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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Encouraging Student Motivation With Khan Academy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Find tips to help students gain confidence in using Khan Academy, develop a growth mindset, establish a connection between learning and life, work collaboratively, celebrate success,
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Strategies to Engage and Motivate Students on Khan Academy

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A description of ways to make students excited and motivated to learn and practice on Khan Academy.
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Other

Jensen Learning: Secrets to Ramping Up Student Effort: 10 Step Checklist

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Over the years, student effort has been called many things. Some call it "motivation" and others call it "work ethic." But no matter what you call it, students will never rise to their full potential without a strong effort. Here is what...
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Adi: The Intersection of Culture and Achievement Motivation [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth journal report directed to assist understanding of sociocultural motivation inside classrooms. Student achievement is directly related to cultural exposure in the environment.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Rethinking High School: Five Profiles of Models for Student Success

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Only 68% of all students entering high school nationwide will earn their diploma. The news for students from historically underserved populations is even worse. These students have slightly more than a 50% chance of graduating from high...
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Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source Online: Motivating Low Performing Adolescent Readers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An article on motivating adolescents at the high school level to become better readers. With suggestions on teaching materials and identifying reading problems. (Only available in Archive)
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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

Ascd: Seven Essentials for Project Based Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Make projects more than mere busy work for students after absorbing the content of this article.
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US Department of Education

Usde: Helping Your Students With Homework

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Do you need some lesson resources to give your homework assignments a boost? The Department of Education has developed homework resource acitivities to make learning more meaningful.
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US Department of Education

Usde: Helping Your Students With Homework

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Do you need some lesson resources to give your homework assignments a boost? The Department of Education has developed homework resource acitivities to make learning more meaningful.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Stuck in the Middle: Strategies to Engage Middle Level Learners

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about three strategies that can help create a meaningful curriculum to engage middle-level learners. The strategies draw from effective classroom practices across grade levels, as well as from research about the social, emotional,...
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Kidsource OnLine

Challenging Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"How do teachers develop an instructional plan that will be challenging, enlightening, and intriguing to students of different abilities?" Find the answer to this question and sources for further reading.
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Other

Donors Choose: Teachers Ask, You Choose, Students Learn

For Teachers 9th - 10th
At the not-for-profit DonorsChoose website, teachers submit project proposals for materials and services that their students need and concerned individuals step forward to fund them in whole or in part. Funded projects illustrate the...
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Digital History

Digital History: The Founding Fathers' Motives [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read some historians' views about the Founding Fathers and their interests, perhaps economic, in writing the Constitution. Historians' views have changed over time, and in the suggested student exercises, students are asked to assess...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Understanding Fairy Tales Old and New

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A collection of digital resources for three different English Language Arts curriculum standards for grades 3-5 that address characters' traits and motivations in works of literature. They focus on modern retellings of old stories and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Fairy Tales Collection

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A collection of digital resources for three different English Language Arts curriculum standards for grades 3-5 that address characters' traits and motivations in works of literature. They focus on modern retellings of old stories and...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Psychology: Abnormal Psychology and Treatment

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore the way abnormal behavior is defined and classified through this virtual learning course in Abnormal Psychology and Treatment. Interactive media, video, assginments and instructional materials.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Fear and the "Dagger of the Mind"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan accompanies a reading of Shakespeare's Macbeth and lets students explore Macbeth's "response to fear" through studying metaphor, imagery, and dramatic cues and by performing a scene.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Five Areas of Instructional Improvement to Increase Academic Literacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
How can content-area, non-reading-specialist teachers contribute to academic literacy? They can incorporate these five techniques throughout their lessons: (1) provide explicit instruction and supported practice in effective...
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Other

Social Psychology Network: Jigsaw Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The "official web site of the jigsaw classroom",- a cooperative learning technique which was developed by Elliot Aronson. The jigsaw approach is considered to promote better learning, improve student motivation, and increase enjoyment of...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Modern Little Red Riding Hood: Video

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
As you watch this updated story of Little Red Riding Hood, notice the traits, motivations, and feelings of the characters in the story. Check out the additional activities including Guided viewing. Students describe characters in a story...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 3: The Stories Julian Tells

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders learn that stories and books are important for learning about themselves and others. This unit allows students to learn how storytelling can be a way to learn about other cultures, pass on family history and traditions, and...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Choosing the Right Book: Strategies for Beginning Readers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students make purposeful choices for their reading materials, thinking about their reasons for reading a book and using strategies to match books to their abilities.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Developing a Living Definition of Reading in the Elementary

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Using the guiding question, "What is reading?" students interact with a variety of texts as they uncover the skills necessary to interact with texts and develop a definition of reading.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Rethinking Schools: An Introduction to New York City's Experience

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Only half of New York City's public school students complete high school in four years, one- third of all 9th graders fail, and fewer than 40% of students in large, low-performing schools graduate. To address student needs and thereby...

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