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Kids Health: Dealing With the Terrorist Attacks

For Students 9th - 10th
Terrorism is all over the world. How do children deal with hearing and seeing these terrible events? Here is a site that children can read that may help them deal with their feelings.
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Kids Health: Dealing With My Anger

For Students 9th - 10th
Often times our first reaction when we're angry is to become physically aggressive. This site provides strategies for channeling one's anger into productive venues.
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Kids Health: Death and Grief

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Family Doctor.org gives information on the topic of death and grief.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Drinker Nisti O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip this interactive card to start learning about Drinker Nisti, an ornithopod from the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous period. Answer multiple-choice and fact-or-fiction questions and review some fast facts about this dinosaur.
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Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic: Adjustment Disorders

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what an adjustment disorder is, the symptoms, causes, risk factors, complications, what to expect when seeing a doctor, treatments, self-help, and prevention.
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American Association of Suicidology

For Students 9th - 10th
The web site of the American Association of Suicidology which presents information, links, and resources dedicated to the understanding and prevention of suicide.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected (8) reading passages (grades 8-12) to pair with "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway. In the years following World War I, a group of disillusioned expatriates travel from Paris to Spain to watch bullfighting and participate...
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Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

For Students 10th - 12th
Selected (9) reading passages (grades 10-12) to pair with "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. After being forced to wear a scarlet "A" and live on the outskirts of the colonial Puritan settlement, Hester Prynne struggles to...
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Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Path

For Students 9th - 10th
Partially inspired by Plath's experiences with depression, The Bell Jar follows the emotional breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a promising college student who cannot reconcile her desires with American conventions during the 1950s-1960s....
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Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'dell

For Students 5th - 9th
Karana's tribe has lived on the Island of the Blue Dolphins for centuries, but a tragedy forces them to leave. When Karana gets left behind, she must learn to live alone. Selected (10) reading passages (grades 5-9) to pair with the novel...
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Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Crossover" by Kwanme Alexander

For Students 5th - 8th
Inseparable twin brothers Josh and JB love basketball, but changes in their lives begin to pull them apart. Selected (6) reading passages (grades 5-8) to pair with "The Crossover" by Kwanme Alexander. [Free account registration required...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ptsd and Apoptosis

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a five-question quiz pertaining to the passage "PTSD and Apoptosis"
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Khan Academy: How Do I Deal With Frustration in a Positive Way?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Working through our frustration can help us grow our brains and it's also perfectly normal to get frustrated! This article explains four suggested steps for dealing with frustration.
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Khan Academy: Transform My Mistakes and Grow!

For Students 3rd - 8th
To come up with a plan on how to transform our mistakes into opportunities to grow our brains, this article explains three categories of mistakes and how you can overcome them.
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Khan Academy: Final Student Activity

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Growth Mindset Activities are designed to help your students build growth mindsets and develop learning strategies to start the school year strong. This is the final activity to help you remember what you learned and help your...
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Khan Academy: Mistakes Can Be Good if We Learn From Them!

For Students 3rd - 8th
Mistakes are a natural part of the learning process, and how we react to them can be either harmful or helpful. Listen as kids discuss their experiences with mistakes.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Asu Compass for Courage: Module 2: s.w.a.p. Student Practice Challenge

For Students 3rd - 8th
Situation or worry requires students to develop an action thought (S.W.A.P.) for a variety of sample scenarios provided.
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Minding the Gap: Lesson Plan Clips

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Minding the Gap is a coming of age film by Bing Liu. Starting in high school, Bing begins to make skate videos. What starts as a hobby ends up as a profound exploration of issues that is likely to resonate deeply with students. These are...
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Pbs.org: Education: 5 Ways to Reduce Stress and Feel Like Yourself Again

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teaching during a pandemic has undoubtedly been stressful, and it has left many teachers feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and anxious. For many teachers, these feelings have led to burnout and compassion fatigue, and for others the...
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California Science Center: Goose Bumps! The Science of Fear

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about fear, and perhaps face your own fears at this fun site. You can learn about fear and the brain, fear in the wild, fear and media, the fun side of fear, and dealing with your fears. Then, maybe you'll be close enough to see...
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Pbs: Oops! A Game for Dealing With Embarrassment

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Explore feelings of embarrassment and discuss ways to cope with those feelings. Match halves of patterned paper in the shape of pants and hang them on a "clothesline."
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Classroom Management

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Some common conduct issues identified by Gerald Amada in his research for Coping With Misconduct in the College Classroom (1999) are listed in the table. In discussing what constitutes problematic classroom behaviors with colleagues, I...
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Challenges Facing Diaspora Africans Who Return to Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an examination of African-Americans who return to Africa and how they are accepted and accept African people and African life as well as how they cope with the challenges of adopting their ancestral homeland as foreign outsiders.

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