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Texas Gateway: Abiotic Cycles

For Students 9th - 10th
Given scenarios, illustrations, or descriptions, the student will describe the flow of matter through carbon and nitrogen cycles and describe the consequences of disrupting these cycles.
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Texas Gateway: Average Speed

For Students 5th - 8th
Given diagrams, data, or scenarios, students will calculate average speed using distance and time measurements.
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Texas Gateway: Calorimetry

For Students 9th - 10th
Given scenarios, illustrations, or descriptions, students will identify the process of calorimetry and calculate the heat of a chemical process.
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Texas Gateway: Cell Processes: Fermentation

For Students 9th - 10th
Given descriptions or illustrations, students will identify where fermentation occurs and the results of fermentation.
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Texas Gateway: Conservation of Momentum

For Students 9th - 10th
This 5E model lesson helps students understand the concept of conservation of momentum.
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Texas Gateway: Ecological Succession

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners explore and describe how succession affects biodiversity by creating an island ecosystem in an interactive game.
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Texas Gateway: Effects of Force

For Students 3rd - 5th
Explore the effects of forces around us in the world.
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Texas Gateway: Electric and Magnetic Forces

For Students 9th - 10th
Given diagrams, illustrations, or descriptions, students will identify examples of electric and magnetic forces.
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Texas Gateway: Electromagnetic Forces

For Students 9th - 10th
Given schematic diagrams, illustrations or descriptions, students will identify the relationship of electric and magnetic fields in applications such as generators, motors, and transformers.
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Texas Gateway: Energy and Matter in Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners analyze food chains, webs, and pyramids to determine how energy flows and matter cycles through ecosystems.
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Texas Gateway: Energy Transformation

For Students 6th - 8th
Given descriptions, illustrations, or scenarios, students will identify energy transformations, such as how energy in a flashlight battery changes from chemical energy to electric energy to light energy.
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Texas Gateway: Moon Phases

For Students 7th - 9th
Use the 5E model to explore moon phases.
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Texas Gateway: The u.s. Role in the World (1970'S Into the 21st Century)

For Students 9th - 10th
Given a timeline, students will understand the political, economic, and social impact of selected U.S. political leaders on the world from the 1970s into the 21st century.
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Texas Gateway: Connecting Postulates, Definitions, and Theorems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The student will distinguish the difference between undefined terms, definitions, postulates, conjectures, and theorems.
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Texas Gateway: Tone Is in the Fear of the Beholder:using Multimodal Mentor Texts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A demonstration lesson presented at the 2014 Write for Texas Summer Institute. It provides a snapshot of a four to five week unit that engages students in the reading and writing workshop model.
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Texas Gateway: Organizing a Speech (English Iii Speaking)

For Students 10th - 12th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn the skills needed to organize a speech.
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Texas Gateway: Literary Nonfiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze literary nonfiction, particularly speeches, by making inferences and drawing conclusions based on evidence in the text.
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Texas Gateway: Synthesize Information in Charts and Graphs (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Synthesize information that you find in charts and graphs.
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Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze how an author's style and syntax support meaning in a text. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.3
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Texas Gateway: Differentiate Among Empirical, Anecdotal, and Logical Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Distinguish among different kinds of evidence in a text that supports conclusions and arguments in texts.
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Texas Gateway: Denotation and Connotation (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Distinguish between the denotative (dictionary) meaning of a word and its connotative (emotions or associations that are implied rather than literal) meaning. L.9-10.5b nuances
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Texas Gateway: Imagery: Simile and Metaphor (English I Reading)

For Students 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Identify the similes and metaphors in a text and evaluate their importance to the meaning of the text. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects
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Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze how an author's style and syntax support meaning in a text. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.3
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Texas Gateway: Revising for Organization for Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay appropriate to purpose, audience, and context. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen...