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Sophia Learning

Sophia: What Is a Personal Device Classroom?: Lesson 2

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson describes how to integrate personal devices in the classroom.
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Bryn Mawr College

Serendip: Who Took Jerell's I Pod? An Organic Compound Mystery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Brief text summary of what students learn in the Who Took Jerell's iPod? lab along with links to download Student Handouts and Teacher Preparation Notes in PDF or Word formats. Students are challenged to solve a mystery by testing for...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Legend Lives On

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will Use "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", sung by Gordon Lightfoot as a model. They will write poems that tell a detailed story of a historical event. The poem will be brought to life using a combination of...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Creating a Second Person Choice Story

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is designed to help students understand plot dimensions and literary devices while writing a multi-faceted short story that has many possible outcomes. For inspiration, students will analyze songs that tell stories for both...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: One Minute in Time Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Cure's song "10:15 on a Saturday Night" explains what happens in one slowed-down minute as the singer is waiting for an important phone call, while also utilizing some catchy onomatopoeia to emphasize the seconds ticking by. In this...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Beautiful Noise Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will listen to just the sounds from two YouTube videos; they will use a graphic organizer to create a mind movie. Inspired by the images that their minds created, they will then listen to Neil Diamond's...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Ain't That America

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students think that classic literature and historic events have little in common with life today, right? Think again! In this instructional activity, students get a chance to compare themes from classic novels or from American history to...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Advice to Youth on Things Now Gone

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Poetry and music are unmistakably intermixed, and in this lesson, we focus on the word choice and idea development of both song and poem. After listening to the modern song and reading the famous old poem, "Gone" by Switchfoot and "To...
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Nm Learning Games Lab: Math Snacks

For Students 9th - 10th
Games and videos, each accompanied by guidelines for teachers and students, cover math topics such as proportion, ratio, number line, scale, and measurement. Downloads are available for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: My Big Break!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The focus trait for this writing lesson is idea development; students will consider the idea of becoming famous and making the cover of an infamous magazine, People. Moving from the mundane to inspirational, attention to detail and...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Capitalization in Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson focuses on the use of capital letters in sentences including the following: after a colon, after a semicolon, titles, and lower case proper nouns at the beginning of sentences (eg. iPod). She also offers a memory trick...
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Podcasting 101 for K 12 Librarians

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article gets down to the basics, including what podcasts are, how to access them, how to create them, and why to use them. While it is specifically directed toward school librarians, the information is equally applicable for...

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