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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Multiples of Ten

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars will apply the idea of adding or subtracting ten to a number by adding or subtracting multiple groups of ten from a number. Included is a detailed lesson plan, videos of the lesson in action, materials and worksheets, and...
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Oxford University Press

Ou Pblog: Ten Facts About the Sousaphone

For Students 9th - 10th
This blog provides information about the development of the sousaphone, the similarities and differences between the sousaphone and tuba, and the kinds of music groups that use sousaphones.
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Better Lesson: Hundreds, Tens, Ones Are Coins Too

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders will extend their understanding of hundreds, tens and ones using dollars, dimes and pennies as another way to express groups of 100, 10 and 1.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Take Two: Using Technology for Writing and Designing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In groups, students brainstorm to create a product, develop an advertisement for the product, design and present a slideshow, script a commercial for the product, and present the commercial in a 5-10 minute video.
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Yad Vashem: Antisemitism Workshop Using Statements

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The first step in countering anti-Semitism is recognizing it. This workshop will challenge students to examine their beliefs. There will be ten statements to discuss with small groups and as a class. Students will form opinions on each...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Shopping With the Dewey Decimal System

For Teachers 1st - 8th
This lesson is an introduction to the ten main categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The Dewey Decimal Classification System will be compared with the familiar layout of a grocery store. Young scholars will organize...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Choral Counting

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This can be a daily activity to reinforce learning number sequences. The teacher will need a 100 chart or large number line and a pointer. As a whole group, have students chant the counting sequence starting with one to thirty, using the...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Essentials for Reading Success

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site offers three cyclical flow charts of the essentials for reading success: components of reading, types of assessment, and layers of instruction.
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Msnbc News: Jakarta Blast

For Students 9th - 10th
Site outlines the events of the bombing of the Australian embassy in Indonesia, which killed nine people. A terror group linked to al-Qaeda claimed responsibility. 10 September 2004)