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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Note Taking Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on note taking techniques, such as Cornell notes, note cards, graphic organizers, highlighting, etc. It discusses reasons for note taking, techniques, how to take notes, and what to do with notes. It offers this...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Note Taking: Concept Maps and Flow Charts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on note taking using concept maps and flow charts; it provides background information, 6 types of concept maps or flow charts with best uses, uses in the classroom, uses while reading or researching, and how...
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Music Theory

Music theory.net: Note Trainer

For Students 9th - 10th
A fabulous tool for music teachers and students! This online quiz tests students knowledge of the various musical notes. (Click on "toggle" to check your answers along the way.)
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Note Taking: Symbols and Abbreviations

For Students 9th - 10th
This video lesson focuses on creating a system of note taking symbols and abbreviations that work for the individual. It explains the purposes of note taking and of using symbols and abbreviations; offers quick tips for abbreviating...
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College of St. Benedict: Lecture Note Taking

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information on taking notes during lectures and gives signal words to listen for during the lecture.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: How to Take Research Notes

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial focuses on how to take research notes using two slideshows. The first presentation compares taking research notes to class notes and offers 3 methods of note taking that would work for either: Cornell notes, index cards,...
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Music Theory

Music theory.net: Note Duration

For Students 9th - 10th
A fabulous resource for beginners in music theory! Gives examples and explanations of the sixteenth note, eighth note, quarter note, half note, and whole note. The last page on this site provides a chart showing the relationship of each...
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Ballet Met Columbus: Ballet Notes

For Students 9th - 10th
This page on the BalletMet Columbus site provides notes on many classical ballets. Also provides biographies on famous ballet choreographers and composers. Click on links for fun ballet games.
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NOAA

Noaa: National Weather Service: The Sun and Its Effect on the Earth [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The Space Environment Center (SEC) put together a slide show for use by teachers on Space weather. Begin with discussing solar emission and the sun itself. Then end with a summary of climatic effects of space weather, and a note on space...
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Notes on the Berlin Wall, 1961

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, which is provided for by the Fordham University, gives the actual text of the United States' note to the USSR on Berlin and the Soviet reply.
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University of Tampere: General Notes on Speech Preparation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A general, but very informative website on all types of speeches. It runs the reader through the process of finding and choosing a topic to the delivery of the speech.
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Read Works

Read Works: Notes on the Program: Cuban Overture

For Students 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PDF is the Program Notes from The New York Philharmonic's production of "Cuban Overture" by George Gershwin. It provides information about Gershwin and his writing of the "Cuban Overture." It is...
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Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Notes on Coil Magnet Orientation and Rotation

For Students 9th - 10th
An electrical generator is in essence a very simple device - magnets rotating within a coil of wire. To get a generator to work properly, one needs to make sure the coil and magnet orientation and rotation are correctly aligned. These...
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Yale University

Notes on the Secret Debates of the Federal Convention

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of the notes taken by Robert Yates while he was a delegate at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revision Techniques: Using a Professor's Notes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on revising using teacher comments. It discusses the advantages of teacher notes on rough drafts, how to use the notes to improve the final, examples from sections of marked student papers, editing and...
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Galileo's Notes on Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Online view of these important scientific documents, complete with meticulous notation.
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Curated OER

Biz/ed: Note Taking

For Students 9th - 10th
This webiste from Biz/ed discusses taking notes in class and taking notes from written sources. It lists some tips on how to improve your technique on taking notes in class, and lists five different methods and the...
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Read Works

Read Works: Program Notes Rhapsody in Blue

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PDF is the Program Notes from The New York Philharmonic's production of "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin. It provides information about Gershwin and his writing of the "jazz concerto." It is...
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DOGO Media

Dogo News: Smart Marker Captures, Digitizes and Streams Notes

For Students 5th - 8th
Article reports on the creation of a smart marker that allows for digital access to content written on a whiteboard. Includes video.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "On Tragedy" by Aristotle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this chapter from "Poetics", Aristotle seeks to define "tragedy" as it relates to literature and human emotion. A specific purpose for reading and vocabulary notes are provided. This site offers links to paired texts, questions and...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Ronald Reagan on the Challenger Disaster" by President Ronald Reagan

For Students 5th - 7th
President Ronald Reagan delivered this speech to the grieving nation on January 28, 1986, when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, leading to the death of its seven crew members. A specific purpose for reading...
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History Tools

History Tools: Thomas Jefferson on the African Race [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpts from Thomas Jefferson's book, Notes on the State of Virginia, published in 1784, in which Jefferson discusses his views on the emancipation of young African slaves. Paragraph divisions have been added and spelling has been...
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains the poem, "Ode on a Grecian Urn," by John Keats. Also contains notes on the poem.
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Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Making Note Cards

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A useful site that gives information on how to make note cards when writing a research report or project. Provides examples and tips.

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