You Decide: Should fast food companies be held legally liable for the impact of their products on co
This educational guide focuses on whether or not fast food companies can be held legally liable for the impact of their products on consumers' health. Students are invited to examine the arguments on both sides of the debate, developing critical thinking skills as they work through the activities. Students will learn how to support their arguments with evidence and reason. It is expected that at the end of this guide students will determine where they stand on this controversial issue.
Show Me a Picture and I'll Tell You a Story: Web Photo Journals
Students analyze and evaluate "photo journal" web sites, then create their own Web-based photo journal.
Flying Solo With My Digital Camera
Students will view a film clip about immigration and arrange interviews with immigrants they know. Using digital cameras they will create a classroom book that tells about the immigrant experience.
Creating an Ethnic Student Newspaper
In this lesson students analyze news articles and features covered by ethnic newspapers in both the past and present. They will also have the opportunity to create a school newspaper.
Urban Renewal
Urban renewal policies enacted in San Francisco's Fillmore district in the 1950s-60s provide a vivid case study in public policy, federal and local government, and citizen activism. This important history sheds light on present-day urban renewal policies, such as empowerment zones and welfare-to-work.
Today in History
This sit efeatures a different person or event in history each day. Past features include Frederick Douglass, Woodrow Wilson, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Banneker, Rosa Parks, Samuel Slater, Louisa May Alcott, Radio City Arts Hall, the Wright brothers' first flight, the Bill of Rights, the Gadsden Purchase, the Federal Reserve System, the Wounded Knee massacre, Pearl Harbor, the first controlled nuclear fission chain reaction, and more.
Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
This site presents 448 photos documenting the National Woman's Party's push for ratification of the 19th Amendment and passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Taken from 1875-1922, these photos include portraits of leaders and tactics used by the organization -- picketing, pageants, parades, demonstrations, and hunger strikes.
Tinker, Tailor, Farmer, Sailor
This is a lesson in which students use primary sources to determine why Europeans settlers were drawn to particular regions of America. Among the geographic conditions they consider: access to water, arable land, natural resources, and the growing season. The lesson focuses on New England, the South, and Middle Atlantic colonies.
Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures
This site presents images published from 1914-19 by two New York newspapers. The images, produced by a new rotogravure printing process, show events of the war alongside news and advertisements of the day. Essays discuss the origin of the war, costs of the war, President Wilson's 14 points, the armistice, military technology, the sinking of the Lusitania, pictures as propaganda, and the rotogravure process. A World War I timeline is included.
Map Collections: 1544-1996
This site offers thousands of digitized online maps. The collections are broken into seven categories, cities and towns, conservation and environment, discovery and exploration, immigration and settlement, military battles and campaigns, transportation and communication, and general maps.
Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier
Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection is a multi-format ethnographic field collection of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was over eighty years old, the tunes represent the music and evoke the history and spirit of Virginia's Appalachian frontier. Many of the tunes have passed back into circulation during the fiddling revival of the later twentieth century. This online collectio
Otis Visiting Designer: Jean Francois Porchez
Jean François Porchez is a French type designer. He was president of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), the leading organisation of type designers from 2004 to 2007. He is probably best known for releasing the new typefaces for Le Monde, the French evening newspaper in 1994. He has designed custom typefaces for customers such as Beyoncé Knowles, Costa Crocieres, France Télécom, Peugeot, RATP (Public Transport in Paris), and distributes his retail typefaces internationally via
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Roheline Raamat - kuidas saada rikkaks?
Liikumise pakenditöörühma eestvedaja Juhan Ruudu kirjutisest (1997) leiate seisukohti ja näiteid, kuidas igaüks meist, olgu siis üksikisikuna, pereliikmena või ettevõtjana oma elukorraldust ja tarbimisharjumusi analüüsides ning neid pisut muutes tooks kasu keskkonnale. Samas kajastub see muutus tingimata ka inimese nn eelarves märkimisväärse kulutuste vähenemise näol. Rikkamaks peaks lugeja käesolevat elektroonset raamatut lugedes saama igal juhul - kasvõi teadmiste ja ilmaasjad
Loomafüsioloogia loenguid
Kõrgkooli tasemel loengukonspektid teatud teemadest loomafüsioloogias: membraanide füsioloogia, närvisüsteem, meeleelundite füsioloogia, veebilanss, termoregulatsioon, sigimine.
Eesti lülijalgsed
Eesti lülijalgsete (putukad, ämblikulaadsed, vähilaadsed ja hulkjalgsed) süstemaatiline ülevaade. Välisehitus, paljunemine ja ökoloogia, lisaks folkloorist. Ulatuslik illustreeritud materjal, viited jms. "Lülijalgsed" sobib nende selgrootute põhjalikuks tundmaõppimiseks, klassitunni illustreerimiseks ja muidugi lisainfo allikaks nii õpetajale kui õpilasele. Kindlasti saaks selle alusel korraldada tunde ka arvutiklassis, kuid siis peaks õpetaja leidma aega vastavad töölehed/küsimu
Sõnavaraline töö: riimuvad sõnad - tööleht
Sõnavara töö. Riimuvad sõnad, sõnade leidmine ja kirjutamine. 1. klass, I kooliaste, eesti keele tunnis aabitsa perioodil. Elektrooniline tööleht: Excel´i tabelisse kirjutamine. Sama tööd võimalik teha ka väljatrükitult paberil.
Tähestiku ja sõnavara tundmine, 4. klassile
Tunnikava õpetajale ja tööleht õpilasele. 4. klass, II kooliaste. Tunni eesmärgiks on kinnistada ja kontrollida inglise keele tähestiku ning sõnavara tundmist, kirjutamisoskust. Elavdada huvi inglise keele vastu. Kinnistada arvuti kasutamise oskust. Materjali on hea kasutada viimase veerandi lõpus.
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The Complete Educator's Guide to Using Skype Effectively in the Classroom
Increasingly, educators globally are transforming their classroom using Skype to create powerful, authentic, motivating learning experiences for their students.
From connecting with classrooms in other locations to learning about each others’ culture to connecting with content experts – educators are extending learning beyond classroom walls.
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