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Nasa Classroom of the Future: Concept Mapping

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how a concept map can help you pull together information you already know and, in the process, learn something new. Includes steps to concept mapping and a helpful example.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Concepts and Characteristics

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers. Students will be able to take notes via different concept maps.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Curriculum Mapping

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Discover more about curriculum mapping when you visit this informative site. Teachers will gain a better understanding of curriculum mapping through this resource.
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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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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Instructional Webs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides efficient notetaking tools. Students will learn notetaking strategies that will help them organize major concepts about literary works.
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Other

Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Welcome to My World!

For Teachers 2nd
Understand and use basic map concepts and skills.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Map a Buddy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity serves to introduce the concept of tracking and spatial movements of animals in relation to the environment in which they live. The following activity will aid student understanding of animal tracking and how technology...
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NOAA

Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Biodiversity in an Estuary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity introduces students to the amazing biodiversity of an estuarine environment, focusing on the habitats in the Rookery Bay National EstuarineResearch Reserve, Florida. They begin by exploring the estuary using Google Maps....
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Working With Formulas

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the "Basic Atomics" section of the Virtual Textbook, this site examines formulas and how they are read and written. Other topics covered include a concept map, simplest formulas, and masses.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: And Now, What Do You Know About Microbes? (Post Assessment)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A post-assessment at the end of a unit on microbes where students complete a multiple-choice quiz, and create and present a concept map of what they learned. The lesson and a set of PowerPoint slides can be downloaded. An accompanying...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: The Science of the Heart and Circulation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this unit teachers will evaluate student's current understanding of the heart and circulatory system through a pre-assessment. They will develop group concept maps and then repeat the assessment. Teachers can compare their prior...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Political Borders

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson in which students explore the concept of borders and regions by examining culture and physical location and determine how and where borders should be placed. Lesson contains two activities with maps.
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Animal Assistants Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
The animals need help! In this week's Afterschool Adventure, children will take the role of Animal Assistants and use their spatial skills to help save the day. Each section of this weeklong adventure is introduced by a video clip or...
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Curated OER

National Park Service: What on Earth Is Plate Tectonics?

For Students 9th - 10th
An easy-to-understand explanation of what plate tectonics is. Contains information about the inner parts of the Earth, the difference between the three types of plates, and numerous maps and illustrations.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Graphic Organizers Bring About Good Science Read/writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson uses graphic organizers to engage students in reading comprehension strategies for informational text in science. Venn Diagram, Hierarchy, Time Line, Cluster Diagram, and Flow Chart reproducible pages are included with the...
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Other

Project Happy Child: Mind Mapping

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This British web site gives a basic overview, answers questions about mindmapping, and offers suggestions on this topic. Several books are recommended. Explore the links for more information.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Freezing Things: States of Matter

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The class will go back over the Power Point presentation on chemical and physical properties. The teacher will then conduct numerous liquid nitrogen demos. This lesson is used early in the Chemistry course. The students love it. This...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to map the story. Materials are included.
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US National Archives

National Archives: u.s. V. Amistad: A Case of Jurisdiction

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students will review the Amistad case and use passages from the case explore the concept of jurisdiction and how a case travels through the federal court system. Also, included are links to the background of the Amistad case, a...
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Other

Government of Alberta: Agroclimatic Atlas of Alberta: Climate of Alberta

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the climate of Alberta and how it is different in different regions of the province. Provides a map that illustrates this concept. Includes links to other articles on Alberta's weather and climate.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Earth's Albedo

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This engaging activity introduces students to the concept of albedo and how it relates to Earth's energy balance. They measure the albedo using maps, data tables, and a shaker filled with popcorn kernels. Then, they estimate the Earth's...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Where Is Here?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
In this lesson, young scholars are shown the very basics of navigation. The concepts of relative and absolute location, latitude, longitude and cardinal directions are discussed, as well as the use and principles of a map and compass.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Assessing Theme

For Teachers 6th Standards
This is an introductory lesson on the concept of theme. Students choose two words that sum up the theme of the novel "So B. It" by Sarah Weeks. They then analyze a passage to find evidence of their choices and create a theme map. They...

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