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Teaching Creativity Skills: Creative Thinking Skills for Life and Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Presents information about how to use creativity in the classroom. There are also many links to other sites that contain additional resources pertaining to creativity.
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Lesson Plan
Federal Reserve Bank

Katrina's Classroom: Teaching Money Skills for Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will participate in Katrina's Classroom curriculum provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The lesson emphasizes the importance of being prepared for a financial emergency. This is a Commerce and Information Technology...
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Other

Ndt: Problem Solving Skills

For Teachers 9th - 10th
NDT Education stresses the importance of problem solving skills. Problem solving steps and strategies are provided.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Language Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on activities that reinforce language skills such as vocabulary, handwriting as well as alphabet cheer, songs, and poems.
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Website
Other

Foundation for a Better Life: Values: Personal and Family Values

For Students 9th - 10th
A range of media and resources--billboards, televised public service announcements, first-person accounts, quotations--that communicate ideas about the meanings of a wide range of essential values, such as ambition, gratitude, respect,...
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Yale University

Detective Fiction: Focus on Critical Thinking

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Through the use of reading crime fiction, this lesson plan helps to refine critical thinking skills and problem solving strategies which are important for the development of 21st century skills.
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NASA

Nasa: 21th Century Explorer: Why Do We Want to Study and Travel to Mars?

For Students 9th - 10th
This article answers some of the most common questions about Mars: Why is it red? Is there water on Mars? What else have scientists discovered from spacecraft that have landed there? Also, visitors can follow links to learn more about...
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Other

Teach 21: Tell Me a Tale (Unit Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This fourteen lesson unit investigates reading and English language arts at a fifth grade level. The lessons display differences and similarities of cultures. The unit incorporates 21st century learning skills such as communication,...
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Information Fluency

Imsa 21 Cif Portal: Urls Tutorial Directory

For Students 9th - 10th
Micro-Module covering the process the topics of URL, Files, Domain Names, and Domain Extensions. The 21st Century Information Fluency (21CIF) Portal was developed by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) to improve Internet...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Harlem Renaissance Authors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As part of a study of the Harlem Renaissance, young scholars will do research on a Harlem Renaissance author. Individually, students will use websites to gain information about the author and the author's impact in literature and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Exploring the Past in 21st Century Ways

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Through this project-based lesson, students will do research on and create an oral presentation based on the life of an influential Famous American. Students will utilize various means to glean information, from online databases, various...
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Article
Other

U.s. House Unanimously Passes Resolution Supporting School Based Music Education

For Students 9th - 10th
Recognizing that music education develops skills for the 21st century workforce, the U.S. House unanimously passed House Concurrent Resolution 121 in April, 2007. This resolution supports the need to have music education accessible to...
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PPT
Tom Richey

Slideshare: Information Literacy

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A slideshow regarding the ins and outs of information literacy for the 21st-century classroom.
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Article
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Media Lab: All I Really Need to Know (About Creative Thinking) I Learned in Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This paper in pdf format focuses on how kindergarten students learn about creative thinking and emphasizes that their approach is ideally suited to the needs of the 21st century.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Podcasts: The Nuts and Bolts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Turn your classroom into a 21st century learning environment as you learn how to incorporate podcasts into your classroom.
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Handout
Other

Literacy for the 21st Century: Six Types of Context Clues [Pdf]

For Students 7th Standards
This is a chart that explains the six types of context clues with descriptions and sample sentences. It includes definition, example/illustration, grammar, logic, contrast, and word roots and affixes.
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Other

Historical Scene Investigation: The Starving Time in Jamestown

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will work with primary resources such as diary entries to investigate a historical situation: the starving time in Jamestown. This interactive site raises questions that will enable students to use 21st century skills to...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Audience in Persuasive Letter Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Effective communication skills are critical for the present century. This unit plan stresses clear, persuasive communication that is meant to be shared with an audience beyond the classroom.
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PPT
Other

Noodle Tools: Online Reading Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This slide presentation makes clear the reasons for specifically teaching online reading strategies, as well as giving examples of how to teach these skills. Many slides also provide links to websites which provide practice for the...
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Website
Donald Clark

Big Dog, Little Dog: Concepts of Leadership

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A study of leadership and how it can be approached through skills and knowledge. Includes the four factors of leadership including leaders, followers, communication and situation.
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Website
Donald Clark

Big Dog, Little Dog: Concepts of Leadership

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A study of leadership and how it can be approached through skills and knowledge. Includes the four factors of leadership including leaders, followers, communication and situation.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Hair Design (Computer Simulation)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Computer simulation allows students a realistic and risk-free way to experiment with different face shapes, skin tones, anatomical proportions, and hair texture and visualize how various hairstyles will appear on the client. Students...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Benjamin Franklin: An Extraordinary Life (Teacher's Guide)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Go directly to the teaching resource that accompanies the PBS series "Benjamin Franklin: An Extraordinary Life, An Electric Mind" to find eight lesson plans that support the study of Benjamin Franklin and his place in history. Lessons...
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Other

What Makes an "Amazing" Fable Captivating?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students become the authors, producers and actors in their own multimedia fables, after they study fable characteristics for this instructional activity.