Brown v. Board: Five Communities That Changed America

Abstract:

describes five cases the Supreme Court agreed to hear in 1952 under one title: Brown v. Board of Education. The cases originated in Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Each contested the separate but equal doctrine of the Court's 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which by the 1950s had resulted in 17 states requiring racial segregation in public schools and 4 states allowing it.

Subject:

Humanities, Social Sciences

Grade Level:

Primary, Secondary

Collection:

National Park Service

Communicating in Cyberspace, Fall 2003

Abstract:

Subject covers the analysis, design, implementation, and testing of various forms of digital communication based on group collaboration. Students are encouraged to think about the Web and other new digital interactive media not just in terms of technology but also broader issues such as language (verbal and visual), design, information architecture, communication and community. Students work in small groups on a semester-long project of their choice. Various written and oral presentations document project development.

Subject:

Humanities, Social Sciences

Grade Level:

Post-secondary

Collection:

MIT OpenCourseWare

Community Brochures

Abstract:

Students will discuss different kinds of communities and create brochures to demonstrate their learning.

Subject:

Social Sciences

Grade Level:

Primary

Collection:

TakingITGlobal TIGed Activities

Connectivism Blog

Abstract:

This site has been created to foster discussion on how our thinking, learning, and organizational activities are impacted through technology and societal changes.

Environmental Management Practicum: Brownfield Redevelopment, Fall 2006

Abstract:

Studio-based subject in applied environmental planning. Instruction in client projects dealing with aspects of sustainability assessment. Workshops cover tools for planning (risk mapping, sustainability assessment, impact prediction) and professional aspects of dealing with multiple publics. Students participate in one of several groups that work on a four-month client project. Subject emphasizes both the use of environmental planning tools in real-time and learning how to interface with agencies and NGOs. Faculty and practicing planners speak on the professional side of planning practice and agency culture, and conduct project review.

Subject:

Social Sciences

Grade Level:

Post-secondary

SubTopics:

Business & Economics , Industrial and Agricultural Impacts

Collection:

MIT OpenCourseWare

The Freeman School: Building Prairie Communities

Abstract:

examines a once common feature on the American West landscape: the one-room schoolhouse. This particular one-room school, originally known as the Red-Brick School House, served the community of Blakely Township, Nebraska, from 1872 to 1967. When closed, it was the oldest continuously used one-room school in Nebraska. It served not only as a school, but also as a church, meeting hall, polling place, and social and political center of the community.

Subject:

Humanities, Social Sciences

Grade Level:

Primary, Secondary

Collection:

National Park Service

Going Away Party, The

Abstract:

'The Going Away Party,' by Dan Boord and Greg Durbin, is a dramatic work about corruption among Oklahoma county officials. It is based on the true stories of incidents of corruption amongst Oklahoma's elected county commissioners. This segment is from the dramatic 'reenactment,' showing friends and supporters of Burrows, a commissioner sentenced to serve a jail term, at a going-away party.

Subject:

Arts, Social Sciences

Collection:

WGBH Open Vault

Health Across the Life Span: Frameworks,Contexts,and Measurements

Abstract:

Introduces and examines the basic principles which guide growth and development and the health of individuals across the lifespan, from the prenatal period through senescence. Presents methodological, conceptual and substantive issues necessary for understanding and evaluating empirically based information about growth, development and health at different stages of life and from different academic perspectives. Course covers several themes, including contributions of biological and environmental factors to health and human development, measuring the health of individuals in communities, understanding determinants and consequences of health and development across the lifespan, measuring population health and assessing the implications of health disparities.

Subject:

Science and Technology, Social Sciences

Grade Level:

Post-secondary

Collection:

JHSPH OpenCourseWare

Human Biology - Ecology (Student's Edition)

Abstract:

The Ecology Student Edition book is one of ten volumes making up the Human Biology curriculum, an interdisciplinary and inquiry-based approach to the study of life science.

Subject:

Science and Technology

Grade Level:

Secondary

SubTopics:

Green Education

Collection:

CK-12 FlexBook

"Introduction to Drama, Fall 2008"

Abstract:

" Drama might be described as a game played with something sacred. It tells stories that go right to the heart of what people believe about themselves. And it is enacted in the moment, which means it has an added layer of interpretive mystery and playfulness, or "theatricality." This course will explore theater and theatricality across periods and cultures, through intensive engagement with texts and with our own readings."

Subject:

Humanities

Grade Level:

Post-secondary

Collection:

MIT OpenCourseWare

Introductory Biology, Spring 2005

Abstract:

The MIT Biology Department core courses, 7.012, 7.013, and 7.014, all cover the same core material, which includes the fundamental principles of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology. Biological function at the molecular level is particularly emphasized and covers the structure and regulation of genes, as well as, the structure and synthesis of proteins, how these molecules are integrated into cells, and how these cells are integrated into multicellular systems and organisms. In addition, each version of the subject has its own distinctive material. 7.014 focuses on the application of these fundamental principles, toward an understanding of microorganisms as geochemical agents responsible for the evolution and renewal of the biosphere and of their role in human health and disease.

Subject:

Science and Technology

Grade Level:

Post-secondary

SubTopics:

Green

Collection:

MIT OpenCourseWare

"Studies in Drama: Too Hot to Handle: Forbidden Plays in Modern America, Fall 2008"

Abstract:

" Unlike film, theater in America does not have a ratings board that censors content. So plays have had more freedom to explore and to transgress normative culture. Yet censorship of the theater has been part of American culture from the beginning, and continues today. How and why does this happen, and who decides whether a play is too dangerous to see or to teach? Are plays dangerous? Sinful? Even demonic? In our seminar, we will study plays that have been censored, either legally or extra-legally (i.e. refused production, closed down during production, denied funding, or taken off school reading lists). We'll look at laws, both national and local, relating to the "obscene", as well as unofficial practices, and think about the way censorship operates in American life now. And of course we will study the offending texts, themselves, to find what is really dangerous about them, for ourselves."

Subject:

Humanities

Grade Level:

Post-secondary

Collection:

MIT OpenCourseWare

Understanding Online Interaction

Abstract:

This course is designed to provide an introductory level of understanding of the manner in which individuals interact with one another via the network. Possession of this understanding is absolutely critical to your ability to design effective learning environments on the network. This course takes an immersion approach to helping you develop your understanding by requiring you to make extensive, reflective use of several representative interactive media. You will also read several representative pieces of writing in each area.

Subject:

Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology, Social Sciences

Grade Level:

Post-secondary

Collection:

Utah State University OpenCourseWare