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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Flipped classrooms and online tools killed the chalkboard! An awesome, hands-on technology workshop asks teachers across all content areas. to examine model lessons, become familiar with research, and explore tech tools they can...
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Transforming Education

Self-Management Strategies

For Teachers K - 12th
What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...
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Transforming Education

Self-Efficacy Strategies

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Scholars with high levels of self-efficacy perform better in school. Instructors review a list of strategies for enhancing self-efficacy skills. They discover how to teach learners to appropriately define success, celebrate progress, and...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Guitar Jingle: Discovering the Locations of Harmonics

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this music science fair project, students will discover the locations of harmonics on an acoustic guitar and relate them to guitar string lengths.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Race Your Marbles to Discover a Liquid's Viscosity

For Students 9th - 10th
How do you like your mashed potatoes? Thin and whipped smooth? Or thick and mashed into chunks? Your mouth checks out not just the taste of your food, but its viscosity, or how it flows on your tongue, every time you take a bite. In this...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: How Does Animation Timing Affect Your Perception

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video and computer game science fair project, students will discover how changing the timing between different frames of an animation can change a player's perception of how powerful a video game punch is. The Science Buddies...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Invention Project Samples

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover how to present your findings after completing a science fair project. View sample science fair invention projects: junior light switcher, quiet down invention, and stale sandwiches.
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Other

Teaching Tolerance: Pre Wwii European Jewish Life Photo Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This set of lessons - comprised of five 45-minute sessions - will engage students in researching and understanding how individual Jewish communities and lives were affected by the Holocaust. By researching and analyzing family...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Choose a Project Type Investigation

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover how to approach a scientific question, and learn eight steps students will perform in doing so. Offers suggestions on how to ask a testable question as well as several examples.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Why Do Soccer Balls Get Flat Science Fair Project

For Teachers 2nd
Discover what happens to the circumference of a balloon when it is placed in dry ice, kept at room temperature, and when it is warmed by a hairdryer.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Peat Bogs of Allegan County: A Field Based Research Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An article describing a research project where students and teachers spent six weeks during the summer investigating bogs. Learn more about the program in general as well as what teachers and students discovered during their research.
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Other

The Pluralism Project at Harvard University

For Students 9th - 10th
The Pluralism Project addresses and educates people about religious diversity. Discover all about the variety of religions practiced in the United States, data from research, videos, articles, and many more resources.
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Tree of Life Project

Tree of Life Web Project: Terrestrial Vertebrates

For Students 9th - 10th
Some vertebrates have fins and some have limbs with digits to move across land. Discover these creatures with limbs and digits from who they are to who they were and how they evolved.
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: The International Boiling Point Project Lessons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A seven-lesson unit on discovering how the boiling point of water is affected by elevation. Additional materials, such as for assessment, can be accessed through the links on the left.
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Other

Ohio Memory Project

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Ohio Memory's mission is to help communities share, discover and connect to Ohio's rich past through dynamic online resources.
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Other

Project Wet: Water Festival Games

For Students 2nd - 5th
Discover the role of water in our lives with this collection of water activities and games.
Handout
University of Arizona

The Biology Project: Eukaryotes

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this resource to discover the basic structure of a eukaryotic cell and some of the organelles it contains.
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Tree of Life Project

Tree of Life Web Project: Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
Metazoa are the feature topic of this resource. Click on the specific types to learn more about these animals. An extensive list of additional resources are provided to discover these creatures.
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University of California

The History Project: Meaning of Suburbia

For Students 9th - 10th
As the United States emerged from World War II, suburbs began to spring up with amazing speed. They were advertised as the perfect place to live - a utopia in which the family would flourish. The suburbs, with their promise of an escape...
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Other

Odyssey Marine Exploration: Hms Victory Project Overview

For Students 1st - 9th
Find out how the wreckage of the HMS Victory was discovered and how divers removed artifacts from the site.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Black List Project: Colin Powell

For Students 9th - 10th
With this resource, users can discover the story of politician, General Colin Powell, Secretary of State under President George W. Bush. View a photo and read a biography of the African American man who held the highest rank in the...
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Project Britain

Project Britain: The Victorians

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover just who the Victorians were by searching through the links provided in this guide to Victorian life. Biographies, pictures, clothing, and more are featured here.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Black List Project: Sean Combs

For Students 9th - 10th
With this resource, students can discover the story of rapper, record producer, clothing designer, and political activist, Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs, while viewing a photo and reading a biography.
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Harvard University

Harvard University: Project Zero: Agency by Design: Take Apart [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Mechanical dissections are a practice that allows learners to discover the often hidden design of objects and how the parts work together as a system.