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Student Achievement Partners

Achieve the Core: Introduction to Literacy Shifts in Content Areas

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This 1-2 hour module provides an introduction to the key shifts required by the CCSS for Literacy in the content areas: history / social studies, science, and technical subjects.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Solving Linear Equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students show comprehension of Algebra I skills. The online quiz assesses scholars on solving linear equations.
Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Animal Studies [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"Animal Studies" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about studying the behaviors of animals including the sawfly and the poppy-bee. They learn about animals by observing them. It is followed by constructed-response questions...
Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

Study Zone: Forms of Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Basic information and a follow-up exercise about possessive pronouns and adjectives. Color-coded examples are provided for easy understanding.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Probability of Compound Events

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site gives a short interactive quiz which allows students to self-assess their understanding of the concept of event probability.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Statistics and Probability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The online test demonstrates knowledge of the concepts used in Algebra I. The multiple choice questions assess students on statistics and probability. Topics include biases, samples, and surveys.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Probability: Probability as a Fraction

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
This site provides great practice on the concept of probability as a fraction. Students can first learn about the topic by watching a step by step instruction video that also points out areas of concern. Finally, students can practice...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a collection of 35 Grade-Leveled text sets (4-11). They are great for social studies teachers or for building background knowledge in reading class, CommonLit's text sets cover a range of historical, cultural, and political...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 3.oa Making a Ten

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
This task builds on that knowledge by asking them to study more carefully the make-a-ten strategy that they should already know and use intuitively. Aligns with CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.D.9 Identify arithmetic patterns, and explain them...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 3.oa Addition Patterns

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
The purpose of this task is to study some patterns in a small addition table. Aligns with CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.D.9 Identify arithmetic patterns, and explain them using properties of operations.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Hl Triangle Congruence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept introduces the HL Triangle Congruence shortcut in order to prove that two right triangles are congruent. Students work on mastering the skill by watch...
Interactive
Other

Book Units Teacher: Analogy Game [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
This is a printable game where students are given a sheet of analogies with sets of two pairs of words. The last word in the second pair is missing and students must study the relationship between the words in the first pair to determine...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Note Taking for Social Studies

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers how to read a historical text and convert information into visual representations by taking notes. This strategy helps students to read a passage and determine the author's purpose.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: Ancient Civilizations Around the World

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of 21 Grade-Leveled texts (4-11) on the topic "Ancient Civilizations Around the World." Learn about ancient and medieval civilizations from South America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East in this text set. [Free account...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: The American Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Collection of 17 Grade-Leveled texts (4-12) on the topic "The American Revolution." Learn about the events leading up to America's Revolutionary War for independence from Britain and how the war was won. [Free account registration...
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University of California

Uc Irvine: Distinguishing Between Primary & Secondary Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has an online quiz to test your knowledge of primary and secondary sources.
Activity
US House of Representatives

Kids in the House: How a Bill Becomes a Law

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Interactive website in which students build a bill and journey through the process of how a bill becomes law. With links to significant material, glossary, and resources for teachers.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Guide: Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam and the Science of Ocean Motion

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Part of Houghton Mifflin's excellent Scientists in the Field series Tracking Trash introduces Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a "trash tracker", who studies where trash goes when it is "spilled" in the ocean, to determine the direction of ocean...
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Read Works

Read Works:lesson 2: Humorous Solutions Kindergarten Tell Tales

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn that tall tales are stories with funny solutions to a problem and how to learn unknown words.
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Other

State of Michigan: How a Bill Becomes a Law [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn the steps involved in making a new law. The document explains how bills become laws in the state of Michigan, but the process is the same as it is for other states as well.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Comprehension Strategies With Elie Wiesel's Night

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Working in small groups, students read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and then take turns assuming the "teacher" role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.RI.11-12.4 Word meaning, RI.11-12.10b Text...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Algebra 2 for Ccs

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete high school Algebra 2 course with interactives in every lesson and videos in some. Adaptive Practice questions ensure the material is understood before moving on to build on it. Every lesson also has specifically chosen...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Making Inferences From Random Samples

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Given a random sample, practice figuring out what can we reasonably infer about the entire population? Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Valid Claims

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Practice figuring out whether we took a random sample and whether we're able to draw valid conclusions from our data. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.