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Mind Tools

Mind Tools: Problem Solving Skills

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

Discover the four basic steps in problem solving: defining the problem, generating alternatives, evaluating and selecting alternatives, and implementing solutions. The first step, defining the problem, is discussed in detail. Links to...

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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Your Daily Learning Platform

For Students K - 1st Standards

An index to the Discovery Channel. Find resources for teachers, students, and even parents, from science experiments to math help, to virtual field trips.

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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Evaluating Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This page explains the need for evaluating resources and offers links to rules for evaluating primary, secondary, or tertiary resources and determining if resources are good or bad.

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Cyberbee

Cyberbee: Photo Analysis Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This site is a guide to help students analyze visual media. Further research questions included.

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Education Development Center

Education Development Center: Tv411: Parts of a Newspaper

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards

Students click through a activity about the parts of a newspaper and answer questions about the types of articles found in each section, headlines, and captions that would go with photographs. Links to related videos are also provided.

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Asa Education: Critical Thinking Skills in Education and Life

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

There are many links and resources on this site dealing with critical thinking. It includes everything from the characteristics of critical thinkers to the logic of critical thinking.

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Other

What Is Media Literacy?

For Students 1st - 5th Standards

This web quest will ask students to read and think critically about some of the media sources they are familiar with. Students will look closely at the purposes of the different kinds of media, look at the techniques used to create the...

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Bubbl.us: Brainstorming Made Simple

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

Bubbl.us is a free online application that allows users to brainstorm online then save them, email them and share with friends.

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University of Houston

University of Houston: The Journalist's Desk

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards

This site includes eleven brief newspaper stories. Students must identify the main idea of each short news story.

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CommonLit

Common Lit: The Scientific Method

For Students 5th - 6th Standards

A learning module that begins with "What Is a Rocket" by NASA, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and student...

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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Cause and Effect [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards

This graphic organizer can be used as a reading response when working with informational text. Students will write two different effects and record multiple causes for each effect.

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Sam Houston State University

Texas Center for Academic Excellence: Summarizing Pre Test

For Students 5th - 7th Standards

Check students' prior knowledge and understanding of how to summarize passages and identify main ideas.

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Learning Farm: Compare and Contrast Accounts

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards

Students will practice comparing and contrasting a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic.

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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Realizing the Power of Your Own Creativity [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

In this lesson, students interpret a poem called 'The Little Blue Engine' by adding music, movement, visual art, and drama. After performing their creation, they will discuss any mathematical and/or scientific connections that have a...

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Scholastic

Scholastic: Test Skill Builders for Reading: Making Judgments [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards

Standardized test practice for students in grades 5 and 6. Students read a practice passage and answer questions that require them to make judgments about such things as fact or opinion and the author's purpose. Answers to the practice...

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Radcab: Your Vehicle for Information Evaluation

For Students 5th - 8th Standards

How do you know you are using a trustworthy source when writing a research paper? Use this acronym for easy questions to ask yourself to make sure you have a reliable source. Click on each one for further details.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Agree to Disagree [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students read statements and then use prior knowledge to agree or disagree with each statement. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Background Check [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which young scholars browse a text and complete a graphic organizer to show prior knowledge. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Matter of Fact or Opinion [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to write facts and opinions on different word cards. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Fact or Opinion Game [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students play a game where they move around a board by determining if statements are facts or opinions. Materials are included.

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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Finding and Evaluating Web Sites

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards

"When you need to do research, the World Wide Web is a great resource." Find out what to look for in using quality sites for your research.

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Creating State Brochures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

Learners will work in pairs to research online and/or in print a chosen state and create a travel brochure incorporating the information gathered.

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Better Living Through Science

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

This lesson involves research on scientists whose accomplishments have impacted areas of nutrition, sanitation, or health care. Students will research an area of their choice, record information on a graphic organizer, and use the...

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Can You Solve the Problem?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

During this lesson, students will analyze ways in which the character(s) in stories solve problems encountered. In small groups, students will brainstorm possible solutions to realistic problems in order to enhance connections to...

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