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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

I 695 (The 30$ License Tabs Initiative)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the bill I 695 issue. They discuss the topic before they research the issue of I 695. Students discuss how new laws are always being created and the differences in opinion about these laws. They see how this initiative...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cause-Effect Relationships in Alaska's American Period, 1867-present

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss that history is a series of interrelated events, processes, and movements. They discuss what criteria make a good cause-effect statement.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Environmental Science

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine how the use of chemicals may affect the environment and how their are many different political issues surrounding chemical usage and the environment. They research different newspapers and magazines about the issues.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Coordinate Proofs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of coordinate proofs. In this coordinate proofs lesson, students write coordinate proofs using properties of distance, slope, and midpoint. Students discuss why it is sometimes beneficial to double the...
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Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania Department of Education

Creating Polygons

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students describe, make and compare polygons. In this creating polygons lesson, students identify properties of quadrilaterals and describe common features of two dimensional shapes.
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Handout
Other

Exploring Computer Science: Computational Thinking for Everyone

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, Jeannette M. Wing, presents her vision that computational thinking will be a fundamental skill used by everyone in the world by the middle of the 21st Century.
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Article
Other

Exploring Computer Science: Computational Thinking [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, Jeannette M. Wing, discusses the importance of addressing computational thinking with young learners.
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Professional Doc
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Integrating Critical Thinking Skills

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Access Excellence explores how, as an educator, you can incorporate critical thinking skills into the classroom. Content focuses on how to cover content so that students can grasp information, engage with the teacher, read...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Junk Mail: Negotiating Critical Literacy at the Mailbox

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that teach students to examine junk mail critically. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection...
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Activity
Other

Kim's Korner: Six Trait Analytic Writing Model

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Check out this comprehensive website featuring ideas for teaching writing based on the six trait analytic writing model.
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Article
Other

Post Gazette: Creativity Trumps Analytical Skills in New Economy, Expert Says

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In an ever growing trend towards teaching 21st-century skills, it is more and more evident that creative thinking skills are as important as ever in the workplace. This article discusses the role arts education must have in the...
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Article
Other

Creativity Trumps Analytical Skills in New Economy, Expert Says

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In an ever growing trend towards teaching 21st-century skills, it is more and more evident that creative thinking skills are as important as ever in the workplace. This article discusses the role of arts education must have in the...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Electrocardiograph Building

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will build upon the concepts taught in the lesson The Strongest Pump of All. The activity will pull together the concepts of bioelectricity, electrical circuits, and biology. It will allow the students the opportunity to...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Analytical Writing in the Content Areas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Because writing is thinking, the organization of students' writing reflects both the structure of their thinking and the depth of their understanding. Students should be writing in all their classes, explaining what they know and how...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What to Bring?

For Teachers 5th
In this activity, students are provided with a list of supplies that survived their plane's crash in the Amazon jungle. They will organize the supplies to classify which items are useful for surviving in the Amazon. Students will use...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Supplies

For Teachers 5th
In this lesson, 5th graders will determine what supplies they will take with them to survive their trip through the Amazon. Students will use estimation and basic math skills to determine how much they can carry and what they can use to...
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Activity
Other

Emsl: The River Crossing Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
The lesson plan for an interesting word problem concerning swimming and rowing across a river, being swept downstream by the current, and walking back up the other side. Basic arithmetic skills are all that are needed to approach the...
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Lesson Plan
Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Fact or Opinion?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, students must learn to recognize the differences between fact and opinion.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This series of lessons involves student collaboration, writing and analytical skills, technology and imagination. While the lesson suggests use of FrontPage, it would also be possible to use a number of other authoring tools.
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Handout
Other

India Parenting: Left Brain, Right Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
India Parenting takes a look at why "I?m creative and he?s analytical" with a discussion of right brain and left brain characteristics.
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Website
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 10: Interpretation and Meaning

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using the lyrics, music and video of a selected song (example used here is 'One' by the Irish group U2), students will explore the ways in which words, music and visual images interact to create meaning. Students will analyze the...