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Balance Track: Finances for College Students: Credit Cards
From BalanceTrack, this section provides students with information about what to look for in a credit card and how to use credit.
Next Gen Personal Finance
Next Gen Personal Finance: Paying for College
Give students a helping hand in figuring out how to pay for their college education.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Virtual Tours of Colleges and Careers
Lesson introducing learners to the You University TV website as a way to prepare for college and/or a career. Students are given time to research colleges and careers through the website and add information to a spreadsheet.
PBS
Pbs: Ten Steps to College With the Greenes
A website created to organize a college admissions campaign. Includes worksheets for students and parents as well as video from top admissions officers at various colleges.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How to Pay for College
The young scholars will search the Internet for Scholarships and/or grants to help pay for college. This lesson has a financial aid component.
OpenStax
Open Stax: College Physics: The Ideal Gas Law
A section in a college textbook exploring the ideal gas law in relation to molecules and in terms of moles. Learn how to calculate the variables in the ideal gas law. Also become familiar with Avogadro's number and how to use it to...
OpenStax
Open Stax: College Physics: Phase Changes
Learn about the phases of matter in this section of a college textbook. Section defines the phases of matter and discusses how to interpret a phase diagram. Also explored is partial pressures and Dalton's Law. Section also includes...
OpenStax
Open Stax: College Physics: Temperature
A section dedicated to defining temperature. Learn the common misconceptions about temperature and how temperature is defined scientifically. Understand the temperature scales and how to convert between them. Also discussed is the zeroth...
City University of New York
Brooklyn College: Emily Dickinson: An Overview
This site is actually the study guide for the Emily Dickinson section of a course titled "The Emergence of the Modern," taught at Brooklyn College. Though it is written for college students, it should be accessible to high school...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Am What I Learn Video Scholarship Essay Contest
This lesson plan provides learners with the opportunity to explore a variety of available scholarships to determine which scholarships may be sources of funding for college. Students will create a video essay which will be used to apply...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: For Middle Schoolers: Activities to Build College Level Reading Skills
ACT has developed this list of activities to help middle-school students improve their reading ability. Parents and educators can use this information to help ensure that these students are on target for college and career readiness.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: College: Where Am I Going to Go?
Students will use a PACED decision making grid to help them decide where they would like to attend college.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Satellites and Kepler's Laws: An Argument for Simplicity
In the following interactive students will begin to understand the laws of Kepler regarding planetary motion and derive the third law of Kepler for circular orbits. They will also discuss the Ptolemaic model of the universe.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Physics: Motion Equations for Constant Acceleration in One Dimension
In this interactive module, students will calculate displacement of an object that is not accelerating, given initial position and velocity. They will also calculate final velocity of an accelerating object, given initial velocity,...
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Act's College Readiness Standards
Teachers and students may view or print the ACT's College Readiness Standards for English, Mathematics, Reading, Science, and Writing.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: College Track
Learn about College Track, a national education nonprofit that empowers students from underserved communities to reach their dreams of a college degree.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Saving for Post Secondary Education
Students use an online compound interest calculator to answer questions and create charts that show the value of saving money over time for future education goals.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Ways to Pay for Higher Education
Students use the Internet to explore ways to pay for their higher education and record their findings in an informational brochure.
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Pressbooks: Virginia Western Community College: Let's Get Writing!
This is an open textbook created to assist students in their writing efforts. Topics covered include critical reading, rhetorical analysis, writing arguments, steps in the writing process, rhetorical modes, using credible sources, citing...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Math You Need: Rearranging Equations to Solve for a Given Variable
This tutorial guides students through the steps in rearranging science formulas to solve for different variables. Includes practice exercises based on a variety of formulas.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Exploring Community Colleges
Students learn about the benefits of community college and consider whether attending community college could be a good option to help them prepare for their future.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Transition of Students With Disabilities to Postsecondary Education
How do a student's rights and responsibilities change when they move from high school to post-secondary education? Read these questions and answers from the Department of Education to find out.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Market for Loanable Funds Model
This study resource will help students understand, and create, graphs that are critical skills in macroeconomics. This article reviews the loanable funds model. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Macroeconomics Test or a...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How Do You Become a District Representative for a State Senator?
In this resource from Khan Academy, students will learn about steps to take if they would like to enter the world of politics as a district representative for a state senator.