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California Institute of Technology

Spitzer Science Center: Que Es El Infrarrojo?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An excellent resource for Spanish speaking science students. Provides a thorough description of infrared light, what it does and how it is used. Provides excellent pictures depicting actual use.
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Unit Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: The Learning Brain: Neuroscience

For Students K - 1st
This series of videos introduces students to the brain, including why it is so special, its parts and functions and how it recalls memories and stores new information. Other videos explain how the brain processes sensory information and...
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: One Potato, Two Potato [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Cynthia DeFelice's children's book, One Potato, Two Potato, is provided on these pages. Seven character roles are needed in this activity.
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Student Achievement Partners

Illustrative Mathematics: Addition and Subtraction Fluency Set of Tasks [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students explore the relationship between addition and subtraction and develop an understanding of decomposing numbers in different ways in this first-grade lesson plan.
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Other

Frederick Warne & Co.: About Beatrix Potter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This official site has information about Beatrix Potter's life, work and art as well as fun games to play with the characters. It also includes a text resource which relates people and events from Potter's life to characters and events...
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Professional Doc
American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: Rti Implementation Processes: Middle School

For Teachers K - 1st
Planning, developing, implementing, and sustaining organizational change, such as RTI, in middle schools is a complex endeavor. This brief is designed to give guidance to practitioners at the school, district, and state levels based on...
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Professional Doc
American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: Rti Implementer Series Module 1: Screening

For Teachers K - 1st
This module focuses on universal screening and data-based decision making using screening data. The module covers (1) basic information on screening, (2) assessments used within an RTI framework, and (3) skills needed to use screening...
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Other

Codi: Assistive Technology

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
If you need information on assistive technology take a look at this site! Many of the documents on CODI are publicly available nowhere else on the internet. Many links provided.
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Website
Other

Grandfamilies.org

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site has a wealth of legal information for grandparents raising grandchildren, as well as articles and fact sheets on many topics, such as housing, raising children with disabilities, getting financial assistance, and much more.
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Article
Other

Critical Issue: Using Technology to Improve Student Achievement [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
NCREL provides a detailed report on the use of technology for student improvement. Click on Action Options and scroll down the area designated for teachers to view NCREL ideas on classroom implementation.
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Website
Other

Hpedsb: The Geometer's Sketchpad: Resources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lessons and activities for The Geometer's Sketchpad that span Kindergarten to Grade 11 can be found on this site. There are also tutorials and posters. As this is an older site, some links may no longer work.
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Professional Doc
Other

Actfl: Performance Descriptors for Language Learners

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages explanation of its Performance Descriptors for Language Learners. Performance Descriptors document is available to download as a PDF.
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Handout
Other

Univ. Of West Georgia: Analyzing the Leadership Behavior of School Principals

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This academic document describes various methods of measuring a principal's leadership behavior. The authors developed a new survey instrument that can be used to analyze the leadership behavior/style of a principal.
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Activity
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Bill of Rights Day Is Observed

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for seven lessons that ask students to examine Supreme Court cases that have impacted civil liberties in the United States. Students work in groups and report their findings using PowerPoint presentations. In addition to...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan is a great way to teach students about rhymes and word recognition. This plan includes suggest nursery rhymes for you to use, and several supplementary sites to help you out.
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Unit Plan
J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Dorothea Lange Curriculum

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An incredible Dorothea Lange resource, this site has it all. It contains lesson plans, an image bank, a biography, a timeline, and even a set of guidelines for discussing photography.
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Professional Doc
CPALMS

Cpalms: Browse and Search Resources

For Students K - 1st Standards
This site shares a collection of expert and peer-vetted teacher resources that are searchable for teachers and students. Searching can be achieved via a subject, grade, audience, and/or type. Curricula standards for the following subjets...
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Lesson Plan
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: National Poetry Month

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site offers extensive resources for teaching poetry. Find interviews with poets, ideas for poetry lessons, book lists, and ways to use poetry across the curriculum. There are also resources specifically for National Poetry Month....
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Utah Education Network

Uen: College and Career Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site provides Utah's College and Career Awareness Core Standards.
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Unit Plan
C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Civic Ideals

For Teachers K
A learning module on why it is important to be responsible. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include what...
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Unit Plan
C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Economic Choices

For Teachers K - 1st
A learning module on choices people make with their money. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students will learn how families get...
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Unit Plan
C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Geography, Humans, and Environment

For Teachers K - 1st
A learning module on how humans change and shape their local environment. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include...
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Unit Plan
C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Holidays

For Teachers K
Inquiry-based resource for teachers of kindergarten students encourages students to deepen their understanding of the role of traditions, holidays and symbols in establishing cultural identity and unity, and asks children to think about...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Abc Fun

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this differentiated lesson, teachers will engage students in working with letters and their sounds. Word-making (low level), word making with several letters (middle level), and word generating with random single letter pulling are...