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How to Celebrate Kwanzaa on Your Campus

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
An article details everything you need to know about celebrating Kwanzaa at your school. An opening-day ceremony starts the seven-day holiday celebration followed a daily routine that includes a greeting, candle lighting, reciting an...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Asking Clarifying Questions: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will be able to ask appropriate and effective questions to better understand a communication or situation. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Asking Clarifying Questions." [7:03] SL.9-10.1c Active...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Asking Clarifying Questions: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will be able to ask appropriate and effective questions to better understand a communication or situation. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Asking Clarifying Questions."
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Dead Poets Society: Socratic Seminar Discussion

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
As a springboard to an eleventh grade poetry unit, students view the movie Dead Poets Society and participate in a Socratic seminar of the themes, symbols, and life questions raised by the film. Student groups research and present one of...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: George Washington Carver [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 6th
"George Washington Carver" is a one page, biographical passage about George Washington Carver, an African American professor who taught farmers and students better methods for farming, including planting peanuts to improve the soil. It...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Foods Third Graders Like

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders gather simple data, represent it on a bar graph, and answer simple, complex, and open-ended questions about the data.
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Children's Stories From Whootie Owl

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a searchable collection of international folktales, fairy tales and stories that address themes such as perseverance, friendship, and cooperation. After the story, there are a few open-ended questions students can answer online....
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Other

Nanoos: Satellite Tracking [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson, students will be introduced to satellite tracking data. This data allows students to track the movement of marine animals over time. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to answer questions related to...