The author herself offers this extensive biography, with a lot of great pictures as well.
Students are provided with an introduction to above-ground storage tanks, specifically how and why they are used in the Houston Ship Channel. The introduction includes many photographic examples of petrochemical tank failures during major storms and describes the consequences in environmental pollution and costs to disrupted businesses and lives, as well as the lack of safety codes and provisions to better secure the tanks in coastal regions regularly visited by hurricanes. Students learn how the concepts of Archimedes' principle and Pascal's law act out in the form of the uplifting and buckling seen in the damaged and destroyed tanks, which sets the stage for the real-world engineering challenge presented in the associated activity to design new and/or improved storage tanks that can survive storm conditions.
This American Memory site provides a comprehensive collection of Abraham Lincoln papers. Read the introduction page so you can see how they are organized. You can search by keyword or just browse the collection. Very interesting!!
Here at AbsoluteShakespeare.com is the full-text for Shakespeare's comedy, "All's Well that Ends Well."
The entire text of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" divided by acts and scenes with a summary introduction of the play. With links to other Shakespearean plays, sonnets, biographies, poems, and more.
This guide examines each character's role and motivation.
Here, you can choose a scene from a specific act of "Love's Labour's Lost".
This site provides listings of links to online news sources from all over the world. Just type the country you're looking for in the search box or use the front page links. The news sources for each country are labeled either broadcast news, Internet news sites, magazines, newspapers, or press agencies.
This series of video segments explains the importance of academic vocabulary in the common core curriculum. The video segments included highlight the three tiers of vocabulary [1:35], the role of vocabulary in the common core curriculum standards [2:06], and the three stages of vocabulary instruction [4:49]
These video segments examine the integration of domain-specific vocabulary in technical education course, a construction core class. The teacher demonstrates how to introduce the new vocabulary in the first segment via a complex course text [7:22], and the second segment shows the teacher's use of graphic organizers to enhance the students' understanding the text's vocabulary. L.9-10.6 Vocabulary, L.11-12. 6 Vocabulary CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.6, L.11-12. 6 Vocabulary
This video [5:06] provides research related to the Common Core approach to vocabulary, footage of classroom teachers engaging students in vocabulary instruction, and sample vocabulary assessments.
This video [14:33] shows a demonstration of academic vocabulary instruction through the context of a complex work, a poem. The teacher demonstrates how to access the literal meaning of new vocabulary and then infer the deeper meaning. Includes downloadable assessment handouts.
Students form literature circles, read "Esperanza Rising" or "Becoming Naomi Leon" by Pam MuĐoz Ryan, use a Critical Thinking Map to discuss social issues, and use a class wiki.
This lesson teaches elementary students new vocabulary terms through book discussion groups. Students use context clues, prior knowledge, and print and online resources for vocabulary understanding in their discussion.
This lesson employs direct instruction and small-group discussion to help students learn new vocabulary skills while reading Patricia Polacco's "Pink and Say".
Journalists are inundated with acronyms. This site contains 240,000 of them and their meanings. Search tool allows you to enter the exact acronym or the first letter. You can even enter a keyword and look for acronyms that include it. L.9-10.6 Vocabulary CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.6, L.11-12. 6 Vocabulary
This tutorial focuses on active listening including what it is and how to become an active listener; a slide show provides the five basic elements of listening. It also offers a video of Alice Walker reading Soujourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" [3:13] for students to use to practice active listening. It ends with ways to improve listening skills.
This online activity gives two definitions and asks what word, that begins with "F," fits both. Clicking the box gives the answer. There are twenty-three questions.
Vast array of quizzes and self-study exercises based on idioms and idiomatic expressions, categorized in a variety of ways (beginning with A, B, etc., by keyword, or by association with other groupings). Great practice for the ELL/ESL student.
Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience. This site includes 5 Peg + Cat activity starters: Conversation Cards: School, Conversation Cards: Home, Make your own Peg + Cat puppet theater, Stick Puppets, and Peg's Puppet Pals printables.