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.

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).

Shakespeare's preeminence as a dramatist rests in part on his capacity to create vivid metaphors and images that embody simple and powerful human emotions. This lesson is designed to help students understand how Shakespeare's language dramatizes one such emotion: fear.

Students search an online version of Shakespeare's Macbeth for clues to the motives behind Macbeth's precipitous descent into evil.

By means of group performances, writing exercises, and online search activities, students learn about the sometimes dangerous and destructive powers of language, particularly when wielded by such an eloquent and unscrupulous character as Shakespeare's Iago.

Power up your use of PressbooksEDU with interactive elements and integrations. Presenter: John McLeod (Pressbooks)

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.

Learn from SLCC faculty, staff and administrators about lessons learned through the college's 10-year journey to build its OER program, Open SLCC. Presenters: Andrea Scott, Brenda Gardner, Jen Hughes, Jason Pickavance (SLCC) and Justin Kani (WSU) 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.