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Theories of Learning in Educational Psychology: Learning Theories Site Map

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Extensive information about four perspectives of learning theories, and the models that have been developed under each. These include the behaviorist perspective, the cognitive perspective, the humanistic perspective, and the social...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Engaging all students in a themed study or unit is a challenge that teachers can resolve by using materials that match students' independent or instructional reading levels (Robb 1994, 2000). When students face textbooks that are above...
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Vancouver Art Gallery: Emily Carr: Different Ways of Looking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars are instructed in looking at landscape from multiple viewpoints using the works of Emily Carr.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Censorship

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, the people behind Kalam Nawaem, or "Sweet Talk," a popular Arab television, discuss how they must carefully choose their topics and tone to not only increase audience interest, but to keep their program on the air.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, Internet

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan is designed to teach various methods students can use when researching background information on one another in order to introduce each other in written and oral form.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Cost/benefit Analysis: Three Gorges Dam

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson will allow students to evaluate the costs/benefits of the Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River in China. The purpose of this lesson is to encourage students to look at a complex issue from differing viewpoints and to...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Saving Money 2

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
The purpose of this task is for learners to relate addition and subtraction problems to money and to situations and goals related to saving money. A problem is given that will contain multiple solutions, this allows students to think...