Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Using Other Supporting Materials
This lesson focuses on other materials used to support your speech including analogies, definitions, and a variety of visual aids. SL.11-12.5 Audio Visuals
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Joyful Heart Ministries: Easter
A collection of short stories and brief articles about Easter. Great analogies to help you understand the Easter holiday as well as fun stories and bible studies.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Types of Supporting Details: Definitions: Flashcards
This interactive set of flashcards focuses on the definitions for types of supporting details such as statements of fact, expert testimony, first-hand accounts, personal experiences, statistics, analogies, etc.
Biology Corner
Biology Corner: Cell City Analogy
Learners determine which cell organelles have a similar function to different places in a city.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Reversible Reactions
Watch a reaction proceed over time. How does total energy affect a reaction rate? This model represents an analogy of chemical reactions.
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Ed Surge: A Guide for Bringing the Samr Model to I Pads
An explanation of the Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition Model (SAMR) Model. The author uses an analogy of making coffee at home as opposed to having one at Starbucks, and compares this to reading a book versus reading...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Mole Ratios
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will relate balanced chemical equations to everyday analogies, such as a recipe. They will also define stoichiometry and use mole...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Reactants, Products, Leftovers
Explore the analogy of sandwich making with several ingredients and see if anything is left over. Then do the same thing with reactants in a chemical reaction, to see how many different products can be made. Afterwards, play a game with...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Magnetic Fields
Students visualize the magnetic field of a strong permanent magnet using a compass. The lesson begins with an analogy to the effect of the Earth's magnetic field on a compass. Students see the connection that the compass simply responds...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revision Technique: Thesis and Support
This slideshow lesson focuses on assessing and revising the thesis, topic sentences, and supporting details in a paper. It uses the analogy of the body: the thesis and topic sentences are the bones and the supporting details are the...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Understanding Sequence Assembly
A series of lecture clips helps explain how DNA sequencing is done by using the analogy of shredding multiple copies of a book and then reassembling the text by finding overlapping fragments. The ultimate goal of DNA sequencing is to...
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Bc Open Textbooks: Physical Geology: Earth's Interior: Isostasy
This textbook excerpt explains the concept of isostasy and the relationship of Earth's crust to the mantle beneath it. This process is compared to the effects of glaciation and describes the effect an ice sheet has on the crust, and the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Sentence Structures, Rhetorical Devices, & Transitions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The most effective expository and procedural texts contain rhetorical devices, transitional words and phrases, and a variety of sentence structures. Students will learn some...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How to Speed Up Chemical Reactions (And Get a Date)
This video explores by analogy what factors speed up reaction rates in chemical reactions. [4:56] Includes a brief quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Single and Multiple Covalent Bonds
Explains what covalent bonds are and the difference between them and ionic bonds. Discusses the properties of polar and non-polar covalent bonds, and single and multiple covalent bonds, and gives analogies and examples of how covalent...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions (English Ii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to write an essay using effective rhetorical devices and transitions.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Refraction of Sound
A discussion of refraction and its application to sound waves. Using analogies, graphics and real-life applications, this page and those that accompany it explain why and when sound waves bend.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Electron Current Flow
A teacher lesson plan which could be easily converted into an idea for a student project or presentation. This page describes an activity in which the water-electricity analogy is used to investigate the relationship between current,...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: The Particle Adventure: Wavelength, the Cave
This analogy story explains the manner in which the wavelength of light affects the maximum resolution of a microscope.
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Widener University: Hints for Solving Stoichiometry Prob.
Great analogy if you are uncomfortable with the concept of limiting reactants. A great starting point. Finishes with chemistry.
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Mycoted: Lateral Thinking Puzzles
A storehouse of puzzles designed to train the brain to think in atypical ways. Find riddles, visual puzzles, analogies, math problems, and more. Excellent source of raw material for practicing original and creative thinking one puzzle at...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Hyperbolic Geometry
Dr. Math, responds to a question fro a nineth grade stduent who wants to understand hyperbolic geometry. The Dr. uses descriptive analogies in attempts to unravel why triangles in hyperbolic geometry have less than 180 degrees in them.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding Poetry
You will learn how to find the meanings of words through analogy and other word relationships.
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Eureka Science: Genetic Engineering
Explanation of how genetic engineering works. Analogy with molecular scissors cutting a "sentence" of DNA. Has nice animations.
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