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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Establishing Arguments

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to create an effective argument in this step-by-step process.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Generate Ideas and Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will focus on the writing you do in high school. Whether you write expository and persuasive essays or short stories, your first steps are to determine and define your audience. After that, you will begin to generate ideas...
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Joe Landsberger

Study Guides and Strategies: Expository Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page has eight basic steps for writing expository essays: select topic, write the thesis, choose a method of development, organize, write topic sentences for body paragraph, write the body paragraphs, write an introduction, and...
Article
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Create a Newsletter With I Work by Lorrie Jackson [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a nine-page PDF article on how to "Create a Newsletter with iWork" by Lorrie Jackson; iWork is Apple's wordprocessing software. It includes a description of the software and provides step-by-step instructions which include adding...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Butterfly Bush Visitors

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this lesson, the children learn about how critters depend on the butterfly bush and how the butterfly bush, in turn, depends on it. Common Core writing skills are integrated as they take it to the next step, and create their own page...
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Solving Linear Inequalities: Introduction and Formatting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource demonstrates how to solve linear inequalities step-by-step and shows four different solution formats/notations viz. inequality notation, set notation, interval notation, and the last "notation" which is more of an...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Happened to the Water? Designing Ways to Get and Clean

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this scenario-based activity, students design ways to either clean a water source or find a new water source, depending on given hypothetical family scenarios. They act as engineers to draw and write about what they could do to...
Article
Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Building Research Skills 2 3

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Check out this site to learn more about building research skills for grades 2-3. This site offers suggestions for activities that will sharpen your abilities.
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Other

St. Chris Physics: The Physics of Skydiving

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustration provides an overview of the scientific process of when a skydiver steps out of a plane.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Android App Development

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students develop an app for an Android device that utilizes its built-in internal sensors, specifically the accelerometer. The goal of this activity is to teach programming design and skills using MIT's App Inventor software (free to...
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Other

University of Queensland Australia: Search Techniques: Plan Your Search

For Students 9th - 10th
Just as you should plan your essay before starting to write, you should also plan your search strategy before searching for information. The more thought you put into planning, and the more systematic you are, the more relevant your...

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