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Index of IU Project Digital Learning Materials
Last updated: June 2001
The Best of IU Curricular Resources
We are proud to highlight some of the many fine materials, including images, interviews, lesson plans, activities, and data sets, developed by IU projects in collaboration with local teachers and students.
The links below represent just a fraction of what's available from our projects--please dive in and explore, and let us know what you think.
Archaeological Research Facility Project:
- Ancient Civilizations
Archaeology is a strongly multidisciplinary field that seeks to illuminate the lives of people in the past, while recognizing its data are always incomplete and subject to multiple interpretations. These modules on paleolithic and neolithic civilizations introduce students to the study of archaeology.
Audience: 6th grade social studies
California Heritage Project:
- Mexican Independence Day
A web lesson on San Francisco history, how Native Americans, Spanish and Mexicans once occupied the Bay Area before English-speaking immigrants, and how their cultures and people still contribute to its present day community, as exemplified through the celebration of Mexican Independence Day.
Audience: 3rd and 4th grade social studies
- The Great Depression
This multi-disciplinary, multi-sensory unit seeks to address: (1) What was the experience of working people, including migrant workers, laborers, and farmers during the Great Depression? (2) What effects and/or changes brought by the Great Depression remain with us today?
Audience: 9th through 12th grades, GED classes
- The United Farm Workers' Union
What is the conflict between growers and farmworkers? What can we learn about the lives of farmworkers by looking at geography? Why and how did the UFW begin, and what did it do? This web of pictures, news articles, and curricular materials helps students do primary research on these and other questions.
Audience: 9th through 12th grades, college classes, teachers
Connecting Students to the World:
- Resources aligned to SFUSD Standards
Connecting Students to the World (CSW) is an educational program developed and produced by the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. At the heart of the program is Conversations with History, which features interviews with distinguished men and women from all over the world who talk about their lives and their work. This resource page maps interviews to high school social studies topics.
Audience: 11th and 12th grade history/social studies
Office of Resources for International and Area Studies: History through Literature:
- History Through Literature - Hero's Journey Web Project:
The purpose of the web site is to provide a digital library of background materials for teachers on the theme of teaching pre-modern history through literature. The stories currently featured on the site are the West African heroic epic, Sunjata; the Indian Hindu epic, Ramayana; and the Japanese heroic myth of Prince Yamato. Teachers are invited to approach the stories individually, or to use the "hero's journey" or monomyth as a framework to compare a series of stories during the year. The site provides background materials, story summaries, video performances, bibliographies and suggested activities for the classroom.
Audience: 6th -7th grade world history/language arts, 10th grade world history
- An Illustrated Life of Buddha
The legendary life of the Buddha has been vividly illlustrated in painting and sculpture. It is an enthralling way to introduce students to both the religion and its spread from India to China. Changhwan Park, U. C. Berkeley graduate student in Buddhist studies, has collected a sampling of images from across Asia to illustrate the life story in ten acts.
The site also includes a glossary of Buddhist terms, a bibliography of texts and links, and suggested classroom activities emphasizing visual literacy skills.
Audience: 6th-7th grade world history; 9th-10th grade world history
- Sacred Spaces in Shinto
A visual tour of Shinto shrines in Japan organized as three pages.
Audience: 7th grade world history- Japan; High School comparative religions electives
Integrating Science, Teaching, and Technology:
- Understanding Geologic Time
Geologic Time, produced by UCMP, is an informational tour in which students gain a basic understanding of geologic time, the evidence for events in Earth’s history, relative and absolute dating techniques, and the significance of the Geologic Time Scale.
Audience: 5th through 12th grade
- The Comet's Tale
The Comet's Tale, produced by SSL, has been organized to progress from engaging images to the what, how and why of comets. The Gallery will introduce students to stunning comet images from recent years; The History section is meant to alert students to some of the important questions about comets--what are they, where do they come from, what are they made of, and how do they behave?--and the working of the scientific process. Also includes instructions for making a comet in the classroom!
Audience: 5th through 8th grade
- 9th Grade Scope and Sequence in Earth Science,
Seismology and UCMP co-produced this resource. In 1999, the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) added Earth Sciences to its 9th grade curriculum. As part of this project, ISTAT developed a scope and sequence of the Earth Sciences curriculum in order to support the 9th grade teachers. Beyond the list of topics, the scope and sequence provides references to the text and to related lessons, activities, and resources. Several course outlines also can be used by teachers to help structure their daily lesson plan.
Audience: 9th grade science teachers
- Forces and Motion
These modules, produced by CfPA, explore the concepts of path, displacement, velocity, speed and acceleration; and forces and how they make objects move.
Audience: 8th grade physics
College of Natural Resources: CityBugs Project:
- Virtual Bug Collection
Browse through our collection of virtual bugs (digital
pictures) by looking in different "drawers" of our
insect collection. Each drawer displays one type of
bug: butterflies, crickets, bees, etc. You can also
click on any of the pictures of the bugs in the drawer
to read more about that bug.
Audience: all ages
- Guided Search
Identify a bug that you found by answering 7 basic
questions about that bug (like # of legs, colors,
where you found it, etc.). Your answers will be
matched to bugs in our database so that you can
identify your bug by a picture.
Audience: geared towards kids but good for anyone
- Ask the Experts
This is an opportunity for you to ask a question that
has been "bugging" you lately about a bug to
entomology experts at UC Berkeley. You can also view
previously asked questions from people all over the
world and the answers that the entomologists gave
them.
Audience: all ages
- Bug Resources
Local and online resources related to bugs--for kids,
adults, and entomologists alike. Look up things in
these categories: where to buy bug supplies locally,
bug museums, local field trips, lesson plans online,
books and videos, publications and societies, related
community organizations, and of course "bugs on the
web."
Audience: all ages
Environmental Science at Galileo Academy of Science & Technology:
- Tennessee Hollow Pre-Restoration Virtual Walking Tour
This virtual tour was photographed in January 2000 and assembled in March 2000, prior to restoring the creek to the surface. Images, descriptions, and questions help students to understand the concepts of urban watershed management.
Audience: 11th and 12th grade environmental science
- The Hydrologic Cycle
This site introduces students to evapotranspiration, precipitation,infiltration, percolation, and other aspects of the hydrologic cycle. Questions, activities, and a glossary are included.
Audience: 11th and 12th grade environmental science
- Climate Matters
Projects ranging from fundamental--forecasting temperature and precipitation--to advanced, in which students will learn to work with weather data, recording observations and analyzing trends in the data in order to predict large surf conditions.
Audience: 11th and 12th grade environmental science
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