Lesson Focus Question:
What were the economic impacts of the railroad industry in the 19th century for California businesses and individuals?

Lesson Teaching Thesis:
The railroad industry created a monopoly that eliminated local businesses and infringed personal liberties such as property rights.

This notebook is intended to give a brief introduction to elementary functions emphasizing on effective thinking in algebra and geometry.

In this volume, scholars and educators share resources to better teach the global perspective of America's movement west.  The iBook contains audio lectures, primary source documents, and lessons designed to engage students in inquiry and investigation.

In this volume, scholars and educators share resources to better teach America's place and role in the Transatlantic World.  The iBook contains audio lectures, primary source documents, and lessons designed to engage students in inquiry and investigation.

In this volume, scholars and educators share resources to better teach the global perspective of 19th century America, including the Civil War and Reconstruction.  The iBook contains audio lectures, primary source documents, and lessons designed to engage students in inquiry and investigation.

This curriclum guide introduces you to a
topic most worthy of study in your classroom—the history
of the Native American boarding school experience in the
United States. This is one of the most painful and difficult
chapters in our collective history as Indigenous people,
and it remains a largely ignored area of study in secondary
school classrooms across the country. This curriculum
guide is an important step forward in ending the silences
regarding this devastating period in Native American
history.

The goal of this preparatory textbook is to give students a chance to familiarize with some terms and some basic concepts they will find in an Anatomy and Physiology course. Organization and functioning of the human organism are generally presented starting from the simplest building blocks, and then moving into levels of increasing complexity. This textbook follows the same presentation. It starts introducing the concept of homeostasis, then covers the chemical level, and later on a basic introduction to cellular level, organ level, and organ system levels. This second edition incorporates a module on protein synthesis, and a complementary base pairing learning objective as requested by many students. This edition also adds audio for all learning objectives. Audio Icon by Kieselli form Pixabay. The textbook is organized in five UNITS, divided into sixteen MODULES covering a total of fifty-two Learning Objectives. There is a short self-assessment at the end of each learning objective.

The visual narratives and abstractions of this preeminent African American artist explore the places where he lived and worked: the rural South, Pittsburgh, Harlem, and the Caribbean. Bearden's central themes: religion, jazz and blues, history, literature, and the realities of black life he endured throughout his remarkable career in watercolors, oils, and especially collages and photomontages from the 1940s through the 1980s.

The materials within this guide are intended to support multidisciplinary teams in or during the pre-production phase of serious game design as they collaborate in a facilitated workshop. It is critical that the workshop facilitators are familiar with the conceptual framework and proposed methodology in order to better support participants as they collaborate in the game design brainstorming and protoyping steps.

This guide is for faculty authors, librarians, project managers and others who are involved in the production of open textbooks in higher education and K-12. Content includes a checklist for getting started, publishing program case studies, textbook organization and elements, writing resources and an overview of useful tools.

In this volume, scholars and educators share resources to better teach the origins of democracy in America with a focus on the global influence and impact of the Colonial Era.  The iBook contains audio lectures, primary source documents, and lessons designed to engage students in inquiry and investigation.

Bringing the Great War Home is a collection of research-driven multi-media interactives that explore the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery near Verdun, France.  Developed by a team of education experts with middle and high school teachers, this professional development program provides resources, support and opportunities for the teachers to craft inquiry-based units and lessons that were grounded in best practices as well as Common Core and state standards.

Bringing the Great War Home is a four volume collection of research-driven multi-media interactives that explore the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery near Verdun, France.  Developed by a team of education experts with middle and high school teachers, this professional development program provides resources, support and opportunities for the teachers to craft inquiry-based units and lessons that were grounded in best practices as well as Common Core and state standards.

Bringing the Great War Home is a four volume collection of research-driven multi-media interactives that explore the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery near Verdun, France.  Developed by a team of education experts with middle and high school teachers, this professional development program provides resources, support and opportunities for the teachers to craft inquiry-based units and lessons that were grounded in best practices as well as Common Core and state standards.

Bringing the Great War Home is a four volume collection of research-driven multi-media interactives that explore the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery near Verdun, France.  Developed by a team of education experts with middle and high school teachers, this professional development program provides resources, support and opportunities for the teachers to craft inquiry-based units and lessons that were grounded in best practices as well as Common Core and state standards.

Teachers will find resources for examining American art as a vehicle for teaching American history and culture; resources that address foundational documents from Western Europe that influenced the American Founders as they struggled to create a new nation; and works that address the rule of law concept and its connections to such related issues as justice, good and evil, right and wrong, freedom and responsibility, equal rights, fairness, and citizenship.

The discipline of Statistics is in the midst of a paradigm shift. Clear-Sighted Statistics is an open access introductory textbook that addresses the shortcomings of current introductory textbooks. Clear-Sighted Statistics covers topics introductory textbooks ignore or mishandle, including: 1) How to conduct statistical analyses using Microsoft Excel as well as by hand. 2) How valid and reliable data are obtained. 3) The measurement of a standardized effect size. 4) The difference between practical and statistical significance. 5) What p-values actually tell us. 6) The importance of statistical power. 7) How to calculate statistical power and the probability of committing a Type II error. In addition, while the difference between correlation and causation has been a staple of Statistics books since the turn of the twentieth century, Clear-Sighted Statistics reviews how to establish causal relationships using random controlled tests and observational studies; these important topics are rarely, if ever, reviewed in introductory textbooks.

Ocracoke is a village on Ocracoke Island, part of North Carolina's coastal Outer Banks region. The landmark 1823 Ocracoke Lighthouse overlooks the village and Pamlico Sound. Set in an early 1900s house, the Ocracoke Preservation Society Museum traces the island’s history. Nearby, the tiny British Cemetery contains the graves of WWII sailors. Silver Lake is dotted with boats, and shops and restaurants line its harbor.  Designed by a team of educators and scholars, this iBook explores key themes of life, culture, history, and environment on Ocracoke Island.

This program surveys two centuries of art and culture in the city now known as Tokyo. Ceramics, screens, textiles, prints, paintings, and armor are among the materials discussed.

The hero and future king Sundiata shares a hero journey with other heroes of great literature. This lesson offers an opportunity for Latin students, who are already familiar with the heroes of Odysseus, Achilles, and Aeneas to learn about Sundiata. The general format of this lesson is: Reading, Chalk Talk, Discussion, and Essay (Assessment).