PBS
Pbs: Rewards and Challenges of Self Employment
Analyze the rewards and challenges of self-employment.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Rational Exponents Challenge
Choose equivalent forms of radical and exponential expressions. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Facs: Communication
This instructional activity will engage students in discovery learning. Through various tasks, 6th graders will learn the characteristics and challenges in daily family life that may be experienced when living independently....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Articles of Confederation
This resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions over The Articles of Confederation. These questions are intended for students taking high school or college level American Government and Civics courses, including the AP...
CNN
Cnn Money: Twitter, Pipe Dream or Next Big Thing?
Twitter has taken the world by storm, even made its name a verb, but are they challenged late in the game to try making money from the service? This article examines this question in depth.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Ascd: Building Literacy in Social Studies: Ch 1: Reading Social Studies Texts
Article provides excellent tips and strategies for building comprehension and critical thinking skills in Social Studies. It describes some of the challenges students have with reading and understanding their textbooks.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Poetry Lesson: Song Parodies About School
After celebrating (and singing) some of the delightful songs from Alan Katz's "Take Me out of the Bathtub" and listening to songs by Weird Al Yankovic, like "Eat It," students will discuss the concept of parody. To practice writing a...
Other
Child Development Institute: Adolescence: The Last Step Before Becoming an Adult
Begin to understand the teen age group looking at its place on the growth sequence. Learn that adoelscence, being the last step before becoming an adult brings many changes and challenges.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Olympic Triathlon
Do you think the triathlon will be won by someone who is very strong in one event and average in the other two, or someone who is strong in all three disciplines? This activity challenges students to analyse real-life data and use their...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: The Olympic Torch Tour
Can you find the best route for the Olympic Torch relay to take? This more challenging activity is designed to be accessible to GCSE maths students (grades 8, 9, and 10).
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Tracking Income and Benefits
Using a case study about an urban family, students calculate monthly net income and explore how irregular income may make it challenging to manage monthly expenses.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The High Cost of Progress
Meet an activist who works to help the struggling farmers of rural India, in this video from Wide Angle. [2:30]
Other
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario: Aboriginal Literacy
This resource provides information about support for aboriginal literacy. As Lieutenant Governor, David Onley focused on accessibility issues and considered the literacy needs of aboriginal people to fall into this category.
Nebraska Studies
Nebraska Studies: Homestead Act: Searching for Water: Windmills
A description of how watermills work and how they were used on the Great Plains.