Curated OER
Excavating Your Recycling Bin as a Fossil Record
Students explore how scientists examine the past and use rock layers with fossils to understand the past. In this excavation instructional activity students divide into groups and complete an activity.
Curated OER
Avoiding Primer Language
In this avoiding primer language worksheet, students combine four or five simple sentences into one effective sentence with only one independent clause.
Curated OER
American Presidents Matching Activity
For this American Presidents worksheet, 8th graders match the names of 17 presidents with statements related to their presidency. A reference web site is given for additional activities
Curated OER
ESL: Their, Theirs, Them, They
In this ESL their, theirs, them, they worksheet, students choose the correct word from a drop down list that completes a given sentence.
Curated OER
The Black Cat Vocabulary Quiz
In this vocabulary quiz instructional activity, students use the given vocabulary words from the story 'The Black Cat' to complete the 15 sentences. Students also complete a matching definition activity.
Curated OER
Percent Applications
In this percent applications learning exercise, students complete a total of 10 problems that involve calculating percentages. A reference web site is given.
Curated OER
Addition and Subtraction of Integers
Sixth graders complete a pre-test of addition and subtraction of integers, then watch a powerpoint presentation on the concept. In this mathematics lesson, 6th graders draw number lines and chip boards to show the process. Students work...
Curated OER
Making Bouncing Balls
Second graders analyze the composition of different balls. In this science lesson, 2nd graders create their own balls using materials provided by teacher. They demonstrate what their invention can do.
Curated OER
Physics on the Playground
Second graders explain how friction affects the motion of moving objects. In this physics instructional activity, 2nd graders investigate how different materials move down the slide. They share their observations with each other.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s: The Kennedy Promise
Discusses Kennedy's rise to power and the challenges he faced from within the government, his focus on foreign policy, the conflict with Cuba, American involvement in Vietnam, support for racial equality and civil rights, and Kennedy's...
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
A biography of Jacqueline Kennedy, a first lady who fascinated the people of the United States.
National Geographic
National Geographic: 13 Days: President Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
This lesson focuses on the Cuban Missile Crisis from President Kennedy's perspective. Students role-play Kennedy's advisors over the critical 13-day period of the crisis, researching, discussing, and presenting the different policy...
University of Maryland
Voices of Democracy: John F. Kennedy, "Address: "The President and Press" 1961
Read President John F. Kennedy's speech, "The President and the Press," which he delivered before the American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA) on April 27, 1961. In this speech, he attempted to explain and justify the Bay of Pigs...
American Presidency Project
American Presidency Project:address of Sen. John F. Kennedy Accepting Nomination
Find the acceptance speech of John F. Kennedy as he accepted the nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1960. In it he gives his vision of a New Frontier.
White House Historical Association
White House Historical Association: John F. Kennedy and the Space Race
A look at John F. Kennedy's goal for the United States, which was to send the first man to the Moon and to bring him safely back to Earth. Informational text and lesson plan for students in grades 9-12.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Resources: Robert Kennedy on Civil Rights
[Free Registration/Login Required] After reading the background information about Attorney General Robert Kennedy's report on civil rights enforcement activities of the Department of Justice in 1962, read the full transcript of the...
Other
Huffington Post:politics:camelot Ends, Again: The Passing of Senator Ted Kennedy
This article "Camelot Ends, Again: The Passing of Senator Ted Kennedy" by William Bradley focuses on the Kennedy family when the last Kennedy brother died. Camelot is a legend and so is the Kennedy family. His article is punctuated by...
Library of Congress
Loc: Biographical Directory of the u.s. Congress: John F. Kennedy
This is a brief biographical sketch of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States.
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum: Death of John F. Kennedy
The John F. Kennedy Library provides a detailed, historical account of the events leading up to and following the death of the president. Included with the text are videos and pictures of the significant moments that took place during...
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Read Works: Passages: Robert Kennedy on Civil Rights, 1963 [Abridged]
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read letter from Attorney General Robert Kennedy to President John F. Kennedy concerning civil rights and answer questions about comprehension, author's viewpoint, main idea, vocabulary, and...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Address to Congress Following Kennedy's Assassination
Full text of the speech given by President Johnson after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In his speech, he pledges to pursue Kennedy's legislative goals.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: John F. Kennedy's Speech to Congress May 25, 1961 [Pdf]
This is a four-page PDF of the text to a "Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs" Page 4 of President John F. Kennedy's Speech to Congress on May 25, 1961, asking for more funding for the National Space Program.
Museum of the Moving Image
Museum of the Moving Image: 1960 Kennedy vs. Nixon
View presidential campaign advertisement from the 1960 election with the slogans "Kennedy: Leadership for the '60s" and "Nixon-Lodge: They Understand What Peace Demands". Includes video clips, information about the candidates, and...
University of Maryland
Voices of Democracy: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, "Inaugural Address" January 1961
John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech is one of the most famous speeches in American history. Teachers can use this lesson to teach Language Arts standards, as well as Social Studies standards. This lesson plan includes pre-reading ideas,...