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Spanish Flashcards
This selection of flashcards for Spanish grammar and vocabulary--often with scoring and self-correcting capabilities--are correlated to commonly used Spanish textbooks such as "Ven Conmigo" and "En Espanol." Includes many other features...
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Ofcn: Horrid Homonyms
This site features a lesson plan for homonyms. Students and teachers will benefit in their speech and writing skills after tackling this activity.
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Learning theories.com: Summaries of Learning Theories and Models
Lists many models and theories of learning. Each one links to the summary of an article. A paid subscription is necessary to access the full article. But if a definition or brief explanation of a term is needed, the summary should...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Life Science: Learned Behavior of Animals
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduces learned behaviors and the different methods of learning.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Deb Roy: The Birth of a Word
MIT researcher, Deb Roy, shares amazing data-rich research on how children learn language which he discovered by analyzing hours of video taped conversations between his son and the adults in his home. [19:53]
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Education Corner: Tips for Increasing a Student's Attention Span
This article lists tips and strategies that can help increase attention span and improve overall task performance in the classroom.
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Great!schools.org: First Grade Learning Games and Activities
These games and activities will help your first grader master important academic skills while having fun.
PBS
Pbs: Tips for Helping Your Child Focus and Concentrate
Concentration is like a muscle that requires regular exercise to strengthen. This article gives tips to help your kids build their concentration muscles.
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Teach Starter: 10 Ways to Improve Student Concentration
This article contains a chart to help you figure out the average attention span for the age-group that you teach. After you figure out the average attention span, think about how you can best deliver lesson content and sequence...
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Teach.com: 7 in Class Activities to Improve Concentration in Children
Teachers need to provide attention and concentration in-class activities that do not require screen time. Here are some things that teachers can do in the classroom and what activities to improve concentration they can easily merge into...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Mindset
What is the difference between a fixed and growth mindset? How can it affect how a person thinks and acts? Students work on answering these questions and also work on solving problems in partners.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Which Voice Will I Hear?
Find out about having both a fixed and a growth mindset talking to us and competing for our attention.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 8.1 Animal Behavior
Explore many different types of animal behavior.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 8.3 Learned Behavior
Understand different types of learned behavior among animals and humans.
Understood For All
Understood.org: Skills Kids Need Going Into First Grade
There are fun ways to practice language and math skills to help your child get ready for first grade. Here is a list of skills kids need to develop for first grade in reading, writing, and math.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Final Student Activity
The Growth Mindset Activities are designed to help your students build growth mindsets and develop learning strategies to start the school year strong. This is the final activity to help you remember what you learned and help your...
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Khan Academy: Exercising My Brain
This article gives some examples of how your brain grows when you learn new things.
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Khan Academy: Mistakes Can Be Harmful Too
This article explains three common ways we allow mistakes to hurt our learning process.
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Khan Academy: Mistakes Can Be Good if We Learn From Them!
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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Khan Academy: Test Prep: Mcat: Behavior: Learning: Classical and Operant Conditioning Article
Conditioning is a type of learning that links some sort of trigger or stimulus to a human behavior or response. When psychology was first starting as a field, scientists felt they couldn't objectively describe what was going on in...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Connect: The Truth About Your Brain
At the end of this activity, students will be able to understand how your brain changes and grows when you challenge yourself to learn new things. There are 3 parts to this LearnStorm growth mindset activity.