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Internal Systems and Regulation
In this internal systems and regulation activity, students correctly decide if given statements are true or false. Students apply information learned about the circulatory system to the given statements to determine statements of truth...
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Inflamm-O-Stories: Progression and Regression of Atherosclerosis
High schoolers participate in activities to learn about Atherosclerosis. In this investigative lesson students participate in activities that allow them to describe parts of the body, analyze changes in the body and write a story about...
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The Math of Light
Investigate light intensity, illuminance, and power consumption of different light source.Compare the efficiency of light bulbs then create a persuasive advertisement about it.
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Active Transport
For this active transport worksheet, students review the cellular process of active transport including the structures and functions of the cell organelles involved. This worksheet has 28 fill in the blank statements.
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Lumen Learning: Memorandums
This site discusses the purpose and format of a memo and helps understand effective strategies for business memos.
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Lumen: Using Sources: Putting It Together: Using Sources
This is a summary of the lessons on integrating credible sources using paraphrase, summary, and quotations and citing sources. Click on the Next button on the bottom right to learn about Why It Matters: Multimodality; you will have the...
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Lumen: Critical Reading: Introduction to Critical Reading
This is a video lesson "Reading is fundamental" featuring Shaquille O'Neal. It discusses why critical reading skills are important. A list of learning objectives is provided.
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Lumen: Writing Process: Introduction to Writing Process
This lesson introduces the writing process and explains why it is a process. It lists the stages of the writing process and the learning objectives for the lessons on the topic. The NEXT button at the bottom of each section will take you...
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Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Read Strategically: Retain New Words
This lesson focuses on strategies to retain new words such as reading voraciously, use a good dictionary and thesaurus, use new words, and learn a new word every day. It also provides an annotated biography of resource material.
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Lumen: Research Process: Introduction to the Research Process
This lesson focuses on the reliability of research sources including a video example. It also lists the learning objectives for researching.
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Lumen: Grammar: Introduction to Grammar
This instructional activity is an introduction to grammar including how academic writing and speaking is different than other types of writing and speaking. It includes the video "Introduction to Grammar" and a list of grammar learning...
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Lumen: Success Skills: Writing in College
Although this lesson focuses on college writing, it fits perfectly into the high school curriculum without being too difficult to understand. It provides types of essay writing assignments and how to handle each, strategies for writing...
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Lumen: Enlightenment: "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!" by Patrick Henry
Use the video and text of "Give me liberty, or give me death!" a quotation by Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Virginia Convention in 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, to consider the two learning outcomes...
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Lumen: Enlightenment: Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Use the text or audio of Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to consider the two learning outcomes below. Describe the major historical and cultural developments of the Enlightenment; explain key concepts. Describe the major conventions,...
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Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Read Strategically: Diversify Your Vocabulary
This lesson focuses on strategies to diversify and retain new vocabularies such as reading a variety of types of writing and learning roots, suffixes, prefixes, and the etymology of words.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Introduction to Building Common Ground
This introduction discusses the need for researching your audience and learn strategies to find common ground.
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Lumen: Research Process: Conclusion to Research Process
This article focuses on the real purpose of research, to learn about the subject of the investigation as much as possible and then form those theories, opinions, and arguments on the basis of this newly found knowledge and understanding...
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Lumen: American Literature: Video: Edwards and the Transition to Enlightenment
Use the video "Edwards and the Transition to Enlightenment" to consider the two learning outcomes below. It featuring discussions of Raymond Williams's model of culture; Edward Taylor; Jonathan Edwards; Benjamin Franklin; George...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Presenting Group Thinking
In this Boundless Communication, students will learn about group presentation formats, individuals in a group presentation should know their role and stay consistent and cooperative, and how the group prepares for the presentation....
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Lumen: Building Credibility Through Source Integration
Well-integrated sources build credibility in several ways: Source material adds evidence and support to your argument, the signal phrase highlights the reputation and qualifications of the source, and effective citation makes it easy for...
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Lumen: Boundless Biology: Threats to Biodiversity
Looks at the impact of overharvesting, such as overfishing, on biodiversity. It talks of the 'tragedy of the commons,' where harvesters do not feel responsible for protecting a species because they fish in shared areas. It also touches...
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Lumen Learning: Encroachment and Resistance
In the latter part of the 1800s, settlers began to ignore treaties when expanding westward. The government followed suit by declaring they would no longer negotiate new treaties, that they had the power to enforce laws on reservation...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Learning How to Speak Publicly
This site provides a variety of ways for people learn how to speak publicly and the best practices in preparing and presenting speeches. SL.9-10.4 Presentation
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Lumen: Introduction to Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts
This introduction to reading and analyzing text features a list of learning objectives for analyzing prose and poetry, and an understanding of critical approaches to literary interpretation.