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Inside Higher Ed: 8 Ways to Improve Group Work Online

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article discusses why online collaboration skills are critical to student success in today's world and offers strategies for educators to help students do well in group projects.
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Nutrasweet: Functional Groups

For Students 9th - 10th
Inquiry type activity which introduces the basics of functional groups by analyzing the Nutrasweet molecule.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Achieving Group Diversity

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a cooperative grouping strategy. Students will learn communication skills in ethnically and culturally diverse groups.
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Iowa State University

Iowa State University: Group Decision Making Tool Kit

For Students 9th - 10th
Six different techniques briefly stated that can help groups with decision making.
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Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group: Peregrine Falcons

For Students 9th - 10th
A group committed to conservation of the endangered predatory birds provides information on the Peregrine Falcon. Information about the role of the SCPBRG in the Peregrine's recovery is given. Volunteers climbed to their eyries and...
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Missouri State University

Missouri State Univ.: Introductory Statistics: Grouped Frequency Distributions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An example is provided for the explanation of grouped frequency distributions. Graphs show how to construct histograms and overlapping bell curves, and Excel documents are discussed as being useful here.
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NOAA

Noaa: Cmdl: Ozone and Water Vapor Group

For Students 9th - 10th
The Ozone and Water Vapor Group conducts research on the nature and causes of the depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer and the role of stratospheric and tropospheric ozone and water vapor in forcing climate change.
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Nielsen Norman Group: The Use and Misuse of Focus Groups

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the pros and cons of using focus groups in advertising, marketing, and system development. (Published January 1, 1997)
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Use Cooperative Learning Groups to Engage Learners

For Teachers 9th - 10th
When teachers structure cooperative learning groups as part of the overall reading program, they also open the door to a multiple intelligences approach to literacy, which is inherent in cooperative learning. This article offers guidance...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: How to Approach Grouping Setups

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for the LSAT. This section explains how to approach grouping setups in the "Analytic Reasoning" section.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Group Theory 101: How to Play a Rubik's Cube Like a Piano

For Students 9th - 10th
Mathematics explains the workings of the universe, from particle physics to engineering and economics. Math is even closely related to music, and their common ground has something to do with a Rubik's Cube puzzle. Michael Staff explains...
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Introduction to the Groups Tool

For Students 9th - 10th
Habitat Network introduces the Groups Tool that helps connect citizen scientists across the country.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Psychology: Social Influence: Group Behavior

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at what contributes to the formation of a group, and at three factors that influence a group's behavior, including groupthink, groupshift, and deindividuation. Includes a quiz.
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Network World: Group Behavior and Security

For Students 9th - 10th
This article summarizes the role of group dynamics with employees. Discusses how group polarization can be a disadvantage.
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PBS

Pbs: Modeling Fraction Division, Equal Groups, Group Size Unknown

For Students 6th - 8th
This animated video illustrates a word problem that requires dividing two fractions with equal groups, group size unknown. Students are presented with a problem that asks how long it takes a sloth to climb down a tree trunk at an even...
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Encyclopedia of Arkansas: Ethnic Groups Africian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Perhaps one of the largest ethinc/cultural group to inhabit Arkansas are the African Americans. Follow their first arrival as slaves working the plantations through all the years toward emancipation, and into present times. Highly...
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Braingle

Braingle: Group Brain Teasers

For Students 9th - 10th
The brain teasers at this site test "your ability to recognize groups of common attributes" and "to figure out why the words or letters are grouped as they are." Sort brain teasers according to title, popularity, and difficulty, and...
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Stanford University

Stanford History Education Group: Roman Empire and Christianity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students investigate several sources to determine why the Roman Empire persecuted Christians. Inlcudes downloadable lesson plan, PowerPoint, original documents, teacher and student...
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Stanford University

Stanford History Education Group: India Partition

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students use primary sources to evaluate the plan to partition India in 1947. Lesson plan, PowerPoint and original documents are included.
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Player Piano Group

For Students 9th - 10th
Includes pictures of player pianos, player music, player history, reproduction of pianos, and much more.
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Tom Richey

Tom Richey: Ap u.s. Government and Politics: Campaigns and Elections

For Students 10th - 12th
Tom Richey's course module offers AP U.S. Government curriculum unit materias, lecture notes, video and PowerPoint presentation on Campaigns and Elections from which students learn about political beliefs and behaviors as well as...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Bad Case of Bullying: Using Literature Response Groups

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Contains plans for three lessons that use "A Bad Case of Stripes" by David Shannon to start student discussion in literature response groups and to prevent bullying. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan...
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Grammar Book: Parentheses and Brackets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Included on this site are three rules for correct usage of parentheses, along with examples for all of the rules, and a quiz.
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Thales Group: Digital Dividends: The Positive Effects of Id Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides a pro-business perspective on the adoption of digital identification of citizens by governments around the world. It looks at how governments can better serve their citizens by using this technology, its economic...

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