http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:38:27 PDT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:38:27 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=395237 After reading "A Sound of Thunder," students will further investigate the impact of the "butterfly effect" as it pertains to a nonfiction piece (a news story from China) about the dwindling bee population and its effects on the pear industry. The US bee population has dwindled in the last few years, too, and a second video documentary on Colony Collapse Disorder allows students to make inferences and predictions about the impacts of bee loss on the US economy, too.Students will then be able to investigate environmental issues of their own choices and research them using a variety of print and digital research tools. For more specifics, please contact me at connie_young@kernhigh.org or the email address listed here. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=338558 This module is designed to help students understand a) why we cite b) where to look on their sources to find the information they need for their citations http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=346740 Shows how to put a citation together in MLA format and covers both the format used through 2008 and the new format starting in January 2009. It is also a sequel to The Citation Puzzle, included previously in Merlot. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77693 The haiku of Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa is presented in a large archive, searchable by key word, year of composition, and season--in English and Japanese. Also included are a biography of Issa, an introduction to haiku and haiku-related links. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=240596 Presented as a digital education project by Maryland Public Television, this interactive online experience provides in depth information on the life and literature of the 19th century American writer, Edgar Allan Poe.  Middle and high school students can navigate through this media-rich site providing a stimulating learning environment that includes sounds, music, and video.  Learning can take the form of an interactive timeline, secret writing section, or exploring literary terms associated with Poe’s work to name a few.  In addition, teacher resources include lesson plans, teaching strategies, and additional links for Poe material. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=367290 This wiki site is an ongoing project of the Advanced Expository Writing class at the University of Saint Francis. The material is created by students, for students. The goal is to have already successful student writers offer concrete, easy-to-understand tips on college writing. The intended audience are students in introductory college writing classes. The content is based on the students' own experience and expertise with writing, as well as ideas from the main text for the class, "The Imaginative Argument" by Frank L. Cioffi, and contains student-authored tips on idea creation, thesis statements, paragraphing, transitions, revising, evaluating and citing sources, and many other common concerns of first-year composition students. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=671166 The Michigan Education through Learning Objects (MELO) project is a cross-disciplinary collaborative effort that has worked over the past three years to facilitate the integration of curriculum-based sequences of online learning objects (LOs) that complement classroom pedagogy in large enrollment gateway courses. MELO's goal is to enhance student learning, engagement, and persistence in college through the use of these learning objects. The materials represented in this collection are from the third year (MELO 3D) of the project. This award-winning project takes a unique approach to overcoming barriers to technology-enriched instruction by involving students (undergraduate and graduate) in addition to select faculty and staff from across different disciplines as key collaborators. By training select students and faculty to find, evaluate, adapt, create, and integrate LOs, the project facilitates the incorporation of high quality interdisciplinary and discipline-specific LOs into the curricula.The Open.Michigan collection serves as a central repository for materials created in association with the Michigan Education through Learning Objects project. The Materials tab contains training materials from the start of the projects, learning objects, survey instruments and conference abstracts from the project. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=656908 This website has links to a dozen lessons that I created for a freshman composition class. Material covered includes:Understanding the Rhetorical Situation (Lesson #1)Entering Academic Conversations (Lesson #2)Developing and Revising Your Essay (Lesson #4)Making Connections for Your Reader to Follow (Lesson #5)Five Types of Claims and Style: Unity, the Lead and the Ending (Lesson #6)Arguments in College: the Goal is Inquiry (Lesson #7)Finding Support for Your Arguments (Lesson #8)Critical Thinking Prompts (Lesson #9)Understanding Logical Fallacies (Lesson #10)Information Literacy Workshop How to Participate in a Peer-Review Workshop http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=438444 By learning to how to use information presented in various types of nonfiction material, students will prepare to use the multitude of expository texts that readers of all ages encounter daily, including newspapers, brochures, magazines, instruction manuals, recipes, and maps. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=285430 translated folk material