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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Growth Creature Lab Data Collecting

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson plan completely explains how students will collect data on the growth of an "alligator" and determine the relationship of the growth data to the Fundamental Theorem of Similarity and to topics in geometry in general. All of the...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Two Way Relative Frequency Tables and Associations

For Students 8th Standards
A set of three problems where students fill in a relative frequency table, read the information in it and look for a relationship between the variables. Answers are accompanied by explanations.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Two Way Frequency Tables

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given a Venn diagram or information about a relationship, create a two-way frequency table. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive hints.
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Aetna Intelihealth

Aetna: Inteli Health: Types of Allergies

For Students 9th - 10th
Insightful article that categorizes and describes the various types of allergies. Also gives information on treatment of symptoms.
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Nagoya University (Japan)

Nagoya University: British Authors on the Web

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent and detailed site which lists over 750 British authors. The site provides links to more information about each author and is categorized by alphabet and time period. Some links may no longer work in the archived URL.
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Florida State University

Florida State University: Science, Optics & You: Timeline in Optics

For Students 9th - 10th
A timeline from prehistory to modern days of advances in optics and related disciplines, and of the people responsible for them. The timeline is categorized into distinct spans of time, each accompanied by extensive information.
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Montana Tribes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A superb website with a wealth of information on native tribes in Montana. The site has an extensive digital archives with hundreds of videos, all categorized by Essential Understandings. There are lesson plans, historical and current...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Origins of the Progressive Era

For Students 9th - 10th
Given broad categories that describe the major goals of the progressive movement and general information about selected issues of the late 1800's/early 1900's, students will categorize the issues according to corresponding progressive...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Garden Spiders

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Garden Insects, learn about six varieties of spiders that live in one garden. [2:40]
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Do You Have a Babushka?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson will familiarize students with the author Patricia Polacco. Students will use appropriate resources to gather information about Polacco, categorize the information, and record it in a graphic organizer (concept map).
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Concept Maps

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A concept map help students visualize various connections between words or phrases and a main idea. There are several types of concept maps; some are hierarchical, while others connect information without categorizing ideas.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mystery Material

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will investigate an unknown material by determining its properties and categorizing its state of matter. They will observe how it behaves under different conditions, record their observations, analyze information, and be able to...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Adventures at Dry Creek

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This educational module enables students (5-12) to experience ongoing research of University of California paleontologists studying about life in Montana 60-70 million years ago. It gives students the opportunity to experience the...
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Other

German Corner Cooking Index

For Students 9th - 10th
The German Corner offers German and German-American recipes in English. Recipe titles, however, are in German. Recipes are alphabetized and categorized as Amish, Mennonite, Pennsylvania Dutch, Shaker or generally German. Information on...
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IMDb

Im Db: David Mamet

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides an extensive filmography of Mamet. Mamet's credits are categorized into writer, director, producer, and actor, and each film credit serves as a link to more information.
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National Council for the Social Studies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
National Council for the Social Studies has grown to be the largest association in the country devoted solely to social studies education. NCSS engages and supports educators in strengthening and advocating social studies. This resource...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Types of Reasoning Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Reasoning is a fundamental part of geometric proofs. There are several types of reasoning, many of which we innately and naturally picked up. However, the different...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring How Section Headings Support Understanding

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Teaching students to pay attention to headings and titles as they read? Here you'll find a practical application for using an expository text to apply the concept of using headings. Geared toward older elementary students, but...
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Read Works

Read Works: Fit for Life

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage explains concepts related to a healthy diet. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
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Read Works

Read Works: 1st Grade Lesson: Classifying Texts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan in which learners use the books Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London and Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston to learn to classify texts as fiction or nonfiction. Lesson includes...
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Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Natural History Notebooks

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site from the Canadian Museum of Nature, a natural history museum, provides short information blurbs and fun facts on over 240 different common animals categorized by type (mammals, fish, reptiles, invertebrates, amphibians,...
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Art in Context: Paul Jenkins Reference Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains links related to Paul Jenkins' art work. Various Links are categorized by "contact information", "Galleries and Dealers", Cataloged Past Exhibitions" and "Images"