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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Teaching Guides for Middle School

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Although these teaching guides are designed to be used with a video series called "Big Changes, Big Choices," most of the material here can be used without the videos. The topics covered in this series include both life skills and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Test a Beam

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students measure different types of small-sized beams and calculate their respective moments of inertia. They compare their calculations to how much the beams bend when loads are placed on them, gaining insight into the ideal geometry...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Lego Introduction to Graphing

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use a LEGO ball shooter to demonstrate and analyze the motion of a projectile through use of a line graph. This activity involves using a method of data organization and trend observation with respect to dynamic experimentation...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Viscous Fluids

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students are introduced to the similarities and differences in the behaviors of elastic solids and viscous fluids. Several types of fluid behaviors are described--Bingham plastic, Newtonian, shear thinning and shear thickening--along...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: May the Magnetic Force Be With You

For Teachers 11th - 12th
This instructional activity begins with a demonstration of the deflection of an electron beam. Students then review their knowledge of the cross product and the right hand rule with sample problems. After which, students study the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Changing Fields

For Teachers 11th - 12th
This lesson begins with an activity in which students induce EMF in a coil of wire using magnetic fields. Then, demonstrations on Eddy currents show how a magnetic field can slow magnets just as Eddy currents are used to slow large...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Teaching Geography: Global Economy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Take a close look into two vastly different global regions and delve into the effects the environment has on the respective economies. A video presents areas in Southeast Asia pertaining to the global economy and areas in the United...
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Teaching Guides for K 5

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Guides for teaching life skills that range from trustworthiness to conflict resolution. These guides were created for use with a set of videos, "The Six Pillars of Character," but most of the information and ideas can be used without...
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Other

Five Steps to Teaching Solid Character in Students

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The author of this article argues that character development must be taught in schools and that teachers must take steps to make sure students understand what perseverance, determination, empathy, responsibility, respect, and caring are....
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Prejudice & Respect

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A collection of Spanish language activities and discussion questions teaching students to treat people the way they would want to be treated. Includes strategies on for standing up for people who are being treated with prejudice.
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Learning for Justice

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A website aimed at teachers, parents, and students on ways to combat hateful words and actions. Teaching kids about tolerance is part of many curriculum units across many grades; this site has separate sections tailored to grade specific...
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Teaching Guides for High School

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The pages in this website were created to accompany two video series, "In Search of Character" and "Not for Sale - Ethics in the Workplace, but most of the material can easily be used without the videos. Character topics include traits...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Kindness in the Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Kindness in the Classroom is a multi-part video series designed to give educators insight into the positive impacts of teaching mindfulness in a classroom setting. The series focuses on implementing the Kindness Curriculum; a free...
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PBS

Pbs: Tolerance in Times of Trial

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity compares the treatment of Japanese-Americans and German-Americans during World War II and the treatment of Arab-Americans after September 11th.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Peep and the Big Wide World: Professional Development

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
PEEP and the Big Wide World, the animated Emmy Award-winning series that teaches science and math to an early childhood audience, offers professional development videos hosted by and tailored to family child care educators and...
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Childnet

Childnet: Star Send Toolkit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An extensive teaching toolkit to equip, enable and empower educators with the relevant knowledge they need to support young people with special educational needs and disability (SEND). View and download each part of the teaching toolkit.
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US Department of Education

Helping Your Child Become a Responsible Citizen [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Helping a child become responsible isn't always an easy process. This comprehensive site is directed towards parents (and can be easily adapted for educators) who would like to teach their children to become responsible citizens.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Earth Day Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] How can you treat the earth with more respect? Check out this resource featuring links to elementary activities to celebrate Earth Day. You will find word searches, crossword puzzles, reading...
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Culture Plus Consulting: Nine Cultural Value Differences You Need to Know

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This teaching resource provides a general understanding of cultural differences that need to be embraced by teachers and students.
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Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: Star Films

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Four animated learning films to support and reinforce the key messages from the teaching toolkit. Each film contains: A short 2-3 minute animated film covering issues related to each section of the toolkit, a pause function to prompt...
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Other

Foundation for a Better Life: Values: Personal and Family Values

For Students 9th - 10th
A range of media and resources--billboards, televised public service announcements, first-person accounts, quotations--that communicate ideas about the meanings of a wide range of essential values, such as ambition, gratitude, respect,...
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: We Are Family, Grades 4 8

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
How can you introduce a unit on families with upper elementary and middle school students? This site provides lessons, activities, themes and more for accomplishing this task.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: We Are Family, Grades 2 3

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Check out these cross-curricular activities for second and third grade teachers focused on the family. This site provides lessons, activities, ideas, reproducibles and more.
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Other

Kings Canyon Unified School District: Copyright and Plagiarism [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd
This lesson teaches second-grade students about the differences between copyright, plagiarism, cheating, and stealing and the importance of respecting guidelines around them.

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