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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: Women and Children, Circa 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
How did the 1920s affect those working on farms? This brief article takes a look at the early optimism felt by 1920s farm families, as well as the poverty, resulting from overproduction, and also touches on how various groups benefited...
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Student Achievement Partners

Achieve the Core: I Tunes U Courses, Created by Teachers for Teachers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The iTunes U courses linked to below were developed by a group of classroom teachers to explain the Shifts in ELA / Literacy and mathematics required by the Common Core. Presented in partnership with The Council of Chief State School...
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Soil Quality: Soil Quality and Soil Health Information for Australia

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover and understand the quality and health of the soil in Australia in an effort to optimize sustainable agriculture. Several calculators are offered to measure various aspects of the soil, such as lime benefit, gravel and bulk...
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Child Mind Institute: Treating Sensory Processing Issues

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article looks at ways to address sensory processing disorders with therapy. The idea behind SI therapy is that specific movement activity, resistive bodywork, and even brushing of the skin can help a child with sensory problems...
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Roots of Action: How Kids Learn to Take Initiative and Overcome Challenges

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learning to take initiative is a behavior that helps kids navigate their lives with courage and optimism. This article provides insights into how children learn to take initiative. Parents and teachers are key mentors in the process. A...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Haircutting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, learners will learn to incorporate elements and principles of hair design to enhance facial shapes. The students will be able to relate hairstyles and facial structures to provide optimal hair designs for males and females.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Decisions Within a Budget Constraint

For Students 9th - 10th
Another approach to maximizing utility uses indifference curves (sometimes called utility curves) and budget constraints to identify the utility optimizing combination of consumption. Read about this method in this article.
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Other

High Step Sport Shoes: A Linear Programming Problem [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A simple example of a linear programming problem for students that helps them understand the basic ideas behind linear programming and how they can be applied to solving real world problems.
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Digital History

Digital History: Hollywood During the Great Depression

For Students 9th - 10th
One can trace the cynicism and despair at the beginning of the Great Depression to a more optimistic point of view by the end of the New Deal by looking at the movies produced by Hollywood. Read about the subject matter of the movies...
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Applied Mathematics Topics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Over a dozen topics in the field of Applied Mathematics are explored here. Each link contained detailed explanations of the area in question, along with examples and sketches that both teachers and students will find helpful.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why Do Competitors Open Their Stores Next to One Another?

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how game theory and Nash Equilibrium affect where retailers set up businesses to compete with each other. [4:07]
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Gottfried Leibniz

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers detailed biographical information on Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716 CE), who coined the mathematical term, "Function."
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Other

Middle Tennessee State University: Study Skills Help Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The Study Skills Help Page offers many learning strategies for success. The website is based on a college course - it has a wide variety of online learning resources such as study skills course objective, notes, and practice tests/games.
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Other

Gdrc: Collaborative Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site provides a thorough introduction to collaborative learning including terms and definitions, benefits of collaborative learning, strategies, tools, methods and making collaborative learning work.
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Other

Video 101: Video Sound

For Students 9th - 10th
Video 101 is a fascinating introduction to television production--an impressive collection of engaging, interactive lessons with plenty of example video clips to explain concepts. This chapter on Video Sound stresses the importance of...
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Other

Career Perfect: E Resume Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you interested in submitting your resume on the Internet? Use the E-Resume tutorial to learn how to get the job using an electronic resume.
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Build Web Site4u: How to Build a Website

For Students 9th - 10th
BuildWebSite4u.com offers an overview, advice, tools, and many other useful resources for building a website.
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Other

Decline of the Roman Republic: Military Commanders

For Students 9th - 10th
A good account on the later years of the Roman Redpublic, it focuses on the military commanders that were in constant conflict over power. These commanders included, among others, Crassus and eventually Julius Caesar. This conflict led...
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Other

Elated Communications: Paint Shop Pro Tutorials

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial shows how to get the best out of JASC's excellent budget image editor. Whatever your level of experience with Paint Shop Pro, you'll learn lots of cool techniques for producing great Web graphics!
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US Senate

Joint Economic Committee

For Students 9th - 10th
The Joint Economic Committee, composed of memebers from both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, reviews economic conditions and recommends improvements in economic policy. The content of the website includes...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Show Me the Money

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars learn about the major factors that comprise the design and construction cost of a modern bridge. Before a bridge design is completed, engineers provide overall cost estimates for construction of the bridge. Students learn...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 35: The Melting of the Cold War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As the Cold War evolved over four decades, the end of the world seemed imminent as the nuclear arms race continued to escalate. Popular music, especially in the 1980s, reflected this growing pessimism. By 1989 and 1990, as the Berlin...
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Franco Cavazzi

The Roman Empire: Gaius Gracchus

For Students 9th - 10th
A in-depth look at Gaius Gracchus' life as a leader in Rome. The article covers his election to office, his proposal to extend citizenship to Latium, the angry demonstration on Aventine Hill, and his death.
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National Institutes of Health

Nhlbi: Your Guide to Lowering High Blood Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a detailed guide to lowering high blood pressure. Content includes a focus on what normal blood pressure is vs. high blood pressure, detection measures, treatment, issues for women, and much more.

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