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English Spanish Link: Creative

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers newspapers and magazines from various Spanish countries along with a tool bar that includes a spell checker, verb conjugator, Spanish and English dictionary, Spanish verbs and much more. Available in Spanish and English.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Homonyms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This homonym tutorial begins with the poem "My Spell Checker" to show the importance of learning the difference between words. This is followed by a slide show of commonly misused homonyms, including definitions and examples. It offers...
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ACT360 Media

Act Den: Outlook Express Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you looking to master Outlook Express? This fun and informative tutorial uses colorful activities and interactive quizzes to teach learners the basics of this e-mail software. The tutorial covers: sending and receiving e-mail, fancy...
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Lesson Plan
Google

Google for Education: Finding Patterns in Spelling Errors and History

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students analyze spelling errors and large sets of data to find patterns, develop abstractions, and discover how large amounts of data can tell us much about our society.
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Website
Other

The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge

For Students 9th - 10th
This museum resource provides images, education resources, and a wonderful biography of artist Norman Rockwell.
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eBook
Mathigon

Mathigon: Math Foundations: Divisibility and Primes: The Distribution of Primes

For Students 6th - 8th
This lesson focuses on the distribution of large prime numbers. It offers a calculator to check numbers for prime and a calculator that allows you to create prime numbers. It also provides the history of methods find the distribution of...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Shared Spelling Strategies

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for a lesson that will provide students with strategies for spelling unfamiliar words. Students are asked to use phonological awareness and visual recall, analyze alternative spellings, and use a variety of resources...
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Primary
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Fact Tracker: Leprechauns and Irish Folklore

For Students K - 1st
This site shows you how the fact checker checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #43: Leprechaun in Late Winter, by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Leprechauns and Irish Folklore, the nonfiction companion...
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Handout
BBC

Bbc: History: The Masquerading Monarch

For Students 9th - 10th
A article about the checkered reign of Charles II of England. Archived.
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Primary
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Fact Tracker: Snakes and Other Reptiles

For Students K - 1st
This book checks facts related to the book Magic Tree House #45: A Crazy Day with Cobras by Mary Pope Osborne. When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure, they had lots of questions. Magic Treehouse Fact Tracker: Snakes and Other...
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Primary
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Fact Tracker: Pandas and Other Endangered Species

For Students K - 1st
This book checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #48: A Perfect Time for Pandas by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Pandas and Other Endangered Species, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and...
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Website
Other

Kids Click: Online Games Board

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Match your skill in checkers against the computer. There are links to other educational board games that can be used in the classroom.
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Activity
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Vikings: Game of Hnefatafl

For Students 9th - 10th
This history project features an old Norse game that is found in many Viking and Norse sites. It consists of a board and game pieces like chess and checkers. Students can make their own board and playing pieces and challenge each other...
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Stanford University

Civic Online Reasonong: A Little of Everything

For Teachers 9th - 10th
From research observing fact checkers, three questions that we should always ask when we come across unfamiliar online content: Who's behind the information? What's the evidence? What do other sources say? This sequence of lessons...
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Handout
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Using Computers to Improve Your Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips from the University of Toronto on using word processing features as aids in composing and revising papers. W.9-10.6 Technology, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6, W.11-12.6 Technology
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Activity
Other

Orthonet Online Grammar Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
Submit questions relative to grammar, usage/orthography, and receive reply by e-mail.
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Land of Television

For Students 5th - 8th
The advent of increased television programming helped create a national popular culture. Read about the many kinds of television programs offered in the 1950s.
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Website
A&E Television

History.com: American Presidents: Richard Nixon

For Students 9th - 10th
This easy-to-navigate site has Richard Nixon's biography, events occurring during his presidency, an image gallery, several video clips.
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Interactive
Other

Games for the Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
Features great games to wake up the brain. Test your knowledge of words, numbers, vocabulary, and more while having fun.
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Graphic
Curated OER

'The Red Checkered Tablecloth'

For Students 9th - 10th
This report focuses on the French painter Pierre Bonnard, his methods and his work, in honor of a large exhibition of his work at the Washington, D.C., modern art museum. Includes related links.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Chubby Checkers

For Students 9th - 10th
From the British newspaper, Guardian Unlimited, a timeline that lets you examine the 1960s year by year and read about the main events and important people of that year. Covers events worldwide.
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Interactive
Other

Interactive Froggy Fun and Games

For Students 3rd - 8th
Play frog and toad checkers, amuse yourself with frog tic-tac-toe, and find out what kind of frog you are by taking a personality quiz on this fun and interactive site.
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Article
Other

Science Fiction Writer: Robert J. Sawyer: "On Writing": Word Processing Tricks

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer shares his word processing tricks and tools for proofreading and editing a manuscript. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.6 Use technology to produce and publish writing
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Activity
Other

One Computer guy.com: Configuring Outlook Email Options

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial features a variety of options that you can use to configure how e-mail is handled in Outlook. This is in several places that can be difficult to remember.

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