Curated OER
Jamaican Bobsledding Team, Part 2 Definitions
For this words and definitions worksheet, students read ten sentences and analyze the words in bold type. Students choose the definition from two choices. This worksheet is related to a text about the Jamaican bobsledding team that is...
Curated OER
Analysis of Literature
Students read the information in order to identify ways to complete a literature analysis. In this literature analysis instructional activity, students read paragraphs and practice using the five questions.
Curated OER
Dialogue: Sport
In this dialogue about sports worksheet, students read a questions and answers concerning sports.
University of Michigan
Sir Peabody's Tatler & Spectator Archive
This selection of quotes is taken from the leading newspapers of the English Restoration, The Tatler and The Spectator, in which such authors as Joseph Addison contributed. A favorite subject was love and marriage.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The Spectator and the Tatler Compared
This encyclopedia article compares The Spectator and The Tatler and the moralizing tone of Restoration English journalism.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: The Coverley Papers From 'The Spectator'
These excerpts from The Spectator include works by Richard Steele as well from the Project Gutenberg. The introduction provides some good background information about reading Addison's (1672-1719 CE) work.
Digital History
Digital History: Formation of Modern American Mass Culture
A mass culture developed in America in the 1920s due to several factors. Read about the influence of radio, movies, and spectator sports in the adoption of common speech. Find out about the creativity of the time in literature and music.
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Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: Teaching Presidential Elections [Zip]
Citizens, Not Spectators is a voter education program whose goal of the program is to increase the voting rate among young Americans by demystifying the voting process. The lessons familiarize students with the process and the duty of...
Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: Resource Bank
This page contains an extensive collection of links to pdf versions of lessons and handouts needed to teach the Citizens, Not Spectators curriculum. Has lessons for upper elementary, middle school, and secondary.
Curated OER
History Matters: Sailor Wounds Pageant Spectator Disrespectful to Flag
This site from History Matters is an interesting newsaper article in the Washington Post dated May 7, 1919 which describes a man shot for being disrespectful to the American Flag. An example of the extremism during the Red Scare.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Net Ionic Equations
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students write net ionic equations for double-replacement reactions that produce precipitates, gases, or molecular compounds, write net ionic equations for...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Stadium Sightline
How would you design the seating for an Olympic stadium to give spectators the best view of events? This geometry and modelling activity is designed to be accessible to both GCSE and A-level maths students (Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5),...
Other
Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee
The National Spelling Bee's official website--research the history of the event and find out how to become a spectator or competitor at this world-class spelling event.
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: The Trial of Joan of Arc (1431)
The story of Joan of Arc, the peasant girl whose religious visions altered the history of France, has been told often. And like so many stories in history, things do not end well for Joan. On May 30, 1431, after a lengthy and highly...
Penn Museum
Penn Museum: The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games
This site delves into the history of the Ancient Olympic games. The University of Pennsylvania's Museum of different aspects of the Ancient Olympic games.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Benjamin Franklin's Works
This site from Bibliomania contains great information on the life of Benjamin Franklin. Three pages into the article it discusses the "Almanac," as well as "Poor Richard's Almanac." Also includes a small picture of "Poor Richard's Almanac."
Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: Becoming a Voter
In this lesson, students apply their state's requirements for registering to vote. Students learn when and how to register, how to complete a voter registration form, and when and how to reregister.
Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: Who Can Vote in the United States?
This activity challenges students to speculate about voting requirements. Students will begin learning vocabulary that is used when talking about voting.
Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: Becoming a Voter
In this lesson, students apply their state's requirements for registering to vote. Students learn when and how to register, how to complete a voter registration form, and when and how to reregister.
Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: The Ballot and Questions
This lesson focuses on a voter's need to be fully informed prior to casting a vote on Election Day and how to acquire the necessary information.
A&E Television
History.com: Tailgating: How the Pre Game Tradition Can Be Traced to Ancient Times
The ritual grew as ownership of automobiles and then mass production of portable grills and plastic coolers soared. Tailgating before college and professional football games is an American tradition. Temporary tent cities pop up in...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gladiators
This illustration shows various types of gladiators, each type with with his specific weapons attributed to him. Gladiators were swordsmen whose profession was to fight for the public amusement. Gladiators are said to have been borrowed...
Curated OER
Photograph of Kit Carson
This site contains information about how people from New York and London viewed the California gold rush. From winter, 1849 issue of "The Pacific Spectator."
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Boxing
The Olympic games were of greater efficacy than the Amphictyonic Council in promoting the spirit of union among the various branches of the Greek race, and in keeping alive a feeling of their common origin. They were open to all persons...