Transforming Education
Self-Management Strategies
What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...
Transforming Education
SEL for Educators Toolkit
Four resources make up the SEL toolkit for educators. Intended for those that teach kindergarten to twelfth grade, helpful files include a companion guide, presentation, reference list, and a one-page snapshot that neatly showcases the...
Missouri Department of Elementary
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: A Basic Skill
Imagine seventh graders developing a school wide plan to promote respect in their school. That's the vision behind the second lesson in the R-E-S-P-E-C-T series. In preparation for designing a school-wide media campaign, class members...
American Psychological Association
Developing Adolescents
Why to young people act the way they do? Scholars investigate the stages of adolescent development incorporating high school psychology techniques. Using research from the American Psychological Association, they uncover the five areas...
Other
Elsevier: Personality and Individual Differences
An extensive resource providing in-depth research on theories, experiments, and reviews of personality studies and how humans possess individual differences.
Other
Teachers First: Differentiating Instruction: Ideas for Individual Differences
This source provides educators with information on the different types of students, and how to best help them learn and excel while in school.
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Identity
A kindergarten learning module on individual differences. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and image resources as well as a summative performance task. Students explore their own uniqueness and...
Read Works
Read Works: Compare/contrast Kindergarten Unit: Similarities/differences in Text
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book Long Ago and Today by Rozanne Lanczak Williamsin in which students learn to recognize similarities and differences within a text. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and...
Read Works
Read Works: The Same but Different
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about identical twins Maggie and Samantha and how they are similar but also very different. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Biointeractive: Schooling Behavior Stickleback Fish From Different Habitats
A team of scientists studied the schooling behavior of threespine stickleback fish by experimentally testing how individual fish responded to an artificial fish school model.
Other
Takelessons: Body Language in Different Cultures
This interactive resource allows students to understand important differences in different types of body language across cultures.
Utah Education Network
Uen: We Are Alike and We Are Different
Lesson that helps students understand the features that make people alike and different. Students to create a paper face and a paper face book.
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tar Heel Reader: Different Cultures
Many different world cultures are illustrated for the different styles of clothing, music, makeup they wear.
Other
Ez Talks: 7 Different Ways to Communicate Online
Online communication is a kind of communication between organizations or individuals that starts and ends on the Internet. Basically, it is how people pass information over the Internet through a network of computers. This article...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I'm "Thumbody"
In this lesson, students create a thumb print and draw a picture of themselves around it in order to investigate differences among the students.
Student Achievement Partners
Achieve the Core: Why the Common Core? How These Standards Are Different
This 1-1.5 hour module provides background information necessary to understanding how the Common Core State Standards play a role in improving education. It answers the question: How are these standards different than the latest versions...
Other
Massey University: Beyond the Individual Social Antimony
This is a paper discussing Piaget and Vygotsky. It compares their similarities and differences. There is a large section on social origins of development.
LD Online
Ld Online: Comparing Section 504 and Idea
Explaining the details of Section 504 and IDEA, this site describes in-depth the similarities and differences between Section 504 and IDEA. All legal terms and issues within the context of both laws are explained. An excellent resource...
Other
Culture Plus Consulting: Nine Cultural Value Differences You Need to Know
This teaching resource provides a general understanding of cultural differences that need to be embraced by teachers and students.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Respecting Others
How can you treat others with respect, particularly those who are different from you? Discuss this question with the help of writing prompts, activity ideas, and more.
Other
Cast: What Is Universal Design for Learning (Udl)?
Learn about Universal Design for Learning, which uses new brain research and new media technologies to respond to learner differences. Check outcome suggestions of how to use UDL and easily integrate various forms of technology into the...
Other
E Learning Developers' Journal: What Is Personalized Learning [Pdf]
This article takes on the complex issues of designing personalized learning strategies for web learning instruction and environments. What do students do when teachers are not there to provide motivation, direction, goal setting and...
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Cultural Diversity
A learning module on the similarities and differences between cultures. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students will investigate...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Switch the Sound Activity, Phoneme Substitution
A classroom activity to help the student determine what is different about a one syllable word. The teacher says a word, then changes one sound in the word, and asks the students what is different.