Curated OER
A Elegy
Pupils examine an elegy for form, tone and subject matter. In this elegy lesson, students share impressions from Dylan Thomas's poem and a critic's response to the poem. Pupils discuss emotions and the refusal to mourn death.
Curated OER
Breaking News English: President Bush OK'd Spying in America
In this English worksheet, students read "President Bush OK'd Spying in America," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
Curated OER
My Spacecraft to Saturn
Students discover problems that NASA must deal with on a daily basis. They work together to think of solutions and sketch their own idea of a spacecraft. They discover the concept of engineering.
Technology Student
Technology Student: Power Tools
This site describes and illustrates the safe use of power tools commonly used in construction.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Power of a Point
Use this tool to investigate what happens when point P is moved to various points within, on, and outside the circle. Can you identify any relationships among the segments and radius?
CommonLit
Common Lit: Empowering the Black Power Movement
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
REMC Association of Michigan
Remc Association of Michigan: 21 Things4 Students: 11. Powerful Presentations
Tired of writing all the time? Would you like to express yourself through a presentation instead? During these Quests, you are going to learn how to present your ideas creatively through Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint. At the end...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Electric Power and Electrical Energy Use
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Electric power and electric energy use of appliances and how to calculate them.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Wind Power
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How wind can be used to generate power, and its consequences.
Other
Awesome Backgrounds: Awesome Power Point Tutorials
These nine, free PowerPoint tutorials are for the more "advanced" user. They include lessons on link different PowerPoint presentations together, getting the best from bitmap graphics for "On-screen" PowerPoint presentations, text...
US Department of Energy
United States Department of Energy: Power Metering Project
Two part lesson focuses on applying analytic tools such as pie charts and bar graphs to gain a better understanding of practical energy use issues. Students will learn how different types of data collected affect the outcome of...
Climate Literacy
Clean: Wind Energy Using Google Earth
In this activity students will use Google Earth to investigate ideal features of wind farms and they will use the Google Earth measurement tool to determine the estimated perimeter of each wind farm.
Other
Global Schoolhouse: Harnessing the Power of the Web
This online tutorial shows K-12 teachers how to harness the power of the World Wide Web for classroom use, and in particular for interaction, collaboration, distance education, cultural understanding and cooperative research -- with...
Other
Adobe: Page Maker Tutorial Using Layers Creatively
Pagemaker includes a powerful Layers tool to work with multiple layers of intformation text/graphics. This tutorial explores three tips for using the Layers tool: multiple versions, quick arrangement, and stick-on notes.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Moving the Decimal Point Multiplying by Powers of 10
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students practice finding how many places to move the decimal point when multiplying by powers of 10. Includes video demonstrating a sample...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Expression Evaluation With Powers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use the order of operations to evaluate powers in numerical and variable expressions
iCivics
I Civics: Mini Lesson: Veto Power
Explores the presidential veto and pocket veto powers, their role as a negotiating tool, and the Congressional veto override process. Students also learn how to use fact-checking and triangulation to evaluate news claims and detect...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Mental Math to Divide by Decimal Powers of Ten
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use mental math to divide by decimal powers of ten and find a quotient.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Mental Math to Divide by Whole Number Powers of Ten
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use mental math to divide by whole number powers of ten.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Mental Math to Multiply by Decimal Powers of Ten
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use mental math to multiply by decimal powers of ten.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Mental Math to Multiply by Whole Number Powers of Ten
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use mental math to multiply by whole number powers of ten and find a product.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Expression Evaluation With Powers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Evaluate variable expressions using the order of operations including powers and grouping symbols
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Powers of 10
Together with the video, Powers of Ten, this activity provides a quick lesson on using scientific notation as a tool to simplify some of the massive and minuscule numbers you'll encounter when looking at things on the extreme ends of a...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Population Pyramids: Powerful Predictors of the Future
Kim Preshoff explains how using a visual tool called a population pyramid helps policymakers and social scientists make sense of the statistics, using three different countries' pyramids as examples. [5:01]