University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Asian Educational Media Service
A tremendous resource for finding sites, multimedia, and other resources for teaching about or studying Asian countries. Search by country, media type, or grade level. Includes lesson plans and links to great online resources.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Get to Know Your Library Media Center
This lesson will provide young scholars with an orientation to the Library Media Center and the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The students will access the Alabama Virtual Library and will participate in a library scavenger hunt as...
Education Development Center
Education Development Center, Inc.: Tv411: Reading the Fine Print
An interactive three-part lesson on how fine print is used in advertising. In part one students read three advertisements and determine which details from the ads are important and which are not. In part two students read six...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Amplifying Indigenous Experiences: Pbs All Stars Lessons
Students will watch three episodes of the UNLADYLIKE2020 series of 26 short films and explore the similarities in issues affecting these women while also identifying the qualities that made them unique. The lessons are about finding...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Teaching With Tunes
Invite your students to sing, dance, and learn alongside their favorite PBS KIDS friends! Discover new and fun ways to integrate music into lessons, routines, and activities to inspire everyday learning. The curated songs center around...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Teacher's Corner: If Those Dolls Were Real People
A lesson exploring how the media influences body images. Students take measurement of dolls and characters to compare them with a chart on the website to show what the dolls and characters would look like if they were the height of an...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: An Educator's Guide to Expanding Narratives About American History & Culture
This collection has been carefully selected by New York City educator and curriculum consultant Vivett Dukes to showcase ideas, achievements, and contributions by American people of all backgrounds across eras. The content highlighted...
Other
Dirksen Congressional Center: The 1960's: A Multi Media View From Capitol Hill
The fascinating audio and written transcripts of the Joint Senate-House Republican Leadership created during the Kennedy Administration along with educational activities and press releases are contained here. Lesson plans coming soon!
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kindness in the Classroom
Kindness in the Classroom is a multi-part video series designed to give educators insight into the positive impacts of teaching mindfulness in a classroom setting. The series focuses on implementing the Kindness Curriculum; a free...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Masks and Aesop's Fables
This multi-media visual and language arts lesson plan offers intellectual, creative, and interpretive opportunities through use of books, music, and the internet. It offers complete grade-leveled lesson plans for grades k-4 which include...
Other
Morningside Center: Active Listening
In this activity, students practice active listening by paraphrasing what they hear. Students will practice listening to one another and repeating what they heard. Various listening activities are included in this activity.
Other
Brookfield High School: Lesnansky's Control Center: Would You Rather? (Part 2)
For this activity, learners will create a customized Google Form that will showcase the four dilemmas defined by the game cards from Would You Rather...? and then share the form with others to collect data for analysis. Lots of Would You...
Other
Brookfield High School: Lesnansky's Control Center: Would You Rather? (Part 1)
In this activity, young scholars will create a word processing document that will define four dilemmas in the game cards from Would You Rather? Lots of Would You Rather question examples can be found online. (The Part 2 lesson can be...
Other
Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center: Indian Ocean in World History
A media-rich examination of the Indian Ocean and its significance in world history. Interactive maps of the Indian Ocean and surrounding areas show changes from prehistoric times to the current day. Learning tools include historical...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Teacher's Corner: Ad Decoder
Allow your students to explore what media ads are really telling them. This lesson gives students critical question to investigate as they look over ads. Lesson includes background, procedure, worksheet, rubrics, and discussion questions.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Multi Media Hero Analysis
Using what they learn about how heroes are depicted in art, literature, and music, students create their own definition of a hero, and then write an essay based on a hero they wish to research.