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Multimedia Schools: Moving Every Child Ahead the Big6
This article looks at applying the Big6 process to issues raised by No Child Left Behind legislation. The goal of the Big6 process is to improve performance by improving thinking through application of information technology skills. This...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Responding to Literature Forms
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers including a book critique form, response journals, adding an ending, and book log.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Evaluation: Evaluating Expressions, Polynomials, and Functions
Demonstrates evaluation (or 'plug-n-chug'), and points out common usage and mistakes.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Evaluation of an Ad
This ten-page essay provides an example of an evaluation, specifically of an advertisement. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Photos From Great Depression: Jacob Have I Loved
A collection of images from the period of the Great Depression to World War II provide students with visual references as they read and examine Katherine Paterson's novel, "Jacob Have I Loved." Lesson encourages critical thinking about...
ACT360 Media
Writing Den: Paragraphs
How do you write a paragraph? Use this site to learn more about the different parts of a paragraph.
Rick Beach
Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Chapter 12: Activities
The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 12 reflection. Intended for teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 12. Focus of the...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Evaluate Decisions [Pdf]
A nonfiction graphic organizer is available to help students evaluate decisions of people. Students will analyze how characters interact and develop throughout the course of a nonfiction text.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Essay Rubric
A printable four-point rubric to use when evaluating essays for focus/details, organization, voice, word choice, and usage/mechanics. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching ideas are also...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Evaluating
This instructional activity introduces students to the comprehension strategy of evaluating. Students learn this strategy through the "meeting of the minds" technique that teaches them to act out opposing views of two or more characters.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Assessing Young Children's Progress Appropriately
This article focuses on the critical issue of how to assess your young child's progress appropriately. Students, teachers and parents will benefit from this informative article. The article features contact information to learn more...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Evaluate Information [Pdf]
Links to graphic organizers, provided in English and Spanish, are provided to assist students as they work with nonfiction information. A nonfiction graphic organizer is available to help students evaluate decisions of people. Another...
San Diego State University
San Diego State University: Rubric for Evaluating Web Quests
Utilize this rubric from the San Diego State University for evaluation WebQuests to assist you in developing the most effective web-based activities for your classroom.
Other
Online Library Learning Center: Evaluating Sources
Use this "Weed and feed," approach to get only the best resources for your research project.
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Flickr: Critical Thinking Skills Poster
A downloadable critical thinking skills poster based on the original six levels of Bloom's taxonomy.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Pitch Sharp, Flat and Natural Notes
Learn about the meanings and uses of pitch and accidentals. Including sharp, flat, natural and double sharps and flats, this lesson explains why they are necessary.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Abnormal Psychology Baseball
Test your knowledge of psychological assessment and diagnosis, and make it around all the bases for the win!
ACT360 Media
Writing Den
The WritingDEN includes feature articles with associated words, sentences, and paragraphs to aid in the writing process. Interactive features include pronunciation guides and content quizzes. The Tips-o-matic section offers grammar...
PBS
Pbs Lesson Plan (Affluenza): Advertising in Schools
Should companies be allowed to advertise in schools? For this lesson, pupils examine this question, evaluating whether corporate advertising in the school setting is appropriate. The lesson is presented uses an integrated approach,...
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Word Processing Activity: Fbla Flyer 1
This site provides a student activity to allow learners the opportunity to develop and practice computer skills in a word processing program. Students are given instructions to use the computer to create a flyer.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Peer Evaluation Form
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a peer evaluation form. This reproducible form has nine areas for which peers will assess via a continuum of their opinions.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Holt Assessment: Self and Peer Evaluation [Pdf]
This one page printable worksheet in pdf format is designed for classroom use in either self-evaluation or peer-evaluation. The worksheet provides a six questions to ask in the evaluation process.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Evaluating an Expression: Lesson 3
This lesson defines what it means to evaluate an expression. It is 3 of 20 in the series titled "Evaluating an Expression."