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Read Works

Read Works: The Mountain

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a wedding written from the unique point of view of the little groom on the top of the cake. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Figurative Language Review

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson helps students understand figurative language.
Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Franz Kafka

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For teaching Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, this site provides links to lesson plans, handouts, and other resources to enhance student understanding.
Activity
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: The Writing Center: Fallacies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discussion of common fallacies, along with definitions, examples, and tips on avoiding them.
Professional Doc
Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Word Recognition Skills and Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Included is a brief article outlining the skills that readers, all educational levels, use when they identify printed words. This site contains background material only and no related activities.
Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Types of Flaws

For Students 9th - 10th
On the LSAT (as well as in real life), you'll encounter some types of flawed arguments more often than others. This article features some of the flaws that you're most likely to see on Test Day. The faster you can recognize these common...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Cognition Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a ten-question quiz pertaining to cognition.
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: George Boole

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Wikipedia provides an in-depth look at the life, accomplishments, and ideas of mathematician George Boole. It discusses his publications on mathematics and logics, has information on his analogy between the symbols of...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Higgs Field, Explained

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the most significant scientific discoveries of the early 21st century is surely the Higgs boson, but the boson and the Higgs Field that allows for that magic particle are extremely difficult to grasp. Don Lincoln outlines an...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Pendulum, Slider, and Spring

For Students 9th - 10th
Observe the motion of this animated system to represent an analogy for molecular mechanics of atoms and molecules.
Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Vacuole Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents information about vacuoles and offers analogies to help students recall their functions in a cell.
Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Types of Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th
It can be useful to separate and identify different types of evidence used in an argument to support a conclusion. There are many ways to support a conclusion; this article will walk through some of the most common ones that you may see...
Handout
Other

Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Supporting Details: Definitions: Match

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this interactive game, student match terms describing types of supporting details to their definitions.
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Supporting Details: Definitions: Learn

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive helps students learn the types of supporting details by having them type in the terms that fit the definitions.
Unit Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: When Is a Slope 0 or Undefined?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
At this site Dr. Math gives a discussion on the slopes of lines. The Dr. gives an analogy between the slope of a line and walking up and down hills. The Dr. explores the concept of undefined and zero slopes through his response to a...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Centurio

For Students 9th - 10th
The commander of a centuria or company of infantry, varying in number with the legion. The century was a military division, corresponding to the civil one curia; the centurio of the one answered to the curio of the other. From analogy we...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bishop Joseph Butler

For Students 9th - 10th
Joseph Butler (May 18, 1692 O.S. - June 16, 1752) was an English bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher. He is known, among other things, for his critique of Thomas Hobbes's egoism and John Locke's theory of personal identity....

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