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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Homeostasis Succession

For Students 9th - 10th
Given scenarios, illustrations, or descriptions, the student will identify the process of ecological succession and the impact that succession has on populations and species diversity.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Problem of Child Labor in the Progressive Era

For Students 9th - 10th
After analyzing primary and secondary resources about the child labor, the students should be able to draw conclusions about the need to reform child labor practices.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The American Government: The Democratic Process

For Students 9th - 10th
Given primary and secondary resources, students will be able to identify and analyze various methods of expanding the right to participate in the democratic process.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Succession

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Take a look at primary and secondary ecological succession and explore climax communities.
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Other

Groucher College: Library Research Techniques for the Professional Scholar

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides clear techniques and guidelines on finding secondary and primary research for use in scholarly analysis that involves looking at the evidence and discovering a pattern that makes meaning.
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Other

Hong Kong Education City: English Campus

For Students 9th - 10th
English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Civil War, a Nation Divided

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A wonderful resource using primary and secondary source materials to explore many facets of the Civil War from the war itself to its impact on the home front. Includes video and text downloads.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: History Explorer

For Students 9th - 10th
This website, developed by the National Museum of American History, provides standards-based online resources for teaching and learning American history. An array of teacher lessons, activities, interactive media, and artifacts tag this...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare Articles [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing and contrasting nonfiction articles.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare Central Idea Across Mult Texts [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing a central idea across multiple texts.
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Handouts: Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What kinds of evidence best support the points you make in a paper? Where can you find the evidence you need? This handout answers all these questions and more, including the difference between primary and secondary sources. You'll also...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Human Environmental Impacts

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module, we will explore the concept of pollution and discuss how human use of resources relates. We will discuss the evidence for and against human-caused climate change. Students will compare and contrast pollution cleanup with...
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Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: Trust Me

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource which is designed to support teachers in exploring critical thinking online. The "Trust Me" resource has been created with teachers in mind after hearing from schools that they wanted a resource which would start the...
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Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: Embedding Online Safety

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Looking for ways to weave in online safety messages across your school curriculum? Visiting a topic in different subject areas offers a creative way for pupils to bring their learning to life by making links to the world around them. We...
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TES Global

Tes: Determining of Credibility of Online Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This free resource is a sheet that will help students assess the credibility of an online primary source or an online secondary source.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Decoding the Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a rich learning module where students explore the use of telegraphs and of Union codes during the Civil War. Both topics have an "Explainer" to introduce it, pre- and post-activities, and primary and secondary source materials to...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Discovery and Attribution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The research process can be daunting, but it doesn't have to be overwhelming! After you complete this self-guided unit, you will be well prepared to write a research paper. You will learn how to choose a topic, evaluate the reliability...
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Desmond Tutu Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about 1984 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Desmond Mpilo Tutu through this multimedia website from The Nobel Foundation, which includes primary and secondary resources as well as video clips.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: On the Brink of Nuclear War: Leadership and the Cuban Missile Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module uses current primary and secondary resources to help students understand the significance of the Cuban Missile Crisis and assess the roles of Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Types of Air Pollution

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Distinguishes between primary and secondary pollutants and identifies examples of each.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Succession

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of primary succession, secondary succession, and climax community.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Types of Air Pollution Study Guide

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about primary and secondary air pollutants. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
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University of Texas at Austin

Lbj for Kids! Education

For Students 9th - 10th
Providing photos, audio clips, primary texts, a timeline, and a glossary, this website is a good introduction to President Lyndon Johnson's efforts to reform education in the United States. Listen to (or read) Johnson's "Great Society...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Researching Information: Comparing Electronic and Print Texts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson allows students to compare and contrast print text structure with that of an online site. Students work together and use worksheets in comprehending the informational text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short research...