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The color changes of fall foliage offers opportunities for learning and instruction. Most lessons consider the mechanisms responsible for the color change in leaves. This fall has been especially spectacular, but the underlying processes leading to the unusual display may … Continue reading →

The Buffalo Toronto Public Media site offers educational content based on PBS/NPR resources. The resources include both media and lesson plans and are organized by content area and grade level.

I seem to be on a social studies bing e. Here is another resource on the age-appropriate teaching of history to elementary and middle school students from Edutopia.

With all that is going on, I think that learning about the dangers of climate change has been slighted. 60 Minutes has had two recent segments relevant to climate change that educators wanting to discuss climate change might use in … Continue reading →

Richard Byrne had a recent post describing the Internet Archive Scholar – a new project from the Internet Archive focused on scholarly publications. This is new resource is still under developed, described as as alpha, but it intends to cover … Continue reading →

I have recommended the Ad Fontas media bias chart before, but with the election nearing I thought it worth a repeat. The chart has panels of individuals rate attributes of individual articles from a news source on multiple dimensions and … Continue reading →