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Edutopia

Edutopia: Blog: Habits of Mind: Terrell Heick: 16 Habits of Mind

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn about the concept called Habits of Mind and explore 16 key habits for academic success.
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Harold D. Underdown

The Purple Crayon Blog: Questions About Publishing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An updated blog dealing with common and frequently asked questions concerning publishing children's literature.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Face to Face Blog

For Students 9th - 10th
A blog written by a National Portrait Gallery team highlighting stories of American people, art, and history.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Library of Congress Blog

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore, read, and discuss provocative topics in history, culture, politics, technology, society, and so much more.
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University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania: Electronic Poetry Center

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the website Electronic Poetry Center from the University of Pennsylvania. It offers e-poetry, blogs, author information, and more.
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Other

Himama: Early Childhood Education Blog: Creative Expression Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Being able to communicate social-emotional learning visually or through movement, sound and words is not only an essential developmental skill, but it can also be a lot of fun for preschoolers. These creative expression activities for...
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Other

Learnit Educational Community: Webpage Creation

For Students 9th - 10th
A basic explanation of what factors need to be considered when creating a webpage or a blog.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Melanie Simone Lorenz, "Promoting Immigration in 19th Century America"

For Students 9th - 10th
This blog focuses on the U.S.'s need for immigration in the 19th and early 20th century to satisfy particular labor needs and increase investments.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this series of lessons, students learn the purpose of an electronic portfolio; use Google Blogger to create such a portfolio of their best work, including multimedia extensions as desired; and respond to each other's work online using...
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Other

Ms. Inselberger's Ap Bio Blog: Why Evolution Is True

For Students 9th - 10th
In Mr. Coyne's discussion of natural selection, he also illustrates the idea of "adaptive behavior". In full detail, he describes the Asian Giant hornet and all of its physical attributes with which it brutally devours the introduced...
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Other

Science Blogs: Adventures in Ethics and Science: Basic Concepts: Norms of Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what Robert K. Merton meant by the norms of science, and summarizes the four norms highlighted by Merton. These are Universalism, 'Communism' or the sense of being part of a community, Disinterestedness, and Organized...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: The Gulf Coast Oil Disaster

For Students 9th - 10th
Why does the oil spill in the Golf of Mexico matter? What can you do? These are two of the topics discussed in the PBS Kds blog "The It's My Life Blog". (3 May 2010)
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: 10 Ways to Use Social Media in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ten ways to incorporate social media to classroom instruction and writing initiatives.
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ESPN Internet Ventures

Espn

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete website for sports. From videos, podcasting, blogging and schedules to columns, features, headlines and fantasy leagues.
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Other

Education Services Australia:digital Technologies Hub: Ict vs Digital Technology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource explains what the difference is between ICT capabilities and Digital Technologies, or DT. Includes an infographic, a blog article, a video [1:32], a chart showing how assessment differs for each, and a learning continuum...
Professional Doc
Other

Earth Day Network: Green Schools: Educator's Network

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Earth Day Network provides articles, lessons, and blogs that aid teachers in providing the latest environmental education to their students.
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Other

Medium: Why Every Kindergarten and First Grade School Day Should Begin With...

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article was written to validate and be a voice for like-minded educators and families who want their children to have more time during the school day for inquiry and imaginative play. This article includes a list of articles, blogs,...
Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Call for Contributions: Nation of Immigrants Teaching Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the "Nation of Immigrants" teaching project will develop one-week teaching modules for high school and community college teachers of U.S. history on topics related to immigration and immigrants. It includes a...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Libby Garland, "Introducing a New Immigration History Teaching Resource"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article focuses on a guide for teaching immigration. It is a guide to smart, accessible materials on U.S. immigration for teachers to use, as well as advocates, activists, and others. The guide consists of a thematically-organized...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages

For Students 9th - 10th
Fully illustrated blog about the art of medieval draftsmen shown in a special exhibition at the Metropolitan in 2009. Includes access to exhibition images, written assessments of important themes in medieval works on parchment, and...
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Other

Wild Things: Seven Swinging Sand Dollar Facts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Written by a wildlife reporter for a newspaper, this blog entry about sand dollars briefly explains behavioral and feeding aspects of sand dollars on the west coast of the United States.
Website
Other

Mother Jones: What It Will Take

For Students 9th - 10th
This blog article discusses population growth in the context of wealth, poverty, women's rights and birth control.
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NASA

Nasa Visualization Studio: Earth Science Week 2015: Visualizing Earth Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA provides a gallery of Earth science visualizations. The gallery was created for Earth Science Week in 2015. It includes a guide for teachers, and blogs from various NASA visualizers, scientists and science educators.
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Other

Isu Alumni Association: The Fred Factor

For Students 9th - 10th
January 1, 2011 blog post for the Iowa State Alumni Association about Fred Hoiberg, Iowa State alum, and his role as the men's basketball team's head coach.

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