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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Drawing Designs in Detail

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students practice creating rudimentary detail drawings. They learn how engineers communicate the technical information about their designs using the basic components of detail drawings. They practice creating their own drawings of a...
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Professional Doc
International Reading Association

Reading Online: Teaching Vocabulary to Adolescents to Improve Comprehension

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
An article highlighting the improvements of middle and high school students' reading comprehension through a sixteen-week program. Includes introduction, overview of the intervention, course structure, sample activities, assessments, and...
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Professional Doc
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Standards for School Mathematics

For Students 9th - 10th
This standards-based NCTM website offers resources for teachers of mathematics for all grade levels, including interactive math tools, lesson plans, online resources, and the like.
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Handout
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Zoom Inventors and Inventions

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site has an alphabetized list of inventions and inventors throughout history. You can also explore by era, topic or nationality.
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Interactive
American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Communication Journals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an index of communication journals and their publishers with links to the journals.
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Article
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article provides information regarding the types of negotiations, principles for effective negotiation, obstacles to successful negotiation, and methods of overcoming these obstacles.
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Activity
Other

Western Michigan: Writing Negative Messages

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes the nature of writing short, negative messages. Gives information on general structure as well as how to write negative replies and announcements.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Communicating With Light: People

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Who uses light to communicate? Go from sea to shining sea as we visit a lighthouse, board a Navy ship, and take a stroll on the red carpet! Students will investigate different ways of communicating with light and at the end of the lesson...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Communicating With Light and Sound: Fire!

For Teachers K - 1st
Sound the alarm! Fire alarms and fire trucks are perfect examples of communicating with light and sound. Students will begin to understand the engineering principles behind why fire alarms and fire engines use both light and sound to...
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Website
Other

E Learning Innovations: Teletraining Institute

For Students 9th - 10th
The Teletraining Institute offers several online degrees. A course catalog is provided on this page as well.
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Glenn Research Center Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA's Glenn Research Center "develops advanced technology for high priority national needs - propulsion, power, and communications technologies for application to aeronautics and space."
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Article
Poynter Institute

Poynter Institute: Ten Copy Editor Traits That Guarantee Your Success

For Students 9th - 10th
Sooner or later you may function as a copy editor for yourself or for another. Follow these tips to enrich your writing.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Introducing Practical Speaking Skills

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
If you really speak WELL, people will love to listen! In this lesson, students will practice routines to help them speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly. Teaching this in the first weeks of school sets...
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Website
Donald Clark

Big Dog, Little Dog: Communication and Leadership

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Wide-spread approach to communication and leadership. A study of the power of communication and its help or hindrances to a person's leadership qualities.
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Professional Doc
Scholastic

Scholastic: Helping Young Children Express Themselves

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
We know that communication is central to the learning process. Communication can be specifically linked to the expanding skills of listening and speaking, as children connect to the reading and writing behaviors that characterize early...
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Website
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Strategy Guide: Peer Review

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This strategy guide explains how you can employ peer review in your classroom, guiding students as they offer each other constructive feedback to improve their writing and communication skills.
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Lesson Plan
Education.com

Education.com: Peer Conferencing 101

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] At the completion of this lesson plan, students will be able to use the peer conference format to provide feedback to a peer.
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Article
Other

Victoria State Government: Sociodramatic Play (Interacting With Others)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Sociodramatic play is where children act out imaginary situations and stories, become different characters, and pretend they are in different locations and times. Sociodramatic play is the most advanced form of play, and constantly...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Better Attitudes & Skills in Children

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a collection of social emotional lesson plans. They were developed by the Project B.A.S.I.C. Child Development Specialist, and Child Care Consultation Staff via the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Hedy Lamarr: Securing Wireless Communications Through Frequency Changes

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover Hedy Lamarr's contributions as a woman in STEM in this two video media gallery from the American Masters film Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Learn how Lamarr invented frequency hopping, the basis of secure wireless...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Hedy Lamarr

For Students 9th - 10th
Major support for Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This is a collection of four video lessons about Hedy Lamarr including her acting career and her inventions. Teaching materials are included.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Primary Source Set: Telephone Invention

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the invention of the telephone.
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Lesson Plan
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Tracking Hurricane News

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students read news articles about Hurricane Irene, present information with classmates, and construct a timeline to describe the hurricane's story over time and across geographic area, exploring what happened, how people were affected,...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Summer Camp: Fill Each Day With Possibilities! Friends & Neighbors Packet: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
Use these friends & neighbors-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures.