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Uni Learning: Strategies for Reading Journal Articles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Clear explanation of how journal articles tend to be structured, as well as tips for extracting information from each part. Includes sample, color-coded exercises.
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Library of Congress

Loc: House Journal: Journals of the House of Representatives

For Students 9th - 10th
Link directly to the journals for each of the Congresses containing the minutes of the sessions.
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Patrick McSherry

Spanish American War Centennial: The Journal of Charles R. Taylor: 17th u.s. Infantry, Company E

For Students 9th - 10th
Personal journal of Charles R. Taylor who served in the Spanish-American War provides rare insight into the work of his regiment, the 17th U.S. Infantry, Compnay E.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Keeping the Journals

For Students 9th - 10th
Artist rendering of a scene depicting a typical camp somewhere along the river in Missouri during the expedition of Lewis and Clark. It shows Sgt. Ordway writing his daily entry into his journal.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Making Thinking Visible With Math Journals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that ask students to write Math Journals of their thinking processes while solving problems. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Demonstrating Comprehension Through Journal Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for lessons that ask learners to write journal entries about texts they have read by responding to open-ended questions. The book "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Richard Atwater is used as an example. In addition to objectives...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: 180 Journal Writing Prompts

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Arranged by each quarter of the school year, 180 journal prompts are provided for students. These prompts are excerpted from the PowerPoint series Journal Jumpstarts.
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University of Maryland

Early Americas Digital Archive: Journal

For Students 9th - 10th
The journal written by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage.
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War Times Journal

War Times Journal: Letters and Dispatches of Horatio Nelson

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of writings by the famous British admiral who died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The writings give valuable details about British naval tactics during the Napoleonic Wars.
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War Times Journal

War Times Journal: Wellington's Dispatches: Peninsula and Waterloo: 1808 1815

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of wartime dispatches by the famous British army commander. Insightful details are given on the two major campaigns: the Peninsular and Waterloo fought between 1808 and 1815.
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With Samuel Johnson

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents Boswell's account of his trip with Dr. Samuel Johnson. Multiple digital formats of the full text are available.
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TESL Journal

Internet Tesl Journal: Japanese English Vocab Quizzes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
These online vocabulary exercises are created for Japanese speakers to study English. Extensive amount of exercises on various topics. They require JavaScript. Some do not require Japanese fonts.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using a Word Journal to Create a Dictionary

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson enables middle schoolers to track unfamiliar words as they read, link these words to their background knowledge, create new sentences for their words, and develop a final project that displays their new vocabulary. Great...
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TESL Journal

The Internet Tesl Journal: Promoting Learners' Speaking Ability

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a scholarly article with a wealth of information useful especially for Asian learners in the socioaffective domain.
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War Times Journal

War Times Journal: Ia Drang River Valley Battle Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
Three animated battle maps on the famous three-day battle fought between the US Army and the North Vietnamese Army in November 1965. This battle represented the first major encounter between the two combatants.
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Virginia Tech

Journal of Career and Technical Education: Teaching Vocational Work Ethics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article discusses teaching vocational work ethics using various methods. Author includes notes on key concepts, the background, design, setting, subjects, findings, reflections, and conclusions of the study.
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The Innovation Journal: Measuring Creativity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a paper that discusses the ways of creating a test for measuring creativity. It discusses why a test for creativity might be needed as well as concepts related to creativity such as knowledge, skills, and intelligence.
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Curated OER

Wall Street Journal: Is This Stone Linked to the Lost Colony of Roanoke?

For Students 4th - 8th
The Dare Stones have long been a thorn in the mystery surrounding the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. The first stone was found in 1937 and had an inscription that was originally thought to have been carved by Eleanor Dare, daughter of...
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Wall Street Journal: Is This Hoiberg Guy for Real?

For Students 9th - 10th
January 2011 article about Iowa State University hiring Fred Hoiberg as head coach for the men's basketball team.
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Developing Ideas for Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains nine methods for developing ideas for writing, including freewriting, brainstorming, clustering/mapping, maintaining a personal journal, responding to a text, maintaining a response journal, responding to a specific assignment,...
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PBS

Lewis and Clark: Inside the Corps: York

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a larger site on Lewis and Clark, this is an excellent biography of York that notes passages in the journals that describe his importance in the expedition.
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Defenders of Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife: Wolves

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you can learn about the dangers facing wolves today and what you can do to help. Content includes a "State of the wolf," report, wolf information, wolf video, a wolf journal, and more.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Picturing Business in America: Bill Gates

For Students 9th - 10th
A hedcut of Bill Gates from the Wall Street Journal along with a brief account of his development of Microsoft Corporation.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Picturing Business in America: Martha Stewart

For Students 9th - 10th
See the two hedcuts of Martha Stewart from an exhibit of Wall Street Journal hedcuts and read a brief biography of her business life.

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