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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Al Qaeda

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover interesting facts and information about Al-Qaeda, the international, radical Islamic group, famously led by Osama Bin Laden.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Sclc)

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed facts and a summary on the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed as a Civil Rights non-violent protest group in 1957.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Jessica Lee, Did Immigrants Cheer a National Tragedy? Rumors Become Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on immigrants and their reactions to national tragedy such as the assassination of President McKinley in 1901 and the rumored reaction of immigrants in New Jersey after the 9/11 attack. The point is that rumors can...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Prosperity and Thrift: Poverty in the 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the groups of people in the United States that did not prosper in the consumer economy of the 1920s. These included farmers and recent immigrants.
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Other

Explore the Med: The Fall of the Roman Empire

For Students 9th - 10th
Read here about the crumbling and unfortunate collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Developments including the Plague of Cyprian, the splitting of the empire into two parts and the invasion of barbarian people groups led to its demise.
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Character Lab

Character Lab: Making Kindness Common: How to Raise Kind Kids

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Kindness is contagious and kindness spreads. If we want our kids to be kind, not only should we model kindness ourselves, we should go out of our way to expose them to examples within their own age group. Read an example in this blog.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is a Constellation?

For Students 2nd - 8th
Constellations are patterns formed by groups of stars. Take a look at some of the familiar constellations.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Classification of Plants

For Students 7th - 9th
Discover how plants are classified and the main groups. Find out the difference between monocot and dicot plants with examples.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Staying Healthy

For Students 3rd - 5th
Find yummy recipes for food to make yourself! There are also articles about the reasons for vitamins and minerals, how to eat when you're playing sports, and a number of other important topics.
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About Kids Health

About Kids Health: Involving Kids in Meal Time Tasks

For Students 3rd - 8th
Involving children of all ages in household activities will help them learn life skills. Involving them in the kitchen creates family bonds and teaches healthy habits. Find out how engaging your child in mealtime tasks can help them...
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Enabling Student Collaboration for Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Presented in a question and answer format, this site provides some useful information about student collaboration. Some of the questions answered are "why should students collaborate" and "how do I get students to collaborate".
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Assigning Tasks

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative learning ideas. Students can be assessed via items suggested on this reference.
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Virginia Tech

Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Included here is a study of collaborative learning versus individual learning. This study provides details of its methodology and its findings.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Demography as Destiny: How America Can Build a Better Future

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Barely 50% of minority students graduate from high school on time. If this trend continues and the minority student populations increase as projected, the economic strength of the U.S. will be undermined. But if 78% of all student...
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Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: Hold on to Your Stars, Ladies and Gentlemen

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes scientific research that has revealed new information about the size and shape of the Milky Way.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: The Bored Bright Student

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ideas for differentiating lessons. Teaches will learn about the jigsaw method that will help in facilitating enrichment opportunities for students who are bored.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: The Slow Student

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an explanation of ways to assist students who need differentiated instruction. This article focuses on ways to assist student who struggle with keeping up with the pace in the classroom.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Fun Fruit Kabobs

For Students 3rd - 5th
Have fun and eat fruit every day to stay healthy. This website provides simple steps you can follow to make your own "fun fruit kabobs" with apples, bananas, grapes, pineapple, coconut, and yogurt. Includes nutritional information.
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PBS

Pbs: Betancourt and Americans Rescued From Columbian Rebels

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS offers a compilation of facts detailing the rescue by army commandos of fifteen hostages held in Colombia, some for five years or more.
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Other

Problem Solving/negotiation

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is an advertisement, but it has some good information regarding the negotiation process, e.g., seven steps that are common to all negotiations.
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Kidport

Kidport: Animal Comparisons

For Students 1st - 5th
This site provides a very brief scenario about the similarities and differences of animals.
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Other

Wolf Country: The Wolf Pack

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about how the behavior of wolves in a pack affects their survival.
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Other

Healthy Kids Association: 10 Day Lunch Box Menu

For Students 9th - 10th
10-day lunch box menu ideas for parents to pack nutritious lunches for their children.
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Leaf Group

Classroom: How to Write a 10 Page College Term Paper Overnight

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of the fastest and most effective way to write a ten-page research paper in one night.

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