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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Programming Case Study: Teaching an Elementary School Class

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To give fellow teachers an idea for how they can teach our curriculum in a classroom setting, we are creating case studies. Here's one case study of how Feltwell Elementary School in the United Kingdom is using our curriculum in their...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Programming Case Study: Encouraging Cross Disciplinary Projects

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To give fellow teachers an idea for how they can teach the Khan Academy curriculum in a classroom setting, check out this case study. Here's one case study of how teacher Ellen Reller uses our curriculum in her classroom in Lowell High...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
The goal of this activity is to understand how techniques of persuasion (including background, supporting evidence, storytelling and the call to action) are used to develop an argument for or against a topic. Students develop an...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Moriussaq: A Case Study in Hearing Loss

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment follows neurophysiologist Allen Counter as he studies an epidemic of hearing loss in Moriussaq, Greenland, one of the quietest places on Earth. Footage from NOVA: "Mystery of the Senses: Hearing."
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Synagogue on Praska Street

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about prewar life for the Jewish people by studying Jewish symbols, researching synagogues, and reading testimonies. Students will use the Zagreb Synagogue, which was destroyed during WWII, as a case study. Materials include...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Labor Disputes

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, view a case study of the mediation of a disagreement between an employee and his former employer in China's courts.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Solving Everyday Problems Using the Engineering Design Cycle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to two real-life problems that can be solved by using the engineering design process. For the first one, they watch a slide presentation that shows how students use the engineering design process to build an...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Not So Neutral Views

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students are introduced to acids and bases, and the environmental problem of acid rain. They explore ways to use indicators to distinguish between acids and bases. Students also conduct a simple experiment to model and discuss the...
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American University

American University: Trade & Environment Database: The Iceman

For Students 9th - 10th
A case study from the Trade Environment Database examines evidence that suggests that the Iceman found in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991 was a trader. It also examines the conflicting claims of Austria and Italy for the body.
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Bagheera

Bagheera: Kakapo

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores the life of the Kakapo, noting this bird's behaviors and natural history. Special focus is made on why this bird is endangered and what conservation efforts are currently under way. A case study of the Dodo bird and...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: It's a Matter of Power

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine tradeoffs and profit- maximization decisions in the case study of Kaiser Aluminum, which decided to shut down aluminum production in favor of reselling electricity.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Tracking Income and Benefits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using a case study about an urban family, students calculate monthly net income and explore how irregular income may make it challenging to manage monthly expenses.
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Secret Sharer Grades 6 8

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students look beyond protecting their own privacy to respecting the privacy of others online. Students read and analyze case studies about students who have compromised the privacy of someone else online by tagging, copying, and...
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Patterns and Change: Disparities in Wealth and Development

For Students 11th - 12th
This collection of four learning modules looks at issues related to the unequal distribution of wealth and economic development. Examines how this is measured and presents student video assignments on this topic, followed by a discussion...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Cliffs Notes: Objective Case Pronouns

For Students 6th Standards
This resource page defines, describes, and gives examples of pronouns as objects of verbs, prepositions or compound objects.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

For Students 9th - 10th
This intriguing short story was first published in 1922. Read about the characters stepping back in time and the important quotations in the novel from this comprehensive site.
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University of Nebraska Omaha

University of Nebraska at Omaha: Carrying Capacity

For Students 9th - 10th
Read through some case studies, and study data that shows how wildlife populations react when they reach carrying capacity.
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NASA

Nasa Earth Observatory: Mapping Malaria

For Students 9th - 10th
This article demonstrates how by mapping malaria outbreaks, the local governments would be capable of spraying these houses with insecticides and reducing malaria outbreaks by half. Medical databases and airplane photographs help...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Is Globalization a Dirty Word?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Is globalization a dirty word? Well not according to a recent study conducted by the World Bank. The report, entitled Globalization, Growth, and Poverty: Building an Inclusive World Economy, makes the case for globalization as a method...

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