Interdisciplinary Resources

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Art

Common Visions, Common Voices
These lessons use art and trickster stories to help students understand that people in various cultures are more alike than different.

Wartime Posters Activity
Students investigate the impact of posters during WWII. Activities, focus questions. Requires Internet access.

Music

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Outstanding lesson plans on a wide variety of topics using rock music and language arts skills.

Songs 4 Teachers
Free, original theme-related songs and poems for educators to download, activities, books suggestions, midis, links and more.

Science

PBS Learning Media
Interdisciplinary activities for health, language arts, social studies, math, and science using video clips from PBS programming.

Social Studies

A Black History Treasure Hunt! from Education World ®
Four Web-based treasure hunts for different ages.

Building on Biographies
Ten ways to teach biography. Scroll down for additional biography resources.

The Evolution of Languages
A beautiful site exploring etymology, regional dialects, cognates, and geography.

Literature & Life: The Givens Collection
African-American literature in historical context. An impressive site located at PBS.org.

Mr. Donn
Free social studies lesson plans and activities for K-12.

Teaching 9/11 Toolkit for Educators
Videos and lesson plans introduce creative and probing approaches that teachers have taken to introduce the subject of 9/11 to their students. Lessons are aligned to Common Core standards.

Time Machine
"Students research and roleplay an interview with a person from the past to learn about important events in history."

The United States Mint h.i.p. pocket change ™ Web site.
Elementary language arts and history activities based on coins.

Wartime Posters Activity
Students investigate the impact of posters during WWII. Activities, focus questions.

Western-Pacific Literacy Network-CNN SF Learning Resources
Web-based instruction using current and past CNN San Francisco bureau news stories.

What did you do in the war, Grandma? An Oral History project
Interviews are published online. This site could be a model or a motivator for your students.

Technology

Cyberspace at Discovery.com
Vocabulary, comprehension questions, activities, links.