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June 8, 2010 Liven Up Lessons with Editorial Cartoons This summer, Teaching Tolerance will present a series of lessons featuring editorial cartoons. Each lesson will focus on a social justice issue. These lessons are multidisciplinary and geared toward middle and high school students.

Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies. This MIT initiative features a courseware library with about 50 math and science lessons, all freely available to teachers in multiple formats: as streaming video, Internet downloads, DVDs, and videotapes. Each 50-minute lesson is a complete resource with video segments, a teacher's guide, downloadable hand-outs, and a list of online resources about the topic. The lessons mix short videos--all less than five minutes--with in-classroom exercises designed to engage students in problem solving and critical thinking.

INTRODUCTION So, you're still getting those 1,670,000+ responses to your search queries on the Web, and you're still too busy to do anything about it, like reading the lengthy, and sometimes confusing, "help" screens to find out how to improve your searching techniques. Look no further! Real help is here, in the USCB Library's BARE BONES Tutorial. You can zip through these lessons in no time, any time. They are very short and succinct; each can be read in a few minutes. Feel free to jump in wherever you like, skip what you don't want to read, and come back whenever you need to. The information contained in the following lessons is truly "bare bones," designed to get you started in the right direction with a minimum of time and effort. For more comprehensive and detailed help on searching the Web, consult our recommended list of sites in Lesson 20 at the end of this tutorial.

Beacon Lesson Plan Library Lesson Plans - Learner Level 4: Science

"Reinforce your students' understanding of figurative language with VocabularySpellingCity's figurative language lessons, interactive games, printable worksheets, and powerpoint presentations. Learning figurative language gives students at the elementary school, middle school, and high school levels the ability to transform their pencils into paintbrushes, as they paint a picture with their words. VocabularySpellingCity can give your students this gift by providing figurative language lessons and exercises that will establish an understanding of the main types of figurative language."

It's important to match the tools used to teach information literacy with the level of the students. Developed by educators, the Big6 includes many tools and lessons for the teacher. Written by librarians at Cardiff University, the Handbook of Information Literacy Teaching or HILT has many helpful tips, handouts and lesson plans. The 21st Century Information Fluency portal has created online games and tutorials for many different level of student.

Lessons on ReadWriteThink can be sorted by literacy engagements so that teachers can highlight specific language functions in the classroom. Following M. A. K. Halliday's model, lessons are designed to engage students in authentic and meaningful language

a really excellent lesson about Wikipedia from the excellent folks in Canada - Media Awareness.

"source of online economic & personal finance lessons & resources for educators, students and afterschool providers."

This is a collection of English lessons and resources for most High School Level classes. It has all the traditional assignments, stories, skills, terms, and samples to pull from.

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If you are looking for some ways to integrate global education into your lessons, this site from the Peace Corps contains many activities that have been sorted by grade level and curricular area. Although none of the activities are specifically for theolo

annotated links to lots of lesson plans, all subjects, all grades (look at microLESSONs) also resources for doing lesson planning - theory, templates, suggestions for technology use

software & Kohlberg in one lesson plan

Linking music & social movements - resources are intended to stimulate student interest and creativity, to develop higher order thinking skills and to promote interdisciplinary learning. Please be aware, that some material contained in these lessons may b

Explore thousands of free lesson plans that meet state and national standards

site offers great video support and how too lessons for using multimedia and infusing it into lesson plans. The focus of the lesson planning is on the 6E method which is all project based.

This lesson presents social history content and topics through the voices of ordinary people. It draws on primary sources from the American Memory Collection, American Life Histories, 1936-1940. Using excerpts from the collection, students study social hi

"The founder of The Effective Educator has posted hundreds of his own social studies lessons and resources on this site. "

knowmia offers an extensive collection of curated videos that have been vetted by teachers for quality and accuracy. knowmia has launched with 7,000 videos organized under the main headings of English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technology, and World Languages.