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Teachers First: Differentiating Instruction: Ideas for Individual Differences

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This source provides educators with information on the different types of students, and how to best help them learn and excel while in school.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Biointeractive: Schooling Behavior Stickleback Fish From Different Habitats

For Students 9th - 10th
A team of scientists studied the schooling behavior of threespine stickleback fish by experimentally testing how individual fish responded to an artificial fish school model.
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Ez Talks: 7 Different Ways to Communicate Online

For Students 9th - 10th
Online communication is a kind of communication between organizations or individuals that starts and ends on the Internet. Basically, it is how people pass information over the Internet through a network of computers. This article...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: History and Memory

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Are history and memory different? Peruse the various resources this unit provides for the way we view, know, and relate history to our family, our friends, and the world.
Article
Harvard University

Harvard Business Review: 8 Ground Rules for Great Meetings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article describes the different types of ground rules for a meeting, behaviors that improve meeting outcomes, and what members can do to ensure the rules are followed. (Published June 15, 2016)
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Library: I Will Be Heard: Prominent Abolitionists

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the impetus behind the anti-slavery movement and the philosophy that united all abolitionists even though they followed different routes. Included are links to individual biographies of prominent abolitionists.
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Gapminder: Dollar Street

For Students 1st - 9th
In this collection of 30,000 photos from 46 countries, students will be assess "how people really live" around the world. Students can compare bathrooms, toys, and more. Students will explore different cultures, economics, geography,...
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Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Process of Socialization: Socialization

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what socialization is and its importance in personality formation, and how this process varies between cultures, resulting in the prevalence of different personality types. The socialization of children in different cultures is...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tap and Say an Activity for Segmenting Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
You can add a phonemic awareness activity to your phonics lessons each day and it will only add a few extra minutes to your lessons. You also don't need to buy expensive manipulatives for your students to use. There are lots of low-cost...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bacteria Are Everywhere!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Through this activity, students are introduced to the concept of engineering biological organisms and studying their growth to be able to identify periods of fast and slow growth. Students learn that bacteria are found everywhere,...
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eSchool Today

E School Today: Your Cool Basics on Forest Preservation

For Students 4th - 8th
Learn about the different kinds of forests, how forests are structured, their importance, deforestation and its impact, forest degradation, and what individuals can do to protect forests.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Genetic Variation in Organisms

For Students 9th - 10th
Genetic variation helps ensure the survival of a species. It is this variation that is the essence of evolution. Without genetic differences among individuals, "survival of the fittest" would not be likely. This activity discusses how...
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: How Pesticide Resistance Develops

For Students 9th - 10th
An individual organism's genes determine its physical and behavioral traits. When individuals reproduce, they pass along unique combinations of genes to their offspring. Different environments favor individuals with different physical...
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Understood For All

Understood: What Is Dyspraxia?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A definition of dyspraxia, including an outline of symptoms, and how dyspraxia affects individuals of different age groups.
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The Center for Interim Programs

For Students 9th - 10th
INTERIM offers individuals of all ages and backgrounds the opportunity to explore different areas of interest via a personally tailored, experience-based format. Since its inception, INTERIM has designed creative "Time on," for over...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Id.3 Describing Data Sets With Outliers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For certain data sets, such as home prices and household or individual income, is often described using the median instead of the mean. This lesson explores the mean and median in some different situations to help you understand the...
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University of Minnesota

U Mn: Immigration History: Gatekeeping

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents political cartoons from four different national contexts. Its goal is to further understandings of the ways in which nation-states affect an individual's ability to move freely around the world.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Emergent Properties That Exist in Biology

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of the concept of emergence and what it means in biology. Emergence is a property of a system or structure that is present in the whole but not in its individual components. Presents examples of emergence at different...
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ThoughtCo

Thought Co.: Proxemics: Help Children Understand Personal Space

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Numerous strategies are provided to help students understand the concept of personal space.
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Analytic Technologies: Manual for Working in Teams

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Basic information on communicating in teams. Explains that you must get to know your teammates and their individual strengths and weaknesses. Discusses setting goals, having a structure for different responsibilities, and having meetings.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from Family Doctor.org gives details on individuals who encounter the same painful events, but their reactions are different. Read this article to find out more about this disorder and how people can find help. Links to...
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Difference Between Monoecious and Dioecious Organisms

For Students 9th - 10th
Monoecious refers to organisms having both male and female characteristics in a single individual, i.e., a hermaphrodite, while dioecious organisms have separated genders. The two terms are compared for their similarities an differences...