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SEL for Educators Toolkit

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Four resources make up the SEL toolkit for educators. Intended for those that teach kindergarten to twelfth grade, helpful files include a companion guide, presentation, reference list, and a one-page snapshot that neatly showcases the...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Japanese Art: The Formats of Two Dimensional Works

For Students 9th - 10th
Japanese two-dimensional works of art can take several different formats. Read about handscrolls and hanging scrolls and view examples in this essay.
Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Physiology of Urine Formation

For Students 9th - 10th
Focus on the physiology of the urinary system, and discover that different parts of the nephron utilize specific processes to produce urine: filtration, reabsorption, and secretion. Learn how each of these processes works and where they...
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Other

Earth Science Australia: Coal Types, Formation and Methods of Mining

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative site lists four stages in the development of coal. Different types of coal mines are explained in this site as well.
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Other

Weather 101: Cloud Formations

For Students 9th - 10th
This Weather 101 site provides information to the boater about different cloud formations and what they mean to a boater.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Image Formation by Lenses

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains what lenses are, the different between a converging and diverging lens, the difference between a double convex and double concave lens, and gives definitions for terms related to lenses.
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Other

Bscs: Earth's Changing Surface Lesson 2: Landform Detectives

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Using relief maps, students will learn that landforms can be different from one place to another. Included are a minute-by-minute lesson plan, activities, and teacher discussion points and questions.
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Other

21 Things4 Students: Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Media Table

For Students 9th - 10th
This chart lists different tools students can use to create digital media. The table covers animation, audio recording and podcasts, cartoons, infographics, interactives, screencasts, slideshows, and videos. Each tool has a list of...
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Chicago/turabian Formatting and Citation Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the Chicago Manual of Style and its shorter version of Turbian's Manual of Style. It explains the formatting and citation systems and how are similar and different.
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BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Writing: Format and Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
As part of the BBC's Skillswise unit, this site focuses on using various ways of writing for different purposes. For learning tools, the site includes a worksheet, a factsheet, and a quiz.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Different Types of Bacteria

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the different criteria used to classify bacteria and the groups of bacteria within each category. Groups are organized by characteristics such as morphology, shape, cell wall structure, and presence of flagella.
Unit Plan
Other

University of Idaho: Internet Information Literacy

For Students 9th - 10th
A lesson module on identifying the types of information one finds on the Internet (popular/scholarly, primary/secondary/tertiary) and the different formats information can come in. Learning exercises are embedded in the module, and a...
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Math Science Nucleus

Math/science Nucleus: Observing Different Landforms

For Teachers K - 1st
Lesson plan with subsequent pages to use with the lesson. Images with landform word match up and additional work on earth modeling.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Image Formation for Concave Mirrors Case A

For Students 9th - 10th
This animation depicts the path of light to each person's eye. Different people are sighting in different directions; yet each person is sighting at the same image location. In this animation the image location is the intersection point...
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Solving Linear Inequalities: Introduction and Formatting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource demonstrates how to solve linear inequalities step-by-step and shows four different solution formats/notations viz. inequality notation, set notation, interval notation, and the last "notation" which is more of an...
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Digital History

Digital History: The Formative Decade

For Students 9th - 10th
The first decade of the new American nation saw much development and progress, but there was still contention about what the national government's role would be. Read about the differing views of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton.
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Other

Evidence for Evolution: Formation of New Species

For Students 9th - 10th
These pages are part of a site called Evolution that accompanies a textbook by the same name. Mark Ridley is the author. These pages offer an explanation of speciation using reproductive isolation and differences in phenotype.
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BBC

Bbc: Conditions for Fossil Formation

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive animation allows you to try different areas to see how suitable they are for fossil formation.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: How Do Different Types of Soil Form?

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the two major factors that affect soil formation.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Arsenal Collection: Football Formations

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
How many different football team formations can you find? This activity provides an engaging real-life context to investigate simple combinations, and is aimed at Key Stage 3 students.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Rocks, Rock Cycle, and Formation

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the science of rocks and the rock cycle. How different types such as igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic form from minerals with the help of nature.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Investigation 2 Simulating Fossil Formation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan includes directions for 5 different activities for making a variety of fossil types. The fossils included in all five activities are casts, petrification fossils, imprints and preserved fossils. The labs require a number...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Image File Types and Size

For Students 3rd - 5th
There are so many different ways to save an image file it can be mind boggling. If you want to know whether to save your favorite photo as a jpeg, bmp, gif, or tiff then try this simple experiment.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Clouds How Do Clouds Form?

For Students 3rd - 5th
A brief look at cloud formation. Find out what the main process behind cloud formation is and what clouds are composed of. Click links to learn how to create a cloud and also to find out about the different kinds of clouds.