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British Library

British Library: Bronte's Wuthering Heights: Walking the Landscape

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will explore the landscape of Wuthering Heights from a range of different angles. They will compare the fictional landscape described in Emily Bronte's novel with a number of other sources and consider why a...
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British Library

British Library: Dickens's Great Expectations: Social Mobility

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity will explore this theme of social mobility through a reading of extracts from Samuel Smiles's Self-Help (1859), the handbook that many young men in 19th-century Britain turned to in seeking advice as to how to...
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British Library

British Library: Barrett Browning's Poetry: Social & Political Commentary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave a voice, in her poems, to many of those oppressed by contemporary injustice: child laborers, the poor, and the enslaved. In this lesson, students will give these voices dramatic form, using the techniques...
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British Library

British Library: Austen's Emma: Social Realism & the Novel

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In the course of the novel's development, Jane Austen was a significant contributor to the emergence of the modern novel as we know it today. The review of Emma in the Quarterly Review (October 1815) makes clear to a modern audience how...
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Other

University of Washington Libraries: Starting Research

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you need help knowing where to start your research, or if you're a teacher looking for a way to help students understand the research process, this resource is terrific. Interactive tutorials on a number of topics offer review quizzes...
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British Library

British Library: Teaching Resources: Aphra Behn, the Rover: Carnival

For Students 9th - 10th
These activities allow students to explore how Aphra Behn uses character types and tropes associated with carnival in "The Rover". Students can relate this to the play's context of production, and comic theories relating to the...
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National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: What's Happening to Your Body?

For Students 6th - 8th
This lesson plan site focuses on the changes that adolescents go through and delves into their nutritional, physical, and mental health needs.
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Other

Library of Congress: Teaching With Primary Sources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This website is an excellent resource for teaching with primary sources. This resource features Holocaust lessons, lesson plan strategies, and podcasts.
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Library of Congress

Loc: For Teachers: Holidays: Themed Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A rich resource page with links to primary source information about a number of holidays and special days, such as presidential inaugurations.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Star Search: How Do I Find the Books I Need?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Lesson which outlines the STAR process for finding resources in a library. Learners are taught to select appropriate search tools, subject headings, and resources.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Learning Page: Lewis and Clark

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich resource page with primary sources, online resources, student activities, and lesson plans.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Building a Paper Airplane Using Bernoulli's Principle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a culmination activity used after students have studied Bernoulli's Principle as part of a unit on forces and fluids. Students will use the Internet, textbooks, library resources and their cooperative learning group to design...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Research Process: Finding Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on how to find sources including information on research strategies: preliminary, intermediate, and advanced. It provides a variety of resources available in each level including videos: " How To Google Like A...