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Harvard University

Harvard Graduate School of Education: Research for Educators

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Research database for educators. Search for educational topics, including standardized testing, arts in schools, or literacy and find current research and information regarding the issue.
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Website
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1936: Eugene O'neill

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, who was honored "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy." This website is...
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Maps of Mexico

Virtual Picture Travel Map of Massachusetts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Click on Massachusetts on the US map in order to Travel there and take a virtual tour of Boston. Visit places of interest such as Harvard University, MIT, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, the Freedom Trail, Copley Square, Trinity...
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Maps of Mexico

Virtual Picture Travel Map of Massachusetts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Click on Massachusetts on the US map in order to Travel there and take a virtual tour of Boston. Visit places of interest such as Harvard University, MIT, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, the Freedom Trail, Copley Square, Trinity...
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Maps of Mexico

Virtual Picture Travel Map of Massachusetts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Click on Massachusetts on the US map in order to Travel there and take a virtual tour of Boston. Visit places of interest such as Harvard University, MIT, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, the Freedom Trail, Copley Square, Trinity...
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Graphic
Maps of Mexico

Virtual Picture Travel Map of Massachusetts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Click on Massachusetts on the US map in order to Travel there and take a virtual tour of Boston. Visit places of interest such as Harvard University, MIT, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, the Freedom Trail, Copley Square, Trinity...
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Website
Harvard University

The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains general information about The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. The site also gives a selection of links that tell more about the garden.
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Handout
Harvard University

Harvard Univ.: Harvard College Writing Center: Ending the Essay: Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource teaches how to write a conclusion for an essay. Also includes a few pointers on how not to end one.
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Boston College

Boston College: High Victorian Gothic in America

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Boston College provides many examples of High Victorian Gothic style buildings may be viewed and enlarged here, from churches to homes. Information is limited to brief text about specific architects along with location and...
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Article
Harvard University

Harvard U.: Agency by Design: A Take Apart Toolkit: What We Learn From Unmaking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article discusses the benefits of teaching students how to take things apart. Includes examples of how students record the process of disassembling something, what the parts are named, and their relationships of components to each...
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Activity
Harvard University

Harvard Univ.: Project Zero: Agency by Design: Parts, Purposes, Complexities

For Students 6th - 8th
This thinking routine helps learners slow down and make careful, detailed observations by encouraging them to look beyond the obvious features of an object or system. This thinking routine helps stimulate curiosity, raises questions, and...
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Activity
Harvard University

Harvard University: Project Zero: Agency by Design: Parts, People, Interactions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This thinking routine helps learners slow down and look closely at a system. In doing so, young people are able to situate objects within systems and recognize the various people who participate - directly or indirectly - within a...
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Activity
Harvard University

Harvard University: Project Zero: Agency by Design: Parts, Perspectives, Me

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This routine helps students explore complexity by encouraging them to look closely at the details of something, considering its various viewpoints, users, and stakeholders, and reflecting on their own connections and involvement with it.
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Activity
Harvard University

Harvard University: Project Zero: Agency by Design: Take Apart [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Mechanical dissections are a practice that allows learners to discover the often hidden design of objects and how the parts work together as a system.
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Harvard University

Harvard University: Project Zero: Agency by Design: Mapping Systems [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The practice of mapping allows learners to build and demonstrate their understanding of the parts, people, and interactions that comprise a given system.