Curated OER
WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES
Students explore educational opportunities available to people living in a variety of developing and more economically developed countries. They work in groups and research an assigned country and explore how society values education,...
Curated OER
Good Brother, Bad Brother
Students are exposed to the writings of John Wilkes Booth. They discover that fanaticism is not just a modern phenomenon. They examine four periods in American history when treason was at issue.
Curated OER
Mastering the Document-Based Essay Question
High schoolers use a primary source document from the Civil War period of history in order to derive meaning for an essay question. The essay is based completely on the document with no other research to support the content.
The College Board
College Board: Ap Central
This is the centralized site for information about all AP courses offered by College Board. It contains information for students and teachers about each of the AP courses (almost 40 in all), including a course description and relevant...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: An Introduction to Dual Enrollment
Dual enrollment (DE) allows high school students, including dropouts in some cases, to enroll in postsecondary education courses to earn college credit prior to high school graduation. DE is the most widely used acceleration mechanism...
Other
Ncte: "Can We Blog About This?": Amplifying Student Voice in Secondary Language
This article describes blogging implementation in ninth-grade pre-advanced placement language arts classes to support strong writing practices. The author found that blogging empowered high school authors to craft worlds of digital...