The materials in this OER are grouped thematically, under four headings: Introduction to Welding, Structural Work, Career Development and Digital Literacy. All topics maintain the welding theme and spiral vocabulary students will hear and use in the welding shop.

The clock is ticking: A technology demonstration that could transform the way humans explore space is nearing its target launch date of June 24, 2019. Developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the Deep Space Atomic Clock is a serious upgrade to the satellite-based atomic clocks that, for example, enable the GPS on your phone.

Ultimately, this new technology could make spacecraft navigation to distant locations like Mars more autonomous. But what is an atomic clock? How are they used in space navigation, and what makes the Deep Space Atomic Clock different? Read on to get all the answers.

This presentation goes into detail the different kinds of energy there is in the world. While talking about mechanical, potential, kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, nuclear, and gravitational energy, it also goes into day-to-day relation between us and these types of energy.

A quick start quide to different ways to get involved in sports management. 

This article points out that there is no one official definition for the Arctic. Then the author identifies definitions ranging from geography to climate to culture and more. Maps and other visuals illustrate the definitions. The author suggests that defining the Arctic can be an example for K-Grade 5 students of the nature and challenges of classification systems. The article appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears.

This lesson presents an overview of Wildlife Management.  Learners will identify characteristics of wildlife, relationships between wildlife, identify approved practices in wildlife management and research a wildlife animal. This represents a portion of the Introduction to Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (AFNR) series in Nebraska middle and high school agricultural education.

In this set of lessons, students will be introduced to shop safety. The lessons focus on overall shop safety, how to prevent accidents and where important items in the shop are located. This lesson does not cover specific safety for material handling, equipment or tools as those will be covered later in the course.

 This tutorial is designed for beginners eager to create their first website using WordPress and Elementor. It simplifies the process of web design, allowing you to easily understand and use the powerful features of WordPress coupled with Elementor's user-friendly drag-and-drop interface. From setting up WordPress to designing your first pages with Elementor, this guide provides step-by-step instructions to help you quickly develop the skills needed to build and launch your own website. Dive into this tutorial and embark on your web design journey with confidence.

"This project was created to conjoin my two areas of study–a foreign language and media production. What inspired this project was my experience seeing other students struggle with the technological aspect of video editing, while also not enjoying the assignment overall. My aim was to address both of these issues to create fun, easy video project ideas for teachers to implement into the classroom."

- Sata Vanasouk
Fall 2019

Daily writing assignments. Please see activities folder for activities mentioned  for Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

These resources are developed by ELPA and align with the ELP standards. They are organized by grade band and domain. They are designed to be used as lessons and for test practice. 

Scaffolded writing frames, exercises, explanations, and examples to assist with mastering key skills and the portfolio assignment for each chapter.

This writing guide sheds light on the questions frequently asked by the student community about the research and writing processes in history.

These course materials were designed for English Composition II at Southwest Tennessee Community College (Memphis, TN) by a team of faculty and support staff (Dr. Adam Sneed, Dr. Loretta McBride, Dr. Thomas Cole, & Vivian Stewart). This project was supported through grants from Southwest Tennessee Community College and the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR). Course resources include:a Writing and Research Handbook with practical writing instruction, links to reliable online writing resources, "remixed" content from other high-qualiity OER handbooks, and original content that helps students successfully navigate the writing resources available to them at Southwest Tennessee Community College, andfive assignment modules, each centered on one major writing assignment and supported by evaluative rubrics; low-stakes scaffolding assignments (prewritings, quizzes, and worksheets); guided peer review workshops; research guides that link to a mix of OER, OA, and ZTC sources available through library subscription services; and other materials.

A brief infographic and description of the five basic steps of the Writing Process: prewriting, drafting, workshopping, revising and editing, and submitting.

Do you want to inspire your students to write great narratives, essays, and reports? Check out these grade-specific writing topics organized by mode (explanatory, creative, and so on). Or search for writing topics that relate to a theme, such as “life” or “animals” or “family.”

Case notes are records of interactions children, families, and persons relevant to a given case or incident attended to by a social worker. Good case notes employ strategic, insightful inquiry and an understanding of larger case processes. When well written, case notes provide accurate, objective descriptions grounded in fact and evidence. They leverage a social worker's assessments and opinions thoughtfully, but never include an undue amount of either.

This interactive video is interspersed with questions probing the viewer's understanding of fact and evidence and how to detect unnecessary use of assessment or opinion in case notes. It contextualizes the skills being taught in a realistic scenario, an investigative interview where a social worker is trying to assess whether a claim of physical abuse can be substantiated, and aims to enable learners to differentiate and identify correct / incorrect uses of fact & evidence , assessment & opinion.

*This resource is a remix of "Investigative Interview - Craig Price" , provided by The Academy for Professional Excellence.

This project was a digital humanities-based study of cultural activities and socio-economic relationships near the headwaters of the Yamuna River and along the river's path through the Himalayan foothills in Uttarakhand, India. Deep mapping in this case involved a visual case study, autoethnography, geospatial data, and media (images, video, sound) to seek meaning and connection we can use to comprehend enigmas and frame human relationships with nature and the spiritual. A variety of products resulted from this project and can be found on the dropdown menu on the site. Visit the site to learn more. Activites Associated with this Site: "Monsoons in the Indian Himalaya: How they are Formed and their Characteristics" and "Monsoons in the Indian Himalaya: Changes and Hazards".

The Open for Antiracism (OFAR) Program – co-led by CCCOER and College of the Canyons – emerged as a response to the growing awareness of structural racism in our educational systems and the realization that adoption of open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy could be transformative at institutions seeking to improve. The program is designed to give participants a workshop experience where they can better understand anti-racist teaching and how the use of OER and open pedagogy can empower them to involve students in the co-creation of an anti-racist classroom. The capstone project involves developing an action plan for incorporating OER and open pedagogy into a course being taught in the spring semester. OFAR participants are invited to remix this template to design and share their projects and plans for moving this work forward. 

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