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US Government Publishing Office

Ben's Guide to u.s. Government: Responsibilities of Citizens

For Students 6th - 8th
Citizens have certain responsibilities. Find out what they are!
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Responsibility

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the importance of being responsible at home, at school, and in your community. This website, meant to accompany a video on responsibility and good character, provides several discussion questions, writing prompts, and more.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Being a Responsible Citizen

For Teachers 2nd
Identify characteristics of responsible citizens using Clara Barton as an example.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prose Constructed Response Organizer [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing two nonfiction texts and a video. After completing the graphic organizer, students will use its contents to write a constructed...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.62 Humoral Response

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn about the human body's immune response to pathogens.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Being a Responsible Borrower

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners watch a role-play to learn about the behaviors of a responsible borrower and answer questions about borrowing.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Rights and Responsibilities

For Teachers 6th
Lesson helps students understand their rights and responsibilities and how it affects their lives.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Family Responsibilities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson that helps students understand that people share responsibilities. Students discuss the jobs families have to do around the house and identify who in the family does each job.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Debating the u.s. Response to Syria

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module with multi-media lesson and resources in which students work in small groups to analyze the issues that frame the debate around U.S. policy.
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The Dirksen Congressional Center

Congress for Kids: Citizenship: Attitudes/actions of Responsible Citizenship

For Students 3rd - 5th
Understanding how your values and attitudes influence your views as a citizen can be difficult. This activity will help you become aware of your actions, attitudes, beliefs, and values maybe for the first time. So be prepared to...
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: Obama Pledges to Halve Deficit, Asks Governors Spend Responsibly

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and watch President Obama's pledge to cut the U.S. deficit in half by the end of his first term in office by asking governors to spend their stimulus money responsibly.
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American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: Learning Disability Identification

For Teachers K - 1st
This series of webinars discuss using RTI in learning disability identification. The series includes presentations from both the national and state perspectives. The series includes seven webinars.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Clovis on Parental Responsibilities

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the short story "Clovis on Parental Responsibilities" by H.H. Munro, otherwise known as Saki.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust: World Response

For Students 9th - 10th
Could actions of the Allies have prevented the Holocaust or limited the destruction of six million Jews and five million other innocent civilians?
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Plant Adaptations and Responses Study Guide

For Students 4th - 9th
See how plants have adapted to many different environments, including the water, the desert, and the air.
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Other

Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility: Teachable Moment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Authors provide thoughtful lessons on current events of the day that encourage social responsibility and critical thinking. Lesson plans are divided into elementary, middle and high School. Past lessons on important events are archived.
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Other

Buzzle.com: Help Save Nature: Why Are Glaciers Melting and How Are We Responsible?

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what glaciers are and how they form, and discusses the reasons glaciers are melting faster today and what this means for the planet. Includes statistics on the loss of glaciers around the world.
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TES Global

Tes: Literacy Wheel

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource can be used as an aid to devising constructed response prompts. This wheel can be edited so that prompts in other core areas can be added.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Plants Are on the Move! A Study of Gravitropism

For Students 3rd - 5th
As we humans zip from place to place, we often forget to stop and smell the roses. Compared to our fast-paced lifestyle, plants seem rooted to the spot. Don't be deceived by appearances however, plants are on the move. This experiment...
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Childnet

Childnet: Digiduck Stories

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Engaging online safety stories for young children aged 3-7. The Digiduck collection has been created to help parents and teachers educate children aged 3 - 7 about online safety. The collection includes a ebooks, PDFs, a poster and an...
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PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: Newsmaker: Fema's Mike Brown

For Students 9th - 10th
The director of FEMA, Mike Brown, who is in charge of the Hurricane Katrina disaster relief effort, discusses the conditions of the areas hit, the evacuation effort, and the government's response. Audio, video, and a transcript of this...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Divisions of the Autonomic Nervous System

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module, learn about the components that generate the sympathetic and parasympathetic responses of the autonomic nervous system.
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Who Is in Your Online Community?

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] By learning the Rings of Responsibility, 2nd graders explore how the Internet connects us to people in our community and throughout the world. Help students to think critically about the different ways...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: W.4.3b: Use Dialogue and Description to Develop Experiences/events

For Students 4th Standards
Links to 12 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.3b: Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events to show the responses of characters to situations.

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