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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Addition Using Groups of 10 and 100

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
In this exercise, students practice addition using groups of 10 and 100. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints, watch a video tutorial, and try questions repeatedly. CCSS.Math.Content.3.NBT.A.2...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Engage in Group Reading Activities With Purpose and Understanding

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
Choose from a variety of lessons that meet the Kindergarten standard of engaging in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
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Teach Starter: 10 Ways to Improve Student Concentration

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article contains a chart to help you figure out the average attention span for the age-group that you teach. After you figure out the average attention span, think about how you can best deliver lesson content and sequence...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Subtracting by Grouping Numbers Up to 10

For Students 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video uses a picture to aide in describing how to subtract with grouping. The video is followed by additional problems for students to practice the skills...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Comprehension Strategies With Elie Wiesel's Night

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Working in small groups, students read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and then take turns assuming the "teacher" role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.RI.11-12.4 Word meaning, RI.11-12.10b Text...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Comparing and Contrasting Our Stories With a Double Bubble Map

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will identify the similarities and differences between different versions of fictional stories by completing a double bubble map. Included in this lesson are teacher questions, a bubble map printable, a video of a class...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative learning strategies. Learning style assessments is a strategy suggested, along with several ways of randomly assigning students to groups.
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BBC

Bbc: Algebra Revision Bite Solving Equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
BBC Schools offers a test review ("revision") of several aspects of solving equations. Content includes solving simple equations, solving equations with brackets, simplifying letters in equations, plus much more. After working through...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Multiplication Sentences: Numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video uses picture models to show multiplication by fours with grouping.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Review Patterns to 10 and Counting Higher

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT identify a number based on dot patterns and practice counting.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Shopping With the Dewey Decimal System

For Teachers 1st - 8th
This lesson plan is an introduction to the ten main categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The Dewey Decimal Classification System will be compared with the familiar layout of a grocery store. Students will organize...
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Stanford University

Stanford U.: Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This report from the Stanford History Education Group describes the conclusions of their work in field testing a set of assessments of civic online reasoning by young people from the middle school to the college level. Middle school...
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New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Listen Up! Speak Up!

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students are given provided many opportunities to practice both informal and formal speaking skills. They begin with informal speaking in pairs, then groups of 4, etc. Then they write several drafts of a formal speech...
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US Department of Agriculture

Usda: Tips to Help You Make Wise Protein Food Choices

For Students 9th - 10th
Make wise choices when eating from the protein group. This website advises you to eat lean cuts of beef, trim visible fat off of meat and poultry, eat fish "rich in omega-3 fatty acids," and read food labels for nutritional information.
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NumberNut

Number Nut: Counting Coins With Values Under One Dollar

For Students K - 1st Standards
Choose the correct group of coins whose sum is the amount shown. Four groups are shown per questions. There are ten random questions.
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Other

New Converstations: Seven Challenges Workbook: Communication Skills for Success

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Extensive online tutorial from Cooperative Communication Skills on interpersonal communication, covering listening, conversational intent, expressing yourself clearly, asking questions, expressing appreciation, and incorporating better...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Discussing "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs"

For Teachers 1st
In this lesson, 1st graders will work with "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" Jon Scieszkaby. They will describe the characters, setting, and key details in the story and help the teacher record the details on a circle map.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Text to Self and Text to World Connections

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Young scholars will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.
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Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech: A Multicultural Literature Bibliography

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list that provides either the teacher or the student with a list of books that gives a representation of the multicultural society that exists in the United States. A brief synopsis of each book is given along with a suggestion for the...
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Other

Beacon Educator: Reading Educator: Dictionary Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Develop better vocabulary and dictionary skills while playing this fun dictionary game with learners in small groups. Click on the video link to watch the game being played in a classroom. L.9-10.4c References
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National Math + Science Initiative: Vocabulary Study: Julius Caesar [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson unit covers vocabulary used in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Includes list of fifty SAT words with an accompanying glossary and references to the play, grouped under each act. This is followed by a fill-in-the-blank activity...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Fresh Pick Challenge: Logical Lunch

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
By using their deductive reasoning skills, children can help Henry and Avril pack a perfect picnic lunch. This activity will provide them with ways to use clues to solve a problem, group objects based on several attributes, and...
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Read Works

Read Works: Compare/contrast Kindergarten Unit: Similarities/differences in Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book Long Ago and Today by Rozanne Lanczak Williamsin in which students learn to recognize similarities and differences within a text. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and...
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Do the Right Thing

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Choose to do the right thing when faced with tough decisions. This website helpd you use good judgment by providing simple questions and example situations. Includes ideas for writing and activities as well as notes for parents.