The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This collection uses primary sources to explore F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.

Material Type: Primary Source

Author: Susan Ketcham

Write or Left: An OER Textbook for Creative Writing Courses

This is an OER textbook for Creative Writing courses. Most creative writing textbooks cover the "big guys" of literature: poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. This textbook is different in two ways, then, because not only does it attempt to cover MORE genres, but it is also a free textbook.This has just been updated to include MORE accessibility AND Creative Commons licenses that are more in harmony than the previous versions.

Material Type: Reading, Textbook

Author: Sybil Priebe

Introduction to Creative Writing

Word Count: 41582 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Alexandria Technical and Community College – Distance Minnesota, Linda Frances Lein

Archetypes and Character Development

In this lesson, students will analyze archetypes and how they contribute to universal story telling and character development.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Becca Egan

Solving Equations

This task requires students to think about equations and solve them using pictures.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Illustrative Mathematics

Air - Is It Really There?

By watching and performing several simple experiments, students develop an understanding of the properties of air: it has mass, it takes up space, it can move, it exerts pressure, it can do work.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Amy Kolenbrander, Daria Kotys-Schwartz, Denise Carlson, Janet Yowell, Malinda Schaefer Zarske, Natalie Mach

Grade 1 Module 3: Ordering and Comparing Length Measurements as Numbers

Module 3 begins by extending students’ kindergarten experiences with direct length comparison to indirect comparison whereby the length of one object is used to compare the lengths of two other objects.  Longer than and shorter than are taken to a new level of precision by introducing the idea of a length unit.  Students then explore the usefulness of measuring with similar units. The module closes with students representing and interpreting data. Find the rest of the EngageNY Mathematics resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-mathematics.

Material Type: Module

Grade 5 Module 2:  Multi-Digit Whole Number and Decimal Fraction Operations

In Module 2 students apply patterns of the base ten system  to mental strategies and a sequential study of multiplication via area diagrams and the distributive property leading to fluency with the standard algorithm.  Students move from whole numbers to multiplication with decimals, again using place value as a guide to reason and make estimations about products. Multiplication is explored as a method for expressing equivalent measures in both whole number and decimal forms.  A similar sequence for division begins concretely with number disks as an introduction to division with multi-digit divisors and leads student to divide multi-digit whole number and decimal dividends by two-digit divisors using a vertical written method.  In addition, students evaluate and write expressions, recording their calculations using the associative property and parentheses.  Students apply the work of the module to solve multi-step word problems using multi-digit multiplication and division with unknowns representing either the group size or number of groups.  An emphasis on the reasonableness of both products and quotients, interpretation of remainders and reasoning about the placement of decimals draws on skills learned throughout the module, including refining knowledge of place value, rounding, and estimation. Find the rest of the EngageNY Mathematics resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-mathematics.

Material Type: Module

Railroad Hero

Why is Harriet Tubman considered a hero?During this seminar, you will learn about one brave railroad conductor named Harriet Tubman. By the end of the seminar, you will identify and explain the characteristics she possessed that enabled her to save many lives. Using the complex reasoning skill of constructing support, you will relate several events from her life and experiences with the Underground Railroad to explain why Harriet Tubman is considered a hero.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Jody Kelley, Tracy Rains, Deanna Mayers, Bonnie Waltz

30-60-90 triangle

An interactive applet and associated web page that demonstrate the properties of a 30-60-90 triangle. The applet shows a right triangle that can be resized by dragging any vertex. As it is dragged, the remaining vertices change so that the triangle's angles remain 30 degrees, 60 degrees and 90 degrees The text on the page points out that the sides of a 30-60-90 triangle are always in the ratio of 1 : 2 : root 3 Applet can be enlarged to full screen size for use with a classroom projector. This resource is a component of the Math Open Reference Interactive Geometry textbook project at http://www.mathopenref.com.

Material Type: Reading, Simulation

Author: John Page

CareerOneStop: Career and Cluster Videos

These videos show the types of work people do in nearly 550 careers, organized by the 16 career clusters recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Material Type: Lecture

Tobacco and Your Health

This is a lesson plan for a unit on the effects of using tobacco. Included in this lesson plan is a Problem-Based Learning driving question, an attention grabber involving a fun role play activity, and a culminating activity that will excite your students every step of the way. This lesson was created to fulfill the first 1st grade standard of Health and Wellness in the state of Indiana.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Laura Parker

Plinko Probability

The students will play a classic game from a popular show. Through this they will see the probabilty that the ball will land each of the numbers with more accurate results coming from repeated testing.

Material Type: Simulation

Author: Michael Dubson

Are we causing the earth to be so unhealthy that not even we can survive on it?

In this problem-based learning module, students will ‘dig’ for fossils in a digital environment, using the advanced graphing techniques of line-of-best-fit and piecewise functions to look for different kinds of trends in the health of the history of the earth.  They will apply this information to their knowledge of the laws of superposition and index fossils to form a complete analysis in the historical health as well as to predict where we are going in the future.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Blended Learning Teacher Practice Network

Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotics save people’s lives...and make bacteria stronger and more likely to kill us.  What is the best practice to balance these conflicting issues? In this problem-based learning module, the students will be evaluating real-life medical situations in conjunction with actual staff at those institutions and offering action plans to be ‘implemented’ there.  In order to accomplish this, the science unit will be interlocking with social studies and a language arts unit that will have them identifying target audiences and sculpting a way to present their findings.  This unit has the potential to be a full problem-based unit as well as highly interdisciplinary--it’s connected to full units in social studies and language arts which stand alone but can be fully integrated if desired.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Blended Learning Teacher Practice Network

African American History and Culture

Word Count: 64008 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Florida State College at Jacksonville

5th Grade Reading and Writing - Tall Tale

This lesson uses tall tale read alouds to reinforce the common elements, or text structure, of tall tales. As the text is read aloud, students examine the elements of the book that are characteristic of tall tales. Then using what they've learned, they write and perform tall tales of their own.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Beth Einspahr

Spanish

This Wikibook aims to teach the Spanish language from scratch. It will cover all of the major grammar rules, moving slowly and offering exercises and plenty of examples. It's not all grammar though, as it offers vocabulary and phrases too, appealing to all learners. By the end, you should be able to read and write Spanish skilfully, though you'll need a human to help with listening and speaking.

Material Type: Textbook

Alpha Decay

Watch alpha particles escape from a polonium nucleus, causing radioactive alpha decay. See how random decay times relate to the half life.

Material Type: Simulation

Authors: Carl Wieman, Danielle Harlow, John Blanco, Kathy Perkins, Noah Podolefsky, Ron LeMaster, Sam McKagan, Wendy Adams

Who Needs What?

The teacher leads a discussion in which students identify the physical needs of animals, and then speculate on the needs of plants. With guidance from the teacher, the students then help design an experiment that can take place in the classroom to test whether or not plants need light and water in order to grow. Sunflower seeds are planted in plastic cups, and once germinated, are exposed to different conditions. In particular, within the classroom setting it is easy to test for the effects of light versus darkness, and watered versus non-watered conditions. During exposure of the plants to these different conditions, students measure growth of the seedlings every few days using non-standard measurement. After a few weeks, they compare the growth of plants exposed to the different conditions, and make pictorial bar graphs that demonstrate these comparisons.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Author: Mary R. Hebrank