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Handout
ArtLex

Art Lex: Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Artlex is a fantastic description of how movement is used in the creation of art. There are links to works of art in sculpture, painting and photography as well as focused interpretations of how different types of movement...
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Graphic
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Analyze a Story or History [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This graphic organizer can be used to help students analyze a story or a historical event. Students will look closely at the story's characters or people involved in the historical event. Then they will summarize the story or event, and...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Affirmative Action and the Usa

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video from Wide Angle, two American NAACP lawyers arrive to advise Brazilian civil rights organizations, leading to a discussion of differences between race relations in the U.S. and Brazil.
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Article
Other

Graphic Greats: Photo Treatment

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource presents an article about the use of photos in documents.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Counting Up or Down Stories

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The writer will brainstorm situations where individuals or people in a group count up or count down out loud together. Using the ending of chapter 5 of Wringer by Jerry Spinelli as a model, the writer will plan a story where someone (or...
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Article
Caro Clarke

Explaining Too Much: Why More Is Less

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the eleventh article in a series that is designed to help the new novel author. This article focuses on how to eliminate needless information in your novel. The key is to not explain too much about the action.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Characterization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow focuses on characterization including defining and discussing the 5 methods of characterizations: speech, action, description, interaction, and thoughts with examples of each. It also covers the importance of...
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Character Map [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
Teachers will learn about importance of character maps. Teachers will learn how to implement character maps; measure progress with character maps; and find research to support the use of character maps. Several reproducible character...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Silly Story Builder: Martha Speaks

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
This activity will help children build vocabulary, become familiar with essential parts of a story, and develop story sequencing skills. They can create silly stories by drawing story parts out of a bag.
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
Includes exhaustive information and a wealth of activities pertaining to aerodynamics and the physics of flight.
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Handout
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Compound Verb

For Students 9th - 10th
This site shows how a sentence can have more than one verb. The examples begin with one verb and then builds until the sentence has seven verbs.
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Website
American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Action Films

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about action films.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Rising Action

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson explains rising action in fiction.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Forces in Action

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this unit children apply their knowledge of a variety of forces to contexts in which objects are stationary because forces on them are balanced. Children learn about the changes in motion which occur...
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Website
Other

Theory Into Practice: Cognitive Dissonance

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Theory Into Practice website provides a simple and straitforward explaination of the Cognitive Dissonance theory. The page gives a good example of the theory in action and references for further information.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Science Choice Board Newton's Laws of Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students level up learning by completing Newton's Laws of Motion task cards including all levels of Bloom's taxonomy.