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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Reading Techniques: Sq3 R Method for Thorough Study

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief description of the SQ3R method of reading comprehension and how it can be used to improve study habits.
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Other

Network for Instructional Tv: Teaching Study Skills: A Guide for Parents

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you want to help your child study but don't know what practical solutions you can employ? This site offers concrete plans for parents interested in encouraging proper study habits.
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Handout
Regents of the University of Michigan

Animal Diversity Web: Cheetah (Acinonyx Jubatus)

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to providing detailed information about the cheetah, Animal Diversity Web also offers a wealth of pictures, specimens, and classification information for detailed study.
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Article
Other

How to Study: Good Listening in Class

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Eight tips on how to improve your listening skills in the classroom so that you gain more from lectures and discussions.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Epidemiology, Public Health, and You

For Students 9th - 10th
Activities in this comprehensive interactive tutorial will help you explore various public health careers. In addition, you will learn about why ethical guidelines are necessary in epidemiological research; emerging and past public...
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US Department of Education

Usde: Helping Your Students With Homework

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Do you need some lesson resources to give your homework assignments a boost? The Department of Education has developed homework resource acitivities to make learning more meaningful.
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US Department of Education

Usde: Helping Your Students With Homework

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Do you need some lesson resources to give your homework assignments a boost? The Department of Education has developed homework resource acitivities to make learning more meaningful.
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Unit Plan
Other

How to Study: Study Skills Topic Pages

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Frustrated with study habits that don't work? Change your approach in a few easy steps.
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Other

Bucks County Community College: Evaluating Your Schedule

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site will help you determine how you are spending your time, and improve your time management skills to improve your study habits.
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Purplemath Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
Algebra teacher Elizabeth Staple offers answers to the question, "How do you really do this stuff?" Detailed and down-to-earth, Purplemath has dozens of graduated and cross-referenced lessons, links to other valuable resources, and...
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Study Guide
Lesson Tutor

Lesson Tutor: Math Review for Act and Sat Tests

For Students 9th - 10th
The first step in good study habits is to understand the question. The use of common sense, logic and even guessing has a place as well. Here, eight practice questions for the ACT and SAT Tests are provided along with their solutions and...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Review 6.ee.1, 6.ee.2, 6.ee.3, and 6.ee.4

For Teachers 6th
Practicing math problems promotes great study habits. In this lesson, 6th graders will review various ways of writing and evaluating expressions.
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Other

Parent Child Communication: Promoting Healthy Youth

For Students 9th - 10th
Depression as a result of sexual activity can usually be avoided by having a strong, healthy relationship with one's parents. It also relies on open lines of communication in regards to sexual activity. This information is discussed in...
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The Field Museum

Field Museum: Exhibits: Underground Adventure

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Chicago Field Museum provides a comprehensive soil education project covering topics such as soil structure and organisms living underground. Students can use the site for research or do the full-blown project, where they establish a...
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Other

Mtsu: Memory Principles & Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore memory principles and strategies. Before you go to this site, list the ways you usually try to remember things. Write these strategies down (share with someone else if possible). Once you have written your strategies down, take a...
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Professional Doc
Other

How to Study: Strategy for Reading Textbooks

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This site gives a method, called SQRW, that can help you with your reading. It is very similar to SQ3R.
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Handout
Other

California Polytechnic State University: Listening Skill

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the California Polytechnic State University provides a concise and well done guide to listening that coveys what the instructor has to say, as well as the tasks of the listener. Good advice, easy to download as a one page...
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PBS

Pbs: Do You Speak American?

For Students 9th - 10th
The home on the web for a television program about the nature of American English, which originally aired on PBS in January 2005. "Do You Speak American?" examines the differences in the ways American speak across age groups, ethnic...
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Other

Philip Mc Rae: From Distraction to Addiction?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To better understand the scope of physical, mental and social consequences of digital technologies in areas such as exercise, homework, identity formation, distraction, cognition, learning, technology compulsions, nutrition and sleep...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Astronomers Seek Life at End of Rainbow

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, Marilyn Head's article explores the possibility entertained by several researchers that the key to discovering life beyond Earth (or habitable planets) is in studying rainbows.
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Activity
St. John's College, Oxford University, U.K.

Robert Graves Trust

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive website is devoted to the study of the English poet-novelist Robert Graves. Includes links to biographical pages that describe Graves's writing habits and show photographs of his study.
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Lesson Plan
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Teacher's Corner: Effects of Smoking on the Body [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars study the effects smoking tobacco has on the major organs of the human body. They also develop a presentation to persuade others to not start the smoking habit.
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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: How to Make Homework Less Work

For Students 9th - 10th
Most teens will never learn to love homework, but with a little help they can make it less of a burden. This site shows how to work smarter not harder when it comes to homework by easing its effect both mentally and physically. This...
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Handout
Ohio State University

Osu: Flea Fact Sheet

For Students 9th - 10th
A fact sheet on fleas from the Ohio State University Extension lists scientific names, identifying characteristics, and pictures.

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