This lesson takes advantage of students' interest in music and audio sharing. Students investigate multiple perspectives in the music downloading debate and develop a persuasive argument for a classroom debate.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
Students explore using electronic messaging and Internet abbreviations for specific purposes and examine the importance of using a more formal style of writing based on their audience.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
An introduction to Social Media via a story about a small town with many flavors of ice cream.
Material Type: Lecture
In groups, students will design a presentation that will trace the development of an organ system through the major phyla of the animal kingdom looking for the relationships between structure and function by documenting adaptations.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
A short guide to recognizing and avoiding phishing scams.
Material Type: Lecture
"Web Search Strategies" introduces the best ways to use search engines to find information on the web. The video uses real-world examples that illustrate ways to reduce useless results
Material Type: Lecture
A short introduction to blogs - how they work and why they matter.
Material Type: Lecture
Students examine propaganda and media bias, research a variety of banned and challenged books, choose a side of the censorship issue, and support their position through an advertising campaign.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
A short introduction to the concept of social bookmarking, using Delicious as the example.
Material Type: Lecture
An introduction to RSS as a way to save time reading web sites.
Material Type: Lecture
A short introduction to wikis focused a group of people that plan a camping trip using a wiki.
Material Type: Lecture
This course has been designed to enable you to focus your learning on specific areas of improvement. Unlike a typical college course where you would complete lessons in chronological order, this course allows you to focus on just specific skills. Modules include: Grammer, Pre Writing, and Writing
Material Type: Full Course, Lecture, Reading
This article describes daily life and work at the IceCube telescope at the South Pole, Antarctica, and links to informational text about them. Versions are available for students in grades K-1, 2-3 and 4-5. Related science and literacy activities are included.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This article describes robots that are helping scientists explore the Gakkel Ridge deep below the Arctic Ocean and links to informational text about them. Versions are available for students in grades K-1, 2-3 and 4-5. Related science and literacy activities are included.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, provides resources for planning a "polar festival," or an informal learning event. The issue includes planning guides, suggested activities, and resources to integrate literacy into the science-themed event.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This article reprints and links to informational text about the art and science of igloos. Versions are available for students in grades K-1, 2-3 and 4-5. Related science and literacy activities are included.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Each issue of the free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle explores an essential principle of climate science and climate literacy with background information, lessons, activities, original stories, and more for the K-5 classroom. This article shows the alignment of these materials with the content standards of the National Science Education Standards.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This article reprints and links to informational text about the adaptations that allow mammals and fish to survive in polar oceans. Versions are available for students in grades K-1, 2-3 and 4-5. Related science and literacy activities are included.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
An information literacy resource designed to help students undertaking the extended project qualification or other pre HE project. It brings together several elearning modules tailored to the audience, covering subjects such as, plagiarism, searching, writing, proofreading and referencing. Use the following link to download the editable files: https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/learning-objects/wp/download/
Material Type: Interactive
A learning activity for the "All About Earth: Our World on Stage" book in the Elementary GLOBE series. In pairs, students will create experimental conditions in terrariums in order to study what plants need to live. Variables to study include the presence or absence of soil, water, and sunlight. Students will record the growth of radish plants as well as observations of "the water cycle" in their terrariums. At the conclusion of their experiments, students will share their results with the class and discuss how water, Earth materials, and air are all necessary to support living things. The purpose of the activity is to acquaint students with the hydrosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere more closely, to have students use microcosms to study natural phenomena, and to introduce students to the concept of a "fair test" in a scientific investigation. After completing this activity, students will know about the importance of the hydrosphere, geosphere, and atmosphere in supporting the biosphere. They will learn how to set up "fair test", record detailed observations, use drawings as scientific records, make sense of experimental results, and share them publicly.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Interactive, Lesson Plan, Textbook
