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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Land on the Run

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners learn about landslides, discovering that there are different types of landslides that occur at different speeds - from very slow to very quick. All landslides are the result of gravity, friction and the materials involved. Both...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Navigating at the Speed of Satellites

For Teachers 6th - 9th
For thousands of years, navigators have looked to the sky for direction. Today, celestial navigation has simply switched from using natural objects to human-created satellites. A constellation of satellites, called the Global Positioning...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rock Solid

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Rocks cover the earth's surface, including what is below or near human-made structures. With rocks everywhere, breaking rocks can be hazardous and potentially disastrous to people. Students are introduced to three types of material...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Mercury and Venus

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore Mercury and Venus, the first and second planets nearest the Sun. They learn about the planets' characteristics, including their differences from Earth. Students also learn how engineers are involved in the study of...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Our Big Blue Marble

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the fabulous planet on which they live. Even though we spend our entire lives on Earth, we still do not always understand how it fits into the rest of the solar system. Students learn about the Earth's position...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Moon Walk

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars learn about the Earth's only natural satellite, the Moon. They discuss the Moon's surface features and human exploration. They also learn about how engineers develop technologies to study and explore the Moon, which also...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Life in Space: The International Space Station

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the International Space Station (ISS) with information about its structure, operation and key experiments. The ISS itself is an experiment in international cooperation to explore the potential for humans to...
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Other

What Is a Worldview?

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed article about how humans develop a "worldview" and how they see themselves in the world interacting with other people. A worldview can be religious or non-religious.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Water, Water Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about floods, discovering that different types of floods occur from different water sources, but primarily from heavy rainfall. While floods occur naturally and have benefits such as creating fertile farmland, students...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Geometry Groove [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, students use movement and the creation of human structures to help them understand angles, plane shapes, and geometric solids.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Carbon Cycles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the concept of energy cycles by learning about the carbon cycle. They will learn how carbon atoms travel through the geological (ancient) carbon cycle and the biological/physical carbon cycle. Students will...
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Epsid World Geo 2019

For Students 9th - 10th
Flexbooks 2.0 are interactive, customizable, digital textbooks. Flexbooks are standards-aligned. Flexi, a student tutor, is integrated into each book to guide you on your learning journey. Flexi can assist in learning, answer questions,...
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Other

Biology at Clermont College: The Respiratory System

For Students 9th - 10th
What do you know about the respiratory system? This site gives a detailed description of this integral human body system. Don't miss out.
Website
University of Pennsylvania

Univ. Of Penn: Hysteria and Ideology in "The Crucible"

For Students 9th - 10th
This website, which is provided for by the University of Pennsylvania, reproduces an article by Richard Hayes from "Commonweal" in 1953. A good opportunity to see a review of "The Crucible" from the time the play originally appeared.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Muscular System

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using video content and assessment integration students will learn about the human muscular system.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: La'ona De Wilde: Environmental Biologist

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet La'ona DeWilde, an environmental biologist who integrates her Athabascan heritage and her Western scientific training to help remote Alaskan villages address environmental issues.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Theoretical Overview: Lesson 1: Conflict Resolution

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand that conflict resolution theories continue to be generated, and to grow/change as new information is found and integrated. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Theoretical Overview."
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Other

Grays Harbor College: Writing Essays: Four Tips

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explores four tips for writers: "Center Your Thinking," "Organize Your Thinking," "Specify Your Thoughts," and "Present Your Thoughts Clearly." The information is presented in an easy-to-follow outline with examples given...
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Massive Resistance and the Little Rock Nine

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about resistance to desegregation and the nine African American students who dared to integrate Little Rock's Central High School.
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: Carbon Imbalance: Algae to the Rescue? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A 95-page learning module that integrates biology, chemistry, and engineering. It includes in-class labs, virtual labs, and engineering design activities. Working with algae, students learn about and investigate how photosynthesis,...
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Other

Ark Gis: Exploring the Arctic

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive mapping platform that combines and integrates existing data about the environment and human activity in the Arctic.
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Other

Critical Thinking Community: Remodeling Lessons Grades 6 9

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Learn to re-model your lesson plans to include room for critical thought and higher levels of learning. Re-modeled lessons cite specific critical thinking strategies. Wonderful examples include "Human Migration," "Integrated Grammar,"...
Handout
Globio

Glossopedia: Tropical Rainforests

For Students 3rd - 8th
Tropical rainforests are found along the Earth's equator. They possess a very special climate and are an integral part of the planet's natural system. Climate, plant and animal life, and indigenous peoples are discussed. Additionally,...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Civil Rights Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson on the Civil Rights movement is organized into three sections: "Identifying the Need for Change," "Ordinary People in the Civil Rights Movement," and "Historic Places in the Civil Rights Movement."