Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ch. 18: Improving Countries' Standards of Living
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Analyze the growth policies of low-income countries seeking to improve standards of living; Analyze the growth policies of middle-income countries, particularly the East...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: China Where Will They Fit in the World Economy?
With its emerging middle class, its new markets, and a new emphasis on increasing its technology base, where is China going to fit in the world economy?
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Discover the World of Gps and Geocaching
This lesson will be a creative approach to learning latitude and longitude, and will introduce the students to new technology. Seventh grade students will be given the opportunity to utilize GPS Handheld Tracking Units to understand...
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Location Services
Your location refers to where you are and devices often track this in the background even when you don't have internet or reception. These location-based services are found on most smart devices including phones and use technology to...
Other
Global School Net: How to Design a Successful Project
Before you begin a keypal exchange, read this article about project design.These guidelines, along with the template for writing you own "Call for Collaboration," will help guide you through a successful online learning experience with...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: The Climate Change Skeptic's Argument
Lesson plan examines the possibility that the contemporary climate change is due to natural solar cycles. Objectives are to review the evidence of total solar irradiance, analyze data to understand the influence of solar variability, and...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Can Wildlife Adapt to Climate Change?
With rising temperatures and seas, massive droughts, and changing landscapes, successfully adapting to climate change is increasingly important. For humans, this can mean using technology to find solutions. But for some plants and...
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Modern Surveying Techniques
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to modern surveying techniques. Webpage includes twelve lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures vary in length and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Smart Buildings, Transport, and Grids
The advantages and security risks of "Smart" uses of technology in buildings, transportation, and grids are discussed.
Other
Morino Institute: Promise of a New Communications Age
This speech outlines the nature of the communications revolution, establishes a framework for the most important challenges that must be addressed and proposes an Agenda for Action for individuals and groups to take advantage of the...
PBS
Art21: Mel Chin
This artist enjoys infusing art into unlikely places and uses current culture, such as technology, to bring about awareness of global issues.
Library of Virginia
Virginia Memory: Blank Space: Mapping the Unknown
How did early maps show the mapmakers' perception of the known world? Early mapmakers used maps drawn from coastal explorations, land travels, and even information heard word of mouth from American Indians or from colonists or traders....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mind Bending Gps Occultations
Students learn about the remote sensing radio occultation technique and how engineers use it with GPS satellites to monitor and study the Earth's atmospheric activity. Students may be familiar with some everyday uses of GPS, but not as...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Drugs, Politics, and Culture
From mind-altering drugs for pleasure to the push for pharmaceutical drugs, while examining this course of history and its effects on the world, take advantage of these resources. Includes PDFs (require Adobe Reader).
US Department of Education
Nces Kids' Zone: Dare to Compare
Find questions for any subject and grade level and let the computer generate an online and interactive quiz testing you or your students.
PBS
Pbs: Frontline: The Gulf War
PBS Online and the TV show "Frontline" present information on the Persian Gulf War, a timeline, various maps, personal testimonies, and other resources.
Other
Uoc: Communication Technologies in Latin America and Africa
A collection of papers, published as chapters of a book, that examine economic and social issues around accessibility to mobile communications and connectivity in Latin American and African countries. One paper focuses on the country of...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Tough Choices or Tough Times (Skills of American Workforce)
America's approach to education has lagged behind as industry and technology have continued to advance. To truly prepare students for the 21st century workforce, and to remain competitive in the global economy, the National Center on...
Other
I*earn (International Education and Resource Network)
This nonprofit organization creates structured projects that facilitate engaged learning and youth making a difference on an International scale. Project areas include interdisciplinary topics such as the environment/science,...
University of Virginia
Univ. Of Virginia: Electronic Labyrinth: Marshall Mc Luhan and Gutenberg Galaxy
This brief article explores Marshall McLuhan's argument that the electronic age would be the key to restoring the depth of diversity that the print age had destroyed. Plenty to think about.
Other
Galactics: Types and Uses of Satellites
Describes nine types of satellites and how they are used.
USA Today
Usa Today
USA Today is a national newspaper providing the latest news, issues, and events in the U.S. and the world. Content includes breaking headlines, sports and business coverage, national weather, politics, and more.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Geographic Digital Divide
Find out more about how the infrastructure of the Internet is not distributed equally.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Citizen Science
Learn about citizen science: the participation of the general public in scientific research.