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Unc: James Fenimore Cooper, 1789 1851

For Students 9th - 10th
This useful and detailed page includes both biographical and literary analysis of Cooper and his work.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Fenimore Cooper the Last of the Mohicans

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of James Fenimore Cooper's novel, "The Last of the Mohicans." Chapters of the text are preceded by an "Author's Introduction," as well as a brief paragraph introducing the context, characters, and plot of the novel.
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Canadian Wildlife Federation

Hinterland Who's Who: Sharp Shinned Hawk, Cooper's Hawk, and Northern Goshawk

For Students 9th - 10th
Get the facts about the Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper's Hawk, and Northern Goshawk. Besides finding physical descriptions of these hawks, you'll also learn about some of their unique facts and characteristics. Also included in this Bird...
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: James F. Cooper

For Students 9th - 10th
This literary biography from the University of Groningen analyzes the contribution of James Fenimore Cooper to American literature and his role in the development of the American novel. Discusses Cooper's character, Natty Bumppo.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Leon Cooper

For Students 9th - 10th
Leon Cooper shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and Robert Schrieffer, with whom he developed the first widely accepted theory of superconductivity. Termed the BCS theory, it is heavily based on a phenomenon known as...
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Lincoln at Cooper Union

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An essay about Lincoln's speech in 1860 at Cooper Union which brought him to the attention of the national Republican Party.
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Work 911: Cooperative Communication

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site defines "Cooperative Communication" and provides examples and information as to how to apply it. Although the article is geared toward the workplace, it applies to all forms of communication, especially when negotiating....
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

For Students 9th - 10th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published in 1826, one work is The Last of the Mohicans. This novel was written by James Fenimore Cooper.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Assigning Tasks

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative learning ideas. Students can be assessed via items suggested on this reference.
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NASA

Nasa: Astronaut Biography: Gordon Cooper

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of former astronaut Gordon Cooper details his education and pre-NASA career, his accomplishments with NASA, and his numerous achievements in the business world.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ways to organize cooperative groups so that meaningful discussion will occur. It also offers a worksheet for determining learning styles that is useful to develop groups. SL.9-10.1c Active Partic
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Teaching American History

Teaching American History: Document Library: Lincoln: Cooper Institute Address

For Students 9th - 10th
Full-text transcript of Abraham Lincoln's address to the Cooper Union Institute, delivered in February 1860 and largely credited as the speech that won Lincoln the presidency.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: An Overview and Analysis of Cooperative Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A teaching resource on cooperative learning including topics such as Collaborative Learning 101, Benefits of Collaborative Learning, Initial Considerations, Assessing Preferred Learning Styles, and Disadvantages of Collaborative Learning.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: An Overview and Analysis of Cooperative Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A teaching resource on cooperative learning including topics such as Collaborative Learning 101, Benefits of Collaborative Learning, Initial Considerations, Assessing Preferred Learning Styles, and Disadvantages of Collaborative Learning.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: An Overview and Analysis of Cooperative Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A teaching resource on cooperative learning including topics such as Collaborative Learning 101, Benefits of Collaborative Learning, Initial Considerations, Assessing Preferred Learning Styles, and Disadvantages of Collaborative Learning.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: An Overview and Analysis of Cooperative Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A teaching resource on cooperative learning including topics such as Collaborative Learning 101, Benefits of Collaborative Learning, Initial Considerations, Assessing Preferred Learning Styles, and Disadvantages of Collaborative Learning.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: An Overview and Analysis of Cooperative Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A teaching resource on cooperative learning including topics such as Collaborative Learning 101, Benefits of Collaborative Learning, Initial Considerations, Assessing Preferred Learning Styles, and Disadvantages of Collaborative Learning.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: How to Assign Meaningful Tasks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Strategies for Problematic Members

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A teaching resource to use with difficult students who do not participate appropriately in their cooperative learning groups including The Dominant Student, The Slow Student, The Bored Bright Student, and the Competitive Student.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Cynthia Cooper

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Cynthia Cooper, an American basketball player who was the first Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). In the WNBA's inaugural season (1997),...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative learning strategies. Learning style assessments is a strategy suggested, along with several ways of randomly assigning students to groups.
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Clemson Cooperative Extension: The Basics of Population Dynamics [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn the many ecological factors that affect the carrying capacity for populations of wild species.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Histogram Sorting Using Cooperative Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students work with 24 histograms representing distributions with differing shapes and characteristics. By sorting the histograms into piles that seem to go together, and by describing those piles, students develop awareness of the...
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World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of the Lake Gun

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext for James Fenimore Cooper's story, The Lake Gun.

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