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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Exercising My Brain

For Students 3rd - 8th
This article gives some examples of how your brain grows when you learn new things.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Mistakes Can Be Harmful Too

For Students 3rd - 8th
This article explains three common ways we allow mistakes to hurt our learning process.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Reflect: The Path Forward

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity asks students to reflect on what they have learned from the Growth Mindset activities.
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Other

Litemind: Creative Problem Solving With Scamper

For Teachers 9th - 10th
SCAMPER is a technique you can use to spark your creativity and help you overcome any challenge you may be facing. In essence, SCAMPER is a general-purpose checklist with idea-spurring questions - which is both easy to use and...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Connect: Keep Going Keep Growing

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity will help students understand why working through frustration will help them grow.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative learning strategies. Learning style assessments is a strategy suggested, along with several ways of randomly assigning students to groups.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Think Pair Share

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Think-Pair-Share (TPS) is a collaborative learning strategy in which students work together to solve a problem or answer a question about an assigned reading. This technique requires students to (1) think individually about a topic or...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Prediction Relay

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Prediction Relay is an activity that was developed as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS is a classwide peer tutoring program in which teachers carefully partner a student with a classmate. The Prediction Relay...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: The Mind Mapping Teaching Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient learning strategy. Explanataions are provided about how graphic organizers can serve as mind mapping tools.
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Other

Gallaudet University: Reading and Mapping

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn strategies for reading and mapping. This link offers important tips on improving test taking skills. Includes a PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Efficient Learning: Coming to Class Prepared

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient learning strategy. Students will learn strategies to help students come prepared. Links to a classroom organization page are included.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Student Planners

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient learning strategy. Students will learn the importance of using a planner to help track assignments and upcoming tests.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Use Acronyms to Remember Information

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient learning strategy. Students will learn how to use acronyms as a study tool.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Homework Tips for Students

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers with homework tips. Students will learn strategies to help them manage their time and come to class prepared to learn.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about the importance of cooperation. Students will learn strategies to help students work together as a team.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Structuring the Instructional Day

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient way of structuring the instructional day using a learning strategy that involves visualization. As a brainstorming activity, students will visualize themselves going to a movie.
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PE Central

Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Throw and Catch Tennis

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students can be introduced to tennis or racquetball through this simple lesson where students "Learn strategies for moving the ball around the court and the importance of placing the ball in differnt spots."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Rhetorical Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson gives an overview of rhetorical strategies.
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Joe Landsberger

Study Guides and Strategies in Korean

For Students 9th - 10th
Study guides and strategies for general school work including project management, classroom participation, preparing classes. Some Korean expressions are not completely translated in the content. Site also provides versions in English...
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Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Time Capsule Show What You Know

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will assemble a time capsule full of tidbits of information they feel would be useful for the next class to study and learn successfully.
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Other

How to Study: Study Skills Topic Pages

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Frustrated with study habits that don't work? Change your approach in a few easy steps.
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Other

Learning Theory: Reinforcement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has a nice discussion on the nature and use of reinforcement in learning theory. Describes the four major types of reinforcement and also the use of reinforcement schedules.
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Other

Study guide.org: Writing an Approach Paper

For Students 9th - 10th
This study tutorial shows how to do an "approach paper" concerning novels read in class. This web page explains the assignment and offers a sample approach for the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Count the Vowels

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Young scholars are given a list of words and told to count the vowels and turn the sheet over. They are then asked to list the words. In this exercise, students discover how the words are arranged and find it easy to remember them.

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