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OpenStax

Open Stax: Potential Energy and Conservative Forces

For Students 9th - 10th
In the following interactive students will define conservative force, potential energy, and mechanical energy. They will explain the potential energy of a spring in terms of its compression when Hooke's Law applies. Students will also...
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Other

Laura Candler: Green Court Claims: Are Green Companies Really Green? [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
In this lesson, students investigate claims that companies make about their products and business practices they use to imply that they are environmentally friendly. Students work in groups to research the claim they chose and then...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Fourteenth Amendment Part I

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from The Supreme Court introduces viewers to the 14th amendment.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Democracy in America: The Modern Presidency: Tools of Power

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit details how the role of the President of the United States has evolved to the position it is today since the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Offers video, readings, web resources and activities.
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Other

Age of Jefferson and Jackson:john Marshall: The "Man Who Made the Court Supreme"

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a thorough essay discussing the many important decisions handed down by the Supreme Court while John Marshall was Chief Justice. There are hyperlinks to each of the decisions.
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University of Oregon

Interviewing Tips: Listen and Respond

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In-depth & interesting presentation on how to conduct interviews. Includes tools of the trade such as tape records -- benefits & disadvantages of using them -- along with important do's & don'ts. A few tips on how to maintain...
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US National Archives

National Archives: The Constitution in Action: Article Ii

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity can be used during a unit on the U.S. Constitution. Young scholars will analyze the Senate Journal of the First Congress and identify how the document demonstrates content contained within Article II of the Constitution in...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Fourteenth Amendment Part Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from The Supreme Court, learn about the 1883 Supreme Court decision that marked the end of federal protections for individuals in states and the beginning of Jim Crow segregation.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Tour

For Students 9th - 10th
This short two-stanza poem implies the importance of looking at things in two different ways.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: What Is Random

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore the conceptness of randomness, and to hopefully squash some student's ideas of what random really is. For example, the lesson points out that in a completely...
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Environmental Chemistry

Environmental chemistry.com: Periodic Table Holmium

For Students 9th - 10th
As the name of this site implies, this is a huge reference site for elemental information. Whether you are looking for properties or isotopes, this site probably has what you need. Images of structure and electron energy level can be...
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Environmental Chemistry

Environmental chemistry.com: Periodic Table Hassium

For Students 9th - 10th
As the name of this site implies, this is a huge reference site for elemental information. Whether you are looking for properties or isotopes, this site probably has what you need. Images of structure and electron energy level can be...
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Other

Liberty Online: Locke's Second Treatise on Government: Of Conquest

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site you can read Chapter XVI, Of Conquest, by John Locke stating that the basis of any government must be the consent of the people, and implying in the writing that war or revolution is often mistaken as consent. (Published in...
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: Main Idea Review

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Exercise reviews the two types of main ideas: stated and implied.
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Other

Virtual Chembook: Characteristics and Properties of Amino Acids

For Students 9th - 10th
Each amino acid has at least one amine and one acid functional group as the name implies. The different properties result from variations in the structures of different R groups. The R group is often referred to as the amino acid side...
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University of Oklahoma

Congress as Grand Inquest

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A thorough discussion of the implied investigative powers of Congress. Early precedents, as well as congressional tools to the process, are described at length.
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Other

Department of Health and Human Services: Straight Talk About Drugs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Just as the title implies, this is a straight forward approach for kids to learn the effects of drugs directed towards girls.
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US National Archives

Docsteach: The Suffrage and the Civil Rights Reform Movements

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This short comparative analysis activity involves comparing and contrasting two images of marches for freedom - a 1917 march of suffragists and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by Civil Rights leaders. Students will...
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US National Archives

Docsteach: Titanic Survivors: One Ship, Two Different Worlds

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This short analysis activity asks students to examine two claims filed by survivors of the April 15, 1912 Titanic disaster to understand the vast class differences between a first class passenger and a steerage passenger. Students will...
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TES Global

Tes: 'Ain't I a Woman?' and 'I Have a Dream'

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this series of activities, students will compare Sojouner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech". Students will look at literal and implied...
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Read Works

Read Works: Cause and Effect 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on cause and effect. Young scholars learn to use signal words to identify cause and effect relationships and to describe possible effects when given a cause in fiction. Students also...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Logic

For Students 6th - 8th
Understanding mathematical language in problem solving can be a difficult concept to grasp. Sharpen your logical reasoning skills at this test prep site that explains the terms: if, and, or, implies, and only if, as they relate to math....
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit: The Author's Point Is

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will focus on Main Idea, Author's Purpose, Identifying supporting details and Organizing details. Students will read a variety of Informational Text (non-fiction) to understand how stated and implied main idea effect the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Denotation and Connotation (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Distinguish between the denotative (dictionary) meaning of a word and its connotative (emotions or associations that are implied rather than literal) meaning. L.9-10.5b nuances

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