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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...
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 Greetings, Introductions
Introductions and vocabulary and phrases relative to the classroom are presented in interesting audio, video and interview clips. Links to pertinent grammar and internet activities. Great site for listening comprehension and cultural...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Taking Action for a Clean Environment
In this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore activism - taking action to bring about change - including some causes that activists espouse and the tactics that they use to end harmful practices or reshape policies. The lesson...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Personal Stories and Primary Sources
Students will explore the value of personal stories and first-hand accounts when exploring history, in this case, the events of the early twentieth century, which included World War I and the Great Depression. Through this five-unit...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Welcome to Mars: Classroom Activity
Learn about the scientists and engineers involved with the Mars rover mission. Interview people about their careers and explore different career options.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Asian Pacific American Heritage
Nice Scholastic site that looks at what it means to be an Asian Pacific American. Includes stories from Angel Island, Japanese Americans during WWII, and background on and interviews with notable Asian Americans.
Other
No Water River: The Picture Book and Poetry Place
This fun website offers weekly blogs including poetry videos, picture book and poetry book overviews, activities for each book or poem, interviews with children's poets and illustrators, links to resources including information on poets,...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Sharon Creech
For teachers using the works of Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech, this site provides lesson plans and learning activities for Walk Two Moons, Chasing Redbird, and Bloomability.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Traditional Copy an Angle: Compass Construction Using Cabri
Use Cabri Jr to copy an angle. The activity is followed by a student-to-student interview/reflection sheet intended to require students to think, talk, and write about why the construction worked. The reflection sheet could be adapted...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Environmental History Timeline
Students develop critical thinking skills by interviewing a person who has perspective on environmental history. Students explore the concept of a timeline, including historical milestones, and develop a sense of the context of events.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Exploring Careers in Your Community
Students learn about careers that are available in their community by interviewing family members, friends, or other trusted adults to learn about the work they do. Includes teaching guide and student worksheets.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Scientific Processes
In this interactive activity adapted from NOVA, expand your understanding of the scientific process. Watch two videos featuring animations and interviews with scientists, and notice how the processes unfold and vary from one...
TES Global
Tes: Reel to Real: Much Ado About Nothing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource, created for the Reel to Real education project with the Victoria and Albert Museum, provides film-focused activities based on the 2013 adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. These include...
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Bless Me, Ultima
Guide to Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima, including historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study with activities, homework assignments, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio show,...
Other
Learning for Justice: Brown v. Board: An American Legacy
An article celebrating the 50th anniversary of the famous Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision. Features background information, a timeline of integration of schools, interviews, and links to many other activities and resources covering...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Sid Fleischman's Biography
Disover more about the Newbery award-winning author Sid Fleischman through this resource. Provides a biography, booklist and more.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Finding a Summer Job or Internship
As the summer begins teens rush out to grab the most desirable job. Learn what you should consider before acquiring employment and how to make your part time job as rewarding as possible.