Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Using Databases, Electronic Sources, and Print Sources
How to access electronic sources and databases in addition to print sources and list all in a working bibliography.
Other
A Primer on Databases and Catalogs
This in-depth look at databases does a thorough but not boring job of explaining how these critical tools operate. Macromedia Flash graphics and other interactive tools help engage students. It is not specific to any one kind of database.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Introduction to Database Management
This lesson introduces students to the concept of organized information in a database. This is an introduction, so there are no computer exercises. A PowerPoint presentation is used as a visual aid for discussion and explanation....
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Resources for Using Ph Et Simulations in Class Ph Et Activities Database
The PhET website at the University of Colorado in Boulder has a large collection of science simulations for teaching chemistry and physics, available in many languages. This page describes the Activities Database, which is searchable by...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Salmon Use of Geomorphically Restored Streams at Point Reyes Nat. Seashore
A lesson plan with an accompanying PowerPoint learning module for students where they learn about coho salmon and a repair done to a culvert in Point Reyes National Seashore. The repair was intended to help the salmon make their journey...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Using Sql to Update a Database
Learn how to use a SQL to update a database.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Breadth First Search and Its Uses
A short tutorial for breadth-first search and its uses.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Using Hour of Code in Your Classroom
Hour of Code, a Khan Academy online program, encourages students to spend an hour learning to program. Titles include Hour of Drawing with Code, Hour of Webpage, and Hour of Databases are explained. This article explains how teachers can...
Other
Nearpod: Spreadsheets: Using Formulas
In this lesson on spreadsheets, students explore the different parts of a spreadsheet and use equations within spreadsheets to learn about their applications.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Gis Exploration Using the High Plains Aquifer Databases
Students work with databases and GIS to develop saturated thickness maps. Each database consists of observations made by drillers where they have encountered the High Plains aquifer base and the annual water-level measurements taken in...
Other
Roller Coaster Database: Cedar Point: Gatekeeper Roller Coaster
Learn the facts about the Gatekeeper roller coaster in Sandusky, Ohio. Includes information on the speed, height and materials used to create this popular ride.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Wilson Center: Database on Inter Korean Relations
"Using fresh and policy-relevant historical data, the Database on Inter-Korean Relations informs and supports current and future efforts to peacefully reunify the Korean Peninsula and achieve reconciliation in post-unification Korea."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Sources: Online Research Databases
This lesson discusses using research databases to conduct research.
IMDb
Internet Movie Database: Cedric Klapisch
The Internet Movie Database provides a complete filmography and other useful information of the films of Cedric Klapisch.
Other
Structurae: Functions & Uses: Fresh Water Dam
Site provides a database of over 90 Fresh Water Dams. Users are provided with an image of each dam as well as additional technical information.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
The place to go for information on the soldiers and sailors who served during the Civil War in both the Confederate and Union military. Use the searchable database to locate basic information about the 6.3 million men who served on both...
Other
Tufts University: Stomp: Nxt Activity Database
A collection of lesson plans that can be used with the Lego Mindstorms NXT robots. Lesson plans include procedure, student handouts, and programming code.
Other
Iucn Red List: Threatened Species
The IUCN Red List is a global database of information about threatened species which is used by conservation groups around the world to focus their efforts. A search for a species reveals detailed information about it, the threats it...
Google
Google for Education: Data Aggregation and Decomposition (Python)
Students learn how to use and analyze data to draw conclusions about information collected from classmates. Then they use computational thinking by collecting and aggregating data onto a spreadsheet, identifying patterns in their data,...
Google
Google for Education: Sorting the World's Cities (Python)
The second of two similar lessons where students learn how a Python program can organize and sort data. When taught in conjunction with Sorting the World's Cities with Excel, students make the connection between writing a program and...
Other
Wild About Gardening: Encyclopedia
Get information on 575 different plant species using the WILD About Gardening Encyclopedia. Information is provided and can be searched under the following categories: Scientific Name,Common Name, Plant Type, Native Province, Zone,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Make Your Sql Safer
Learn how to make your SQL safe for use by many users.
National Institutes of Health
Complementary & Alternative Medicine News and Events
The news & events supplicd by the national Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine covers a broad rand of healing philosophies, approaches, and therapies not commonly used by traditional Western medicine.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Refining Internet and Database Searches
This lesson discusses how to refine a search to produces better results. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.