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Curated OER

The Periodic Table

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine the history and development of the periodic table and properties of elements. They complete worksheets, take notes during a teacher-led discussion, and produce their own periodic table.
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Curated OER

Soil Factors

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study the nine soil factors to use in field study and to complete an exam. They learn the components and characteristics of soil.
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Curated OER

Inventors and their Inventions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation on a specific inventor and their invention. This lesson is web-based and includes resource links, alternative lesson ideas, and lesson extensions.
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Curated OER

Homology

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students investigate the concept of homology. They are particularly interested in finding information about developmental homology. Students design a new animal correcting obvious mistakes on a worksheet provided by the teacher. They...
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Curated OER

PASS the Arts

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore math and art concepts, create digital art examples of the concepts, and incorporate these works into a PowerPoint portfolio with explanation and analysis.
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Curated OER

Science: Testing Water for Toxicity

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate the potential toxicity of water samples using California blackworms to test water quality. They observe the worms' behaviors in different water samples and determine which sample has the highest toxicity. At the...
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Curated OER

Examining The Scores

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate test scores taken to obtain academic strengths and weaknesses. They practice looking at the scores in order to interpret the results. Students use time for class discussion and planning study strategies to target...
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Curated OER

Media Campaign

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders design and present a media product supporting environmental stewardship. They demonstrate an understanding of the nature and types of waste and of their management in industry and the community. They assess the results...
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Curated OER

Atomic Time Lines

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students understand the evolution of the atomic model from Ancient Greece to the present. They then choose one of the options as a project using class time to do research and to be creative.
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Curated OER

Using Polynomials To Find Perimeter

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders engage in the solving of a real life application problem using the concept of calculating perimeter. They apply the operations of calculating with the polynomials for finding the perimeter of triangles,quadrilaterals, and...
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Curated OER

Organization of the Elements and Periodic Table

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students identify how to relate the position of an element in the periodic table to its atomic number and atomic mass. They also identify and interpret how to use the periodic table to identify metals, semimetals, nonmetals, and...
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Curated OER

Variables That Can Affect Making Schedule

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students study the variables that affect transportation of shipments and the factors that affect deterioration of a perishable product.  In this transportation lesson students discuss the pros and cons of team driving. 
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Curated OER

Soil Slope

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers study how to measure the soil slope of an area.  In this soil lesson young scholars work in groups and complete an activity that allows them to find the slope of a given area. 
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Handout
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Transitions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This University of North Carolina writing tutorial gives examples and how to use transitions and stresses the importance of organization. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/trans, W.11-12.1c...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Expository Writing Sentence Variety/rhetorical Devices/transitions

For Students 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to write an expository/procedural text that uses a variety of sentence structures, rhetorical devices, and transitions.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revising Thesis and Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A series of notes and lessons focused on writing thesis statements and topic sentences. The lesson begins with a four-page downloadable PDF containing information about the function and form of a thesis statement as well as how to...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Sentence Structures, Rhetorical Devices, & Transitions

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The most effective expository and procedural texts contain rhetorical devices, transitional words and phrases, and a variety of sentence structures. Students will learn some...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tie It Up With Transition Words to Write a Story!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the lesson, groups of students will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will include details...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on transition words. In text it defines transition words and how they improve writing; in PDF it provides a list of transition words and phrases by category with examples. Using a PowerPoint presentation, it...
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Website
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces transition words and how they can improve writing in a video, and then provides a slide show which lists of transition words that show contrast, addition. illustration, and cause and effect. It also offers a link...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Editing for Coherence and Transition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will learn how to edit sentences so they move seamlessly from one to another within a paragraph; however, they can use the same methods to ensure that paragraphs move seamlessly from one to another in an entire...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn about two rhetorical devices that are writing performance enhancers, analogy and antithesis. You will also learn about transitional words and...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising rhetorical devices and transitions in an essay.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Cause and Effect Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on cause and effect transition words; it defines and lists the categories of transition words. It discusses when to use cause and effect transition words, provides a list of sample words, and offers sentence...

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