
Students review the literary elements of plot and conflict. In this plot and conflict lesson, students read a story and answer questions about the plot and conflict within. Students create a concept map for the novel to identify the...
Curated OER
Wheel of Fortune for Students with Multiple Disabilities
Students play Wheel of Fortune. In this Wheel of Fortune instructional activity, students with disabilities play an online version of the game to earn rewards and small prizes. Students must solve math problems correctly in order to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Who, Me? Biased?: Understanding Implicit Bias
In this interactive lesson, learners explore the extent to which society (and they themselves) may discriminate based on factors they're not even aware of, implicit biases. Why haven't laws been enough to eliminate discrimination? After...
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library: "The Four Freedoms"
In his pivotal inaugural address in January 1941, FDR readies the nations for what he sees as our inevitable involvement in WWII. Read the full text of this infamous speech to understand the nation's mindset at this point in history.
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Right Time
You will need to do some visualizing to solve this "Right Time" problem. Have fun!
University of Chicago
The Founders' Constitution: Federal v. Consolidated Government
This chapter introduction describes the historical context in which the issue of federalism was discussed by our nation's Founders. Discusses the Federalist and Anti-Federalist points-of-view.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: Citizen Leadership in the Young Republic
Lesson on citizen leadership explores the point of view of John Adams on essential qualities of leadership and a new nation. Lesson content includes background, text analysis and Close Reading questions, vocabularyand teacher's notes....
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Graphing Calculator Practice Problems: Point, Line, Planes, Angles
Practice using your graphing calculator for drawing and labeling points, lines, planes, and angles. If you get stumped or if you would like to check your work, then select the View Solution button, which is located directly under each...
Read Works
Read Works: The Stolen Kitten
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a child who learns to do the right thing because there is often more to a story than you might realize at first. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in...
Social Studies Help Center
Social Studies Help Center: American Government, Unionism Friend or Foe?
This site highlights the conflicting points of view within the government of labor unionizing. Focuses on pro and anti union legislation througout history and the attempt to balance workers rights with economic success.
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
University of Saskatchewan: Trigonometric Functions
This site examines the six trigonometric functions from a right triangle point of view. Provides information, examples, and lots of exercises for understanding.
Stanford University
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Georg Hegel
This encyclopedia article provides an extensive overview of Hegel's life, work, and influence in philosophy.
Library of Congress
Loc: American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
This collection provides a unique view of American History using items such as posters, business cards, flyers, catalogs, advertisements and leaflets. These items capture experiences from important turning points such as the American...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Seeing Integration From Different Viewpoints
What does the world look like through someone else's eyes? Guide middle schoolers in using colorful paper glasses to examine a story of school desegregation from multiple perspectives.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: The Civil War [Pdf]
In this lesson, 5th graders explore the concept of cause and effect in the context of the Civil War and work in groups to write and deliver speeches articulating a point of view for one of the War's causes: tariffs, state's rights, or...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: State Your Position
To navigate, you must know roughly where you stand relative to your designation, so you can head in the right direction. In locations where landmarks are not available to help navigate (in deserts, on seas), objects in the sky are the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Place in Space
The students will use a "real" 3D coordinate system. They will have 3 axes at right angles, and a plane (the XY plane) that will be able to slide up and down the Z axis. The students will then be given several coordinates and asked to...