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Business Education Resource Consortium: Computer Science & Information Systems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this online manual you will find examples of integrated performance activities developed to coordinate with the Computer Science and Information Systems Career Path in the Business Education Career Path and Model Curriculum Standards....
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Arnold Sommerfeld

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the scientist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also served as PhD supervisor for many Nobel Prize winners in physics and chemistry.
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US Department of Education

U.s. Department of Education: Survival Guide for New Teachers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site provides an excellent guide for new teachers, addressing how to work with a variety of people, including veteran teachers, parents, principals, and others.
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US Department of Education

U.s. Department of Education: Survival Guide for New Teachers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site provides an excellent guide for new teachers, addressing how to work with a variety of people, including veteran teachers, parents, principals, and others.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reading Like a Writer: Text Types

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers four downloadable videos: 1) Major text types commonly used across content areas; 2) Reading like a Writer, Charting 1; 3) Reading like a Writer, Charting 2; 4) Reading like a Writer, Charting 3. It also offers handouts.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: College and Career Choices

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of 12 Grade-Leveled texts (8-12) on the topic College and Career Choices. Start the conversation about your students' future aspirations with these texts. Build their knowledge of what college is really like, how to...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: The Author Study Toolkit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Explains the benefits of doing an author study and how to do one with a class. Includes lists of resources and ideas for culminating projects.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Helping High Schoolers Find Research and Stem Field Opportunities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
I've been involved in shepherding high school students through the world of Independent Research for nearly two decade. I know firsthand the impact that spending one or two summers working in a scientific institution with a real...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Sentence Structure

For Students 9th Standards
We will analyze the structure of a sentence from "After 450 Years, We Still Don't Know the True Value of Shakespeare" to determine how understanding the sentence deepens our understanding of the text.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Sentence Structure

For Students 9th Standards
Students analyze the structure of a sentence from the prologue of Act II of Romeo and Juliet to determine how understanding the sentence deepens our understanding of the text.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Summarizing a State's History With a Found Poem

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students will identify the main message and story behind the song "Cold Missouri Waters," by James Keelaghan; they will use a note-taking strategy and create a "found poem." They will then apply this strategy to an article from a printed...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: The Interactive Educator Online Magazine [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent and thorough online magazine for educators, highlighting particularly the technological tools needed to help students be successful. Includes information about building online learning communities, the pros and cons of...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Princess and Curdie by George Mac Donald

For Students 5th - 9th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This work, The Princess and Curdie, was written by the C.S. Lewis' mentor, George MacDonald, in the early 1900's.
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My Hero Project

My Hero: Robert Wise

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this resource to learn about the great filmaker, teacher and mentor, Robert Wise, who is credited with editing "Citizen Kane" and directing "The Sound of Music."
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My Hero Project

My Hero: Marian Wright Edelman

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to learn about the contributions of Marian Wright Edelman, a civil rights activist and the founder of the Washington Research Project, which "engendered the Children's Defense Fund." This article includes "related links"...
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Makerpace Playbook: School Edition [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Makerspaces come in all shapes and sizes, but they all serve as a gathering point for tools, projects, mentors and expertise. A collection of tools does not define a Makerspace. Rather, we define it by what it enables: making network,...
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Character Lab

Character Lab: Gratitude Letter: Gratitude

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Write a letter to a person who has influenced your life in a positive way. This could be a teacher, relative, mentor, or coach. If you can, read your letter aloud to the person you chose. Printables and examples are included.
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Society for Mathematical Biology

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you interested in research and like both math and science? Invstigate mathmatical biology and check out this possible career path!
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Ka Ni Kanichihk: Sister's Circle: Mentorship Program for Girls

For Students 9th - 10th
Sisters Circle is a volunteer-based mentorship and empowerment program based in Winnipeg, Manitoba that is designed to help young aboriginal women.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Creative Math Equations

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, the mentor text called Mathematickles by Betsy Franco is used. Young scholars will use the language of mathematics to demonstrate their understanding of the topics about which they write. Older students should use humor...
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Curated OER

R. Adrienne Weill (B. 1903) and John Phillip Nielsen (B. 1911)

For Students 9th - 10th
left to right: French physicist and engineer R. Adrienne Weill (b. 1903) and John Phillip Nielsen (b. 1911). Nielsen, head of the metallurgical laboratory at New York University's College of Engineering, is shown demonstrating a...
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Nero

For Students 9th - 10th
Nero (37-68) was the fifth of the Roman emperors. He ascended the throne as Claudius adopted son. Under the influence of his mentor, the philosopher Seneca, Nero commenced his reign with a series of reforming edicts. However he was only...
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Curated OER

Photograph of Sarah Fischer as Carmen, 1937

For Students 9th - 10th
Sarah Fischer was a well known operatic star who performed all over Europe and across Canada. After decades in Europe, she returned to Montreal in 1940 and began to teach and mentor musical talent in Canada, greatly influencing the...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Plato

For Students 9th - 10th
Plato was a Classical Greek philosopher, who, together with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy. Plato was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and...

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