All the information in the world is online, but sometimes a simple Google Search doesn't give you the results you want. These modules will show you how to effectively find information online and evaluate its quality, thus improving your information literacy.

Autoren: Daniel Schunk, Eva Berger, Henning Hermes, Kirsten Winkel, und Ernst Fehr.  Im Jahr 2022 haben wir eine Studie zum Lehren von Selbstregulation in Grundschulen in der Zeitschrift Nature Human Behaviour veröffentlicht. Die für die Studie entwickelten Unterrichtsmaterialien stellen wir hier als offene Bildungsmaterialien für die nichtkommerzielle Nutzung in Bildungseinrichtungen zur Verfügung. Mit der Veröffentlichung als OER möchten wir einen Beitrag leisten zu einem offenen Zugang zur Wissenschaft und zum Transfer zwischen Forschung und Schulpraxis.

A short introduction to the concept of social bookmarking, using Delicious as the example.

During this problem-based learning unit, students will explore dystopian societies of past and in short stories in order to identify dystopian elements in today’s society.  In turn, students will have a choice between multiple product outputs in which they will apply what they have learned to modern day life and provide ideas of how to improve our society by combating these dystopian elements.*Students will need some prior knowledge of Nazi Germany, Civil Rights America in 1930’s, Present Day China, and Sierra Leone in order to make connections to why these societies have dystopian elements.

Authors: Daniel Schunk, Eva Berger, Henning Hermes, Kirsten Winkel, and Ernst Fehr.  In 2022, we published a study on teaching self-regulation to primary school children in Nature Human Behavior. By publishing the materials developed for our study as an OER, we hope to contribute to open science policy and to promote  the transfer between research and school practice.  

Plagiarism and copyright abuse have increased greatly as more and more people are producing content online. Learn how to use information correctly to create quality content while protecting the intellectual property of others.

Learn the basics of using a Mac (Apple) computer with the OS X Operating System.

This activity finds you hungry and thirsty, with money in your pocket for the vending machines. First, you must determine which machines take coins or bills. Then, you must use appropriate bills or coins to make and pay for a selection. But please don't shake the machine if your selection becomes lodged in the window—your computer can't take the abuse!

"Web Search Strategies" introduces the best ways to use search engines to find information on the web. The video uses real-world examples that illustrate ways to reduce useless results

In this problem-based, blended learning mondule, students will investigate what is the single - most defining trait that makes  us human? Is it our highly developed speech, our imagination, creativity, or our upright walking posture?  Humans have mastered fire, developed tools, art, music, recorded our history, and accomplished a countless number of other things. In this module, students will explore genetics concepts regarding inheritance, natural selection, biology of the human brain, and our hominid evolution over the last two hundred thousand years. Students will utilize guided research, and independent work to formulate an argumentative essay, and substantiating their claim with evidence from their research. When the argumentative essay is completed, students will create a project from a choice board that demonstrates their understanding of one of the concepts of our humanity.

This problem-based learning module is students will be collecting their personal health numbers in a station rotation format.  After choosing their health numbers to compare, the students will create a scatter plot and line of best fit using class data. Students will do a gallery walk to compare their health numbers with their peers. The students will then create a presentation for a health fair to bring awareness to health numbers based on their personal findings and facts.

In this problem-based learning module students will connect these standards to their personal life by completing a random sample from their environment in the area of careers to investigate to see if their own career is environmentally challenged.  Students will work independently as well as with a partner. Students will also complete a reflection in the form of a final product to make an inference and draw a conclusion about the population of their area in relation to careers.  The final product will be presented to their peers and teachers, but also can be exhibited to their families.    This blended module includes teacher-led instruction, student-led stations, partner comparisons and technology integrated investigations.

In this problem-based learning module, students will raise awareness about the amount of excess food wasted each day in America’s schools highlights the consumptive mindset that our county has.  Each day in third world countries, as well as our own, children go without the proper nutrition needed to focus on other activities. This module will raise student awareness about the amount of food taken from the service line and then placed in waste receptacles.  Students will gather and analyze data regarding wasted food in an attempt to design a solution to reduce food waste. Sation rotation will allow to conduct research into the global problems associated with the lack of food and malnutrition. Mathematical skills will be required to calculate rates and percentages of consumption which will be used for analysis.  

A short introduction to wikis focused a group of people that plan a camping trip using a wiki.

Get to know the features and tools of Microsoft's latest Windows Operating System.