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Foundation for a Better Life: Values: Personal and Family Values
A range of media and resources--billboards, televised public service announcements, first-person accounts, quotations--that communicate ideas about the meanings of a wide range of essential values, such as ambition, gratitude, respect,...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: The Immigrant Experience: Down the Rabbit Hole
Through a series of six activities, young scholars read about, connect to, and draw conclusions about the immigrant experience, via personal experience and a collection of resources, including Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland," oral...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: George Eastman: The Wizard of Photography
American Experience offers a comprehensive look at George Eastman and his development of photography. Included are a timeline, biographies of important people in Eastman's personal and professional life, discussions in the history of...
PBS
Pbs: American Family: What It Means to Be Latino
From the PBS series American Family: What it Means to Be Lation the first Latino family drama on broadcast television. What it Means to Be Latino discusses the personal experiences of Latinos in America, as well as their feelings about...
Rutgers University
Rutgers Oral History Archive
This archive records the personal experiences of the American men and women who served on the homefront and overseas during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War. Also offers resources on the men and women who...
University of North Carolina
Unc: First Person Narratives of the American South
A unique collection of first-person accounts, this concentrates on all the populations of the South, such as ex-slaves, enlisted men, middle-class women, displaced plantation owners. The works are sorted by the author's name. To search...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: When I Was Young In, a Literature to Language Experience
Past meets present in this instructional activity in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writing a Personal Narrative [Pdf]
A middle school student model of personal narrative writing. Includes a good writing style, examples, and very good notes and annotations as helpful aids for writing success. Points out the introduction, sequence of events and how they...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Hand Washing Experiment
By conducting two experiments, this lesson plan will help students discover the importance of thoroughly washing hands and the role that plays as a way to prevent the spread of disease.
New York Public Library
In Motion: African American Migration Experience: Western Migration: To Kansas
From the extensive site about African-American migrations, this part of the site focuses on Exodusters and African-Americans who moved to Kansas after the Civil War. Read first-person accounts and see photographs of these hardy...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing About Life's Lessons
After reading A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park students complete a writing assignments. The writer first completes a graphic organizer about a life-changing experience or an experience from which a lesson has been learned. The retelling...
Other
Heritage of the Great War: Making 'In Flanders Fields'
Explore the meaning behind John McCrae's poem, "In Flanders Fields," by taking a look at what actually took place on the battlefield of the Western Front. A look at the McCrae's personal experience, a look at the poem's metre, as well as...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plans: Using Personal Connections to Understand Emotions
A lesson plan in which younger students draw on prior experiences that made them happy or sad, build two-sided masks, work with Venn diagrams, and connect personally with the emotions conveyed by poems in The Way I Feel by Janan Cain...
EL Education
El Education: Honor for All: Japanese American Experience
These booklets (sample provided) were created by 7th grade students at the Harmon Middle School, in Aurora, Ohio as part of a case study of Japanese internment within a broader study of World War II. Students, singly or in pairs,...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Do You Remember When?
This online exhibit about is about the experience of being a young Jew in Berlin in the early 1940's. Includes real life stories and images of the personal belongings of real people.
University of Iowa
Bringing History Home: My History at School
This unit introduces children to the concept of history as a story. By focusing on their experiences at school, students connect history concepts with personal experience and learn history using primary sources from their own lives. This...
Other
Andrew and His Family's Journey With Apert Syndrome
This site is one family's personal experience with Apert's Syndrome in the life of their son. Shows pictures of the deformed child and explains the procedures he underwent to correct them. Also devotes one whole page to explaining the...
University of Arizona
Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Development Activity
An interactive activity designed for you understand the scientific method and how to analyze your data. A step-by-step and personalized experiment geared toward the topic of toxicology.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Psychology: Stress and Health
Virtual learning unit on the theories of personality and the study of stress. Students will find a variety of engaging activities including a personality test, introvert/extrovert experiment, presentation, and video series in addition to...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Lifestyle Project at West Chester University of Pennsylvania
This is a five-week project where students explore and assess their personal lifestyle choices and how their habits impact on the environment. They try making choices that have less of a detrimental effect on the environment, and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Lifestyle Project at the University of Redlands
This is a three-week project where students explore and assess their personal lifestyle choices and how their habits impact on the environment. They try making choices that have less of a detrimental effect on the environment, and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Bill Nye: Baseball Moon
Bill Nye explains the phases of the moon with an experiment using a baseball, a lamp on a table, a dark room, and a stool or chair that swivels. As the person moves around, the changes in reflected light show the phases of the moon. The...
Other
Martha's Vineyard Museum: Laura Jernegan: Girl on a Whaleship
Six-year-old Laura Jernegan, who kept a journal of her three-year voyage aboard a whaling ship (1868-71), left an enduring legacy of her time. Laura's journal follows the experiences of her family's journey and draws many memorable...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 5: Supersized
In this lesson, students examine portion sizes and how our eyes, as well as food companies, may deceive us in estimating a healthy amount to eat. Through popcorn experiments, along with a clip from In Defense of Food, students learn how...