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Pbs Learning Media: Career Gates: Soft Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
Soft Skills highlights the skills employees need to be successful. These include communication, eye contact, listening, teamwork, positive attitude, proper handshake, professional appearance and respect. Soft skills are the abilities to...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Taking Care of Your Vision

For Students 9th - 10th
Vision is something that can sometimes be taken for granted until a problem arises. Find out why taking care of your eyes is so important as well as procedure that insure proper eyesight.
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Virtual Salt

Virtual Salt: Ideas for Enhancing Oral Reports

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A helpful review of important parts of your report and ways to strengthen it. SL.9-10.4 Presentation
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Newport Eye Center: Astigmatism

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about Astigmatism directly from a doctor. A good summary of what this condition is.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Thin Lens Sign Conventions

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever wondered why some people need glasses and others don't? It's because of the way light is focused by the lens in your eye. This lens, like magnifying glasses, eyeglasses, and contact lenses, is considered a thin lens.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Gps on the Move

For Teachers 6th - 9th
During a scavenger hunt and an art project, students learn how to use a handheld GPS receiver for personal navigation. Teachers can request assistance from the Institute of Navigation to find nearby members with experience in using GPS...
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McMaster University

Mc Master University: Making Class Presentations [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Comprehensive guide with 17 areas of suggestions and tips for delivering a successful class presentation. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4, SL.11-12.4 Presentation
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Methods of Delivery

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a comprehensive lesson plan on four speech delivery methods and the advantages and disadvantages of each; it also discusses how to make your speech "real."
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Listening to Others

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Show others that you are a good listener by looking at him or her, listening and not interrupting, asking questions, nodding to show you understand, and repeating what you heard. This website will not only help you become a better...
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Eye Contact: Luther (Bill "Bojangles" ) Robinson

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of Bojangles Robinson by caricaturist Al Hirshfeld. Listen to Wendy Wick Reaves, a curator at the National Portrait Gallery, discuss his technique.
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Eye Contact: Portrait of Ethel Rosenberg

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to Wendy Wick Reaves, curator at the National Portrait Gallery, discuss this pencil drawing of convicted spy, Ethel Rosenberg, and what the drawing meant to the artist, Elizabeth Catlett.
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Eye Contact: Louise Nevelson Self Portrait

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to Wendy Wick Reaves, a curator at the National Portrait Gallery, as she discusses the self-portrait of Louise Nevelson.
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Curated OER

Eye Contact: Portrait of John Frederick Finerty by Diego Rivera

For Students 9th - 10th
Wendy Wick Reaves, a curator at the National Portrait Gallery, explains how this charcoal drawing by Diego Rivera reflects his usual medium of painting murals.
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Eye Contact: A Self Portrait of Alex Katz

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to a critique of Alex Katz' self-portrait by Wendy Wicks Reaves, a curator at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Other

Ljl Seminars: Impromptu or Extemporaneous Speaking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips to help when called on the speak. Suggestions include ideas about the message, delivery, transitions, eye contact and conclusions.
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Wghill.com: Body Language and Non Verbal Communications

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains links about body language and non verbal communication skills. The links are about making good body language and non verbal communication skills such as eye contact and smiling.
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Kids Health: Taking a Good Look at Glasses

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from Kids Health provides comprehensive information on how corrective lenses help.
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Ward Green and Hill Associates: Body Language: Making a Good First Impression

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Slideshow that explains how body language affects and influences others. Gives you information on how to make a good first impression.
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Listening Skills Self Evaluation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Listening is a skill that is often overlooked and it can have everything to do with how someone views you. This site provides an evaluation that allows the user to analyze their ability to listen in a thoughtfull manner. The evaluation...
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How to Study: Making an Oral Presentation

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
Ten useful ideas for making oral presentations more effective and interesting. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4
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Kids Health: First Aid & Safety

For Students 9th - 10th
This website includes several links that will help you learn first-aid skills that you might need to use in emergency situations. Learn how to deal with allergic reactions, animal bites, fevers, heat illness, nosebleeds, and other...

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