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PBS

Pbs: Raising a Girl With a Positive Body Image

For Students 3rd - 8th
Geared to parents and educators on how to raise a girl to have a positive body image and not be influenced by peers or media influences. This is an easy-to-read article which students would also find useful.
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Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy: Can Fire Positively Impact an Ecosystem?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students explore controlled burn scenarios and the positive impacts of fire on ecosystems.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: State Your Position

For Teachers 6th - 9th
To navigate, you must know roughly where you stand relative to your designation, so you can head in the right direction. In locations where landmarks are not available to help navigate (in deserts, on seas), objects in the sky are the...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Positive and Negative Incentives

For Students 3rd - 8th
Website with video and links to related resources exploring positive and negative incentives and choice in the economy.
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PBS

Pbs: Addition of Positive and Negative Integers

For Students 6th - 8th
Introducing a card game that your students can play in small groups to develop their addition skills. This video focuses on addition of positive and negative numbers and briefly touches on subtraction of integers.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Positive Linear Function Machine

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
The interactive activity has students explore positive linear functions by looking for patterns in the outputs to determine the function. The activity and teacher resources are included.
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Other

Positive Behavior Intervention and Support: Swpbis for Beginners

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article focuses on a school-wide positive behavior support (SWPBS) program. The goal is teaching behavioral expectations in the same manner as any core curriculum subject. The school will focus on three to five behavioral...
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ProCon.org

Pro con.org: Compare 2016 Presidential Candidate Positions

For Students 9th - 10th
Website offers a side-by-side comparison between presidential candidates on key issues in 2016 race. Invalubale resource informs with interactive features for students or anyone needing a way to organize positions on key issues.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Positive and Negative Intervals

For Students 9th - 10th
Highlight intervals on the domain of a function where it's entirely positive or entirely negative.
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The Math League

The Math League: Integers

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This site provides a detailed overview of integers, including positive and negative integers, number lines, absolute values of integers, and comparing integers.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Let's Go Fishing for Positive and Negative Integers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson will actively engage young scholars in a fishing tournament that uses ordered pairs to catch fish. As students begin to catch the hidden fish, they will find a relationship between the integers in the ordered pairs. By...
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OnlineMathLearning.com

Online Math Learning: Multiplying and Dividing Positive & Negative Decimals

For Students 7th
An interactive worksheet for practice in the multiplication and division of decimals with positive and negative signs.
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OnlineMathLearning.com

Online Math Learning: Adding & Subtracting Positive & Negative Decimals

For Students 7th
An interactive worksheet for practice in the addition and subtraction of decimals with positive and negative signs.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Effect of Continental Position on Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How close a region is to the ocean affects its climate.
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Other

Statement on Effective Parenting: Positive Support [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Association of School Psychologists has compiled a list of techniques meant to help parents prevent misbehaviors, deal with them when they occur, and how to support discipline at school. This article is brief, yet contains...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Grounding a Positively Charged Electroscope

For Students 9th - 10th
This Physics Classroom tutorial contains a simple animation demonstrating the grounding process for a positively-charged electroscope. The movement of electrons between the electroscope and ground is shown. An explanation accompanies the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg, G Gmd Global Positioning System Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Satellites communicate with a GPS device and establish the distance between them and their locations. The set of points at a fixed distance from a satellite form a sphere so when the GPS receives its distance from a given satellite, this...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Motion in 2 D

For Students 9th - 10th
Try the new "Ladybug Motion 2D" simulation for the latest updated version of the original game. Learn about position, velocity, and acceleration vectors.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Tracking Geomagnetic Storms in the Ionosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
The Sun is the ultimate source of the energy that powers weather systems on Earth. Geomagnetic storms are sun-powered storms in the upper atmosphere, arising from energized particles that are periodically ejected by the Sun. Among other...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: My Solar System

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive simulation that teaches about motion, acceleration, and velocity by allowing students to build their own solar system and watch the effects of gravitational pull and how that changes with initial position, velocity, and...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Graphical Analysis of One Dimensional Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
In the following interactive module students will describe a straight-line graph in terms of its slope and y-intercept. They will determine average velocity or instantaneous velocity from a graph of position vs. time.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The North (Wall) Star

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Celestial navigation is the art and science of finding one's geographic position by means of astronomical observations, particularly by measuring altitudes of celestial objects - sun, moon, planets or stars. This activity starts with a...
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Other

Unavco: Measuring Plate Motion With Gps: Iceland

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn about the architecture that is in place to enable GPS and how to interpret data for a station's position. They will develop a time series plot and use the data to see that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is rifting Iceland....
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Macroeconomics: Confronting Objections to the Economics Approach

For Students 9th - 10th
By the end of this section, you will be able to analyze arguments against economic approaches to decision-making, interpret a trade-off diagram, and contrast normative statements and positive statements.

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