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The International Education and Resource Network: The First Peoples' Project

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Join the online community of indigenous students from nations around the world and/or view work from students that center around issues relating to indigenous children.
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Activity
Other

What Is Rubistar? How to Make Rubrics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This online tool is designed for teachers to create rubrics that correspond with project-based learning activities.
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Website
Other

Pumpkin Patch: A Collection of Pumpkin Poetry

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An awesome collection of student-generated poetry about pumpkins. The site is fully illustrated with student work.
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Professional Doc
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Give Every Student a Stake in Group Work

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Can we organize group work so that every student has ownership over their learning? This is a collection of resources that highlight some tips on how to make students' group work more relevant and impactful for everyone involved.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Graffiti Wall: Discussing and Responding to Literature

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
New ways of thinking about text, collaboration with group members, and presentation skills are all developed with this activity which could be applied to almost any novel read in class. Includes student handouts, an online interactive,...
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Handout
Colorado State University

Colorado State University: Writing @ Csu Writing Guides

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a fairly sophisticated series of writing guides. It assumes that users already have a solid grasp of spelling, grammar and mechanics, so it focuses more on organization and types of presentation than on more basic skills....
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Article
Other

Global School Net: How to Design a Successful Project

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Before you begin a keypal exchange, read this article about project design.These guidelines, along with the template for writing you own "Call for Collaboration," will help guide you through a successful online learning experience with...
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Activity
Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry: Experimentation Hub: Measuring Vitamin C in Food

For Students 9th - 10th
A chance to complete an experiment with students around the world! This experiment requires students to test how much vitamin C is in certain foods. Once students receive their results, they post their findings to the page to compare to...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Know Your Neighbors: Researching the Planets

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students will study planets and moons in our solar system by working online and other resources. This lesson has students working together to generate a spreadsheet of data found. Students will use this information to describe why Earth...
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Website
Other

Biodiversity Heritage Library

For Students 9th - 10th
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a collaborative effort by ten major natural history institutions in the U.S. to bring together their biodiversity resources collected in the past 200 years into a single online space. You can view...
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Website
Other

Onetz

For Students 9th - 10th
In collaboration with several newspapers and magazines from the region, Onetz is an online news and information source for Weiden, Amberg, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, and Umgebung, Germany. Content includes top news for the region and country,...
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Website
Other

Onetz

For Students 9th - 10th
In collaboration with several newspapers and magazines from the region, Onetz is an online news and information source for Weiden, Amberg, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, and Umgebung, Germany. Content includes top news for the region and country,...
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Unit Plan
Other

University of Queensland Australia: Digital Essentials: Choosing the Right Tool

For Students 9th - 10th
Finding the right software, tool or app can be challenging. This module will help you find a tool for a specific task and allows you to compare similar tools to find the best match. Some of the information is only useful for university...
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Lesson Plan
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.
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Website
Other

Interactive Journalism Institute for Middle Schoolers

For Students 5th - 8th
IJIMS is a project designed to introduce students from underrepresented populations to digital, web-based journalism opportunities. Participants create an online magazine to learn computational thinking via digital media, interactive...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Biographies: Creating Timelines of Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Online lesson plan which allows students to choose a person of interest and create a timeline of their life. Includes working together, researching potential conflicting information, and developing essays from the original research.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How to Set the Table Correctly

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The Family and Consumer Science (FACS) portion of this instructional activity provides opportunities for students to utilize acceptable guidelines for table setting. A basic computer research component familiarizes students with...
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Website
Other

I*earn (International Education and Resource Network)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This nonprofit organization creates structured projects that facilitate engaged learning and youth making a difference on an International scale. Project areas include interdisciplinary topics such as the environment/science,...
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Professional Doc
Other

Duke: Center for Inquiry Based Learning

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Duke University has established the Center for Inquiry-Based Learning. It serves to enhance math and science lessons. Click on Resources for good examples of Inquiry-based lesson plans.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: So, You Want to Be a Citizen?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils work in groups to create a slide presentation aimed at informing immigrants of the qualifications and steps in naturalization as well as the rights, responsibilities, and duties of citizens.This lesson is an interdisciplinary unit...
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Website
Other

Flickr

For Students 9th - 10th
Quickly and easily upload your photos onto this web-based sharing program. Then, organize and share your photos with others, mark the location that you took the photos with Geo-tagging and more.