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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Scaffolding Summarization With Fishbone Mapping

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Lesson that teaches students how to find important and significant information while reading text. After locating information through strategies, students learn how to summarize content-area text. A downloadable fishbone template is linked.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 11: The Keynesian Perspective: Key Concepts and Summary

For Students 11th - 12th
This section summarizes the key concepts presented in Chapter 11: The Keynesian Perspective from Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective: Key Concepts and Summary

For Students 11th - 12th
This section summarizes the key concepts presented in Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.
Article
American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Species, Speciation and the Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
The American Institute of Biological Sciences offers this article by Niles Eldredge, evolutionary theorist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History. Eldredge begins with Darwin's theories and summarizes subsequent thought,...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Religion and the Founding of American Rep.: Religion and the Federal Gov

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Library of Congress presents selections of articles, writings, and pictures that summarize the beliefs of the early American politicians that morality and personal independence were essential for the country. Links to...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Evaluating Eyewitness Reports

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students practice working with primary documents by comparing accounts of the Chicago Fire and testing the credibility of a Civil War diary.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia Library: Washington Irving

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Virginia essay offers text summarizing and critiquing Washington Irving's work, "A History of New York."
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: Draft Elizabeth Cady Stanton's the Woman's Bible

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features a draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible and summarizing text from Library of Congress.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Teach the Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
To improve students' reading comprehension, teachers should introduce the seven cognitive strategies of effective readers: activating, inferring, monitoring-clarifying, questioning, searching-selecting, summarizing, and...
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Global Problem Solvers

Gps: Global Problem Solvers: The Series Season 1: Working Well: Storyboards

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Global Problem Solvers is an animated STEM series from CISCO that features a group of middle school students who work together to solve social problems. This teachers resource provides pictures and words that summarize each episode.
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Other

Cspi: Bill Would Put Nutrition Info on Restaurant Menus

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to providing full text of the Menu Education and Labeling bill from 2003, this website summarizes the key points of the bill and gives reasons why nutritional information needs to be available at restaurants. This bill has...
Handout
National Institute on Drug Abuse

Nida: "Ecstasy" Damages the Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
This article summarizes a medical study that examined ecstasy's effect on brain function. Learn how this designer drug causes both short term and long term damage in users' brains.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Pronunciation Before the Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
From H.L. Mencken's "The American Language," this site examines Webster's contribution to the study of language and spelling in the United States. Covers the history of Webster's works and summarizes his philosophy and advocacy for...
Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Functions of Human Life

For Students 9th - 10th
The different organ systems each have different functions and therefore unique roles to perform in physiology. These many functions can be summarized in terms of a few that we might consider definitive of human life. Learn here about the...
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Luther Vandross

For Students 9th - 10th
Summarizes the life and career of Luther Vandross, an American soul and pop singer, songwriter, and producer whose widespread popularity and reputation as a consummate stylist began in the early 1980s.
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Stanford University

Informal Logic/stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the recent movement known as "informal logic." Summarizes its brief history, provides several detailed examples, and explains its relationship to philosophy. Bibliography included.
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Other

Reade International Corp.: Rhodium (Rh) Metal & Powder

For Students 9th - 10th
Summary of information on the chemical and physical properties of Rhodium. It also includes a table summarizing its properties.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: Examining Electronic Sources

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan helps elementary students identify the important components of web site evaluation. It includes a website evaluation question sheet.
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Indiana University

Indiana University: More About the Wpa

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Indiana University describes the purpose the Works Progress Administration served during the Depression and summarizes the special programs of the W.P.A.
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PBS

Pbs: Independence Day [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
Picnics, fireworks, and parades are what we think of when someone says Fourth of July. This day became a federal holiday in 1941 so Americans could take a day to celebrate our independence. View the following slideshow that summarizes...
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University of Iowa

Child Labor in u.s. History

For Students 9th - 10th
Article that summarizes the history of child labor in the United States with a timeline of events that occurred in the U.S. labor movement and with child labor reform from 1832 up to 1938 and the Fair Labor Standards Act. Provides links...
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US Navy

U.s. Navy: Desert Shield Desert Storm

For Students 9th - 10th
This site summarizes the role of the U.S. Navy in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Compiled from the reports of operationalcommanders and from information gathered at U.S. Navy headquarters, the lengthy document presented at...
Handout
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Philosophy of Love

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy of the threefold Greek typology for love: agape, eros, and philia. Summarizes also the Neoplatonic-Christian view of "love" and, in later centuries, "romantic love."
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National Institutes of Health

Nih: Diet Rich in Foods With Vitamin E May Reduce Alzheimer's Disease Risk

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about a 2002 medical study performed to assess the relationship between foods rich in vitamin E and Alzheimer's disease risk. This website summarizes the findings of this study and briefly introduces the purposes of other vitamin E...

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