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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Alexander Graham Bell: Scientist, Inventor, and Teacher

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Using a short video and two primary sources, learners will learn about Bell's inventions and his work with the deaf community.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady, Diplomat, and Activist

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
For this lesson, learners will explore Eleanor Roosevelt's many national and international contributions. They will learn how Eleanor Roosevelt used her positions as First Lady and United Nations diplomat to ensure that the powerless had...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Learning About Colonial Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a group activity that allows students to use predictions to learn about the lifestyle of American colonists.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Teacher's Guide: Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Use this teacher's guide to plan how you'll integrate video clips, biosketch readers, and graphic organizers for Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum across your Grade 1-2 classroom curricula. From guided reading to a living wax museum,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Needs of Living Things

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson plan, students watch video clips of animals and plants in their natural environment, to gather evidence that all living things have basic needs that must be met in order to survive. Then, to illustrate their understanding...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Jackie Robinson: Athlete and Activist

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Through two primary source activities and a short video, students will understand how Robinson rose to prominence, and explore the importance of courage in his life.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Harriet Beecher Stowe: Author and Abolitionist

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Through two primary source activities and a short biographical video, students will examine the content and impact of Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Learning to Do Linear Regressions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activity compares children's age to height to teach linear regressions. The handout includes notes for learners and teachers with a step-by-step activity on how to do three types of linear regressions - Best Fit line, Median Line...
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Other

South Western Learning: Aggregate Demand / Aggregate Supply

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
View the summaries of economic news stories related to Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply. Each story is accompanied by questions for students.
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Other

Learn Nc: Justice for All?: To Kill a Mockingbird and a Time to Kill

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan uses the novels To Kill a Mockingbird and A Time to Kill; after viewing the courtroom scene in each movie, students will be able to demonstrate comparisons. RL.9-10.7 analyze 2 media
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Tech4Learning

Tech4 Learning: Creative Educator: Not Your Average Portfolio

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As the agent for a famous person you are studying, it is your job to develop a portfolio for him or her that will help them showcase specific skills and accomplishments to potential employers. This project sets the stage for...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Ratio/proportion: Targeted Math Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this lesson about ratio/proportion, learners will be able to recognize and apply ratios and proportions to solve real-life problems and solve for any unknown component.
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Other

Dwellings: The Message of Houses and Their Contents, 1780 1820

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Architectural styles of the times reflected the economic status and taste of the individuals who owned the houses. As this turn of the century proceeded from 1780 to 1820, many changes occurred in communication, transportation,...
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Other

Positive Choices: Decision Making and Problem Solving: Class Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
The aim of this activity is to teach students the steps involved in effective decision-making/problem-solving. This skill is a useful skill for students to learn, as it will assist students to consider all the options that are available...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Blogging With Photovoice: Sharing Pictures in Integrated Class

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Photovoice is a technique that has participants take photos in response to a prompt, reflect on the meaning behind three of their photos, and share the photos to find common themes. It is an ideal strategy for all forms of classrooms,...
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Committee for Children

Second Step: Grade 2: Lesson 13: Handling Making Mistakes

For Teachers 2nd
This Second Step lesson will help students to learn how to handle making mistakes.
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Committee for Children

Second Step: Grade K: Lesson 15: Handling Waiting

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson from Second Step will help students learn how to develop the skill of having patience when waiting.
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McREL International

Mid Continent Research for Education and Learning: Deconstructing Media Messages

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This brief lesson plan focuses on the roles that many different people play in the creation of media messages and advertising.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Every Picture Has a Story

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Smithsonian Education presents "Every Picture Has a Story". Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students examine some of the millions of photographs in the Smithsonian. This amazing teaching package comes...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Documentary: A Fragile Trust: Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson explores the Jayson Blair story and other cases where journalists have breached the code of ethics in their efforts to get the story out. Learners will examine the journalism code of ethics and its importance. They will view...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: All About Asthma

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Teach children about what causes asthma, how it's treated, and what students can do to help their classmates with asthma with this lesson plan from Arthur: "Buster's Breathless".
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Dream Tube Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Use this comprehensive instructional activity as part of a comprehensive literacy, STEM, or social studies unit in which children will be using informational texts. In the "Dream Tube" animated story from the PBS Kids series Molly of...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Learning Vocabulary Down by the Bay

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for six lessons that teach students Dolch high-frequency sight words using songs and activities. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Esperanza Rising: Learning Not to Be Afraid to Start Over

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson students will explore some of the contrasts that Esperanza experiences when she suddenly is forced to leave the life of a wealthy landowner's daughter surrounded by servants to become a servant herself among an extended...

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