Curated OER
Empathy and the Vietnam War
Students explore the implications of the draft during the Vietnam War. In this Vietnam lesson, students analyze the lyrics of songs that explore differents opinions of the Vietnam draft. Students particpate in a role-play activity...
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Honesty in Writing
Eighth graders analyze the conveyance of honesty in written products. In this writing skills lesson, 8th graders discuss bias and fabrication in writing. Students practice sincere writing as they write statements regarding the common...
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Watch Your Mouth
Students examine the importance of good dental hygiene. In this health lesson, students examine periodontal disease through a series of activities, and how it can be controlled by good oral health.
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Fabulous Felines: How to Choose the Purrfect Cat
Learners investigate the concept of pet care and cats. In this cat lesson, students discuss responsibilities for pet care and take a cat quiz. Learners discuss where to get their cats and how to care for them. Students may visit an...
Curated OER
Weigh Before You Pay: Debit or Credit?
Learners explore the concept of debit and credit cards. For this debit and credit card lesson, students read an article about debit and credit cards. Learners discuss differences between the two forms of payment. Students calculate the...
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Faith And Service
Eighth graders recognize the connection between their religious faith and social responsibility. After a lecture/demo, student groups complete a worksheet imbedded in this plan, then create posters depicting community service.
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Arsenic and Human Health
Ninth graders concentrate on arsenic poisoning as an example of the connections among health, geography, and geology as they develop a persuasive presentation about the dangers of arsenic in the drinking water, targeting a specific...
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Hazard Mitigation: Bioterrorism
Students discuss different ways to spread infectious diseases. In this bioterrorism lesson, students model the rate of smoke emission using CalRoad software. They analyze the effects of airborne release of biological...
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Lender or Borrower Be?
Eighth graders study the costs and benefits of interest involved with borrowing and depositing at banks.
Curated OER
ESL: Useful Expressions
In this ESL useful expressions instructional activity, students select the correct expression to complete a sentence. Page has a link to additional resources.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Election Choices: 2008
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Making Decisions
Notes and a video clip provide students with an introduction to the idea of marginal analysis and of how consumers and producers make decisions.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: Teaching With the News: The Iraqi Refugee Crisis
Learning module in which students use multi-media resources to analyze U.S. policy toward Iraqi refugees and gain an understanding of the causes and scope of the Iraqi refugee crisis, exploring firsthand accounts of Iraqi refugees'...
US Department of Education
Fact Sheet: No Child Left Behind
This site gives readers an overview of the No Child Left Behind Act. Addresses accountability, reducing red tape, school choice, improving reading, teacher quality, and progress.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Themes: Identity: What Makes You Who You Are?
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "What makes you who you are?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration required...
Other
Hde: Accountability Resource Center Hawaii
This Hawaii Department of Education site offers access to all data on its schools. Information is broken into three categories: school accountability, system accountability, and professional accountability.
Wolters Kluwer
Importance of Good Records
This page describes the importance of accounting information in understanding and controlling success or failure, decision-making, budgeting, taxes, and capital acquisition.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: You Decide!
Think about a difficult decision you have had to make. After you decided did it work out? Why or why not? Why do you think decisions and choices are hard to make? We make personal decisions and we make decisions as groups. There is a...
Other
Manhattan Institute: Why School Vouchers Can Help Inner City Children
This is a speech given by Kurt L. Schmoke, the Mayor of Baltimore. He states why he feels that school vouchers are the right choice for education. A great perspective from a public servant who played a large role in improving education...
THEJournal
The Journal: Making Sense of Nclb
A series of links to articles originally published as a supplement to THE Journal on the No Child Left Behind Legislation (NCLB). These articles focus on the four key areas of accountabilhnology products that meet NCLB requirements.ity,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Principal Empowerment
Schools will improve when principals are given the autonomy to make decisions that best solve their school-based problems. Coupled with this autonomy is the accountability to produce significant improvement. The upper level bureaucracy...
Virtual Salt
Virtual Salt: Creative Thinking Techniques
Site provides information to help with generating ideas that would assist in group decision making. Detailed and thorough account.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Is My Checkbook Balanced?
In this lesson, learners will write checks, complete and record deposits, reconcile a bank statement, journalize bank statement transactions, and check for errors. This is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson plan.
University of Virginia
Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Warren G. Harding: Domestic Affairs
Warren G. Harding's handling of domestic affairs and the appointments made for his cabinet were a combination of good governance and terrible choice of friends. Read about his problems.