Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: Who Can Vote in the United States?
This lesson challenges students to speculate about voting requirements. Students will begin learning vocabulary that is used when talking about voting.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Youth Health Risk Behaviors
This site from the CDC provides research results on health risk behaviors in the United States compared by race and ethnicity. Covers over twenty risk behaviors. Gives information in summaries, table sand charts.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Yrbss Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System monitors six types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults.
Other
Helpguide.org: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Rewards and Challenges
Provides sound advice for what to expect when raising a grandchild and how to make it a positive experience. Can be downloaded as PDF file.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making It, Making of African American Identity: V. 3
Excerpts from a novel and an interview that illustrate where the success of the civil rights movement left some middle class African Americans. They explore the obstacles the civil rights movement had to overcome and the movement's...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Physical Activity & Health: Adolescents & Young Adults
The finding on whether or not today's teens get enough exercise - they don't. Give suggestions to correct this situation and tells the benefits to daily physical activity.
Other
Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center: Publications
The Publications section of the website features newspapers, magazines, and souvenir pamphlets that reflect the activities of the Carlisle Indian School and its students. Many of the newspapers and magazines included here, such as The...
Other
Nhdhhs: A Resource Guide for New Hampshire Relative Caregivers [Pdf]
As the title states, this document provides information for caregivers who are not a child's parents, which includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. While the government and social service agencies are specific to New Hampshire,...
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Baseball Players [Pdf]
This task challenges students to demonstrate understanding of the concept of measure of center.
Other
Generations United: Grandfamilies
This site has lots of information for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. Find out about efforts to affect legislation, and the challenges around housing, education, health, legal issues, and finances.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: Period 9: 1980 Present: September 11th
An overview of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that resulted in the United States' declaration of a Global War on Terror.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Car Collision Testing & Tradeoffs: Don't Crack Humpty
Student groups are provided with a generic car base on which to design a device/enclosure to protect an egg as it rolls down a ramp at increasing slopes. During this activity, student teams design, build and test their prototype...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Homophone Challenge
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a Homophone Challenge flipchart. It can be done whole class or as a center. The first part uses pictures to help guide the students with the correct placement of the homophone. The second part...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Spelling and Vocabulary Challenge
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students drag letters to form spelling words. Students also write sentences on the Activboard using vocabulary words. This is a great literacy center activity.
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Interaction Design Foundation: Complex Socio Technical Systems
Complex socio-technical systems are intricate societal and global problems: challenges where designers strive to define human problems, understand the far-reaching implications of these and address them carefully. As they are hard to...
Other
Aamft: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Article discussing the challenges of raising grandchildren, signs that someone needs help managing things, and where to get help.