This lesson will share the 1938 broadcast of The War of the Worlds with Orson Welles.  Students will also see artifacts from the 1930's era and be able to compare and contrast with present styles.  

This lesson is designed to be used as a library orientation generally done in conjunction with Ninth Grade English teachers and their classes.

This Nearpod resource allows students to explore the life and history of Shakespeare and helps them prepare to read the tragic play, Hamlet. This resource has interactive discussion boards, short assessments, matching games, virtual tours, and informative videos to help students learn about Shakespeare.
This resource can be completed in a class setting or assigned to individual students as a homework assignment. This resource will give them the needed background information to understand and enjoy reading Shakespeare.

Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask about library promotions! This site has resources to support librarians in making displays, having a yearlong theme and designing fun promotions for secondary students.

Get search tips to more quickly find open education resources and choose the correct licenses and attributions for your OER with on-the-spot tutorials from WSU's Breanna Hellewell and SLCC's Jen Hughes. This is a recorded session from the 2023 Teach and Learn with Open Education Resources virtual symposium for Utah higher education. See uen.org/oer23 for more information.

On this episode of UEN PDTV, Katie Blunt discusses with Utah State Board of Education curriculum specialists Robert Austin and Naomi Watkins about information literacy in the classroom. We learn from Utah teachers Charlotte Ducos and Williams Shields on how they are preparing students to navigate the vast wealth of information they are presented with every day and how to lead challenging, yet historically accurate, discussions in the classroom.

Behind many of the apparently simple stories of Robert Frost's poems are unexpected questions and mysteries. In this lesson, students analyze what speakers include or omit from their narrative accounts, make inferences about speakers' motivations, and find evidence for their inferences in the words of the poem.

Whether you're sharing a stanza from your favorite poet or publishing your original prose for the world to read, Adobe Express will serve as your creative guide. Create captivating graphics that are just as beautiful as your poem. Explore poetry templates that you can customize to perfection. Then, resize as needed to share on any social platforms or printed format. It's as easy as choosing a template, customizing, and sharing.

This presentation explores two main ideas, students earning a maker space or free time with their good behavior. Secondly, it suggests ways to build relationships with individual students which helps with their behavior. Solutions to help the class' behavior as a whole and individual students are also given.

This link is to the UCET/UELMA 2024 presentation given by Maria Jones on the topic of judging books and library spaces by their literal and figurative covers.

Travel with us to Uintah River High School on the Ute Indian Tribe's Uintah and Ouray reservation to learn how science teacher Mike Sanderson uses real-world projects and Bluetooth probes to engage students in critical thinking and computational thinking. See how Mr. Sanderson collaborates with his regional educational service center to design these projects, which connect directly to the Ute Indian Tribe's tradition of stewarding the land, plants, animals and water of their 4.5 million-acre reservation.

Archibald Frisby, written and illustrated by Michael Chesworth. Even when shipped off to summer camp to have fun, Archibald can't leave his love for science behind -- he gets his campmates involved in his passion.

Pet Stories: You Don't Have to Walk, a story collection by SeaStar Books. This anthology of popular pet stories includes tales about a tiny puppy, a friendly dinosaur, a mischievous cat and more.

Through a variety of techniques such as the “new sentence,” language writers sought to engage the reader in new ways, making them active participants in the process of reading and meaning-making. Like other language writers, Hejinian’s own work is a blend of philosophy, literary theory, and experimental lyricism. Her essays on poetics are important in understanding her work and the aims of the language movement in general.

Students will identify what they know and don’t know about their story’s topic. Once students know what they don’t know, they will use curiosity to guide research that will result in better developed stories.

This lesson is designed to apply Common Core State Standards and facilitate a comparison of informational texts and elementary source material from the Scottsboro Boys trials of the 1931 and 1933, and the fictional trial in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill A Mockingbird (1960).

The beauty of cell animation is that it can make the implausible seem possible. So the spirits of the haunted wood and the bewitching transformations of Titania, Oberon and the innocent tradesman Bottom, come to life with a treatment that complements Shakespeare's spectacular imagery.

A comic tale of youthful love, with the Forest of Arden as its sylvan stage. The idyllic backgrounds and wistful moods of Rosalind and Celia are sympathetically created by the unusual and visually appealing medium of painting in oils on cells.

All animation techniques are painstaking, but that of painting on glass is especially so. This unusual medium succeeds impressively in capturing the ghostly presence of Hamlet's father and the agonized indecision of Hamlet himself, in this classic depiction of corruption and revenge.