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Washington Education Association

Preparing a More Useful Sub Plan for Your Substitute Teacher

For Teachers K - 12th
Make your substitute's life easier by using the prompts on a one-page resource to a craft a profile of your classes and your daily routines. A great-first page for a substitute teacher folder.
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Other

Canadian Arctic Profiles

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed sections providing further information on the Canadian Arctic's exploration, climate, maps, migration, and indigenous people, make this resource useful for many topics. Put together with images, this resource is useful for high...
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Class tools.net: Fakebook

For Students 9th - 10th
With this tool, students can create fictional profile pages. Access to each page is controlled by the page creator and is password-protected. Add friends, status updates, and event dates, while maintaining the relationships between...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Joab: The Class Prefect

For Students 9th - 10th
This video from Wide Angle profiles Joab, a boy from Kibera, Kenya, who has returned to school after dropping out following his mother's death. Joab is chosen class prefect by the other students.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Dna: The Human Body Recipe

For Teachers 4th - 7th
As a class, students work through an example showing how DNA provides the "recipe" for making our body proteins. They see how the pattern of nucleotide bases (adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine) forms the double helix ladder shape of...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Meet the 2016 Presidential Candidates: Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will get to know the candidates running for president and where they stand on important issues. They will create a flow chart documenting the steps a candidate must take to be elected. Then they will conduct...
Activity
PBS

Frontline: Iran Behind Closed Doors

For Students 9th - 10th
A July 2007 profile of the lives and attitudes of the young highly educated middle class of Iran. Focuses on their quiet opposition to those governing Iran. Also provides a forum for posting a response and links to related stories.
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American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: J. Carter Brown

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the life of John Carter Brown, long-time Director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He is remembered for vastly expanding the gallery's collection and the breadth of its exhibitions, and for making world class...
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American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Paul Farmer, m.d.

For Students 9th - 10th
Tells the life story of Paul Farmer, a physician who brought world-class healthcare to people living in poverty in Haiti. His model of health care was followed in other countries. Includes a profile, interview and photo gallery.
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PBS

Pbs American Masters: Maurice Sendak

For Students 3rd - 8th
A profile of Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are. There is also a lesson plan for K-2 (make a class book) and one for Grades 6-8 (create an opera based on Sendak's work).
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PBS

Pbs American Masters: Maurice Sendak

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A profile of Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are. There is also a lesson plan for K-2 (make a class book) and one for Grades 6-8 (create an opera based on Sendak's work).