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Kathleen Morris: Teach Students How to Research Online in 5 Steps
Some great tips strategies for helping your students learn information literacy and online research skills.
LD Online
Ld Online: Teaching Expressive Writing to Ld Students
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.
British Library
British Library: Teaching Resources: Twelfth Night: Festive Comedy, Gender & Confusion
The ideas contained in these teacher notes are intended to present a range of creative activities to assist the development of independent research. It is hoped they will reinforce work undertaken collaboratively in class and develop...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Pharmaceutical Research Design Problem
Through this lesson and its associated activity, students explore the role of biomedical engineers working for pharmaceutical companies. First, students gain background knowledge about what biomedical engineers do, how to become a...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Heart to Heart
Young scholars learn about the form and function of the human heart through lecture, research and dissection. They brainstorm ideas that pertain to various heart conditions and organize these ideas into categories that help them research...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Get the Word Out at Mc Donalds!
Students take part in a hypothetical scenario that challenges them to inform customers at a local restaurant of how their use and disposal of plastics relates/contributes to the Great Pacific garbage patch (GPGP). What students...
Brown University
Adolescent Literacy Resources: Linking Research & Practice [Pdf]
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....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Artificial Heart Design Challenge
Students are presented with a hypothetical scenario in which they are biomedical engineers asked to design artificial hearts. Using the engineering design process as a guide, the challenge is established and students brainstorm to list...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Aging Heart Valves
In this unit, students learn about the form and function of the human heart through lecture, research and dissection. Following the steps of the Legacy Cycle, students brainstorm, research, design and present viable solutions to various...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Imaging Dna Structure
Students are introduced to the latest imaging methods used to visualize molecular structures and the method of electrophoresis that is used to identify and compare genetic code (DNA). Students should already have basic knowledge of...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Adaptations for Aeronautical Engineering
This activity first asks the students to study the patterns of bird flight and understand that four main forces affect the flight abilities of a bird. They will study the shape, feather structure, and resulting differences in the pattern...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Common and Natural Logarithms and Solving Equations
Students continue an examination of logarithms in the Research and Revise stage by studying two types of logarithms--common logarithms and natural logarithm. In this study, they take notes about the two special types of logarithms, why...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Quantum Dots and the Harkess Method
Students explore the applications of quantum dots by researching a journal article and answering framing questions used in a classwide discussion. This "Harkness-method" discussion helps students become critical readers of scientific...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Protecting the Mummified Troll
Students are introduced to the (hypothetical) task of developing an invisible (non-intrusive) security system to protect the school's treasured mummified troll! Solving the challenge depends on an understanding of the properties of...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: The Teaching Moves of a Strategic Teacher
Research demonstrates the effectiveness of the 12 strategic teaching moves described in this article. On any given day in any given classroom, the strategic teacher employs all of these moves - whether with the whole class, a small...
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Understanding Animal Research: Teacher Zone
Use these eight lessons as a basis for studying how animal research is used for medical and other scientific studies. Each lesson includes a PowerPoint presentation and teacher notes. Most also include worksheets or other student...
Practical Money Skills
Visa: Practical Money Skills: Financial Literacy for Grades 9 12
A financial literacy curriculum which features engaging design, student-centered activities, research projects, discussion points, and tools and resources. These lessons are designed to engage learners in learning the personal finance...
LD Online
Ld Online: Strategies for Composition in the Writing Process
An extensive discourse on strategies to teach writing skills to learning disabled children. Authors have developed an approach known as self-regulated strategy development (SRSD). In this paper they elaborate on the research they...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Under the Sea: Grade 1 and 2
Teach your grade one and two students math, science, and research skills, through this Under the Sea unit. Curriculum objectives are included with each lesson, as well as debriefing questions for the end of the study. An extensive...
Cengage Learning
National Geographic: Informational Text and Young Children [Pdf]
Research-based informative article on when, why and how to introduce and teach reading skills with informational texts to early-elementary students beginning as early as kindergarten.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Introduction to the Research Process
In this scaffolded instructional activity, 1st graders will independently gather information about elephants and then compile this information with their peers. This instructional activity is part of a unit that will culminate with an...
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Teaching Ideas: Using a Thesaurus
Use this learning exercise activity to develop your thesaurus research skills.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Teaching Word Recognition [Pdf]
From the magazine, Teaching Exceptional Children, Sept/Oct 2003 issue, this article explains two different strategies for helping students with word recognition through blending and analogizing.
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Kent School District: The Big 6 Research Process
Explore this site for an introduction to teaching information and technology literacy with The Big 6 strategies.