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Embrace the Future: Resilient Kids

For Students 3rd - 8th
Advice about strengthening your ability to bounce back from adversity. Learn key skills, such as problem solving, making friends, and positive thinking, that will help you stay happy, healthy, and productive.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Empowering Students: I Am What I Think I Am!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Activity challenges students to think deeply about what gives a person the strength to triumph over crushing hardships and, thereby, to realize that the limits to what anyone might accomplish are often determined by the views he holds of...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: Hatchet

For Teachers 6th Standards
This unit teaches students about survival in the face of grave danger and overwhelming odds. Students will evaluate survival stories to learn about the importance of positive thinking, slowing down to think clearly, problem solving, and...
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Think U Know

For Students 2nd - 8th
Think U Know offers great interactive resources for kids on staying safe while having fun in chat rooms online. Here you will learn the facts through fun and exciting characters! A parent's page is also included.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Teacher Appreciation Honors Our Teachers

For Students 9th - 10th
With this collection of resources, students can find fun and create ways to honor the positive impact teachers have had on their lives.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Introduction to Scarcity and the Economic Way of Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this exercise, practice what you have learned about learning objective MOD-1.A from the AP Macroeconomics course and exam description. Topics include the definitions of economics, microeconomics, and macroeconomics, positive and...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Lesson: United Nations: International Day of Peace (K 12)

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson plan will help students to learn about the goal of world peace and what they can do to positively impact the world.
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32 Keys: A Collection of Ideas About Life: Attitude

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a collection of quotes about attitude and positive thinking.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the False Positive Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
Mining unobtainium is hard work- the rare mineral appears in only 1% of rocks in the mine. But your friend Tricky Joe has something up his sleeve. The unobtainium detector he's been perfecting for months is finally ready, and it returns...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Have Journal Will Travel: Promoting Family Involvement in Litera

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students build positive memories of literacy activities when they take turns taking home a book bag stuffed with items to encourage literacy interactions with their families.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Can You Convince Me?: Developing Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This effective tool for teaching persuasive writing contains thorough lesson plans which encourage young scholars to take a stance and create arguments to support their position. Contains printable worksheets, rubrics, a PowerPoint...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Thinking About Slopes: Part B

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Control the slope of lines passing through the origin (0, 0). Keep track of what changes when the slope becomes positive or negative, and when slope is larger or smaller than 1.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Negative Numbers, Variables, Number Line

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Practice comparing positive and negative numbers by thinking about their positions on the number line. Numbers to the right are greater than numbers to the left. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: What's the Right Weight for Me?

For Students 3rd - 5th
It is easy to compare yourself with the celebrities and models you see every day on TV and in magazines. These pictures sometimes help shape our body image and we begin to think that we should look like these people. The truth is that...
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Fairness (Spanish)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn how to be a fair person. The Spanish version of this website lists simple things you can do to be fair to others as well as discussion questions and activity ideas through which young students can think critically about what it...
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PBS

Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Games: Quack's Apples

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students are challenged to position sticks creating a path so apples land into the pond.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Three Cubed

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use the shapes provided and figure out how they fit together to make a 3 X 3 cube at this one page website. The solution is readily available right at the website.
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Project Vote Smart: Vote Easy

For Students 9th - 10th
Information for voters and others interested in the positions and affilliations of candidates for office in their states, including voting records, speeches, political experience, and endorsements. Answer questions about the issues that...
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USA Today

Kids, Steroids Don't Mix (Pdf)

For Students 9th - 10th
This article warns against the dangers of steroid use and highlights the causes and harmful effects of abusing steroids in order to get bigger and stronger. Think about the reasons teens are drawn to steroids through discussion questions...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Animal Game Impact of Human Activity or Natural Disasters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A description of a lesson where learners first listen to a story where they begin to think about and discuss the impact humans and natural disasters have on the environment. They then play a board game. This requires preparation...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Showing How to Deal With Anger

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Molly Bang's book, When Sophie Get's Angry-Really, Really Angry, provides students with positive ways of dealing with anger. When students explore their own methods of dealing with anger and then talk and write about new ways of...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 4.nf How Many Tenths and Hundredths?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Finish the equations to make true statements. The student must really think to encode the quantity in positional notation. Aligns with 4.NF.C.5.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Number Detective

For Students 3rd - 5th
On this one page website sharpen your logic and place value skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.

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