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Student Reporting Labs: Think. Create. Inform.
What is newsworthy? Who decides? How do video reports differ from printed news? What makes a good video report? What about journalism ethics? Learn all about it in this extra special collection of materials about video news production.
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Steps to Leaps: Well-Being
The “Steps to Leaps: Well Being” module is comprised of three units. In the first unit, scholars engage in self-paced activities that teach them how to recognize stressors and how to identify activities that help reduce stress. The...
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Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Congress
The three lessons in the “Asian and Pacific Islander Americans (AAPI) in Congress” module are designed to help young historians understand the important role Americans with heritage in Asia and the Pacific Islands have played in American...
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Women in Congress
Designed to be used in conjunction with the Women in Congress publication, seven lesson plans look at the women pioneers who served in congress from 1917 to 2006. The collection includes essays, photographs, artifacts, and quotations.
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Changing One's Tune: A Music Therapy STEM Integrated Project
A music therapy STEM integrated project combines science and language arts. Pupils listen to music, learn about music physics, build and play instruments, write songs, and share their musical creations. They study different intervals and...
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Common Core Algebra 1, Unit 7: Exponential Functions
The three lessons in the Exponential Functions Unit cover exponential growth, exponential decay, and linear vs. exponential. In the first lesson, learners watch a quick review on function notation as they prepare to learn more about...
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Common Core Algebra 1, Unit 11: Solving Quadratics
The final unit in the Algebra 1 Common Core Flipped Classroom series focuses on solving quadratics. First, scholars review how to simplify radicals and add and subtract radical expressions with different radicands. The second of five...
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Common Core Algebra 2, Unit 4: Radicals
Algebra 2 scholars will flip over a unit focused on radical equations. Designed for out-of-class learning, the four-lesson unit addresses Common Core standards and covers adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing radicals as well as...
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Common Core Algebra 2, Unit 8
A unit module contains high-school-friendly videos that examine logarithms—graphs, properties, and exponential equations. Use the series of videos for flipped assignments or visual aids in the classroom. Videos are intended for teacher...
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Common Core Algebra 2, Unit 9
Flip your classroom, or offer engaging visual aids to your lessons with a series of videos that explore the concept of trigonometry. After an introduction to the topic, high schoolers investigate reference triangles, unit circles, and...
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Words That Heal: Using Children's Literature to Address Bullying
Books can create empathy. Books can build self-esteem. Books can offer insight and coping strategies. Books can encourage anti-bullying. Books can heal. The five discussion guides in the "Words That Heal: Using Children's Literature to...
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Cyberbullying: Understanding and Addressing Online Cruelty
Three lessons comprise the "Cyberbullying: Understanding and Addressing Online Cruelty" unit. In the first, designed for grades 2-5, youngsters practice behaviors that model good online citizenship. The second lesson, designed for middle...
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Introduction to Modernist Poetry
A three-lesson unit introduces high schoolers to Modernist Poetry. After examining modernist poetry's historical, social, and cultural context (1890-1950), students do a close reading of Wallace Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a...
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Looking Back Reaching Forward: Exploring the Promise of Brown v. Board of Education in Contemporary Times
A six-lesson unit commemorates the historic Supreme Court decision Brown V. Board of Education. High schoolers discuss key elements of the decision and examine documents detailing the history of school desegregation and the conditions...
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Overcoming Obstacles Middle School Curriculum: Managing Personal Resources
The five lessons in the Managing Personal Resources module of the Overcoming Obstacles Curriculum use games and activities to teach middle schoolers the power of a positive attitude, accept responsibility for their actions, and manage...
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Overcoming Obstacles High School Curriculum: Goal Setting
The five lessons in the Goal Setting Module of the Overcoming Obstacles High School Curriculum teach high schoolers how to set realistic yet challenging goals for themselves. Participants learn how to identify and access the help they...
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Overcoming Obstacles High School Curriculum: Decision Making
Responsible Decision Making, Module Two in the Overcoming Obstacles High School collection, introduces participants to the six steps in the decision-making process. Using the Fallout Shelter scenario, pupils define the issue, gather...
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Overcoming Obstacles High School Curriculum: Communication
Five lessons in the Communication Unit Module of the Overcoming Obstacles Curriculum teach high schoolers how to communicate more effectively. Participants practice techniques that help them develop critical listening and non-verbal and...
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Overcoming Obstacles High School Curriculum: Confidence Building
The second unit module in the Overcoming Obstacles High School Curriculum focuses on factors that can build self-confidence. Participants identify their strengths, values, and healthy habits to reduce stress. They also engage in...
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Overcoming Obstacles High School Curriculum: Getting Started
Social-emotion learning has become even more critical in post-COVID classrooms as learners readjust to in-person instruction. A course in Overcoming Obstacles begins with an overview of the skills participants will learn in the course....
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Analyzing Federal Reserve Data
Who or what is FRED, and what has FRED to do with the United States economy? Six resources in the "Analyzing Federal Reserve Data" unit module focus on how the Federal Reserve uses employment data, gross domestic product (GDP), and...
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My Part of the Story: Exploring Identity in the United States
Is it possible to combine many voices into one national identity? That is the question addressed by the unit module “My Part of the Story: Exploring Identity in the United States.” The unit consists of six lessons that ask high schoolers...
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Magical Realism in One Hundred Years of Solitude
How does Gabriel Garcia Marquez make the magical elements in his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seem real? That is the essential question for readers of his acclaimed novel to tackle in a three-lesson unit module. Scholars begin by...
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The Glass Menagerie and Expressionist Theater
Who says a play must be realistic? Certainly not Tennessee Williams, who chose to use expressionistic techniques to tell his tale of Tom, Amanda, and Laura Wingfield. A three-lesson unit module has readers examine how Williams uses these...