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Mc Graw Hill: Analyze Language Choices

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Learn about figurative language and how to determine the figurative, denotative, and connotative meanings of words.
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World of Education: Cultural Learning Styles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learning style and culture - what's the link? This article provides a summary of learning styles theory and the literature on learning style and culture correlations.
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Native American Indian Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides illustrations and descriptions of Native American art and painting. Visual sampling of many Native American artists.
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Lowering Language Barriers in Secondary School

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A helpful article discussing the language barriers seen in middle school and secondary school. Included in the article are descriptions of common language barriers in secondary school, and a list of strategies and accommodations to help...
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Indiana University

Indiana University: Benefits of Cooperative Learning [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Article describing the benefits of cooperative learning, and the positive effect that this classroom and schoolwide approach has on student learning, as well as how cooperative learning benefits students with special needs.
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Learning Disabilities Association of California

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This organization is made up of parents, teachers, and other professionals to help promote understanding of and resources for people with learning disabilities. It provides definitions, symptoms, and access to books about this children.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Referencing the Author's Purpose

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains how to reference an author's purpose when answering a reading comprehension question. This tutorial shares an audio version of the lesson's content. [3:14] RI.11-12.6 Eval Purpose, Rhetoric, Style
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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Author's Purpose and Point of View

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This downloadable slideshow focuses on how an author's purpose and point of view work together in fiction and nonfiction, and how to identify the point of view.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Generosity: An Arthur Interactive Game

For Students K - 1st
Arthur finds out sharing things (including time) isn't always easy to do. Help Arthur make some difficult decisions about sharing his chocolates, money, and time with friends.
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Utah Geological Survey: How Do Geologists Know How Old a Rock Is?

For Students 9th - 10th
Geologists generally know the age of a rock by determining the age of the group of rocks, or formation, that it is found in. The age of formations is marked on a geologic calendar known as the geologic time scale. Development of the...
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Trinity Valley Community College: Introd. To Accessibility: Universal Design

For Students 9th - 10th
The goal of Universal Design is to create spaces and products that are as usable as possible to the greatest number of people despite their differences. This page is a course introduction and provides a brief description of universal...
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Interaction Design Foundation: The Seven Principles of Universal Design

For Students 9th - 10th
It can be easy to forget that users don't come in a standard format when designing products. We're getting better at catering for different personas or demographics but industry still lags a long way behind design that is accessible to...
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NC State University

Nc State University: The Principles of Universal Design [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This poster explains the seven principles of universal design. Each principle is accompanied by a photograph showing how it could be applied in real-life product design.
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Sweet Briar College: Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches From Around the World

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is the homepage of a speech data base sponsored by Swee Briar College. It includes links to speeches by influential women, mostly contemporary, but with a growing inclusion of speeches from as early as 1848. "Almost all of...
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Personality Research: Plutchik

For Students 9th - 10th
This site lists Plutchik's ten postulates for psychoevolutionary theory on emotions, and provides basic emotions and a basis for inclusion for each. Also includes a bibliography.
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Technical Writing: The Conjunction Or

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Intended as a grammar reference for electrical engineers, this site addresses many of the technical issues of writing, including distinguishing between the inclusive and exclusive definitions of "or."
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Opera Houses and Companies on the Web: 5 Continents

For Students 9th - 10th
This is list of links to a selection of websites of opera companies. Not all-inclusive, it is large and a good place to begin looking for places that perform opera all over the world.
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The Florida Monarch Butterfly Website

For Students 9th - 10th
This inclusive site, contains information on how to tell a male from a female Monarch butterfly, great pictures of the Monarch life cycle, and links to other butterfly sites.
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Hanover College

Hanover College/neural Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
An inclusive glossary of terms associated with the neural sciences. Contains the definition of virtually every associated neural science term.
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Children's Music Workshop: Twelve Benefits of Music Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The benefits of music education are revealed in many studies. This article briefly lists 12 benefits of the value of music education, some of which relate to 21st century skills. In addition, users have access to a list of other music...
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The Ws Cognitive Profile and Educational Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Beginning with references to several articles written on Williams Syndrome (WS), this site provides an outline efficient for educators to follow when teaching children with WS and writing IEP's. Williams Syndrome is compared to a...
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Quia

Quia: Rags to Riches Author's Tone and Point of View

For Students 8th Standards
Answer questions about author's purpose, tone, and point of view in this Rags to Riches style game.
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Sam Houston State University

Sam Houston State University: Author's Purpose and Point of View: Posttest

For Students 6th Standards
A ten-question multiple choice test over author's purpose and character point of view.
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Curated OER

Palawan, Jolo Archipelago, and Other Western Philippine Islands, 1906

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1906 of the southwestern Philippine Islands of Palawan (Paragua) and the Jolo (Sulu) Archipelago. The map shows the boundaries of the Philippine territory established under the Treaty of Paris at the end of the...

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