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Robert J. Marzano: Marzano's Framework Learning Map [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a two-page PDF of Marzano's Art and Science of Teaching Framework Learning Map. This chart includes the four Domains: Classroom Strategies and Behaviors, Planning and Preparing, Reflecting on Teaching, and Collegielity and...
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LD Online

Ld Online: Teaching Expressive Writing to Ld Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Author provides a research-based instructional essay on three components that consistently led to improved outcomes: adhering to a basic framework, teaching critical steps in the writing process, and providing feedback.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Our Bodies Have Computers and Sensors

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students learn about the human body's system components, specifically its sensory systems, nervous system and brain, while comparing them to robot system components, such as sensors and computers. The unit's life sciences-to-engineering...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: That's Hot! Robot Brain Programming

For Teachers 5th - 8th
With the challenge to program computers to mimic the human reaction after touching a hot object, students program LEGO robots to "react" and move back quickly once their touch sensors bump into something. By relating human senses to...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Pupillary Response & Test Your Reaction Time

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students observe and test their reflexes, including the (involuntary) pupillary response and (voluntary) reaction times using their dominant and non-dominant hands, as a way to further explore how reflexes occur in humans. They gain...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Brain Is a Computer

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students learn about the similarities between the human brain and its engineering counterpart, the computer. Since students work with computers routinely, this comparison strengthens their understanding of both how the brain works and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Reflecting on Human Reflexes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students learn about human reflexes, how our bodies react to stimuli and how some body reactions and movements are controlled automatically, without thinking consciously about the movement or responses. In the associated activity,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Passing the Bug

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students apply concepts of disease transmission to analyze infection data, either provided or created using Bluetooth-enabled Android devices. This data collection may include several cases, such as small static groups (representing...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Projections and Coordinates: Turning a 3 D Earth Into Flatlands

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Projections and coordinates are key advancements in the geographic sciences that allow us to better understand the nature of the Earth and how to describe location. These innovations in describing the Earth are the basis for everything...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Nanotechnology as a Whole

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are given a general overview of nanotechnology principles and applications, as well as nanomaterials engineering. Beginning with an introductory presentation, they learn about the nano-scale concept and a framework for the...
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Literacy Coach:key to Improving Teaching & Learning in Secondary Schools [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This report offers information about the role of teachers identified as literacy coaches as they interact with students and with colleagues. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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American Library Association

Aasl: Standards for the 21st Century Learner

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This document contains the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner published by the American Library Association. The standards provide a conceptual framework and broad guidelines for describing the information-literate student. These...
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Brown University

Adolescent Literacy Resources: Linking Research & Practice [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Literally a book, this resource looks at 4 key components of successful adolescent literacy programs, and includes both practical strategies and theoretical frameworks for working with struggling teenage readers. Requires Adobe Reader....
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Super Skeletons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learn more about the bones that make up your internal framework. This site provides learning opportunities through games, experiments, activities, and songs.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Book Important

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart guides students through the writing process utilizing a framework for finding out the important things. It teaches them a structure for organizing their writing as well.
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American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: Culturally Responsive Rti

For Teachers K - 1st
This series of professional learning modules, released by the National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt), presents Response to Intervention (RTI) as a culturally responsive framework for ensuring...
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National Council of Teachers of English

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The National Council of Teachers of English is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. The NCTE provides a forum for the profession, an array of opportunities for...
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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Is Pbl Effective for Advanced Placement Courses?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] An article and video investigating the use of PBL in an AP course. Learn from the experiences of a teacher using PBL in her AP US Government course. Find out if you can really cover the course material...
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PBS

Pbs: Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Learning About Limericks

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches the poetry form of a limerick. Students determine the characteristics by analyzing sample limericks for rhyming pattern, line length and stressed syllables. As assessment,...