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Nacse

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is devoted to information technology standards and credentials, and contains membership, news and service information.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Tailoring Employment Documents for a Specific Audience

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent lesson that describes how to organize and emphasize specific documents for a potential employer. Includes organized and sequential steps to compiling a successful credential file.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Media Literacy Education Certification by Kqed

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Demonstrate your expertise in teaching PreK-12 students to think critically about their roles as media consumers and creators -- or in training teachers to do so. Competency-based validation of media literacy skills for educators of all...
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Indiana University

Indiana University: Drive by Pharming

For Students 9th - 10th
This document provides a detailed description of drive-by pharming and recommended countermeasures.
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Columbia University

Asia for Educators: Medieval Japan Multimedia Unit

For Students 9th - 10th
This unit from the extensive Asia for Educator's site provides audio, video and lecture materials from well-credentialed Asian studies professors to explore Japan's medieval period, from 1000-1500 A.D. Topics include the Samurai,...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: An Introduction to Tech Prep

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Tech Prep is a planned sequence of study in a technical field that begins as early as 9th grade and extends through at least two years of postsecondary education or an apprenticeship program. Tech Prep programs culminate in students...
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New Deal Network

New Deal Network: The Nation: It's War in Youngstown

For Students 9th - 10th
A contemporary article from the magazine, The Nation, which describes the steel strike in Youngstown, Ohio, in June 1937. Read about the background of the strike, and follow the author's ordeal as she was arrested, despite her press...
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Medieval Britain

For Students 9th - 10th
A true lover of British Medieval history, the author has crafted a site full of timelines, key medieval episodes and people, and maps. Of special interest is the 3D reconstructions of ruined castles and abbeys. Author does not state his...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Manipulative Appeals to Ethos

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the ways appeals to ethos can be manipulative including lying about their credentials and employing a number of tricks or fallacies to lure you to their point of view.
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Arild Hauge's Runes: About the Runes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Arild Hauge's Runes provides an easy-to-read text about the runes and their meaning. Illustrations of rune artifacts. Although the author is from Denmark, home of the Vikings, please be aware that we could not ascertain...
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Other

Digital Promise: Choosing Technology Tools [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Being able to thoughtfully choose the right technology tool for a learning task from the vast array of choices available can be a significant challenge. So using an evaluation strategy to make good technology tool choices is an important...
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Online Library Learning Center: Evaluating Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this "Weed and feed," approach to get only the best resources for your research project.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Pharming

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a Wikipedia description of pharming.
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Freedom to Tinker: Pharming

For Students 9th - 10th
This blog article includes a description of pharming scams and user responses to the article.
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California State University

Csun: Nature of Science

For Students 9th - 10th
This California State University Northridge essay on the "Nature of Science, the Scientific Method, and Measurement" includes a historical perspective.
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Other

Arms Control Association: Book Review: Reagan's Secret War

For Students 9th - 10th
A review of Reagan's Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World From Nuclear Disaster (Crown Publishers, 2009) rehearses most of the arguments critical of Reagan's foreign policy objectives and achievements, including...