Transforming Education
Social Awareness Strategies
What are the benefits of developing social awareness? Using the resource, readers learn strategies for fostering civil discourse, creating a participatory classroom, and enhancing family involvement. Scholars also take a personality...
Transforming Education
Self-Efficacy Strategies
Scholars with high levels of self-efficacy perform better in school. Instructors review a list of strategies for enhancing self-efficacy skills. They discover how to teach learners to appropriately define success, celebrate progress, and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Around the Block Activities
Explore how people are alike and different in these ARTHUR activities. From interviewing classmates to establishing local pen pals to creating neighborhood maps, the activities will help children understand and appreciate what we share...
College Grad
College Grad: After the Interview
Don't sit by the phone waiting for the offer after the interview, do your part to generate job offers. Learn what to do after the interview to get the job you are looking for.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Feature Story?fifteen Minutes (And 500 Words) of Fame!
Contains plans for five lessons that teach learners how to write feature news stories and the difference between feature and hard news articles. Students interview each other as prewriting for writing their own human interest stories. In...
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Exit Interview: Janet Reno
Interview between Jim Lehrer and Janet Reno on her beliefs and thoughts on the Waco Branch Davidian incident of 1993.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Teacher Resources: Air, Air, Everywhere Teacher's Activity Guide
This teaching guide includes 10 hands-on activities to teach about air quality and the importance of keeping our air clean. Students will complete activities that include simple sensory experiments to discover the characteristics of air,...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Literacy Practices Interview
Literacy practices interviews are informal assessments that elicit information on students' reading and writing activities, including their free-time reading habits, their access to books, and their attitudes toward reading and writing....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Ven Conmigo; Giving Advice About Job Interviews
From Holt Rinehart Winston's, on-line Ven conmigo series, this is a reading comprehension and sequence exercise on giving advice about job interviews in Spanish.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Person on the Street (Pos) Interview About Climate Science
A media project where learners create a video that documents unrehearsed interviews with "people on the street" about a specific question or issue in climate science.
PBS
Pbs: The Interview: Workplace Essential Skills
Learn how to make a great impression at your next job interview with this self-paced lesson. Includes videos from a professional career counselor, interactive practice opportunities to get you thinking about your strategy, and more...
Other
Interviews: Amazing Grace: From Diapers to Demonstrations
This site provides an enjoyable and helpful article on Paley's life and career by Seth Rogovoy for the "Berkshire Eagle." Rogovoy uses information from interviews with Paley and discusses themes in her work as well as her ability to...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: School Publishers: An Interview With Thomas Jefferson
"What do you think Thomas Jefferson was like as a person? What were his interests and hobbies? Where did he go to school? Imagine yourself as a reporter in 1826, about to interview Mr. Jefferson at Monticello, his home."
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Mark Twain: 'Concerning the Interview'
Lesson plan in which students will read Mark Twain's essay "Concerning the Interview" and participate in discussion activities relative to media laws, ethics, and responsibilities.
Smithsonian Institution
Archives of American Arts: Oral History Interviews, Farm Security Administration
This site lists over 400 oral history interviews from artists, administrators and others involved with the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930's and 40's.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Bio Graph Graphing Life Events
Contains plans for four 50-minute interdisciplinary lessons that ask students to interview people and graph significant life events in order to write about those events. In addition to student objectives and standards, these...
University of Texas at Austin
Francais Interactif Les Vacances
Weather, seasons, geography, activities - all thins related to vacations presented with extensive vocabulary list, interactive audio, video and interview clips utilizing vocab in context. Has links to important grammatical concepts and...
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Polar Discovery: Arctic Seafloor Expedition: July 1 Aug. 10, 2007
This polar expedition to study the Arctic seafloor took place in 2007, but you can still enjoy following the footsteps of these scientists. The goal of the expedition was to see if there were active hydrothermal vents on the ocean...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: What's Your Problem? A Look at the Environment in Your Own Backyard
The Smithsonian provides a guide that classrooms can use to explore the environment in their own backyard. For example, a second-grade class in Colorado interviewed people in their community to inquire about the state of the local...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Paleont O Logy: The Big Dig
This colorful and inviting resource houses tons of paleontology activities to explore. Play the Layers of Time puzzle game, create your own make-believe dig site by burying chicken bones in plaster of Paris, learn how to draw dinosaurs,...
Wessels Living History Farm
Wessels Living History Farm
The Wessels Living History Farm of York County, Nebraska, offers a look at what it was like to live on a Great Plains farm in the 1920s. The farm's attractive and well organized website includes interviews with people who remember life...
University of Texas at Austin
Francais Interactif La Vie Professionelle
Fascinating look at the world of work in France - Includes extensive vocabulary lists, used in context through videos that provides excellent listening comprension activities. Also has pertinent grammar points and video interview.
University of Texas at Austin
Francais Interactif Money, Finance & Investments
Extensive vocabulary lists of all things financial. Video and audio clips to utilize vocab in context. Has interviews in French and links to internet activities and salient grammar points.