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CommonLit

Common Lit: The Man Who Coined "Genocide" Spent His Life Trying to Stop It

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "The Man Who Coined "Genocide" Spent His Life Trying to Stop It," accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
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Edutopia

Edutopia: Teaching Students How to Ask Productive Questions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article gives insight into how to improve engagement, comprehension, and critical thinking by teaching students the process of asking insightful questions. Included is a comprehensive, metacognitive framework of questioning skills...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Now: Do Now: Should Teens Who Commit Serious Crimes Be Sentenced as Adults?

For Students 9th - 10th
Click on Watch on YouTube to watch the FRONTLINE film "Stickup Kid." Then Do Now activity, students engage in a conversation around teen sentencing and discuss the question: Should teens under 18 be tried and sentenced as children or...
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Other

Fusion Yearbooks: Great Ways to Encourage Students to Ask Questions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article contains 9 ways that teachers can maintain and develop that pre-school curiosity as our children grow older by fostering question asking in the classroom.
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Other

The 10 Most Commonly Asked Questions About Highly Gifted Children

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Who are the highly gifted?" "How do I know if I have a highly gifted child?" "Will the school know what to do with a highly gifted child?" Find the answers to these questions and more at this website.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Discussion Guide: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses" by Paul Goble. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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World Health Organization

World Health Organization: Dioxins and Their Effects on Human Health

For Students 9th - 10th
The World Health Organization answers questions relating to dioxins in our environment. Learn what dioxins are, how they effect our health and what is being done about possible contamination of the food supply.
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US Geological Survey

Usgs: Unanswered Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how convection currents in the mantle are the driving force of continental drift. The reading also briefly addresses the scientists who laid the groundwork for this idea.
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University of Minnesota

U Mn: Immigration, Demographic Change, and National Identity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource includes two documents: one is written by a senior Japanese immigration officer who discusses Japan's immigration policy options, and the other is written by a Harvard professor who questions the influence of Hispanic...
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Colonial Williamsburg: Religion and Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay discusses colonists who questioned the "Anglican establishment." It then explains how religion was used to convince colonists to support the war.
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Other

The Shakespeare Authorship Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, by a renowned Shakespeare scholar, systematically refutes arguments made by people who argue that someone other than William Shakespeare, most notably the Earl of Oxford, wrote the works of William Shakespeare.
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EL Education

El Education: Discovering the Genesee Volume 1

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Discovering the Genesee was created by third grade students in Rochester, New York, as part of a Learning Expedition on local history. Student work was guided by four questions, which became the chapters of their book: Who were the...
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FNO Press

From Now On: The Research Cycle, 2000

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Excellent site from From Now On for students who are assigned research papers and need to begin finding and reading material. Part of a book, the site gives information on questioning, evaluating, planning, gathering, sorting,...
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Other

Joe Foss Institute: u.s. Citizenship Civics Test

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a shot at the standard exam expected of those who apply for U.S. Citizenship. Many who come from other countries study hard for this test and do well, but trials have shown that many U.S. natives have a hard time answering the...
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Bill of Rights Institute

Bill of Rights Institute: Unlocking Your Cellphone

For Students 9th - 10th
Who owns your property stored in a virtual world? Who has the rights to protect it, to keep it private, to make it public? These questions are investigated in this lesson plan.
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Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Abraham

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a literary text about an elephant who escaped captivity to go back into the wild and answer questions on comprehension, dynamic characterization, textual evidence, main idea, and more....
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Other

Kid Citizen: Congress and Child Labor

For Students 3rd - 5th
Congress is made up of a group of people who work together to improve the quality of lives of citizens throughout the nation. Long ago Congress decided that it was important to pass labor laws to protect children. Why did they think that...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Reconstruction and the Formerly Enslaved

For Students 9th - 10th
What are the "big questions" of Reconstruction? Article provides an overview of the Reconstruction period when Americans debated rights and the nature of freedom and equality. It focuses on who was an American and how citizenship should...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Mutual Assistance Within the Ghetto Walls

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In order to make it through the dark days in the Warsaw Ghetto, Jews leaned on each other for support and guidance. Using the Warsaw Ghetto as an example, this lesson plan will highlight those who put their lives on the line to help...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara Righteous Among Nations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A Righteous Among Nations is a non-Jew who risked their life to save Jews from the Holocaust. Chiune Sugihara is one of these men. Read his story and answer/discuss critical thinking questions. Additional materials and tips for the...
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Other

Educational Resources Information Center: Play Dough Economics

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Who doesn't love to play with play dough? Imagine learning basic economic concepts by playing with play dough! The following document is a treasure trove of lessons geared towards teaching primary and elementary students economics...
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C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Affordable Care Act

For Teachers 12th
A learning module on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include identifying who was not...
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Week of 8 8 16: Donald Trump Might Be in Real Trouble This Time

For Students 9th - 10th
Let's take a step back from the news of the past few days and ask a fundamental question: Why does everything suddenly seem different? Donald Trump, the unsinkable candidate who seemed immune to political consequences while winning...
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Read Works

Read Works: Passages: "Sandwich Money"

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The literary passage "Sandwich Money" features a young woman who works at a restaurant and lives on a tight budget, but splurges to free a bird. A Step Read, an easier version of the story, is provided...

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