Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Connecting Sentences
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides ways to connect sentences using transition words and punctuation (colons and semi-colons). Includes a list of transitional words and their uses, and a discussion of how punctuation is used to...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: 10 Ways to Use Social Media in the Classroom
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ten ways to incorporate social media to classroom instruction and writing initiatives.
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Libby Garland, "Introducing a New Immigration History Teaching Resource"
This article focuses on a guide for teaching immigration. It is a guide to smart, accessible materials on U.S. immigration for teachers to use, as well as advocates, activists, and others. The guide consists of a thematically-organized...
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Allerin: How Green Robots Are Helping With Environmental Sustainability
Robots are now being used to fight climate change and protect our green environments. They help to fight forest fires, manage our waste, restore the oceans, support renewable energy initiatives, and make agriculture more-environmentally...
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Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative
One 21st Century way of helping students stay in touch with the real world is to utilize technology. There are several online leadership projects for classrooms to use.
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Torrie Hester "Repatriation Agreements of the U. S., Mexico, and Canada"
This article focuses on repatriation agreements, which streamline immigrant removals after a person has been ordered from a country. Without these agreements, officials deporting an immigrant must secure approval through individual...
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Rohma A. Khan, "South Asian Immigrant Cab Drivers in New York City"
This article focuses on South Asian immigrants from Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh in the late 20th century attempted to infuse home with their interactions in America, to negotiate their own positions in society. In their pursuit of...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
In this series of lessons, learners learn the purpose of an electronic portfolio; use Google Blogger to create such a portfolio of their best work, including multimedia extensions as desired; and respond to each other's work online using...
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E Learn Magazine: E Learning 2.0
Stephen Downes discusses media and technology trends, the Web 2.0, and E-Learning 2.0.
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Sadlier School: Comparing and Contrasting Firsthand & Secondhand Texts
This unit uses first- and second-hand accounts to explore the life of Ruby Bridges and revolves around the book "Through My Eyes" by Ruby Bridges. This detailed lesson includes a full literacy unit, tips for small group and independent...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Sedimentary Processes of Transgression and Regression
This article gives a detailed explanation of how transgression and regression of sea levels work to create deposits of sedimentary rocks. Illustrations show the layering that takes place over time. The article discusses how geologists...
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Kid Citizen: Snap a Photo: Agent of Change
How did photographers help convince Congress to pass child labor laws? This module explores some of Lewis Hine's photographs that exposed children's working conditions and advocated for child labor laws to protect them. In this tutorial,...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: How to Use the "4 C's" Rubrics
"Rubrics describe what good critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity & innovation look like in the context of Project Based Learning." The collection of rubrics does not evaluate content for a specific subject...
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Kemper Equipment: Effectively Transporting Aggregate
Depending on a variety of factors, learn about some methods used for transporting aggregates by land and water.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Verbal Practice Exercise
This is a twenty-question activity with multiple choice answers about identifying the correct type of verbal that is used in a sentence (gerund, participle, infinitive). Answers are available through a link at the bottom.
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Tinkergarten: Books That Help Us Teach Problem Solving
One of the most helpful, and easy, ways to teach problem-solving is to read, fall in love with and make sense of books that help teach problem-solving strategies. This article lists a few examples of books to use in your classroom.
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Texthelp: Making Essential Digital Communications Inclusive & Accessible
Online content is often made inaccessible by our choices in font type, color, and size; the lack of captions on videos and alt tags on images; our use of complicated sentence structures; and, the lack of formatting and structure - to...
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Ebsco Post: How to Help Students Select Digital Tools and Resources
This article goes over some key points to help teachers explain to students why they should be cautious about using websites found through search engines to conduct academic research.
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Outdoor Life: Where to Hunt: Guide to the 8 Best Big Game Hunts in the West
Presents information on high quality hunts for big game across the United States. Looks at popularity of the hunt, type of terrain, difficulty level, trophy potential, places to stay, and cost for licenses and tags.
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Azoomee: E Safety Lesson 4: Digital Permanence
For this lesson, students learn about digital permanence and talk about how hard it is to remove something from the Internet once you put it out there. (Video length: 1 min. 57 sec.]
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Analog to Digital: Why and How to Teach Students to Write for an Online Audience
This article discusses the importance of teaching students how to write for an online audience using traditional writing skills but transitioning these to digital media. The author talks about ways to incorporate social media and...
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Rss Specifications
This is a collection of articles about RSS news feeds and contains "everything you need to know about RSS". The articles on various topics are available via RSS feed and podcast.Users select the RSS feeds (content) they wish to...