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Goal Setting

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Talk about the importance of goal setting. Financial and personal goal sheets are displayed to show learners various ways that people set goals. After the short presentation the class addresses a writing prompt that asks them to identify...
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Colonials & Revolutionaries: Background Historical & Cultural Information

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
The four major trends of the 18th century (The Enlightenment, the Great Awakening, British global ambitions, and economic disagreements) are the focus of a PowerPoint that places in context such influences as deism, mercantilism,...
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The Semicolon and Colon

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Prepare to be impressed! Although text-heavy, the slides in this presentation concisely define and offer clear examples of the use of the colon and semicolon.
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The Glass Menagerie

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Rich in biographical information about Tenessee Williams, this PowerPoint is designed to accompany a lecture on The Glass Menagerie. Concepts covered include The Memory Play, the American Dream/American Nightmare, Modernism,...
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Determining Stream Health by the Diversity and Types of Benthic Organisms

For Teachers 8th - 12th
How diverse are the benthic organisms found in local streams? Using the information learned in previous lessons on identification of macroinvertebrates and on calculating stream index values, groups determine the health of local...
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Using Evidence to support Arguments

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
 A directive on how to use evidence to support an argument, the text-heavy slides in this presentation define salient terms but offer few specific examples to illustrate concepts.
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The Brief American Pageant: The Planting of the English America

For Teachers 8th - 11th
A series of maps illustrate the early growth of English America, which includes the Maryland, Virginia, Carolina, and Georgia colonies. Settlements such as Jamestown, Roanoke, and Charleston are labeled on the map, allowing a teacher or...
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Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 1700-1775

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Six slides show maps, graphs, and trade routes showing the demographics and economy of the early colonial economy. No text is included in this presentation, it is for supplemental use only.
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The Brief American Pageant: The Stalemate Seventies

For Teachers 9th - 11th
A glimpse of the political and economic contexts of the 1970's, this series of slides includes two graphs (median family income and Consumer Price Index) and a map that details the results of the 1972 Nixon-McGovern Presidential...
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Humor and Iconicity in Classical Music

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Scherzo, cappricio, divertimento, and rando are all addressed in this look into humor through this classical music presentation. The slide show is very basic, but has some good background on Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Bach. The...
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A Collection of Lights

For Teachers Pre-K
The purpose of the slide show is to help learners understand that there are different types of lights, that they have an on/off switch, and that they can be made out of a variety of materials. There are quite a few nice pictures of lamps...
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Plant Science Chapter #1

For Teachers 9th - 12th
It may not stand as a cohesive presentation, but individually you may find a use for these slides. One slide describes how civilization began once man learned to plant and harvest food. Another explores the population growth over time....
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Tic Tac Know Kingdoms

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this PowerPoint, students participate in a variation of tic tac toe in which questions about the animal and plant kingdom are presented and students move to various locations on the game board.
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Sophia: Research Sources: Websites

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of websites for research sources. It gives the pros and cons to using websites as sources and discusses the need to evaluate websites and what to look for.
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Sophia: Research Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on research sources by listing 10 types of sources: books, periodicals/magazines, newspaper articles, scholarly articles, databases, reviews, interviews, lectures, media (film, television), and websites. It...
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Sophia: Research Sources: Libraries and Librarians

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on using libraries and librarians as research sources. It explains what makes them excellent sources of information because of expertise and reference materials available; it also lists the cons of using...
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Sophia: Research Sources: Periodicals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of periodicals as research sources; it discusses the pros of using periodicals as organizational aids and in research of current events and also the cons of periodical's lack of depth and possible...
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Sophia: Apa Bibliography: Interview Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on how to document interview sources using APA style. It describes two types of interviews: personal and published. It explains how to document a personal interview in text with an example; it also explains...
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Sophia: Research Sources: Mining Bibliographies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on mining bibliographies, or searching other bibliography pages on your topic to locate potential sources for your own research. It discusses the pros and cons of mining bibliographies.
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Energy4me: Energy Sources of the World [Ppt]

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the many different energy resources available from our Earth. Find out the pros and cons of each type: both renewable and nonrenewable.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Mla Bibliography: Book Sources

For Students 9th - 10th
A seven-slide presentation explaining how to format several types of book sources in a bibliography using MLA style.
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Sophia: Critiquing a Source

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over how to critique a research source for reliability. W.11-12.8 Sources/Integrate/Cite
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Sophia: Summarizing a Source

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow focuses on summarizing a research source; it lists the uses for summary, and explains what a summary is and is not. It explains how to summarize a text and incorporate it into a paper.
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Sophia: Apa Bibliography: Electronic Sources: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces how to format an electronic source in an APA bibliography. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "APA Bibliography: Electronic Sources."

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