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Speaking of Research: Animal Welfare and the 3 Rs

For Students 10th - 12th
An explanation of the 3 Rs of animal research - standards against which any animal research project is measured. They are Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement.
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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...
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Bamburgh Research Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore an old castle. Here is all the information and pictures to go along with it that will walk you thru the centuries of history of Bamburgh Castle. See the archaeology project unfold as volunteers uncover treasures from the castle's...
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The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes images of the Antikythera Mechanism, a description of this device and modern-day recreations.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 1: Orientation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this first unit of a course on Art Appreciation, students are instructed in how the entire course is organized, what to expect, what course symbols mean, rubrics used in assessment, and what plagiarism is. The next section explains...
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Lisbon School District: Digital Book Reports and Research Projects

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Students in Grades 2, 3, and 4 researched wild animals and a person in American history. They wrote and presented reports and created movies. This page presents three examples of their digital book reports in video format.
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Cengage Learning

Mission to Mars: Project Based Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars will plan a human expedition to the planet Mars. Through this project-based activity, they can choose to learn about the surface of Mars, the trip route, the analogical features between Mars and Earth, nutrition and...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Paper Writing: Research Paper: Research Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents writers with information about appropriate resources to use when writing research papers and useful tips on how to find these resources. Students can read through a vocabulary section to learn the definitions of common...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Field Projects: Science in Action

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students gather information about atmospheric scientific field projects in order to understand how a research question about the Earth system can be answered by collecting data using many different research platforms...
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Project Foundry: Project Based Learning Ideas

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Choosing an end product for PBL can be challenging due to the sheer number of possibilities. To encourage high-level products, it is beneficial to know students' interests and learning styles. The following product grid categorizes...
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Teaching Tolerance: Pre Wwii European Jewish Life Photo Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This set of lessons - comprised of five 45-minute sessions - will engage students in researching and understanding how individual Jewish communities and lives were affected by the Holocaust. By researching and analyzing family...
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Texas A&M University

Csfa: Circum Pacific Research by the Csfa

For Students 9th - 10th
Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A & M University is researching many different sites across North America looking in to theories of "Clovis First" and "Pre-Clovis" as to who were the first people to inhabit North...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Gossip to Learn: A Juicy Approach to Research

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Though teachers might use this student-centered, technology-based, one or two-day research project to introduce any author, English 12 teachers may wish to use the lesson to jump-start a unit on British literature from the Romantic...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Project Author Study

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about an author study. Students will find a multi-step project to help students effectively investigate an author during research. Reproducible graphic organizers are provided.
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Archives & Museum Informatics: The Digital Hammurabi Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes the Digital Hammurabi Project at The Johns Hopkins University. Its purpose is to advance scanning technology in order to produce high-quality 3-D images of cuneiform tablets, and to store these in a digital library...
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University of California

History Project: The Removal of the Cherokee Nation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle school lesson plan attempts to answer the question of the government's Indian policy and its relationship to the Cherokee. Students will use sections from 26 primary source documents to aid in the research.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: From Here to Narnia

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will provide eighth grade Language Arts students with an inquiry-based research project based on C. S. Lewis' classic, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The student will determine the author's purpose in writing this...
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National Human Genome Research Institute

Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research Program

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the official division for researching the implications of the Human Genome Project. Find out about topics being discussed involving the ethics of the program, how it is socially accepted, and what sort of legislature is involved...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Data Analysis for Advanced Science Projects

For Students 9th - 10th
The importance of data analysis in science projects is explained. Describes common mistakes young scientists make. The article then discusses how to find out what the standard methods of data analysis are for the type of research you...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Wv Youth Reporting Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the resources in this collection to learn how a middle school teacher from West Virginia promoted reading, research, interviewing, writing and speaking skills as his students explored some tough issues. Students worked with a public...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Land Surveying Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This project resulted from of the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher, Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life application in...
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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: The Human Genome Project, a Decade Later

For Students 9th - 10th
This article reviews advances made by medical researchers since the complete mapping of the human genetic code ten years earlier. Although the expectation then had been that cures could be found for many diseases based on this new...
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California Institute of Technology

Cal Tech: Robotics Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the robotics home page from California Technical Institute. It has information on CalTech robotics research projects on kinematics mechanical systems.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: How to Choose Credible Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on choosing credible sources for a research project. It offers two versions of a slideshow: a non-audio slideshow and an audio slideshow which explains the information as it is shown. They each define terms, offer...

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