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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Learning Skills for Interview and Group Discussion Communications

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the skills needed for interviews and group discussions including taking notes, exploring a topic, and staying on topic. It also provides a link to a model interview. SL.11-12.6 Speaking tasks
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Small Group Discussions

For Students 9th
We will engage in small-group discussions to demonstrate our understanding of our research topics. This will help us prepare for further research and product creation.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Discrete Mathematics Topics List

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough list of topics in the study of Discrete Mathematics. Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Point Lattices are three of the many areas given in-depth explanations here. Many of the links contain discussions of the topics that both...
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Other

Psychological Treatment Services: Group Therapy

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of two general types of group therapy and the characteristics of each.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Discussion Guides: Dear America

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Good for classrooms and book groups, this site offers background, summary, discussion topics and questions, as well as activities. There's also an interview with the author.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Com Padre: Work: Pre, During and Post Class Questions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a collection of questions to be presented to learners at three points during a study of the concept of work. Two questions are given before beginning the topic, the next set while studying it in class, and the last set as...
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Other

Quoteland

For Students 9th - 10th
A searchable collection of quotations, grouped by subject, author and occasion. You can also ask a discussion group for help with a quote.
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University of Arizona

Pulse: Powerful Explorations of Health and Energy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A cross curricular unit where students simulate an energy task meeting to discuss protecting human health through energy policies. The unit covers content for twelfth grade in math, physics, language arts, and government. Topics reviewed...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Themes: Prejudice & Discrimination: How Does Prejudice Emerge?

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "How does prejudice emerge?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration required...
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Synopsys

Synopsys: Optics: A Gentle Intro to Optical Design: Wave Particle Duality

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the manner in which light behaves as both wave and particle. This dualistic nature of light is one topic of many on the page.
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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon: Expert System Shells

For Students 9th - 10th
A somewhat technical discussion of expert system shells. Includes references to helpful books and periodicals on the topic as well.
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PBS

Pbs: The Roman Empire of the 1st Century: Religion and Politics in Daily Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will examine various aspects of religion in ancient Rome including the role of mythology, polytheism versus. monotheism, the treatment of Jews and Christians, and the spread of Christianity. To guide their...
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Other

Cpsr: Cyber Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
CPSR offers an informative discussion of current legal and policy topics hosted by group working for rights of assembly and speech for online communities.
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: 'Sewer Rats' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Sewer Rats by Sigmund Brouwer is an adventure tale. A group of kids secretly play paintball games in urban underground drainage tunnels. Then one of them gets lost in the tunnels just as a heavy rainstorm begins. This teacher's guide...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Hit Squad Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Hit Squad by James Heneghan is about a group of girls who decide to fight back against bullies at school. At first they feel empowered, but then an innocent person gets killed. This teacher's guide includes a book summary, discussion...
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Read Works

Read Works: Compare/contrast Kindergarten Unit: Similarities/differences in Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book Long Ago and Today by Rozanne Lanczak Williamsin in which students learn to recognize similarities and differences within a text. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Something Girl Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a teacher's guide for the book Something Girl by Beth Goobie, The character Sophie is physically abused by her father. When she ends up in the hospital, the truth emerges and Sophie is sent to a group home. There, she can feel...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Grind Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In "Grind," the desire to make money and have videos for their website spurs a group of skateboarding friends to take dangerous risks which leave one of them injured. The teacher's guide for this book by Eric Walters includes a summary,...