KICTCFT: The teacher can use web resources that match the subject areas. Specific Objectives: By the end of this unit you should be able to, 1] Search on the Internet using various search engines, 2] Identify subject-specific web portals or repositories for use, 3] Operate various open-ended software packages appropriate for your subject
Evaluate the accuracy of web resources, and 4] Reference Internet materials using a standard format.

A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring LGBTQ Activism and Contributions. This set also includes a Teachers Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions. Photos, film footage, newspaper articles, interviews, and audio recordings explore LGBTQ Americans' political activism and contributions to U.S. cultural life.

Short Description:
This book is created by and for NKU learners with the aim of developing foundational information literacy skills and habits. This book will explore the vast and complex information environment and provide strategies to navigate information and research needs. Topics in the book include getting started with research, using research tools, and evaluating information sources. Readers will gain inquiry, critical thinking, and analysis skills. NKU learners will be encouraged to share their own experiences, perspectives, and growing expertise as an information consumer and ultimately make contributions to this always-evolving text.

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This book is created by and for NKU learners with the aim of developing foundational information literacy skills and habits. This book will explore the vast and complex information environment and provide strategies to navigate information and research needs. Topics in the book include getting started with research, using research tools, and evaluating information sources. Readers will gain inquiry, critical thinking, and analysis skills. NKU learners will be encouraged to share their own experiences, perspectives, and growing expertise as an information consumer and ultimately make contributions to this always-evolving text.

Word Count: 34726

Included H5P activities: 6

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This website features high-quality, critical teaching and learning materials focused on Latin American, U.S. Latinx, and African Diaspora studies and collections at the Benson Latin American Collection. Resources include K-12 lesson plans, undergraduate assignments, digital primary sources, and digital scholarship tool guides.

When populations live in areas where natural resources are scarce, conserving them becomes critical for survival. The case study presented in this lesson introduces students to a real drought that has been developing in the Colorado River basin for many years. The Colorado River is the major source of water for people in the driest part of the United States. More than 30 million people in 7 states depend on this river as the primary source of their water.
In this lesson, students discover how changes in climate over the Colorado watershed are reducing the amount of fresh water available in the river. They also see how the population of the region that uses this water has grown, resulting in increasing demands on a dwindling resource.

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Students use Library of Congress primary sources to study the working conditions of American laborers at the turn of the century.

In this article, the author shows how school librarians and elementary teachers can help students create science lapbooks. The article appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which is structured on the seven essential principles of the climate sciences.

This collection uses primary sources to explore leaders of Latin American revolutions. 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.

This unit emphasizes literacy skills for STEAM students, using the Planeterella Experiment to learn about aurorae. Guided by text-dependent questions, students will study and gather evidence from anchor and supplemental texts on the Planterella’s design, purpose and history, magnetic currents and their role in aurorae, the Van Allen Belt, the Lorenz Effect, and how global warming impacts aurorae. Students will perform experiments with magnetic currents and create a lab simulation of the aurora borealis using textual evidence and data from the anchor and supplemental texts. Students will present their findings and their experiments using the Tricaster TC40.

This unit emphasizes literacy skills for STEAM students, using the Planeterella Experiment to learn about aurorae. Guided by text-dependent questions, students will study and gather evidence from anchor and supplemental texts on the Planterella’s design, purpose and history, magnetic currents and their role in aurorae, the Van Allen Belt, the Lorenz Effect, and how global warming impacts aurorae. Students will perform experiments with magnetic currents and create a lab simulation of the aurora borealis using textual evidence and data from the anchor and supplemental texts. Students will present their findings and their experiments using the Tricaster TC40.

The Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) is a mixed-media repository that holds the historical records related to the study of philanthropy. These archival materials serve as the entry point into learning how to identify, read, and analyze primary sources in the workshop. This workshop teaches students the value of primary source literacy and ownership of the research process.

Agriculture: the science, art, and occupation of raising crops and livestock for food, fiber, and fuel.

Learning Fields was created to help 3rd to 5th graders and their educators learn how agriculture has changed through the years in Iowa. This website includes how livestock, crops, people and power have affected our lives.

Learning from Arguments offers a novel approach to teaching Introduction to Philosophy. It advances accessible versions of key philosophical arguments, in a form that students can emulate in their own writing, and with the primary aim of cultivating an understanding of the dynamics of philosophical argumentation.

The book contains ten core chapters, covering the problem of evil, Pascal’s wager, personal identity, the irrationality of fearing death, free will and determinism, Cartesian skepticism, the problem of induction, the problem of political authority, the violinist argument, the future-like-ours argument, the ethics of eating meat, utilitarianism (both act and rule), and the trolley problem. Additionally, there is an introductory chapter explaining what arguments are and surveying some common argumentative strategies, an appendix on logic explaining the mechanics and varieties of valid arguments, and an appendix providing detailed advice for writing philosophy papers.

Each of the ten core chapters offers a sustained argument for some controversial thesis, specifically written for an audience of beginners. The aim is to introduce newcomers to the dynamics of philosophical argumentation, using some of the arguments standardly covered in an introductory philosophy course, but without the additional hurdles one encounters when reading the primary sources of the arguments: challenging writing, specialized jargon, and references to unfamiliar books, philosophers, or schools of thought.

2023 Edition

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This guide is designed to support students undertaking legal studies and contribute to the development of research skills in Australian law schools.

Word Count: 11819

ISBN: 978-0-6454198-0-1

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Short Description:
This guide is designed to support JCU students undertaking legal studies and contribute to the development of legal research skills.

Word Count: 11801

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INTRODUCTIONAuthor: Leanne BoltonPurpose of the course: The purpose of this course is to teach elementary teachers about technology in regards to information literacy and school libraries. Intended audience: Elementary teachersTime investment: 1 hour for each lesson. (3 hours total)

Although antiwar organizations existed even before World War I, it was during the interwar period that pacifism became the fastest-growing movement in America. Numerous American politicians, businessmen, journalists, and activists made proposals for multilateral agreements on arms control and collective security. Through an examination of memoirs, photographs, and other primary source documents, students examine the rise of antiwar sentiment in the United States, as well as some of the concrete measures taken during the 1920s to prevent the outbreak of future wars.

The influence of President Woodrow Wilson on American foreign policy has been profound and lasting. Using a variety of primary sources, students analyze the origins of the ambitious foreign policy that came to be known as Wilsonianism and compare it with important alternative traditions in American foreign policy.

This lesson focuses on the problems under the Articles of Confederation between 1783 and 1786 leading to the 1787 Convention. Through examination of primary sources, students will see why some prominent American founders, more than others, believed that the United States faced a serious crisis, and that drastic changes, rather than minor amendments, to the Articles were necessary.