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Quintessential Careers: Making the Most of Your Campus Visit
Searching for a college is overwhelming and exciting, but also very confusing. This article encourages visiting the campuses of your choices and offers ways to make those visits more meaningful.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Life After High School
When high school ends teens can often be intimidated by what will come next. For some people college is the next step, others choose employment. This site gives advice for how to determine what's best for you. Links to related sites are...
Princeton Review
Princeton Review Career Profile: Nutritionist
Offers a pretty complete career profile for people considering becoming a nutritionist. Discusses the different steps (college, internships, work partners, possible employment oppurtunities). Plenty of resources. This page didn't need...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Effective Interview Questions
Explore effective interview questions. By choosing questions that are open-ended and important to them, young scholars can learn great interview skills that can be helpful in future college and job interviews.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Avoiding Design Mistakes When Creating Visuals
Using visuals in a speech can enhance the speech and captivate the audience, only if used effectively. Review design errors and learn how to avoid them when choosing visuals for your speech. SL.11-12.5 Audio Visuals
Scholastic
Scholastic Parents: Best Bets for After School
Some solid advice on extracurricular activities: why they matter, the benefits, the activities to choose from.
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The u.s. Electoral College Calculator
Provides an overview of the electoral system and the process in which the president is elected. There is a visual calculator that lets you track election outcomes. Data for all U.S. elections is included.
City University of New York
Choosing a Map Projection: In Search of a Good Map Projection
College-level geography tipsheet for developing an appropriate map projection.
Curated OER
Glencoe: Exploring Majors and Careers
Are you interested in finding things you can do to help you prepare for a successful career? Use the Glencoe resources to find steps you can take to get your career plan started.
Social Studies for Kids
Social Studies for Kids: How the President Is Elected
Learn how the President of the United States is elected. Read how we choose candidates, how they campaign, how they are nominated, and what role the Electoral College plays in our elections.
Cengage Learning
Mission to Mars: Project Based Learning
Students will plan a human expedition to the planet Mars. Through this project-based activity, they can choose to learn about the surface of Mars, the trip route, the analogical features between Mars and Earth, nutrition and exercise, or...
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Esl Grammar Quiz 2: Adjectives With Ed or Ing
A second quiz to challenge your knowledge of adjectives ending in -ing and -ed. Choose one of two possible answers. Hints supplied and results available as you go along.
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Aamc: Medical Degree Programs
Are you looking for a medical degree program? The AAMC site has developed a list of schools offering combined college/physician programs. At this site student's can search by school or by program.
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
University of Saskatchewan: Emr: Exercises in Math Readiness
The University of Saskatchewan offers this resource for the review of mathematical concepts that students need to enter university level math courses. Topics include mental arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, exponential and...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Preterites Irregular Meanings
Practice using verbs that change their meaning in the preterite tense: conocer, saber, querer, tener, and poder. Complete translations from English to Spanish by choosing the correct form of a verb in the preterite or imperfect. Answers...
Cornell University
Cornell University: Study Design Tutorial: Cross Sectional Studies
This tutorial from Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine explains what a cross-sectional study is, its key characteristics, how to assess events and outcomes, and some special considerations when choosing sample...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How Do You Become a Commercial Airline Pilot?
Learn about the training, certifications, and costs associated with becoming a commercial airline pilot.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Does a Police Officer Do?
Learn about the different roles that exist for police officers and their daily responsibilities.
Next Gen Personal Finance
Next Gen Personal Finance: Career Data Crunch
Data Crunches feature one chart or graph followed by five scaffolded questions to guide students through analyzing the data and drawing conclusions. These sets of data help students understand career concepts.
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Esl Blue(s): What a Night Past Perfect Quiz
Fill-in-the-blank questions that follow a story format. Choose the correct form of the verb provide. Answers, hints, and other possible correct answers are given.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Spanish Reflexive Verbs Exercises
This site is great practice from Colby College with some of the more common reflexive verbs. This exercise is not as concerned with testing grammatical applications as it is with testing for the meaning of the reflexive verb in context....
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Subjunctive or Indicative (Part 10)
At this site from the Colby College you can practice using the present subjunctive or present indicative with verbs of certainty or doubt, influence and emotion. Students choose the correct verb conjugation,the present subjunctive or...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Charge It?
In this lesson, students will select appropriate and inappropriate uses of credit cards by role-playing a college student who must choose to either use cash or a credit card to pay for a variety of real-life scenarios. This lesson plan...
Thomson Reuters
Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Twelfth Amendment
This resource reviews the text of the Twelfth Amendment and related annotations.