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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Perception, Prejudice, and Bias Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Questions pertaining to perception, prejudice, and bias.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: 100 Students Project: Revising Questions & Planning the Survey

For Teachers 6th
How can the wording of a question influence how people respond? Students learn about biased and unbiased questions, revise the questions they create in the previous lesson, and agree on procedures for administering the survey.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Bias: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explore bias in studies. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Bias."A short video tutorial in addition to questions to determine mastery of the skill.
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Activity
Other

Rhetorica Network: Media / Political Bias

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A detailed explanation of how bias works is offered at this site, including critical questions for detecting bias in writing.
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Unit Plan
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Data: Random and Biased Events

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Students explore the concept of random and biased events by working through an online tutorial and then attempting a ten question quiz that increases in difficulty as questions are answered correctly.
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Creating Good Interview and Survey Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry focuses on writing good interview and survey questions when conducting primary research. It warns againgst questions that are bias, wordy, double-barreled, and unrelated and provides examples of each.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Sources of Survey Bias

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains statistics questions regarding experiments and experimental design. The student becomes familiar with the various elements of experimental design.
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Handout
The Write Place

Literacy Education Online

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
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Other

In Time: Evaluating Media for Bias

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a checklist, especially helpful for teachers, that details the way to check media elements to be used in the classroom for biases. This site provides six questions to help evaluate the effectiveness of the media in...
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Article
BBC

Bbc: Week of 6 9 14: Natural Hair Advocates Take on the Us Army

For Students 9th - 10th
Recent changes to the regulations for women's hairstyles within the military have raised questions of bias against black women and their natural hair texture.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Great Golly Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan asks middle schoolers to create a survey project including graphs, questions, tables, and data analysis. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation and extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and...
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Article
Story Behind the Science

Story Behind the Science: Understanding Earth's Age [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Article describing early efforts, beginning with Aristotle, to determine the Earth's age, and the influence of current culture on the acceptability of new and radical scientific theories. Questions are posed throughout about the nature...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Statistics and Probability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The online test demonstrates knowledge of the concepts used in Algebra I. The multiple choice questions assess students on statistics and probability. Topics include biases, samples, and surveys.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Sampling Methods

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Decide how to choose a sampling of a population to produce reliable statistical results.
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Unit Plan
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Data: Practical Ways to Carry Out a Survey

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Students learn about the concept of taking a survey by exploring a tutorial. They can then test their knowledge by taking a ten question assessment that increases in difficulty as they correctly answer questions.
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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Identify Author's Viewpoint

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This reading resource discusses the strategy of identifying an author's viewpoint. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they analyze the author's viewpoint.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Should Dogs Work?

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating whether dogs should work or just be pets. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Handout
Other

Radcab: Your Vehicle for Information Evaluation

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
How do you know you are using a trustworthy source when writing a research paper? Use this acronym for easy questions to ask yourself to make sure you have a reliable source. Click on each one for further details.
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Primary
Curated OER

History Matters: "The World Was at Stake"

For Students 9th - 10th
The House Un-American Activities Committee, a Congressional committee, sought to find Communist activity in the film industry. Read the transcript from hearings questioning Jack Warner, head of Warner Brothers film company, Louis B....
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Website
Information Fluency

Imsa 21 Cif Portal: Evaluation Wizard

For Students 9th - 10th
Internet content is not reviewed like published written material - so how do you know if the information you found on the Internet is reliable? Use this Evaluation Wizard to guide you through a thorough assessment of any Internet...
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Lesson Plan
University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Restoring Women to World Studies [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In much of the social studies-especially courses focused on world history, geography, and culture-there has been a long-standing awareness that the experience of women has been left out of the narrative. Recent changes in state,...
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Handout
Digital History

Digital History: September 11, 2001

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a comprehensive overview of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., including information on Osama bin Laden's background, the formation of Al Qaeda, the attacks themselves, the US response, civil liberties and national...
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Handout
New Advent

Catholic Encyclopedia: Induction

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent article that clearly explains the meaning and significance of "induction" in the history of philosophy. Relates the concept to philosophy of science as well as epistemology, demonstrating how the issues raised by induction are...

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