ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Tips for Using Movie Maker
A printable handout providing information on accessing and using Windows Movie Maker software. Lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also provided.
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Drive in Movies
A learning module that begins with the "The Drive-In Movies" by Gary Soto, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
Curated OER
History Matters: Movie Going in the 1920s
As part of a research study performed in the 1920s, individuals were asked to write about their experiences with movie-going. This is an excerpt from that study by a high school girl, who tells about what the movies mean to her.
IMDb
Internet Movie Database: Fred Astaire Mini Biography
The Internet Movie Database provides a 'Mini biography' of dancer Fred Astaire, including career highlights and trivia.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teacher's Guide to Making Student Movies
Video examples and plenty of information about how to make movies are included in this resource for teachers.
American Movie Classics Company
The Film Site: Mildred Pierce, 1945
This resource includes detailed summary and production information on this adventure movie, Mildred Pierce.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Movie Speech: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
A photograph, an audio mp3, and a transcript of Atticus Finch's monologue as he delivers the closing arguments in Tom Robinson's trial in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Structuring the Instructional Day
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient way of structuring the instructional day using a learning strategy that involves visualization. As a brainstorming activity, students will visualize themselves going to a movie.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Adverbios
This reosurce allows you to view a movie and then fill in the blanks with the appropriate adverb. The adverbs relate to what took place in the movie. If your computer doesn't have the right requirements for viewing you can click on the...
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Media Arts
Take a one-minute tour through the history of media arts. Examine a variety of media forms and be a media critic. Visit the Media Studio and learn about movie soundtracks, animation, and creating a storyboard. Meet different artists as...
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...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Science Education Center: Showbiz Safari
Lights! Camera! Action! Our movie director needs your help! Help Walrus pick actors based on the traits that best fit the movie role. Which furry mammal will get the most wanted role in the blockbuster film "Paws"? Which water loving...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Divorce: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!
Lesson plan utilizing movies and music to explore divorce and its effects. Students use what they learn to create a parenting guide and podcast. (Note: Music and movies are not available through the lesson plan.)
New York University
New York University: About Water and Ice
Page uses movies and 3D images to explain how properties of water relate to polarity and hydrogen bonding.
Other
Montana State University: How Much Would You Weigh on Distant Planets?
This resource contains a lesson plan in which students study the effects of gravity on the planets of the Solar System. They will view movies from the lunar Apollo missions, calculate their own weight on other planets, and propose what...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Lyme Disease
KidsHealth describes how to avoid Lyme disease. Features include a movie clip showing how to remove ticks from skin.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Video Blues
The poet describes how it makes her feel that her husband has a crush on the actress Myrna Loy and it makes it hard to enjoy movies together because she can't compete.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Knight Errant by Ethel M. Dell
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published in 1920, one work featured is The Knight Errant by Ethel M. Dell. This novel was part of the Swindler and Other Stories Series and was made into a movie...
American Movie Classics Company
The Film Site: Wuthering Heights (1939)
The resource provides an in-depth summary, poster and production information about the 1939 Hollywood classic film, Wuthering Heights.
American Movie Classics Company
The Film Site: To Have and Have Not
This resource provides the plot summary of and dialogue from To Have and Have Not.
American Movie Classics Company
The Film Site: Dark Victory (1939)
This resource provides information about the film Dark Victory.
abcteach
Abcteach: Valentine's Day Activities
[Free Registration/Login Required] How do you plan on celebrating Valentine's Day in your classroom? This resource provides links to activities and information that will aid you in your planning. This site features crossword puzzle, math...
PBS
Classics for Kids: Scott Joplin
A short biography of Scott Joplin (1868-1917 CE). Click to the past radio shows to hear his music and learn more about this famous composer.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: Star Cross'd and Starry Eyed
From the opening lines of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows what lies in store for the tragedy's title teens: that these two "star-crossed lovers" are doomed to die. By the end of the play, an "ancient grudge"...
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