CommonLit
Common Lit: Themes: Education & Knowledge: What Is the Goal of Education?
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "What is the goal of education?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration...
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School Choices: Thoughts Upon the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic
Written in 1786 by famous Philadelphia physician, Benjamin Rush, this article outlines some of the goals of education in the time of the new republic.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Setting Goals and Monitoring Progress With Khan Academy
Collaborating with students to set and monitor both short and long-term goals is a key piece to successfully implementing Khan Academy with students.
EL Education
El Education: Personal Goals Poster
Students create posters to show their personal learning goals for the school year. A digital photograph, a self portrait, and goals of parents are also included on each poster.
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Oecd: Millennium Development Goals [Pdf]
This site is a list of goals and targets set forth for the new Millennium as decided by the Millennium Declaration which was signed by 189 countries worldwide. Some of the goals involve topics such as improving primary education,...
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Geneticist Educator Network of Alliances Proj: Pedigree Analysis Patterns [Pdf]
Learn about the goals of pedigree analyis, as well as the genetic patterns it can uncover. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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Ade: Alaska State Board of Education & Early Development
Locate names and addresses of current board members,a statement of "Alaska's Vision and Goals for Education," meeting schedules, and minutes of previous meetings.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The August Wilson Education Project
The WQED August Wilson Education Project offers resources to educators including a teaching guide, video clips from the documentary, interactive maps, a biographical timeline, webinars, contests for students, and much more. The goal of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Malala Yousafzai Champions Education: Pbs News Hour
This Daily News Story from PBS NewsHour Extra was created on October 14th, 2013 After surviving an attack on her life, Malala has recovered and has dedicated herself to the goal that every child everywhere will receive an education.
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International Society for Technology in Education (Iste)
ISTE, among its other goals, seeks to provide the education community with access to high-quality professional development and organizational development services "to support and improve learning, teaching, and administration in K?12...
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Nourish Interactive: Nutrition Education
Games for children teach nutrition concepts, while tools for parents and teachers help promote eating healthy, exercising daily, and setting nutrition and fitness goals. Access to entire collection of resources requires free registration.
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Nourish Interactive: Nutrition Education
Games for children teach nutrition concepts, while tools for parents and teachers help promote eating healthy, exercising daily, and setting nutrition and fitness goals. Access to entire collection of resources requires free registration.
Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: Teaching Presidential Elections [Zip]
Citizens, Not Spectators is a voter education program whose goal of the program is to increase the voting rate among young Americans by demystifying the voting process. The lessons familiarize students with the process and the duty of...
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Global, Environmental, & Outdoor Education Council: Homepage
The goal of GEOEC is to promote professional development and support for teachers in teaching global and environmental topics. Resources include lesson plans, curriculum resources, articles and professional development opportunities.
Google
Google for Education: Cell Biology: Filters
Students learn the characteristics that comprise a filter, and then use their computational thinking skills to design their own filters. The goal is to ultimately learn how these filters are related to many biological processes.
Google
Google for Education: Ciphering a Sentence
In this lesson, the students have a goal to map each alphabet letter to a number in the range 1-26. They use some simple rules to create this mapping and then use this mapping to encode a sentence.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Flying [Pdf]
"Flying" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about someone set a goal to be a pilot and worked hard to accomplish that goal. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from...
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US Mint
U.s. Mint: Our Goal Pole [Pdf]
In this four-part lesson, students will demonstate knowledge of the sequencing of events by studying the westward journey, use terms that indicate the sequence of events and demonstrate an understanding of certain historical figures in...
United Nations
Unesco: United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization
The official United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) homepage. UNESCO is composed of now 195 Members and 8 Associate Members (as of 2013). The main objective of UNESCO is to contribute to peace and...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: From Carbons to Computers, the Changing American Office
A site including lesson plans, photographs, and text about the offices of yesterday and those of today. Topics discussed include office equipment, office organization, globalization, and technology. Also included is an historical...
Google
Google for Education: Life on Minimum Wage
A game where students try to reach financial goals by working and budgeting their money. Site includes rules for games as well as playing pieces.
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Mapping Your Future: Explore Your Career
Find out about your options in higher education, and learn how to choose a career. Includes useful tips on job hunting, resume writing, and job interviewing techniques. Select the "en Espanol" link on the right side to view this resource...
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Wisconsin State Reading Association (Wsra)
Learn about the goals, membership, publications, and committees of this affiliate of the International Reading Association. Links also take you to useful reading resources and to its hotline, which allows members to be a part of an...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Strategies for Every Child to Read
What are some strategies for achieving the goal of every child reading? This site features several activities to achieve this goal with your readers.