Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: The Adolescent in Society Chapter 5 Sociology

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Practice the concepts of adolescent development by reading flash cards, playing race games, taking practice assessments, and more.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Walmart Middle School Litercy Initiative

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Interactive, student-paced lessons on such literacy skills as categorizing, comparing and contrasting, summarizing, evaluating, determining cause and effect, using text features, connecting, inferring, sequencing, understanding problems...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Summer Bridge Programs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
More students fail ninth grade than any other grade and many of these students ultimately drop out. Can pre-emptive interventions lead to increased graduation rates? Emerging evidence suggests that eight-grade transition programs...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Boys and Books

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The statistics are consistent: Young male readers lag behind their female counterparts in literacy skills. This article looks at the social, psychological, and developmental reasons why, and suggests solutions - including the need for...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Stuck in the Middle: Strategies to Engage Middle Level Learners

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about three strategies that can help create a meaningful curriculum to engage middle-level learners. The strategies draw from effective classroom practices across grade levels, as well as from research about the social, emotional,...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: So if Retention Is So Harmful, What Should We Do? Teach!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Studies on grade retention reach the same conclusion: Failing a student, particularly in the critical ninth grade year, is the single largest predictor of whether he or she drops out. What must teachers know to identify students' needs...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Motherland: Lesson Plan: Family Planning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Engaging youth in discussions about family planning is difficult for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the general discomfort adolescents have talking with adults about sex. Sometimes it can be easier to talk about...