Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas in Informational/expository Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will expand on your ability to read texts, synthesize them, and make choices based on the information you read. Finally, you will learn how to use textual...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Units: 7th Grade Thematic Unit: Heroes
Complete teaching unit for 7th Grade Thematic Unit: "Heroes." In this unit, 7th graders will read seven texts that explore why people act heroically. Throughout this unit, students will revisit the essential question: "Why do people act...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Units: 6th Grade Thematic Unit: Outside Looking In
Complete teaching unit for 6th Grade Thematic Unit: "Outside Looking in." Students will read seven texts that speak to the theme of being an "outsider." They will revisit the essential question: "What makes someone an outsider?" Students...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Units: 7th Grade Thematic Unit: Happiness
Complete teaching unit for 7th Grade Thematic Unit: "Happiness." Students will read 6 texts that speak to the theme of happiness. Students will revisit the essential question "How we can achieve happiness?" throughout the unit. They will...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Units: 12th Grade: Thematic Unit: Morality
This is a complete teaching unit for 12th Grade Thematic Unit: "Morality." In this unit, 12th graders will read eight texts that speak to the theme of morality. Students will revisit the essential question "How do we evaluate what's...
Other
Teaching Ideas 4u: Make Synthesizing Easy With These Simple Strategies
Learning to synthesize can be challenging for some students, but there are a few different support strategies that teachers can use in their lessons: REST method, ADD method, and Venn Diagram to teach synthesizing.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Sat Reading Test: Synthesis
One of the question types you'll see on the SAT Reading Test is called synthesis: these questions ask you to draw conclusions and make connections between two related passages or between passages and informational graphics.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Synthesis of Anti Tumor Drug Combretastatin and Its Derivatives
This is a five-question quiz related to organic synthesis of Combretastatin, an anti-tumor drug.
Stanford University
Percussion Fm Synthesis
Interesting site on the technical side of FM synthesis, including how to make different sounds. For either the very curious or very advanced student.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Aldehyde
This encyclopedia entry for aldehyde compounds features naming convention, manufacture, and examples of aldehydes.
Other
Tutorial for Frequency Modulation Synthesis
Exactly what it says - a tutorial for FM synthesis. Includes information on calculating sidebands, C:M ratios, and calculating the fundamental frequency.
Chem Tutor
Chem Tutor: Types of Common Ionic Reaction: Synthesis Reactions
A brief description of synthesis reactions with a couple of examples. Scroll up or down to see this page's other content related to ionic reactions.
Clackamas Community College
Clackamas Community College: Combination Reactions
Synthesis reactions, also known as combination reactions, are explained in this chemistry tutorial. A few examples are shown. Links to practice examples and answers are provided.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Different Perspectives a Graphic Organizer
In this lesson plan students will read a text from a number of different perspectives which will result in a greater understanding of it. This is a good strategy to use to guide students through multiple readings of a text. Lesson plan...
Donald Clark
Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains
This article--in text and charts--explains the three learning domains devised by Benjamin Bloom.
abcteach
Abcteach: Fictional Reading Comprehension Grades 4 6
[Free Registration/Login Required] Here is a great resource for teachers to check reading comprehension of students. Choose from several short stories complete with their own comprehension question sheets.