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Curated OER

Google for Education: Children and Technology: Functions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Take a a look at examples of functions, and then explore functions representing arithmetic operations followed by boolean and string types. Throughout the workshop children do various assignments calculating function result or drawing a...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Conditional Repetition of Instructions

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice using iteration in computer programs to repeat code until a boolean expression is true for programs written in the AP CSP pseudocode, in this set of practice questions designed for AP Computer Science Principles students.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Logic Gates

For Students 9th - 10th
The Not Gate or the inverter is explained as is Boolean Logic.
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Other

University of Exeter: Search Techniques: Combining Search Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource explains how to use the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT to broaden or narrow a web search.
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University of Michigan

Making of America: Reminiscences of Levi Coffin

For Students 9th - 10th
University of Michigan presents a digitization of "Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, "Coffin's memoirs. Simple, boolean, and proximity searching within the text is possible.
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REMC Association of Michigan

Remc Association of Michigan: 21 Things4 Students: 9. Search Strategies

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this learning module, students learn how to: use Michigan eLibrary, boolean logic, and dictionary.com; use search engines; choose reputable websites; cite sources; and differentiate between real and fake information. Includes an...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Nested Conditionals

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about when a program selects one of many paths, it can use nested or chained conditionals.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Nested Conditionals

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how nested conditionals work in computer programming.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Electrical Engineering: Circuits and Electronics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level electrical engineering course highlighting circuits and electronics. This course introduces the fundamentals of the lumped circuit abstraction. Course features include video lectures, suggested readings, labs, lecture...
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University of California

Uc Berkeley: Recommended Search Strategy

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of California provides a chart presenting a recommended 5-step search strategy.
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Other

Oregon School Library Information System

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An excellent site that supports school libraries which includes tools for both elementary and secondary students. Choose the appropriate level to find resources on citing sources, research process, choosing research resources, finding...
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Counting Solution Clusters in Graph Coloring Problems

For Students 11th - 12th
This paper proposes one of the first scalable methods for estimating the number of clusters of solutions of graph coloring problems using a belief propagation like algorithm.
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University of Michigan

Making of America: Ralph Waldo Emerson, by A. Bronson Alcott

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Michigan offers this reproduction of Bronson Alcott's work as part of their Making of America series. A search feature allows users to search using boolean operators or a proximity search as well as more basic keyword.
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Other

Bare Bones Lesson 7: Basic Search Tips

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
These quick tips will work with almost any search engine. Do the assignments to practice the techniques that are presented.
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Other

University of Edinburgh: Glossary of Introductory Computer Graphics Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
This website, from the University of Edinburgh, provides a lengthy glossary of computer graphics terms written by Olin Lathrop, author of "The Way Computer Graphics Work". This site provides simple definitions of basic terms; no graphics...
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University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: John Venn

For Students 9th - 10th
Good introduction to Venn's life and work. Explains especially his lifelong relationship to Cambridge. Includes links to further information on Venn's "probability theory."
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Morningside College: Keyword Searching: Advanced Search Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about how to use advanced techniques when searching for information online. Covers the use of wildcard symbols, truncation, proximity searching, and how to combine tools.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Review: Logic and if Statements

For Students 9th - 10th
A review of logic and "if" statements, if/else statements, and conditional expressions
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Other

Information Literacy Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These worksheets cover many aspects of the research process, as well as censorship, web page evaluation and boolean operators.
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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...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Refining Internet and Database Searches

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses how to refine a search to produces better results. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Random Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
See how we can generate random values in our computer programs, and use those to make decisions and simulate natural processes.

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