This assignment will go viral with students as they think about the meanings of words and images in public service announcements from YouTube before creating a PSA of their own.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Unit of Study
This is a series of short PowerPoints to highlight each of the steps of The Big6 research process. These are used in an introduction to college research skills class -- but are general enough to be used at any level where you are introducing students to general research. Each PowerPoint comes with narration and the slides have the narrating script in the notes.
Material Type: Lecture
The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more. Topics include Agriculture, Business, Climate, Education, Energy, Ecosystems, Manufacturing and more.
Material Type: Data Set
Explore the parts of book covers and dust jackets with this online guide, designed to to allow users to review the content that appears on each portion of these artifacts.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Analyze Flowers for Algernon.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Reading
I answer a question for Ashlee in Virginia. This video shows users how to create a hypertext PowerPoint presentation. A Hypertext PowerPoint presentation is a great tool to use for students to allow them to progress at their own pace. This is part of our PowerPoint tutorials. I use PowerPoint 2013.
Material Type: Lecture
History comes alive as the people of America's past come to life to tell their powerful and unique stories. This series of historical snapshots targets significant events in United States history. Video segments include Jamestown, Explorers, First Americans, Geography of Virginia, Voices of the Revolution, and the Civil War These video snippets are compatible with mobile technology and can be viewed on many smart phones, Blackberry, Droid, iPhone, IPod, and iPad devices.
Material Type: Lecture
This lesson plan requires students to compare/contrast two maps, one from 1636 and the other from 1651, of early colonial Virginia. Students will think about how and why maps change over time, including how maps might be affected by changing historical events.
Material Type: Lesson
The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment." As a work in progress, Virtual Jamestown aims to shape the national dialogue on the occasion of the four hundred-year anniversary observance in 2007 of the founding of the Jamestown colony.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Reading
The lessons in the Colonial Unit introduce students to many of the themes in the curriculum. In the Pocahontas lesson, students question Disney's account of Pocahontas's encounter with John Smith. Students engage in three additional inquiries: one about the Puritans, one about the causes of King Philip's War, and one about the causes of the Salem Witch trials. The Colonial Unit is unique in that it introduces students to different types of historical evidence such as maps and passenger lists, and asks students to consider what claims can be made on the basis of these special documents.
Material Type: Lesson
This tutorial is designed to challenge your understanding of plagiarism and the ethical use of sources in academic writing. You will see ten samples of source material and ten corresponding examples of student writing. It is up to you to determine if the student has used each source responsibly. At the end of this exercise, you will be asked to list three best practices for using sources responsibly. These rules and your results can be shared with your professor.
Material Type: Interactive, Lesson
Not all students live on an ocean coast, but no matter where they live, all students are connected to the ocean via their local watershed. The Watershed Quest Unit is an integrated-curriculum unit that culminates with the creation of a watershed quest, a treasure hunt centered on a watershed in your community. The quest involves sharing and learning information about watersheds in general and about the watershed in the region where the students live.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this activity students will explore the Delaware Bay Watershed by completing tasks for various websites.
Material Type: Interactive
In this problem-based learning module, students work in teams to examine a broad array of information related to water quality in Lower Wheeling Creek and the Wheeling Creek watersheds in Wheeling, West Virginia. This module is part of Exploring the Environment.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
(Work in progress!) Attempted imitations of the 17 projects of LEGO set #9630 (Simple Mechanisms), plus its expansion motor set #9615, but using parts instead from the newer LEGO WeDo sets #9580 and #9585. WeDo sets may be found in an increasing number of classrooms; they are intended to be introductory robotics sets but include lots of basic mechanism parts and projects. Good preparation or extension activities for those who have WeDo sets (or perhaps an assortment of "Technic" parts).
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Simulation
LEGO Robotics Curriculum, based on LEGO We-Do System. Approximately one semester (45-minute periods, 5 days per week). [Work in progress!]
Material Type: Full Course
As one of literature's most iconic figures, both Shakespeare's plays and poetry provide an interesting glimpse into a variety of essential themes. In this lesson, students will examine how Shakespeare used the sonnet tradition to enhance his stagecraft by performing a scene from his play Romeo and Juliet.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
The Folger Shakespeare Library provides the full searchable text of "Henry V" to read online or download as a PDF. All of the lines are numbered sequentially to make it easier and more convenient to find any line.
Material Type: Reading
The Folger Shakespeare Library provides the full searchable text of "The Merchant of Venice" to read online or download as a PDF. All of the lines are numbered sequentially to make it easier and more convenient to find any line.
Material Type: Reading
The Folger Shakespeare Library provides the full searchable text of "Hamlet" to read online or download as a PDF. All of the lines are numbered sequentially to make it easier and more convenient to find any line.
Material Type: Reading
