Activity
College Board

Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?

For Teachers 7th Standards
How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...
Unit Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Through the vast online resources available from EDSITEment, students can read the correspondence of the famous, the infamous and the ordinary, some of whom lived through extraordinary times. Use these fascinating letters as a starting...
Handout
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Using Computers to Improve Your Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips from the University of Toronto on using word processing features as aids in composing and revising papers. W.9-10.6 Technology, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6, W.11-12.6 Technology
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Let's Write a Cinquain

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
During this lesson, third grade students will navigate the Internet to learn about cinquains. They will use their new knowledge to create their own cinquains while learning important word processing skills.
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Searching the World Wide Web: Overview

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn to use search engines and other tools to find credible information on the Internet. Accompanying slideshow includes Internet search activities.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Big Dropper the Life Cycle of a Raindrop

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will research the Internet, Alabama Virtual Library, online and printed encyclopedias, and other reference material to gather information on the water cycle. Students will then use the gathered data to create a slideshow...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Oral Presentation of Favorite Celebrity

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using the Internet to research facts about a favorite celebrity, young scholars gain the organizational and oral presentation skills needed to successfully deliver an effective speech and slideshow presentation.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Researching Mark Twain's Early Life and Experiences

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This instructional activity requires students to use the Internet to research the early life of Mark Twain and the influence of his childhood experiences on his writing. The instructional activity includes letter writing, reading, role...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Legendary Lighthouses

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
In this technology-based interdisciplinary lesson, students will discover many facts about lighthouses by navigating the Internet. Students have the opportunity to use the facts they learn to create their own stories about lighthouses.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Brian's Winter by Gary Paulson:using Art to Study Plot

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this interdisciplinary lesson, students examine the artwork in Lasceaux Cave in France via Internet and illustrate a chapter summary from Brian's Winter by Gary Paulson in "caveman style."
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, Internet

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan is designed to teach various methods students can use when researching background information on one another in order to introduce each other in written and oral form.
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EL Education

El Education: Into the Woods

For Teachers 6th - 8th
7th grade students created this field guide to the trees, plants, and birds of Baxter Woods. Students did fieldwork visits to the park and each student was responsible for one tree that was located in Baxter Woods. Students worked with...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Three Principles of Civil Disobedience

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Both Mahatmas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. were influenced by Henry David Thoreau's essay, "Civil Disobedience." Have students research and read, using the Internet, the first part of Thoreau's essay. Then have students write an...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Washington, Dc Report

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will utilize the Internet to complete the DC Report during their study of Colonial American history and Washington, DC. They will demonstrate their understanding of the material through a written report using the three modes of...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Comparing Modes of Transportation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson students will visit different websites in order to decide the best mode of transportation from their home town to New York City. Students will use internet links during the lesson to gather their data. Then students will...
Activity
University College London

University College London: Verbs Voice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has information on the active and passive verb voice. Includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.
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EL Education

El Education: A Park Grows in Portland

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This field guide was a cross curricular project created by 7th grade students in Portland, Maine. Students engaged in multiple fieldwork visits to the Deering Park (across the street), during which they observed trees, recording with...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Systems Every "Body" Needs to Know

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson is designed to allow learners to explore the human body through a WebQuest with Internet and multimedia resources provided for research. Students will create a cell diagram, write a letter, and create a slideshow presentation...