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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Monty Python and the Quest for the Perfect Fallacy

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Learners study ten fallacies that represent the most common mistakes in reasoning. In groups, students evaluate given arguments and identify the fallacy and/or bobby-trap in each one. Learners study larger arguments and discover...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Error Correction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are given an example of a biography and they are to find the mistakes. They are to use proofreading marks to mark the errors.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Tea Moloby: Simplifying and Strengthening Emotional Wellness for Children

For Students Pre-K - 1st
TEAMology's mission is to understand and improve emotional health to enhance every child's ability to succeed in school, career, and life. This a social-emotional learning curriculum with character-driven activities and videos brought to...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Life's Little Lessons: Persistence

For Students Pre-K - K
In this set of resources, we will use a video and a song from Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood to focus on how you can help children learn that being persistent is worthwhile; and when we keep on trying we are more likely to succeed. When we...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Teaching Children Philosophy: Alexander and the Terrible, by Judith Viorst

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This instructional activity outline summarizes the philosophical issues embedded in the book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst. This is followed by question sets that teachers can use to guide...
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Learning From Mistakes

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource is a reflective writing activty. Students will write a reflection regarding a mistake they have made. This activity may be used as a simple writing prompt or as part of behavior management system.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Mistakes Can Be Good if We Learn From Them!

For Students 3rd - 8th
Mistakes are a natural part of the learning process, and how we react to them can be either harmful or helpful. Listen as kids discuss their experiences with mistakes.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Learn: The Growth Mindset

For Students 9th - 10th
This article showcases the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Reflect: The Path Forward

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity asks students to reflect on what they have learned from the Growth Mindset activities.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Mistakes in My Own Life

For Students 3rd - 5th
This activity helps elementary school-age kids reflect on past mistakes and how they can learn and grow from those mistakes and future mistakes.