Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Descriptive Writing: What Is Descriptive Writing?
This lesson focuses on what descriptive writing including defining it and discussing the characteristics. It includes links to several websites about descriptive writing including the Discovery Education Video: "Literature for Children:...
PBS
Pbs: Ten Steps to College With the Greenes
A website created to organize a college admissions campaign. Includes worksheets for students and parents as well as video from top admissions officers at various colleges.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Newton's Triple Play: Baseball Science
In this lesson, students watch a video and animations that relate Isaac Newton's three laws of motion to baseball and apply what they've learned about these laws to another sport or other real-life situation. It includes formative and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Abraham Lincoln: A Good Man? Or a Good Man!
In this lesson, students use video from American Masters: Bill T. Jones: A Good Man along with primary sources to investigate the life of Lincoln and write a one page argument essay on whether Lincoln was "a good man."
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Revising and Editing Skills: Teaching Revision
Watch twelve videos and download content to learn more how teachers can use a revision guide to teach students how to revise a literary essay.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Geometry Playground
Colorful explorations of geometry, taken from a museum exhibit. With sections on the geometry of light, the geometry of movement, and the geometry of patterns. Includes photo essays, videos, and activities.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: Age of Exploration
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the exploration of the Americas. Site includes primary source documents, videos, essays, and lesson plans to help students research the exploration of the new land.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Required Works of Art for Ap* Art History
The list on this site links to videos, essays, images, and additional resources for the 250 required works of art for the AP* Art History course and exam.
Other
European Free Improvisation Pages
A site about the European free improvisation scene. Contains articles, mp3's bibliography and videos.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History Exam Skills and Strategies
This Khan Academy resource provides a number of charts and videos that demonstrate how to approach the following types of AP US History Test questions: multiple choice, short answer, DBQ, and long essay. Exemplars for the planning of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Analysis of to Kill a Mockingbird
Used as a follow-up lesson after reading the novel and viewing the entire video of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, students will analyze the opening title credits which show the cigar box and its contents which Jem and Scout have found in the...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: What Is a Myth?
Learn about myths from around the world in this self-guided unit while also learning how to construct a compare and contrast essay. Included are characteristics of creation myths, videos about Chinese and Egyptian myths, and a step by...
TES Global
Blendspace: Opinion/persuasive Writing 3rd Grade
A collection of resources that includes videos, images, activities, and graphic organizers to use while learning to write opinion and persuasive pieces.
Swiss Educ
Swiss Educ: Miller, Arthur, 1915 2005
Rich and varied resources dealing with the author's life, his politics and his work. Video, still images, audio files and essays by him and about him are all available.
CommonLit
Common Lit: On Various Kinds of Thinking
A learning module that begins with an essay by James Harvey Robinson titled "On Various Kinds of Thinking" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpt From "Our America"
A learning module that begins with Jose Marti's essay "Excerpt from 'Our America'" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Animal Adaptations: Fishing Cat
Learn how the semi-aquatic fishing cat evolved millions of years ago to live in the wetlands of South and Southeast Asia in this video from NATURE: The Story of Cats (4:18). The accompanying activity prompts students to write an...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Genre Worksheets
This learning module provides remediation with identifying genre of books and various texts. Practice with capitalizing nouns is provided with through worksheets, an online site, and a video tutorial. .
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing Narratives
Notes, a PowerPoint presentation, two videos, a song, an exercise, and a game help students to understand how to write a narrative. Elements of a narrative as well as the use of figurative language and sensory images are introduced and...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpt From "Civil Disobedience"
A learning module that begins with Henry David Thoreau's "Excerpt from 'Civil Disobedience'" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpts From Thomas Jefferson's Writings on American Indians
A learning module that begins with the historical text "Excerpts from Thomas Jefferson's Writings on American Indians" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Progressive Era to the New Era 1900 1929, World War I
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about World War I from the primary source documents contained here. Also contains a short overview, lesson plans, timelines, maps, and images, as well as recommended videos, books, and other...
TES Global
Blendspace: Space Exploration 5 Paragraph Persuasive Essay
Learn to write a five-paragraph persuasive essay by working through six links to videos, graphic organizers, and activities on space exploration.
TES Global
Blendspace: 2014, Term1 Writing Expositions Week 3
A four-part learning module with links to images, a website, and a video explaining how to write an argumentative piece.