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Mr. Nussbaum

Money

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Young readers test their comprehension skills with an interactive practice. Pupils read a brief informational text about money then answer five questions. A detailed page appears at the end to showcase participants' work.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Active Transport

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about gradients of molecules that exist across cell membranes, how they can help or hinder transport, and how active transport mechanisms allow molecules to move against their gradients.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Enzymes and the Active Site

For Students 9th - 10th
An article reviewing over enzymes and active sites.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Financial Literacy Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A large collection of lesson plans and activities for high school students. The activities can be completed within a single class period. Each activity comes with a teacher guide and supporting student material, so it's easy to implement...
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Activism in the Us

For Students 9th - 10th
American sociopolitical activism became especially prominent during the period of societal upheaval which began during the 1950s. The African American civil rights movement led the way, soon followed by a substantial anti-war movement...
Article
Seeker

Seeker: Week of 3 17 14: Active Volcanoes Revealed on Venus

For Students 9th - 10th
Active volcanoes have been discovered on the planet Venus. Learn what this means about our understanding of this planet.
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Other

Positive Choices: Decision Making and Problem Solving: Class Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
The aim of this activity is to teach students the steps involved in effective decision-making/problem-solving. This skill is a useful skill for students to learn, as it will assist students to consider all the options that are available...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Fannie Lou Hamer and Social Activism

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson provides an insight into the rhetoric and social action of Fannie Lou Hamer. By focusing on three speeches through her career, students will better be able to understand how she was able to influence social change.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: 7 Free Jigsaw Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides activities for cooperative learning groups. Seven activities for grammar, author study, and other academic areas are provided as resources to use with students.
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NWT Literacy Council

Nwt Literacy Council: How to Kit: Literacy Activities for Holidays [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
'Literacy Activities for Holidays' is an extensive collection (150 pages) of activities for celebrating the traditional holidays of Valentines Day, Halloween, Easter, Christmas and Thanksgiving. Birthdays are also included.
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Other

Smith College: New Resources on 20th Century Women's Activism

For Students 9th - 10th
Short biographies with links to historically significant documents of eight 20th century female activists.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Activities for Teaching Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on the importance of teaching vocabulary and how to teach it effectively. It lists concepts that need to be considered when preparing to teach vocabulary such as prior knowledge, dictionary use, context clues, and...
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Other

Share: 5 Problem Solving Activities for the Classroom

For Teachers K - 1st
Problem-solving skills are necessary for all areas of life, and classroom problem-solving activities can be a great way to get students prepped and ready to solve real problems in real-life scenarios. Here are five classroom...
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Other

Its Learning: Adapt 10 Common Offline Activities for a Blended Learning Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A list of ten offline activities students can be assigned to complement online work for a blended classroom. These can ensure students are held accountable for the online tasks, and provide written, oral, or visual materials that can be...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Cinco De Mayo Classroom Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
A classroom activity which celebrates the holiday on the commemoration of the day itself. Published on May 5, 2007 from ReadWriteThink, site provides web links, lesson plans, and a bibliography.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Coretta Scott King Classroom Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An activity/lesson for students which allows them to read literature from past and present Coretta Scott King Book Award winners. Includes several alternatives, as well as web links and a bibliography. From ReadWriteThink's calendar on...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Reading Response Activities for Geronimo Stilton Book Series

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Practice reading and comprehensions skills using the Geronimo Stilton book series. Choose activities from areas such as character studies, analysis of words and pictures, plot and making predictions. Reproducibles are included.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century: Creative Activities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Channel your creativity with these writing activities.
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Other

Empowered Parents: 19 Kids' Activities & Games to Improve Hand Eye Coordination

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Eye-hand coordination is an important gross motor skill children develop during the early years. Find out what it is, why it is important to develop and how you can help your children build their coordination with simple games and...
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Other

Johnson County Community College: Active Transport

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a short but factual description of active transport. An animation displaying the process of active transport is also provided.
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Edutopia

Edutopia: Activities That Prime the Brain for Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Brain breaks and focused attention practices help students feel relaxed and alert and ready to learn. Brain breaks create a state of relaxed alertness, while focused attention practices help students slow down and focus on a stimulus....
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Rainbow Math Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Red apples, orange candles, yellow stars, green frogs, and blue, indigo, and violet flowers-they all add up to Rainbow Math fun! During this adventure children learn the colors of the rainbow as they practice counting, adding and...
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Dog House Design Activity Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Children will learn about and explore measurement to successfully design a dog house for his or her cutout paper dog. Each section of this weeklong adventure is introduced by a video clip or online game that encourages children to...
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Number Power Activity Plan

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this week's Afterschool Adventure, children will use number powers to solve problems and save the day! They will use grouping power to save a parade, skip counting power to catch a pie-snatching thief, and speed counting and place...

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