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What I Have Learned: 8 Ways to Increase Student Motivation Through Goal Setting

For Teachers K - 1st
As educators, we realize the value of goal setting and are constantly encouraging our students to dream big and set goals. What we often forget is that unless we help them find their motivation, set up a plan, and identify supports they...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Motivation and Emotion: Psychology

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module with comprehensive multi-media resources, including assignments, projects, and assessment on motivation and emotion.
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Mental help.net: Motivating Adolescents Toward Responsible Choices Part I

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explains the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation in the context of parenting a teenager. Then discusses the difference between controlling a teen versus giving them choices. (Published: Feb. 3, 2015)
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Modern World History: Motives for Imperialism

For Students 9th - 10th
Why would countries go to extremes to control another country? Examine the 5 main motives for imperialism. Also view primary sources including sketches, maps, advertisements, and photographs and answer related discussion questions.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Great Ideas for Motivating Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strategies and downloadable content to use while motivating students in your classroom. Includes topics such as: Establishing a Framework for Achieving Success, Establishing Class Identity, Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal, Make...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Great Ideas for Motivating Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strategies and downloadable content to use while motivating students in your classroom. Includes topics such as: Establishing a Framework for Achieving Success, Establishing Class Identity, Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal, Make...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Great Ideas for Motivating Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strategies and downloadable content to use while motivating students in your classroom. Includes topics such as: Establishing a Framework for Achieving Success, Establishing Class Identity, Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal, Make...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Great Ideas for Motivating Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strategies and downloadable content to use while motivating students in your classroom. Includes topics such as: Establishing a Framework for Achieving Success, Establishing Class Identity, Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal, Make...
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Ad lit.org: Student Motivation and Engagement in Literacy Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teachers can help students build confidence in their ability to comprehend content-area texts, by providing a supportive environment and offering information on how reading strategies can be modified to fit various tasks. Teachers should...
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The Newberry Library

Newberry: The Crusades: Motivations, Administration, and Cultural Influence

For Students 9th - 10th
Newberry Library learning module uses primary resources from which students examine Western Christian religious beliefs, political relationships, and personal values during the Middle Ages and how the goals and actions of the Crusades...
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Modern World History: The Causes and Motivations for the Scramble for Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
Industrialization led to the "scramble for Africa" by European countries seeking raw materials, markets, and cheap labor. However, other factors played a role such as political, ideological, and religious reasons. Examine these reasons...
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Mental help.net: Motivating Adolescents Toward Responsible Choices Part Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Part II of this article describes tools a parent has for guiding teens to make good choices, and the importance of being there for your teen to help them weather the inevitable storms of adolescence. (Published: Feb. 3, 2015)
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Free Management Library

Map: Overview of Leadership in Organizations

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes a vast amount of information regarding leadership. Topics include leadership styles, theories, and trends. Consists of a large number of links that allow for easy access to distinct topics.
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Crescent Public Schools

Crescent Public Schools: Educational Theories

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents some of the major theories of learning, their principles, and how they impact learning. Covers constructivism, behaviorism, Jean Piaget's developmental model, brain-based learning theory, control theory of motivation,...
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University of Calgary

University of Calgary: Varieties of Orthodox Judaism

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the motivations for forming the Orthodox movement. Lists issues which the Orthodox and other Jews view differently. Provides diagram of the different sects of Orthodox Judaism.
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PBS

Pbs: Nova: The Boldest Hoax

For Students 9th - 10th
Beginning with a description of a NOVA program on the scientific hoax of the Piltdown Man, this site also offers a podcast interview with an archeologist, a transcript of the program, and a teacher's guide. While there is no proof of who...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Space Travel

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars are introduced to the historical motivation for space exploration. They learn about the International Space Station as an example of space travel innovation and are introduced to new and futuristic ideas that space...
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US Department of State

Office of the Historian: The Citizen Genet Affair

For Students 9th - 10th
Washington's foreign affair policy was motivated by the crisis between France and Britain. Edmond Charles Genet was the foreign minister to the United States who was recalled due to defiant actions. Read how this spectacle solidified...
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Donald Clark

Big Dog, Little Dog: Leadership & Human Behavior

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An exceptional leader is someone who understands what motivates the people they manage. Explore Maslow's hierarchy and see how it can be expanded into leadership settings and roles.
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Donald Clark

Big Dog, Little Dog: Leadership & Human Behavior

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An exceptional leader is someone who understands what motivates the people they manage. Explore Maslow's hierarchy and see how it can be expanded into leadership settings and roles.
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Chemical Reactions & Engineering Design

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity begins with a story about rescuing reptile eggs from a new construction site. Using the story as motivation, students are presented with an engineering design challenge: Build a portable device which can warm,...
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Education.com

Education.com: Problem Solved

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Problem-solving skills can be practiced and strengthened over time with puzzles such as Tangrams! In the social-emotional learning activity Problem Solved, your child will explore problem-solving...
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Duke University

The Biblical Perspective of the Poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Meticulous exposition on the perspective and motivation of the author EA Robinson's writing, examining the role of the bible in his work.
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California State University

California State University: Curiosity and Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
California State University student research into the psychological theories of curiosity and what motivates people to do what they do.

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