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Dover Adult Learning Center: Pick Your Candidate [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This document from the Dover Adult Learning Center is a nice resource for any beginners in the political decision-making process. Provides links to material to help decipher ads, candidate speeches, rhetorical tricks, campaign issues,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Teaching With Tunes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Invite your students to sing, dance, and learn alongside their favorite PBS KIDS friends! Discover new and fun ways to integrate music into lessons, routines, and activities to inspire everyday learning. The curated songs center around...
Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Center Card: Build an Animal Habitat

For Students Pre-K - K
Children design an animal habitat and talk about how the habitat provides the animal's basic needs -- shelter, water, and food -- using this block center activity. It includes three resources.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Finding the Circle's Center

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this video segment [3:10] from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad must find the exact center of a circle in order to save Motherboard.
Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Interpreting Line Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is a lesson on creating and interpreting a line graph. It explains how a line graph is created and then asks questions about what is learned from the data. Students type in open responses, and answers and feedback follow.
Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Collection

For Students K - 1st
This Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood collection emphases social-emotional development and academic success. Research tells us that for children to be successful in school, they must be mentally healthy and they must have good interpersonal...
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Pbs Learning Media: Classroom Posters: Pbs Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Print and post a set of 13 early childhood posters to support your young learners. From counting 1-10, to identifying feelings, to naming the days of the week, you can leverage these PBS KIDS posters at Circle Time in Centers, and to...
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Other

Center for Assessment: Learning Progressions Frameworks in Ela & Literacy [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This project has attempted to describe research-based pathways for learning that can guide lesson planning, and curriculum and assessment development K-12. Includes a working definition of learning progressions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Peep and the Big Wide World: Professional Development

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
PEEP and the Big Wide World, the animated Emmy Award-winning series that teaches science and math to an early childhood audience, offers professional development videos hosted by and tailored to family child care educators and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Wolong's Pandas

For Students 9th - 10th
Wild pandas are treated at the Wolong Conservation Center in this video segment from Nature.
Interactive
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Pbs Learning Media: Tracking Polar Bears

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity adapted from the USGS Alaska Science Center, students will track the movements of a polar bear as it migrates across the changing Arctic sea ice and compare the paths of four different polar bears.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Kindness in the Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Kindness in the Classroom is a multi-part video series designed to give educators insight into the positive impacts of teaching mindfulness in a classroom setting. The series focuses on implementing the Kindness Curriculum; a free...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Get Up and Go!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
PBS Wisconsin Education and the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison worked together to create this series of videos that focuses on the well-being of young children.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Classroom Helpers

For Students Pre-K - K
Hi neighbor! In this game, be a helper in Daniel's classroom by caring for the class pet, watering the class plant, cleaning up and organizing the classroom toys, art center, and cubbies.
Unit Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Blues Journey

For Students 9th - 10th
Trace the history of the blues in America through the play, Blues Journey, based on the book by Walter Dean Myers. You can see video clips of the stage play, listen to blues radio shows, and learn about different types of blues music.
Interactive
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Perfect Pitch

For Students 9th - 10th
Perfect Pitch is an interactive learning environment that lets you form orchestras and create your own orchestral arrangements of music from the baroque, classical, romantic, and modern periods. Clever game design, including a...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Building Video Literacy: Framing

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity created by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, students explore how the framing of a shot affects the meaning of an image.
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Practical Money Skills

Visa: Practical Money Skills: Financial Literacy for Grades 9 12

For Students 9th - 10th
A financial literacy curriculum which features engaging design, student-centered activities, research projects, discussion points, and tools and resources. These lessons are designed to engage learners in learning the personal finance...
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Other

The Center for Applied Special Technology (Cast)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
CAST is an educational non-profit organization that uses technology to expand opportunities for all people. Their goal is to produce innovative learning technologies based on their research. Learn more about integrating and applying this...
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Other

Pacer Center: National Bullying Prevention Center: Kids Against Bullying

For Students 3rd - 8th
Information and media resources for learning about bullying: games, polls, webisodes, petitions, and contests.
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University of California

Knight Digital Media Center: I Movie

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to edit with IMovie in this tutorial from graduate students at Cal State Berkeley.
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University of California

Knight Digital Media Center: Video Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning the different types of shots in video is taught in this online tutorial.
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Other

Center for Assessment: Tools for Examining Text Complexity [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learn how to use several tools to determine text complexity and readability of text for your students.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: An Educator's Guide to Expanding Narratives About American History & Culture

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This collection has been carefully selected by New York City educator and curriculum consultant Vivett Dukes to showcase ideas, achievements, and contributions by American people of all backgrounds across eras. The content highlighted...