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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How to Use Different Word Functions

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Remember that each type of word has a special job or function to be used in a sentence. Subjects, verbs, and objects all have different uses. Remember to use them correctly! [0:33]
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Introduction to Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
This introduction provides some basic information as background for the detailed accounts of the particular cultures that follow. The cultures have been selected to represent Africa, in the sense that they include the larger and...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: I Am Not an Inmate I Am a Man. And I Have Potential

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Why I Refuse to Say I "Fight" My Disability

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Do We Have It and Where Can I Find It?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will use the electronic card catalog to locate books in the Media Center. Students will determine if the Media Center has a particular item, if it is currently available, and where the item is located in the Media Center.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Using Multiple Texts to Teach Content

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Each of us, every day, has to contend with multiple messages or texts-in the news, over the Internet, in our workplace, in books, and in conversation. Making sense of these sometimes conflicting messages is critical. But without being...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Helping and Modal Auxiliary Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A helping and modal auxiliary verb site from the Capital Community College. Use this site as a reference tool when learning about modal auxiliary verbs.
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Explicit Information

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify explicit information in nonfiction and fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books Deserts (A True Book-Ecosystems) by Darlene R. Stille and The Stories Huey...
Website
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate

For Students 9th - 10th
The Shodor Education Foundation has as its mission: "To advance science and math education through the use of computational science, modeling and technology." At this site, Shodor's Project Interactivate offers Java-based activities for...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Intelligence Agency

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity provides an active way for students to discover a few critical facts about how we use energy and how much energy we use. Each student has a "clue", some of which are pertinent energy facts and others are silly statements...
Website
University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow: The Hunterian

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Hunterian Museum is Scotland's oldest public museum and has collections that have been nationally recognized. The museum's website provides descriptions and pictures of some of the famous pieces in the museum's collections and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Concentrate This! Sugar or Salt

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the property dependence between concentrations and boiling point. In Section 1, students first investigate the boiling point of various liquid solutions. In Section 2 they analyze data collected from the entire class...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hybrid Vehicle Design Challenge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This module is written for a first-year algebra-based physics class, though it could easily be modified for conceptual physics. It is intended to provide hands-on activities to teach the overarching concept of energy, as it relates to...
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BBC

Bbc Languages: Talk Age and Siblings

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is focused on the context of talking about the family and includes a video and a worksheet. This video explores the vocabulary and structures of family, age, marriage and family celebrations. The grammar areas of focus are on...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Why the Net? An Interactive Tool for the Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
This online workshop for integrating technology in the classroom features topics on how to use the Internet for educational purposes. Content includes a full explanation, demonstrations, explorations, and guidelines for implementation....
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: The Lifestyle Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a three-week project that has students explore and assess their personal lifestyle and how their habits impact on the environment. In the process, they learn that they too have a responsibility to minimize any negative impacts,...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Checkbook (Mis)calculations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students create ways to check their calculations against the three most common checkbook errors. After students have completed this part of the lesson, they then solve a good...
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Other

Sprk: Time, Speed, and Distance:teacher Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will use Sphero to show that there is a linear relationship between time, speed, and distance. They will program Sphero to move at a particular speed for a particular amount of time, and then measure how far it has gone.They...
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PBS

Pbs: Count on It!: Episode 201 Math Is Everywhere, Part I

For Students K - 1st Standards
Blossom and Snappy use counting to answer their questions about quantity. They eat popcorn and try to find out who has more. They go to an ice cream shop where they count ice cream containers using multiplication, and they use math to...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Missing City

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students examine maps of a crime spree in order to figure out if any locations have been unreported. The lesson is not math-intensive and instead forces students to use...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: How Much Money Do You Have

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart every page has a different total value of currency. Students can practice counting money. This flipchart can be used to add to your currency lesson or used as a center.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Gems and Their Creation

For Students 9th - 10th
A gem is a precious or semiprecious stone that has been cut, polished, engraved, or otherwise altered to be used as a personal insignia for making sealings or as decoration. Often imported from afar, ancient gems were truly exotic, and...
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Faulty Comparison

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry explains that at least two items are required for a comparison and each has three characteristics: completeness, consistency, and clarity. It provides examples of errors in the characteristics and explains how to fix them...
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Colorado State University

Colorado State University: Writing @ Csu Writing Guides

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a fairly sophisticated series of writing guides. It assumes that users already have a solid grasp of spelling, grammar and mechanics, so it focuses more on organization and types of presentation than on more basic skills....