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Foundation for Critical Thinking: Elemental Structure for Analytical Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
Dissect the eight elements identified which make up the human thought process. Everyone thinks and everyone follows this course to produce thoughts.
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: Current Events Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
An interesting way for students to dissect current events in the classroom. This lesson plan has students look at bias and develop critical thinking skills in order to digest the news media.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: What's Been Lost?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson, The Black-Eyed Peas song entitled "Where is the Love?" will be dissected by students. Then students will build upon the song's them and compare it with the picture book by Denise Fleming, Where Once There Was A Wood....
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Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Extract Dna

For Students 9th - 10th
Dissect strawberries and use common household ingredients to successfully extract and examine the strawberry DNA.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Luigi Galvani

For Students 9th - 10th
Luigi Galvani was a pioneer in the field of electrophysiology, the branch of science concerned with electrical phenomena in the body. His experiments with dissected frogs and electrical charges led him to suggest the existence of a...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Artificial Anatomy: Papier Mache Models

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibition examines an interesting sidelight in the history of medicine: the use of papier-mache anatomical models. Learn about the history of medical dissection, why the models were made, and their construction and conservation....
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Carnagie Endowment: Roots of Corporate Scandal

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an article that dissects the causes of corporate corruption. Looks at the greed and dishonesty often at the center of corporate scandals. Author looks at the issue from more of a standpoint of human nature than from penalties and...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Titan of Terror: The Dark Imagination of h.p. Lovecraft

For Students 9th - 10th
Silvia Moreno-Garcia dissects the Lovecraftian legacy.
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Types of Microscopes

For Students 9th - 10th
A program will help students determine differences and similarities of the structure and function of compound light microscopes, dissecting microscopes, scanning electron microscopes and transmitting electron microscopes.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Nocturnal Animals Lesson #4: Owls

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this instructional activity, students will visit various Internet sites to learn facts about owls. They will use this information to draw a picture of the owl food chain, dissect owl pellets, and write a poem about owls.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Exploring Owls

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this lesson, students will visit Internet sites to research facts about owls and food chains. They will use this information to complete a picture of an owl food chain, dissect owl pellets, and write a class book about owls.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Flower Anatomy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Flower Anatomy helps a student to visualize the floral parts. Students can disect the flower after they have viewed and identified all parts. A student can take the dissected parts and create a word wall using colored paper or posterboard.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Barf Biology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As part of the study of the biosphere, the learners will create pyramids using owl pellets. In groups, students will dissect owl pellets to aquire information about owl consumption. Groups will then create an ecological pyramid, a number...
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Harvard University

Harvard University: Project Zero: Agency by Design: Take Apart [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Mechanical dissections are a practice that allows learners to discover the often hidden design of objects and how the parts work together as a system.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Geometry

For Students 9th - 10th
This MathWorld tutorial provides detailed overviews of the concepts and theorems associated with geometry. Most of the Math World sites are extensive and some require higher math knowledge to understand, links to terms and topics are...
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education: Reverse Engineering

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use reverse engineering to examine, classify, diagram, and identify the purpose and technological impacts of the components of two different single-use cameras.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Disassemble a Click Pen

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this activity students will disassemble and analyze a click pen. By performing such reverse engineering by analyzing the interactions between parts, students gain a better understanding of how this every day item works
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Introduction to Neuroanatomy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level online biology course focusing on the anatomy of the human brain. Course highlights include an intensive introduction to neuroanatomy. Course features include lecture notes outline, quizzes, study notes, and an extensive...
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Coelacanth: The Fish Out of Water

For Students 9th - 10th
A captivating site that explores all facets of this "fossil fish". Recent history, conservation, and biological behavior are only a few of the areas explored.
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K 3 Learning pages.com: Owls

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This online resource provides several links to elementary information on owls. You will find lesson plans, photographs, information, facts and more when you explore this resource.
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Simplicable: 25 Examples of Product Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes 25 ways that products can be evaluated, for example, by cost, performance, ingredients, packaging, etc.
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Curated OER

Dissecting a Victim of the Plague.

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores the effect that the arrival of the plague had on the lives of common English men and women in the 16th and 17th centuries. Content includes an analysis of the plague's origin and spread, and the reactions of the...
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Math Medics

S.o.s. Math: Method of Partial Fractions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson teaches how to dissect complicated fractions into the sum of simple fractions.
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My Science Site

Plant Cells & Tissues, Part 1: Plant, Three Tissue Systems, Ground Tissue [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource shows the dissection of a plant cell and labels the parts. Also provided is an in-depth discussion of the ground tissue system. This resource is in PDF form; requires Adobe Reader.

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