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Propaganda: Common Techniques: Special Appeals: Bandwagon

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief explanation of the propaganda technique known as bandwagon, bandwagoning, or bandwagon appeal. Also includes a few questions that people can ask themselves in order to gauge whether or not they are falling victim to this technique.
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University of Exeter: Search Techniques: Planning Your Search Strategy

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of excellent resources to help you develop effective online search techniques.
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Russell Brown: Adobe Photoshop Tips and Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
Who better to bring you tips and techniques than the Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems himself, Russell Brown.
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Creative Bloq: Pencil Drawing Techniques: Pro Tips to Sharpen Your Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
Twenty-seven techniques, from basic to fairly complex, are described to help artists better use pencils as an artistic medium.
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History, Definitions,& Techniques of Oil Painting

For Students 9th - 10th
Artist Ron Sanders presents a comprehensive look at oil colors and painting techniques prior to the 20th century. Explanation of mediums, grounds, supports, pigments, techniques and much more. Quotes from and about master artists and...
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Television Production Handbook: Lighting Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
Master the proper lighting techniques for TV and video presentations. This website discusses the key light, back light, fill light and much more.
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California State University

Ca State University, San Bernadino: Graphing Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
A survey of math graphing techniques includes horizontal and vertical shifts, stretching, lines of symmetry, even and odd functions, and absolute value functions.
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Virtual Salt

Virtual Salt: Decision Simplification Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Site provides thirteen separate techniques to simplify decision-making processes. Excellent information.
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Partial Fraction Decomposition: General Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Partial-fraction decomposition is the process of starting with the simplified answer and taking it back apart, of "decomposing" the final expression into its initial polynomial fractions. This reference material demonstrates the...
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Michael Michalko Creative Thinking Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
As one of the country's leading experts on creative thinking, this site offers a brief overview of some of Michael Michalko's techniques.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Identify the Technique Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
A quick LSAT prep guide to approaching questions that ask you to "identify the technique" where you are being asked to describe the reasoning of an argument: the way it uses support to justify a conclusion.
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School Tv: Techniques to Improve Your Newscasts

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the importance of white balance, camera level and microphones in TV production.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Autism Help: Disciplinary Techniques

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Classroom management techniques to use with students with autism in a classroom. These techniques are also effective for all students in a classroom and include Continuous Rewards, Dealing with Severe Behavior, and Top 8 Tips for Good...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Style and Technique

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use context to figure out how to use language appropriately--formality, irony, understatement, and overstatement.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: How Big Was Hagrid?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will decide mathematically how large Hagrid, from the Harry Potter series, is through their reading of persuasive techniques.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Assessing Measurement Techniques

For Teachers 1st Standards
Today you will get an opportunity to conduct an assessment interview that will look at how well your students are measuring with inch tiles.
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University of Exeter: Search Techniques: Combining Search Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource explains how to use the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT to broaden or narrow a web search.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Spy Techniques of the Revolutionary War: Culper Code Book

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using a primary source and transcript students decipher and create historically-accurate spy communications like those used by George Washington and the Culper Spy ring in the American Revolutionary War.
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Basic Troubleshooting Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn some basic computer troubleshooting steps and strategies.
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Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Don't Buy a Ford Ever Again, Ca. 1960

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read an advertisement and some background information and answer questions about comprehension, persuasive techniques, vocabulary, author's purpose, and more. Links to a paired text and paired...
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Rqi: Three and Four Year Old Students Learning to Ask Their Own Questions

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Three teachers describe how they used the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) in their classrooms. One teacher used it to teach a fall unit on cranberries, another teacher used this technique in a gingerbread holiday unit, and lastly, a...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Landscape Painting

For Students 9th - 10th
A Smithsonian website plus lesson plans on the art of landscape painting. Includes details on landscape painting techniques to create the illusion of depth and space as well as information on four landscape artists.
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Off Jazz: Luigi (Eugene Louis Facciuto)

For Students 9th - 10th
Article contains a biography of jazz dancer, Luigi. The resource also describes his jazz style and technique. Includes photographs.
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Jake Biddington Puzzle Pictures by Susan Kaprov

For Students 3rd - 8th
A great lesson plan in an unusual art technique. The idea is to color puzzle pieces separately and then reconstruct the puzzle for a finished work of art. Some experimentation may be needed, but the idea is great and can be modified for...

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