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U of Cambridge: Tycho Brahe and the Separation of Astronomy From Astrology

For Students 9th - 10th
The subject of the paper is the shift from an astrology-oriented astronomy towards an allegedly more objective, mathematically grounded approach to astronomy. This shift is illustrated through a close reading of Tycho Brahe's scientific...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Reading Like a Historian

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
During this 8-day unit, students will engage in collecting text evidence and then writing about their findings. They will answer the following question with credible, well-explained evidence: Why did Andrew Jackson and Elias Boudinot...
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Student Achievement Partners

Achieve the Core: I Tunes U Courses, Created by Teachers for Teachers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The iTunes U courses linked to below were developed by a group of classroom teachers to explain the Shifts in ELA / Literacy and mathematics required by the Common Core. Presented in partnership with The Council of Chief State School...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Fried Green Tomatoes & Cultural Crossroads

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Having read Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, students will conduct research through an interview with an elderly person from the community (a field trip to local nursing home facility) to determine the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Fact vs. Opinion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity is a hands-on way for students to learn how to discern between fact and opinion. This is an important skill for citizenship in that citizens should be informed about what is happening in their communities and should take...
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Gov Loop: The 7 Barriers to Digital Communication

For Students 9th - 10th
For all its conveniences, significant barriers to effective digital communication exist. These digital communication barriers can interfere with the ability to get a point across via email, chats, texts, messaging, discussion boards,...
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Central Michigan University: Website Research: Fake News

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Critical appraisal tests like CRAAP and RADAR can also be used to evaluate the credibility of news websites and the stories they produce (which often go viral on social media). Here are some more resources to help you check! (CRAAP...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Hoax/no Hoax? Online Comprehension and Evaluation Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students use research-based comprehension strategies to read and evaluate websites, and practice analysis by comparing hoax and real websites and by identifying false or misleading information. SL.11-12.2 Eval&Integrate sources
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Library: Critically Analyzing Information Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A quick guide to help you determine the relevance and authority of a resource.
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Better Lesson: Avoiding Plagiarism and Citing Sources

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this scaffolded lesson, students engage in practice with determining whether or not research has been plagiarized. A short video demonstration is included. [03:44] This lesson addresses all three College and Career Readiness Standards...
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University of Hawai'i

University of Hawaii: Business Editors Ethics Code

For Students 9th - 10th
The official ethics code of The Society of American Business Editors and Writers provided for by the University of Hawaii.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Aristotle and Joshua Bell Can Teach Us About Persuasion

For Students 9th - 10th
Imagine you are one of the world's greatest violin players, and you decide to conduct an experiment: play inside a subway station and see if anyone stops to appreciate when you are stripped of a concert hall and name recognition. Joshua...
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Society of Professional Journalists: Code of Ethics

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of the Code of Ethics by the Society of Professional Journalists.
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Scholarly Resources: What's the Difference?

For Students 9th - 10th
This succinct explanation shows you what the difference is between a scholarly and a popular periodical or other resource.
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Council for Ethics in Economics

For Students 9th - 10th
The Council for Ethics in Economics is a worldwide association of leaders in business, education, and other professions working together to strengthen the ethical fabric of business and economic life.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Research Questions: A Focus for Planning, Researching, and Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Sophia video lesson introduces how to develop good questions for a research paper. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short research projects. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 standards are addressed in...
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Indiana University

Indiana University: Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Recognize and Avoid It

For Students 9th - 10th
A guide for the student to understand what plagiarism is and how to avoid it in their work.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Supporting Details: Facts and Statistics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses how statistics can be used as supporting details. This tutorial shares a short audio lesson [05:16] and supplemental notes with the lesson's content.
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Santa Rosa Library: How to Evaluate Information Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips and information about how to evaluate resources, both print and electronic. Includes information about source authority, purpose, objectivity, currency, completeness, and relevance. It includes a printable handout (top right)with...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Evaluating Print vs. Internet Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn to look at different text features to determine whether a print or electronic source might be more effective. SL.9-10.2 eval & integrate sources
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University of California

Ucla College Library: Thinking Critically About World Wide Web Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site teaches readers how to evaluate the content and quality of web resources, offering questions and checklists to consider.
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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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Prism Magazine: Student Plagiarism in an Online World

For Students 9th - 10th
Prism Magazine offers an essay on student plagiarism and how to track down if the paper is plagiarized.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Evaluate Information

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of how to evaluate and make judgments about scientific information.

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