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The Tech Challenge 2016 lessons
Challenge young flight engineers to design a flying device for Ant-Man, balloon crafts with neutral buoyancy, paper airplanes from different paper types, hoop gliders, and a launcher for ping pong balls. Although designed for the 2016...
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Self Esteem Matters
As teachers we do not just teach what can be found in the standards; we teach our children how to be amazing human beings. Part of being amazing is realizing one's talents and having the confidence to showcase them for the world to see....
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Social & Emotional Learning in Middle School: Self-Awareness
A variety of resources make up a collection designed for middle school scholars. Here, pupils take part in lesson plans, activities, worksheets, and entire units that thoroughly examine the topic of self-awareness. Sub-topics include...
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Social & Emotional Learning in Middle School: Social Awareness
Self-awareness includes looking at different perspectives, exhibiting empathy, appreciating diversity, and respecting others—boost these social and emotional attributes using a collection designed for scholars in sixth through eighth...
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Middle School Fall Resources
Seasons come, and seasons go—but why? And how? Middle schoolers learn more about the fall season with a collection of earth science resources, social studies lessons, and writing assignments. Start the school year off with a rigorous...
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Safety and Kindness Online: Digital Citizenship for Middle and High Schoolers
We have always told our students that they could be anything they want to be, but never have these words been truer than in today's expansive digital world. Young users can be friends or bullies, gullible or skeptical, fake or...
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Mean, Median, and Mode with CK-12 PLIX
Help middle schoolers find meaning in measures of central tendency with a collection of interactive math resources. Offering real-world contexts for investigating the mean, median, and mode of data sets, these digital activities make...
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Teaching Digital Citizenship
In today's world, knowing how to thrive in the digital realm is a huge asset. Check out these digital citizenship lessons covering everything from online collaboration to copyright law and protecting a digital reputation.
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Classroom Management in Middle and High School
Nothing can make or break the success of a school year like classroom management. The lesson plans, templates, worksheets, and articles found here are intended to help secondary teachers and their students build positive and respectful...
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First Day of School: Middle and High School
Welcome back! Make your new middle and high school students feel at home with a collection of classroom templates, printables, and activities designed to establish a supportive and collaborative classroom environment.
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Katrina's Classroom: Teaching Money Skills for Life
Imagine a hurricane teaching high schoolers about financial preparedness! The four lessons in this collection are based on the personal stories in Katrina’s Classroom: Financial Lessons from a Hurricane video. Topics include goal...
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Why with Bill Nye!
Find out Why with Bill Nye in a nine-video collection in which he details the science behind NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter. Although dated, the satellite was launched in 2011 and went into orbit around Jupiter in 2016; the science...
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National Constitution Center: Hall Pass Videos
The National Constitution Center offers this collection of informative and entertaining videos intended to start conversations and develop critical thinking skills. Viewers learn about the rights granted by the constitution, about the...
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Social & Emotional Learning in High School: Relationship Skills
Building strong relationship skills is a critical part of Social and Emotional Learning. Working in book circles as lab partners, research teams, and project-based learning groups requires specific relationship skills. The units, lesson...
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Emotional Intelligence: High School
Yoda may believe “Luminous beings are we" but many teens find it difficult to believe the Jedi master's teachings, to believe in the Force within them, and to let their light shine. Brighten the beginning of the school year with lessons...
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Winter Solstice
The winter solstice is the subject of a collection of materials that has young scientists watching videos, conducting experiments, and making calculations, all to investigate the scientific concepts behind the shortest day of the year.
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Social & Emotional Learning in High School: Self-Awareness
21st Century Learners face an array of challenges. This collection is designed to help students develop the social and emotional self-awareness skills and healthy habits they need to make responsible decisions now and in the future. The...
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Biology Junction PowerPoint Presentations
Add a little power to your biology classes with a collection of 18 colorful presentations that cover everything from an introduction to the scientific method to lab safety rules, from acids to vaporization, Although designed as an AP...
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Activities for the First Days of School
In the post-pandemic, post-remote-learning classroom, it’s more important than ever to develop a school community where students feel welcome and safe. The 10 resources in the Activities for the First Days of School Collection are...
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Establishing Opening and Closing Routines
In the post-COVID classroom, it is more important than ever to establish routines that help learners transition into the classroom and focus on the day’s lesson. The 15 activities in the Establishing Opening and Closing Routines...
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Whack-A-Math Game
From Together.Science (https://www.together.science) scholars learn algebra order of operations concepts while playing a game. Participants match numbers on the board by selecting the operations that combine the rolled dice to that...
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Middle and High School Ice Breakers
A new school year, or a return from a long break, calls for an icebreaker. Help scholars get to know one another with a collection of icebreakers designed to meet the needs of grades six through twelve. Activities require pupils to...
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Social & Emotional Learning in High School: Self-Management
Self-management is a key aspect of social and emotional learning. Impulse control, stress management, self-discipline, self-motivation, goal setting, and organizational skills can be learned and the resources in this collection are...
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Social & Emotional Learning in High School: Social Awareness
Perspective-taking, empathy, appreciating diversity, and respect for others are the hallmarks of the Self-Awareness, Social and Emotional competency. In this collection, you will find lessons, unit plans, projects, activities, videos,...