Interdisciplinary Resources
| Art | | Music | | Science | | Social Studies | | Technology |
Art
These lessons use art and trickster stories to help students understand that people in various cultures are more alike than different.
Students investigate the impact of posters during WWII. Activities, focus questions. Requires Internet access.
Music
Outstanding lesson plans on a wide variety of topics using rock music and language arts skills.
Free, original theme-related songs and poems for educators to download, activities, books suggestions, midis, links and more.
Science
Interdisciplinary activities for health, language arts, social studies, math, and science using video clips from PBS programming.
Social Studies
from Education World 庐
Four Web-based treasure hunts for different ages.
Ten ways to teach biography. Scroll down for additional biography resources.
A beautiful site exploring etymology, regional dialects, cognates, and geography.
African-American literature in historical context. An impressive site located at PBS.org.
Free social studies lesson plans and activities for K-12.
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.
"Students research and roleplay an interview with a person from the past to learn about important events in history."
Elementary language arts and history activities based on coins.
Students investigate the impact of posters during WWII. Activities, focus questions.
Web-based instruction using current and past CNN San Francisco bureau news stories.
An Oral History project
Interviews are published online. This site could be a model or a motivator for your students.
Technology
at Discovery.com
Vocabulary, comprehension questions, activities, links.