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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Analysis: Putting It Together: Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on analysis including an understanding of what analysis is, the keys to effective analysis, and the types of analytic assignments.
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Other

In Time: Tenets of Democracy: Critical Thinking and Decision Making

For Students 9th - 10th
This critical thinking exercise and checklist is designed for teachers and students. A lesson plan can be developed here that illustrates decision-making skills and a teacher can use examples of common problems that get in the way when...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Thinking Skills

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this self-guided course, you will be looking at several pieces of literature in many different forms. This unit will teach you some principles of thinking and learning and how to use basic literary terms in the analysis of literature....
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Stanford University

Beyond the Bubble: History Assessments

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of innovative assessments, interactive rubrics, and annotated samples of student work with an emphasis on primary source documents for the use in a wide range of history concepts.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Who Do You Think You Are?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will demonstrate an understanding of character through improvisation. Students will imagine and clearly describe their characters through performance. They will relate a character's actions and emotions and create a setting.
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Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Looking Critically at Picture Books

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
This site describes several ideas and activities to use with picture books and intermediate/middle school age students. Specific title to use are also given.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: You Decide!

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Think about a difficult decision you have had to make. After you decided did it work out? Why or why not? Why do you think decisions and choices are hard to make? We make personal decisions and we make decisions as groups. There is a...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Buddhism and Pessimism

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice your critical analysis skills for the MCAT with this passage and follow-up questions about Buddhism and pessimism.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: New to Art? Get Started With This Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial, think about how art and identity are related.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: New to Art? Get Started With This Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial, think about how different art materials can create different impressions.
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Fact or Opinion?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, students must learn to recognize the differences between fact and opinion.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: What Makes a Hero?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this unit, young scholars will discuss what qualities make a hero: kid heroes, adult heroes, local heroes, and historical figure heroes. They will extend this to what qualities make historical figures heroes for them; they will...
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Other

Judging Student Created Web Pages

For Students 9th - 10th
Some questions to think about when assessing student work in the form of Web pages. This information is taken from judges of educational web sites.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Games Frogs

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Use this interactive game to improve your knowledge and understanding of patterns and algebra. Can you describe a rule to follow where you make the least moves? Just follow the instructions below it.
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Great Awakening

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson about the Great Awakening allows students to critically examine three...
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Other

Nasa: Iss Earth Kam

For Students 9th - 10th
Students get a whole new perspective of the world through images obtained from the International Space Station. Students can even request images to be taken through ISS EarthKAM. Activities and educator guides are provided.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Animal Einsteins: Figure That One Out

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate problem-solving techniques by using observation and data analysis skills. Observe how different people solve the same puzzle and make conclusions about how humans and animals think.

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