This How To Do Research Unit Guide provides a lesson-to-lesson foundation for teaching:● What primary sources are● Real vs. fake information (evaluating sources)● Document analysis● Different ways to obtain information● How to formulate research questions● How to find answers to research questions● The hows and whys of citations (annotated bibliography)By the time students get to high school, they should have a basic understanding of how to effectively do research. Considering that there are so many steps involved in the research process, the earlier these necessary skills are taught, the more time students will be able to devote to theiractual projects. Moreover, in today’s world, information literacy needs to be achieved at an earlier age, so students can learn to be smart consumers, responsible sharers, and presenters of information. Throughout the research process, students will learn that there will be dead ends, questions that are too broad or too narrow, questions that do not have answers. This is an accurate reflection of what their experiences will continue to be as they move into higher level research projects in their educational careers. 

This lesson plan aims to make students pay more attention to what they eat: to think about the ingredients, how to understand them, and how they are processed to create industrial food products.
Chocolate is the focus of this lesson plan; similar learning goals could also be achieved by using different foods, adapting the educational resources available here in an appropriate way.

These resources have been developed in the Europeana Food and Drink project ( www.foodanddrinkeurope.eu ) .

This resource is a document based activity that consists of eight primary sources related to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The assignment asks students to consider how the trans-Atlantic slave trade impacted African civilizations using primary sources.  

This resource is a document based activity that consists of eight primary sources related to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The assignment asks students to consider how the trans-Atlantic slave trade impacted African civilizations using primary sources.  

This resource is a document based activity that consists of eight primary sources related to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The assignment asks students to consider how the trans-Atlantic slave trade impacted African civilizations using primary sources.  

How does the media influence peoples’ opinion of the government during a national crisis? Students will read several articles on a current (or historical) national crisis and write an argumentative essay analyzing how the media influences the opinion of the people toward the government during a national crisis using relevant evidence from both current and historical resources.

This OER will effectively teach the proper ways and formatting of how to cultivate a news or press release in journalism. It is a valuable resource designed to help students master crafting news releases. News releases are essential for communicating newsworthy information to the media and the public. This OER provides a comprehensive overview of the key components, writing techniques, and best practices for creating impactful news releases.Content and exercises will include tips on writing correctly formatted datelines, leads, nutgrafs, body paragraphs, quotes, proper information gathering and more!Navigate through the information in this module and complete the exercise to evaluate your understanding of the material. 

A colourful and fun superhero-themed slideshow presentation designed to teach students how to create effective slideshow presentations. A Google slides presentation that you can adopt / adapt for your classroom. Best suited for grades 5-8 but may work in higher grades too.

Outlines 7 tips for effective slideshow presentations:

1. Fantastic Fonts
2. Stupendous Size
3. Terrific Text
4. Cool Colours
5. Glorious Graphics & Videos
6. Sensational Slides
7. *BONUS* Incredible Interactions

This lesson guides students through topic selection for the compare/contrast essay, which is part of the Composition I dual-credit class for high school students (usually 11-12).

In this assignment, the students will finish up with a basic understanding of DNA. They should know which DNA molecules mathch up in a sequence. 

This lesson was created from a variety of online resources and questions related to Thomas Foster's book How to Read Literature Like a Professor. Although this lesson was created for a semester-long dual credit literature course for 11th and 12th graders, it could also be used for any advanced language arts class.This lesson was created by Janelle Coady as part of the 2020 OER English Language Arts Workshop by NDE. It is expected that this plan will take approximately two weeks to complete, including the presentations. Students are expected to follow the guidelines and cite all sources used and adhere to the time constraints as well. "Book Cover" by Mariam Sargsyan 17, Wikimedia Commons is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Students will understand the rules of how to use a semicolon and be able to apply the rules to their writing.

The math game «Hot Tea» for the development of children from 5 years old will teach how to perform addition and subtraction within 10.

Practice Worksheet: Levels of Organisation of Human Organism and Organ Systems Function review;Introductory Human Biology CourseGuidance on how to use this assignment: This activity provides the opportunity for the students to practice using new terminology that is typically introduced in the first chapter of an undergraduate human biology course. This corresponds with Open Stax- Human Biology OER textbook by Willy Cushwa (Ch 1) https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/human-biology.