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Mind Tools

Mind Tools: Activity Logs: Finding Out How You Really Spend Your Time

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn to manage your time more wisely by using an activity log. This article explains the benefits of keeping a log and provides a template to begin one.
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New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: The Bell Jar

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
This lesson plan discusses Sylvia Plath's works including The Bell Jar. It has students look at biographic information and commentaries about Plath. As students read the novel, they complete response logs and write essays. They debate...
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Logarithms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about logarithms with definitions, the rules or properties of logs, common and natural logs, negative logs, how to expand logs, solved examples, and practice questions.
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Bagheera

Bagheera: Tropical Rain Forests

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores the value and diversity of tropical rain forests. Learn about the rate of decline of these natural wonders, the causes of deforestation, and more.
Lesson Plan
Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy: Introduction to Sustainable Forestry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students interact with Google Earth to identify forests that have been logged selectively versus those that have not. They also learn how to distinguish the appearance of forestry methods in satellite images.
Article
New York Times

New York Times: Interns? No Bloggers Need Apply

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the implications of employees including company information in personal blogs. Click on link to a lesson plan where students discuss the issues and create their own blogs.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Flight Simulators: From Flaps to Flying

For Students 6th - 8th
Before pilots ever step behind the controls of a real jet they've already logged thousands of virtual air miles. It might not qualify you to fly a real jumbo jet, but you too, can learn the logistics of aviation by experimenting with the...
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Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative

For Students 9th - 10th
One 21st Century way of helping students stay in touch with the real world is to utilize technology. There are several online leadership projects for classrooms to use.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: California Deermouse

For Students 4th - 8th
California Deermice are nocturnal, with peak activity periods near dusk and dawn. Adults are fairly sedentary, spending much of their time nesting under fallen logs or debris, in trees, or in the dens made by other rodents. Learn more...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Fog Shrew

For Students 4th - 8th
Fog Shrews are the largest of the Pacific Coast brown shrews, and inhabit what is known as the fog belt of Oregon and California, near and along the coast. They live in redwood or dense spruce forests, in marshes, near streams, and under...

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