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Curated OER

Teaching the Subjects You Never Liked

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Having to teach your least favorite subjects isn't always fun, but can be a learning experience for both teacher and student.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: The Fossil Mind Map Unfolds

For Students 3rd - 4th
Students develop an organized mind map of facts they have learned about fossils from reading and visual content.
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Text2 Mind Map

For Students 9th - 10th
An online tool for transforming an outline or a structured list into a mind map, which can then be saved and printed out.
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Mind Tools

Mind Tools: Mind Maps: A Powerful Approach to Note Taking

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource for learning about the organizational concepts of the Mind Map. The site includes definition, uses, and examples. This technique would work especially well for visual learners.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: The Mind Mapping Teaching Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient learning strategy. Explanataions are provided about how graphic organizers can serve as mind mapping tools.
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Mind Mapping: Visual Creative Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
Mind mapping is an effective tool that can help with the creative thinking process. This article explains what mind mapping is and it shows you how you can effectively use it to help with your creative process.
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Improve Your Creative Thinking by Drawing Mind Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
One way to help your creative process is to use mind maps. This article provides information about mind mapping and how it can help you discover new connections you may otherwise never have seen.
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Intel Corporation

Intel: Seeing Reason: Mind Mapping Cause and Effect

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The "Seeing Reason Mapping Tool" is a free online tool that teachers and students can use to foster cause and effect understanding. Teachers must register for free access and set up projects; then their students can use the projects...
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Mind Maps

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of bullet points detailing how to create a helpful and informational mind map. A good resource for learning about the organizational tool; includes an example.
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Mind Maps

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This page includes useful background information about Mind Mapping, as well as a video explanation of it by Tony Buzan. Additional resources are provided as well.
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University of Twente (Nl): Concept Mapping

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a great example of a concept map, along with information on concept mapping and mind mapping. Mentions the importance of prior knowledge in the integration of new information.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Make Up Your Mind: Mind Mapping

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Investigate the pseudoscience of phrenology and its attempt to organize and assign different purposes to different parts of the brain. Create a phrenology chart on a bathing cap and compare it to modern understanding of brain function...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Secrets of the Mind: Probe the Brain

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Curious about how our brain works? Canadian Dr. Penfield was the first to map the cortex of the brain. Use this interactive site to recreate the exploration of the brain.
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Website
Mind Tools

Mind Tools: Tools for Improving Your Memory

For Students 9th - 10th
This Mind Tools site helps you to improve your memory. The techniques it explains are particularly helpful in studying for exams or in situations where you need to remember detailed, structured information. They also make things like...
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Web Accessibility in Mind (Web Aim): Accessible Images

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the importance of images for enhancing comprehension online and how to use them to communicate effectively. The article looks at illustrations, maps, animations, icons, color and contrast, image enlargement, and...
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Project Happy Child: Mind Mapping

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This British web site gives a basic overview, answers questions about mindmapping, and offers suggestions on this topic. Several books are recommended. Explore the links for more information.
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FNO Press

Fno.org: Inspired Investigations

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An article at From Now On about how to help students do better research by changing the focus of research assignments and teaching students to ask essential questions. Some suggestions include using mind mapping, and using Inspiration to...
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Topo Zone: Free Usgs Topo Maps for the Entire United States

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge collection of topographic maps for each of the US states. Scroll down to see a map of the United States and click on the state you are interested in. From there, you can search for a particular location, choose a featured map, or...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Strategies to Increase Participation, Interest, Motivation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about teaching strategies: The Inductive Strategy, The Concept Attainment Strategy, The Deductive Strategy, The Cooperative Unit Teaching Strategy, The Mind Mapping Strategy. and...
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Freeology: Free Graphic Organizers

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Blank templates of all types of graphic organizers from Venn Diagrams to Vocabulary Sketches are available for free at this resource.
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Handout
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Stalking Sars: The Cdc at Work

For Students 9th - 10th
This site goes through the who, what, where, and when of the CDC's investigation of the SARS virus. Includes an interactive map and timeline of the outbreak.
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Graphic
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University of Wisconsin Marathon County: Koppen's Classification Map

For Students 6th - 8th
Keeping vegetation in mind, Koppen's Climate Classification Map is the most widely used system of measuring the combination of precipitation and temperature. This map identifies areas and labels them variations of tropical, dry,...
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New York Times

New York Times: A Literary Map of Manhattan

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore Manhattan through the words of great literature. Scroll down the map or click on the book icons to find a quotation that relates to a specific address in New York. Many of the quotations are accompanied by portraits of the...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Georgia on My Mind

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart uses Activote to engage students in learning geographical facts about Georgia. It also contains maps of Georgia and its location and has pictures of Atlanta and Jimmy Carter

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