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College Board

Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?

For Teachers 7th Standards
How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...
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Other

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Ways to Help Kids Develop Healthy Habits

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A study by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation showed parents have significant potential to influence their children's behavior. Help your children learn to make healthier food choices and engage in regular physical...
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: Column: Can Librarians Help Solve the Fake News Problem?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Was it only a matter of time that people would begin buying into any news, even when it was actually fake? This writer felt it was no surprise. Find out why and how a librarian can help educate students how to best vet resources for...
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PBS

Pbs: How to Help Kids Cope With Disappointment

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource will assist adults with helping students to understand how to train students to deal with disappointment in a constructive way.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Glasses Help Us See?

For Students 9th - 10th
Today, glasses help millions of people with poor vision be able to see clearly. But how? Andrew Bastawrous and Clare Gilbert help unravel the answer by explaining refraction- the ability of a transparent medium, like glass, water, or the...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Helping Your Audience Listen More

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on helping your audience listen better by offering strategies such as read feedback cues, employ strategies for maintaining audience focus, use strategies to maximize audience understanding, build credibility, and...
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Other

Apperson: 10 Activities to Help Students Explore Emotions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Ten activities are provided that will help young students learn more about their feelings and emotions.
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PBS

Pbs: Tips for Helping Your Child Focus and Concentrate

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Concentration is like a muscle that requires regular exercise to strengthen. This article gives tips to help your kids build their concentration muscles.
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Other

Ebsco Post: How to Help Students Select Digital Tools and Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article goes over some key points to help teachers explain to students why they should be cautious about using websites found through search engines to conduct academic research.
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Other

4 Ways to Help Students Identify Needs and Opportunities and to Design Solutions

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
One of the key aspects of the design thinking process is to be able to identify needs and opportunities for design endeavors. Students need to investigate, explore and critique needs, opportunities, and information in order to define the...
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Computer Hope

Computer Hope: Computer Buying Help

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of Computer Hope is designed to help users understand and make better decisions when purchasing computer hardware, software and computers. Be sure to review the section 'Buying locations' which gives you tips and what to...
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Other

Helping Children After a Disaster: Information for Teachers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
NASP offers tips to teachers and parents on how to help children cope after a natural disaster.
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Other

Sutter Health: Helping Your Teen Make Responsible Choices

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Some parenting tips for communicating with a teen to help them learn to make good decisions. Emphasizes the importance of building mutual respect, and talks about the issue of peer pressure.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Birds Help Their Young Survive (Bald Eagles)

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Birds protect their young in some cool ways! See how our national bird cares for its chicks. Learners will read a National Geographic article about Eagles becoming extinct, and will watch a video on Iowa Bald Eagle cameras. Students will...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Go Figure With Figurative Language It Helps With Predicting!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
In this lesson, students will use figurative language, digital tools, and illustrations to write a story. The teacher will model how to use an app that has onomatopoeia to create a story with a good beginning, middle, and end. A video...
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PBS

Kqed: Mind Shift: 5 Tools to Help Students Learn How to Learn

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Taken together these five tools, which are deceptively simple, can give students the experience of deeper inquiry and insight into their own learning habits and preferences.
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Other

Great Schools: A Parent's Guide to Helping With Learning Difficulties

For Students 9th - 10th
Understanding how to help a child that is having difficulties in school is an important step towards success. This site provides free information and support for parents and educators looking to provide support for a child struggling...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Helping Students With Ld Pass High Stakes Tests

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students must pass a high stakes tests to graduate high school. These tests are a major barrier for students with learning disabilities who often do not test well. Accommodations can help. Learn how to help children with learning...
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EL Education

El Education: One Earth Step Gently: 23 Ways You Can Help Our Planet

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students create a class book for peers and younger students to learn ways to help the earth. Each suggestion is explained with only the most essential information and illustrated using a paper collage technique.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Kathryn Stockett: The Help

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biography on American novelist Kathryn Stockett and background about her first novel The Help. Includes summary and a look at how its message can apply to readers today.
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Social Studies Help Center

Social Studies Help Center: Urban Political Leaders: 1800s Early 1900s

For Students 9th - 10th
Gives a description of political machines and their three parts that make up the machines. Also discusses what these political machines did and talks of their decline in the 20th century.
Article
Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: How the First State Constitution Helped Build the u.s. Constitution [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Article describes how the written constitutions adopted by each of the 13 colonies were the seeds of the U.S. Constitution including the Bill of Rights. Includes questions for discussion and small group activity.
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Other

History News Network: How the Telegraph Helped Lincoln Win the Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
Abraham Lincoln participated in battle strategy in real time thanks to the telegraph. Read the fascinating story of how Abraham Lincoln was intimately involved in the course of the Civil War due to the increased use of the telegraph.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Helping Young Children Express Themselves

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
We know that communication is central to the learning process. Communication can be specifically linked to the expanding skills of listening and speaking, as children connect to the reading and writing behaviors that characterize early...

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