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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Woods Hole Oceanography Institute: Adaptations to Light

For Students 9th - 10th
View several pictures of ocean life through the eyes of scientists and staff at Woods Hole Oceanography Institute. This particular slideshow highlights how ocean creatures change their colors in order to either hide from or frighten...
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US Senate

U.s. Senate: Art & History: Political Cartoons of Thomas Nast

For Students 9th - 10th
Thomas Nast was an astute observer of the political machinations in Washington, D.C., as well as New York City. This slideshow of his cartoons show the quarrel between the moderate Republcans and the conservatives as they tried to gain...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Abbreviations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on abbreviations including an introduction to abbreviations with examples, why they are used, links to abbreviation activities, and a summary of the abbreviation information in text format. It also provides a...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Adding Words to Quotations

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson explainsr how to alter a quotation by adding or changing words. Numerous examples are provided.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces adjectives and provides examples. This lesson introduces adjectives and provides examples. A video [02:12], slideshow, and short lecture are included in this learning module.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Allegory

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow focuses on allegory by defining characteristics and providing examples.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Analyzing Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn to analyze Shakespearean comedies, tragedies, and sonnets. First use examples provided in a slideshow of A Midsummer Night's Dream to understand the process and topics included in an analysis of a comedy. Then learn to use three...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Analyzing the Author

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A slideshow with ten slides that discusses the difference between a subject and a theme and gives several examples of each found within a variety of popular classical and modern texts.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Answering Based on Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial lesson, students will review how to answer questions based on context clues. Definitions and short examples are provided related to how to find context clues and then apply the textual evidence to reading...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Apostrophes: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
In this slideshow tutorial, the punctuation topic of "the apostrophe" is reviewed. Each slide provides a different purpose for using an apostrophe.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Apostrophes and Contractions

For Students 6th - 8th
This slideshow lesson focuses on apostrophes and contractions; it defines contractions and shows how contractions are formed using apostrophes for the missing letters. It provides a contraction chart including the contraction, its...
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PBS

Pbs Nova: Gene Switches

For Students 9th - 10th
Colorful, easy-to-understand slideshow on gene switches. These embryonic gene switches play a powerful, predominant role in the animal's basic body plan and other early functions. 8/1/2007
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Parallel Structure in Pairs

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson discusses the importance of parallel construction in pairs and comparisons or contrasts. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Upper Canada District School Board

Tom Stretton's Chemistry Pages: The Mole Concept

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the chemistry of moles through this slideshow.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Common Themes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow tutorial focuses on theme. It defines the term and then explains each of 10 common themes in literature and provides examples: good vs. evil, the journey, coming of age, the role of fate, sacrifice, overcoming adversity,...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Judy Brophy: The Sun's Daily Cycle

For Students 3rd - 8th
Impressive animated slideshow presentation on the sun's daily cycle and how the sunlight changes hour by hour over the course of a day. Includes a teacher guide with lesson plan ideas and activities.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Magnetism

For Students 3rd - 5th
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the basic concepts and vocabulary of magnetism.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Dialoguing With the Author: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategy of questioning the author, also referred to as "dialoguing" with the author. The "dialoguing with author" strategy is explained, and examples of how to use the...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: The Impact of Rhetorical Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow focuses on the impact of rhetorical devices and how they impact text. It explains eight common rhetorical devices: anaphora, asyndeton, chiasmus, direct address, hyperbaton, parallelism, polysyndeton, and rhetorical...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Supporting Details Explained

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow focuses on supporting details; it discusses their purpose, the audience, and the point to be made. It lists the five most common types of supporting details: facts, statistics, opinions, examples, and personal observations...
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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Supporting Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow focuses on adding details to a paragraph. It covers ways to add details, primary and secondary support points, a flow chart organizer, moving from the topic sentence to a final essay, and strategies for generating and...
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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Author's Purpose and Point of View

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This downloadable slideshow focuses on how an author's purpose and point of view work together in fiction and nonfiction, and how to identify the point of view.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Narratives: Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on organizational structures for narratives including a review of narratives and a list of possible organizational structure types: chronological or sequential order, climactic order, in media, and...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Audience and Writing Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow tutorial focuses on adjusting writing style to fit the audience. It looks at audience characteristics and discusses how to adapt the vocabulary, sentence style, and tone to fit them. It provides an example using the topic...

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