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Kathy Schrock: Assessment and Rubric Information
Kathy Schrock has gathered over forty rubric possibilities for assessing student work in all subject areas and grade levels. Some pages allow a teacher to create a custom rubric, as well.
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Discovery Education: Knowing When to Contact Your Child's Teacher
An article written by a teacher gives tips on when and how to contact your child's teachers to ensure success.
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Discovery Education: Make the Most of Parent Teacher Conferences
You're meeting your child's teacher for the first time. How can you make the best use of this conference? Here are some good ideas.
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Discovery Education: What to Do When You Don't Like Your Child's Teacher
We've had our favorite teachers and we've had our well, not so favorite. What can you do when your child complains about her teacher? Here are some tips.
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Discovery Education: Getting Kids to Do Their Own Homework
As parents, we want to help our children with their homework, not do it for them. Find some helpful methods to walk this thin line.
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Discovery Education: Learning to Study: The Middle and High School Years
Things change about the 5th or 6th grade. Students don't want parents involved, and even if they did, parents often are not familiar with the educational subjects. How to handle? Perhaps some tips from the article will help.
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Discovery Education: Friction in Our Lives
Help students understand friction in this hands-on lesson plans for students K-5.
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Discovery Education: Reptile Adaptations
In this lesson plan site, young scholars examine the changing traits that have enabled reptiles to live in their environments. Interesting information and activities about reptiles are found on this site.
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Discovery Education: Motion, Forces, Energy and Electricity
Help your learners understand motion and force through the construction of catapults.
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Discovery Education: The Dirt on Soil
This interactive website explores the various soil layers and introduces you to the lifeforms that live in those soil layers.
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Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Investigation Project Samples
Explore three science fair project samples about birds, stain removal, and keeping it cool. See how the report is written after the investigation is complete.
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Discovery Education: Getting Your Child Ready to Read
How proud we are when our children start reading! We love the looks on their faces when they get a new book. How can we start them down this road? Find some excellent ideas in this article.
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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: The Everyday Science of Sports [Pdf]
A lesson plan where students learn about the physics behind golf balls. Students evaluate different designs of golf balls to understand how their design impacts their function. After their evaluation, students will try to improve the...
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Discovery Education: Fun Facts About Wooly Mammoths
This site will explain how the Woolly Mammoth evolved, where it migrated and what is now being done to try and clone it.
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Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Invention Project Samples
Discover how to present your findings after completing a science fair project. View sample science fair invention projects: junior light switcher, quiet down invention, and stale sandwiches.
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Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Choose a Project Type Investigation
Discover how to approach a scientific question, and learn eight steps students will perform in doing so. Offers suggestions on how to ask a testable question as well as several examples.
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Discovery Education: Who Killed the Iceman?
This website provides a lesson plan (grades 8-12) for a science class on the examination of two different mummies, one being the Iceman from the Alps who is believed to be 5,300 years old while the other is an Inca girl about 500 years...
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Discovery Education: Immigration to the United States
Great teacher resource for helping your students learn about immigration and why people come to the United States. Help them understand the whole immigration process and why some immigrants may have complications. Includes a glossary.
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Discovery Education: Wonders of the World
This lesson plan provides adaptations, discussion questions, an evaluation rubric, extensions, and much more for learning about ancient Wonders of the World.
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Discovery Education: Sexual Harassment
Use this lesson plan to teach students what sexual harassment is, how to identify acts of sexual harassment, and how to respond to it. This lesson requires simple materials and Internet access, provides several questions useful for both...
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Discovery Education: Unique Landforms
The title of this lesson is somewhat misleading and may be a mismatch, as well as the grade levels noted. It is really about transportation. Students conduct extensive research, both online and by phone, and compare various methods of...
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Discovery Education: Homework Helper: Acids and Bases
As this video introducing properties and uses of acids and bases plays, roll over and click on parts of the presentation to read more information about specific related items and terms, like citric acid, reactions, ionic lights, ammonia,...
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Discovery Education: Homework Helper: What Is a Watershed?
This video describes what watersheds are and where they are located. View several different watersheds and learn how their flow is affected by the topography around them. [7:11]
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Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Practice Investigation Virtual Labs
Two virtual labs offer practice for creating your own or science project: "How Does Your Garden Grow" and "Critters!" Learn how investigations are conducted from the first step to the finished product.