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eBook
Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Finally, a reason to use those digital devices in class! Many readers appreciate the convenience of accessing reading material on digital devices. A convenient eBook contains the entire text of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights in digital...
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Unit Plan
Mathematics Vision Project

Module 3: Numbers and Operations

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Bring some concrete reasoning to the skills of multiplying and combining terms. Using various strategies, the six activities in the module provide practice for the skills of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and diving polynomials. The...
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Study Guide
Reed Novel Studies

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Film Study

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
According to John Betjeman, "Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows." With The Boy in the Striped Pajamas film study, scholars work in small groups to discuss the quote and other...
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Unit Plan
University of Minnesota

Making an Immigrant Story

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Budding historians research the trip immigrants to the United States take and the reasons behind their willingness to start over in a new place. Groups create their own video lessons outlining the story of human migration from departure...
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Interactive
PBS

KidVid: Equivalent Ratios

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
There's no equivalent to this interactive. To learn about equivalent ratios, scholars first watch a video of a pupil trying to find an equivalent ratio. They consider whether the pupil is correct and explain their reasoning. Then, they...
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Activity
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Council for Economic Education

Out of Africa: Why Early Humans Settled around the World

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Why would someone want to leave home? The age-old question is at the center of a thought-provoking activity. Scholars consider why humans move around the world both during pre-historical times and today using a PowerPoint, reading on...
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Activity
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Council for Economic Education

The Economic System of Medieval Europe

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
How are economics and politics intertwined? Societies in the Medieval period used feudalism for both economic and military reasons. The arrangement provided safety and met other needs. Using the included simulation, individuals...
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2008 AP® Human Geography Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Interpreting demographics is no easy task. From the reason more girls go to school around the world to why people move within their own countries, the issues are complex. Short-answer prompts help learners unravel the questions as well...
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2013 AP® Computer Science A Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th
So this is what the AP exam looks like. Pupils look at the free-response questions from the 2013 AP Computer Science A exam. The set of four questions helps pupils familiarize themselves with the AP format and content. Challenges include...
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2018 AP® Computer Science A Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th
The best way to familiarize yourself with a test's format is to look at past tests. The free-response questions for the 2018 AP Computer Science A are available for instructors to reference. Topics include simulation methods, word pairs,...
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2003 AP® Environmental Science Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th
One size fits all doesn't seem to be the right approach to endangered species. Using a four-part AP® assessment, learners respond to questions that address environmental concerns such as human population changes, invasive species...
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2016 AP® United States History Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
The British and Spanish both had footholds in the New World, yet they had different approaches. Scholars explore the dynamics, along with the reasons behind immigration to the United States and business practices of the Gilded Age in a...
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Lesson Plan
Pace University

Global History: Enlightenment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The core ideas of the Enlightenment—reason, knowledge, and freedom—represented a rebellion against the despotic control of absolute monarchs. As part of the study of the movement, class members assume the voice or either a monarch or an...
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Lesson Plan
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Purdue University

Slow Boat Design

For Teachers 4th Standards
Don't be a drag. Learners work in groups to design boats that move slowly. The provided reason for the activity is that a fish caught on a fishing reel is pulling the boat, causing it to move too fast. The STEM activity teaches the class...
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Lesson Plan
K20 Learn

American Exclusivity: The Chinese Exclusion Act

For Teachers 11th Standards
The Chinese Exclusion Act—the first race-based immigration restriction—is echoed in today's debates on the topic. Using graphic organizers and structured discussions, historians consider the reasons behind the act and compare the...
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Activity
US Department of Commerce

Diversity: Minority Entrepreneurship and the Economy

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Using data from the Census Bureau, learners discover the growth in minority-owned businesses over time. After crunching numbers, analytical questions probe the reasons behind the shift. 
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Activity
National Endowment for the Humanities

A Defense of the Electoral College

For Students 9th - 12th
Each presidential election year, the debate about the electoral college rages. Michael C. Maibach's "A Defense of the Electoral College" offers young political scientists an opportunity to examine a reasoned argument for why the...
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Lesson Plan
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Teaching Tolerance

Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Mass incarceration: A result of a tough stance on crime or racial discrimination, you decide. Academics explore the history and reasons behind mass incarcerations in the United States and its impact on ethnic communities. The...
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Interactive
DocsTeach

Why Did Women Want the Right to Vote?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
No taxation without representation may have been the battle cry of the American Revolution, but women used the same argument when demanding their right to vote in the late 1800 and early 1900s. Young historians examine petitions from...
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Workbook
Utah Education Network (UEN)

Percent, Division with Fractions, and Measurement Conversion

For Students 6th Standards
The resource will be 100 percent beneficial. The third of seven installments in 6th Grade Math starts with lessons on percent and percent problems. Pupils also learn how to divide fractions and apply ratio reasoning to convert units,...
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AP Test Prep
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Flipped Math

Calculus AB/BC - Unit 7 Review: Differential Equations

For Students 10th - 12th
Differentiate everyone's knowledge. Pupils work through nine review questions to highlight key concepts from Unit 7. Items range from finding slope fields and reasoning with them to finding general and particular solutions of...
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Lesson Plan
Center for History Education

Civil War Weaponry and Medicine: A Disastrous Mismatch

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Ironically, science was the reason why the Civil War was so deadly. Despite the use of medical practices now considered barbaric—such as conducting surgery with bare, dirty hands—developments in weaponry meant that more men died on and...
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Lesson Plan
Newseum

Photo Ethics: What Is Newsworthy?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Do not try this at home! At school! Or any other place! Groups of young journalists discuss the ethics of publishing photos of school peers performing dangerous stunts. They share their decision with the class and explain their reasoning.
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Lesson Plan
Newseum

Confronting Conformation Bias

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Be curious! Seek out different opinions! Be conscious of your thinking process! After reading an article about confirmation bias and motivated reasoning, class members apply these strategies to the topic of school start times. They read...

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