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Sophia: Monohybrid Cross
A narrated learning activity illustrating how a monohybrid cross of genetic traits gets passed on to offspring. [3:40]
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Sophia: Narrative Key Elements
This video lesson focuses on the key elements of writing a narrative: point of view, tone, reflective statement, pacing, emphasis, and cohesion. W.9-10.3,3a, 3b, 3c, 3e Narratives, W.11-12.3,3a, 3b, 3c, 3e Narratives
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Sophia: Physics: Newton's Second Law of Motion Tutorial
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing Newton's Second Law of Motion straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you learn from this interactive slideshow. [9:49]
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Sophia: Note Taking: Cornell Notes
This video lesson focuses on the Cornell note taking method. It details the page set up, explains what types of information are placed in each of the columns, and offers note taking tips.
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Sophia: Note Taking: Note Card Systems
This video lesson focuses on note taking, using note cards to gather and organize information for a research project. It gives steps to follow, tips, and examples. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Note Taking: Note Card Systems
This video lesson focuses on note taking using note card systems. You should choose a system dependent on how you plan to use the cards afterward. It discusses color coding either by card color or ink color putting like items on the same...
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Sophia: Organizing Your Paper
This tutorial focuses on organizing a paper. It provides three videos: the first video covers graphic organizers and how each is best used; the second one discusses the purpose, audience, and context of the writing and offers 5 methods...
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Sophia: Paragraph
This video lesson focuses on the paragraph; it defines paragraph; explains how it transitions from the previous paragraph, develops the new thought of the topic sentence, and transitions to the next paragraph. It uses an example from...
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Sophia: Paragraph Sizing
This video lesson focuses on paragraph size; paragraph size depends on units of ideas. Keep the reader in mind, and vary paragraph lengths. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Paraphrasing a Source
This video lesson focuses on paraphrasing a source to convey meaning but avoid plagiarism. It explains how to paraphrase and offers tips to help; it presents examples of unacceptable paraphrases that would be plagiarism and acceptable...
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Sophia: Peer Review
This video lesson focuses on peer reviews; it defines it and gives reasons students don't like to do them. It explains the peer review process including rereading the paper multiple times looking at specific parts each read, discusses...
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Sophia: Prewriting: Asking Questions
This video lesson focuses on asking questions as a prewriting activity. It explains why questioning is a good prewriting technique, discusses the types of questions to ask, focuses the questions to fit the topic, and provides a specific...
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Sophia: Prewriting: Brainstorming
This video lesson focuses on brainstorming and listing as a prewriting activity. It discusses free association of ideas and perspectives, using webs or flow charts of ideas, and a variety of listing methods. Next students should look at...
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Sophia: Prewriting: Free Writing
This video lesson focuses on using free writing as a prewriting strategy. It defines free writing, fast continuous writing for an allotted period of time; it explains the benefits of free writing and details how to use it as a prewriting...
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Sophia: Prewriting: Free Writing
This video lesson focuses on using stream of consciousness free writing as a prewriting activity. It discusses the purpose for prewriting and the rules for stream of consciousness writing. It then offers practice in the form of a...
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Sophia: Prewriting: Idea Maps
This screencast introduces the concept of idea maps and explains and models four common ones: spider map, tree map, Venn diagram, and character map. It also offers websites to find different types of idea maps. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Process Papers: Organization
This video lesson focuses on organizing a process paper including how to organize using chronological sequencing in a step-by-step fashion. It includes breaking down and evaluating it in either parts to a whole or whole to parts fashion.
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Sophia: Process Papers: Thesis
This video lesson focuses on writing a thesis statement for a process analysis paper. It includes the requirements for all thesis statements, the need to break down the process and evaluate it, a generic thesis starting point, and then...
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Sophia: Revising an Introduction
This video lesson focuses on revising an introduction. It explains what makes an introduction successful, what makes an introduction unsuccessful, and what to look for when revising an introduction. It then demonstrates how to revise two...
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Sophia: Revising a Thesis Statement
This video lesson focuses on revising and editing your paper, especially your thesis statement. It outlines a 3-step process in which the writer reads and answers specific questions about the body of the paper, then answers questions...
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Sophia: Revision Techniques: Eliminating Excess
This video lesson focuses on eliminating wordiness in writing. It offers strategies to make your writing more concise and precise: using precise language, reducing clauses to phrases, removing excess phrasing, and removing words that...
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Sophia: Revision Techniques: Using a Professor's Notes
This video lesson focuses on using the notes and comments written on returned papers to improve future writing. It includes why you should look at them, common symbols and proofreaders marks and their meanings, the order of importance to...
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Sophia: Simply Simple Sentences
This tutorial focuses on the simple sentence: one thought, one clause. It gives examples of simple declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Learning and Literacy Centers
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing literacy centers straight to your fingertips.