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Texas Gateway: Analyze Famous Speeches for Rhetorical Structures and Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, you will learn to analyze persuasive speeches and examine the impact of rhetorical structure and the use of devices in famous speeches. It includes activities such as matching quotes from famous speeches to the...
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Texas Gateway: Sedimentary Rocks and Fossil Fuels

For Students 4th - 6th
Learn about the rock cycle, sedimentary rocks, and fossil fuels in this tutorial.
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Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay, including purpose, audience, and context.
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Texas Gateway: Active/passive Voice: More Complex Tenses (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th
In this learning module, students will expand their range of editing skills and improve your writing by replacing passive verbs with active verbs and learning to use verb tense consistently. It will improve their voice, tenses, and mood.
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Texas Gateway: English Ii Writing: Revision Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a unit including six different lessons on on English II Writing: Revision Strategies including the following: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language, Strengthen Sentence Variety, Parallelism, Evaluating and Revising a...
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Texas Gateway: Identifying Rhetorical Devices in Arguments to Aid Understanding

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the expression of ideas, the stylistic choices writers make. Because the range of choices is so broad, the activities in the lesson will focus on DDIST: (Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, Tone) to help you remember...
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Texas Gateway: Properties: Extensive and Intensive

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about physical and chemical properties of matter, and then compare extensive and intensive property characteristics.
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Texas Gateway: Why Do We Need Data?

For Students 9th - 10th
We use data every day to help make decisions. Which cell phone has the most features for the best price? What were the reviews of the movie we want to see? Does the type of shoe I buy help me play a sport better?By looking at data and...
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Texas Gateway: Forces at Work

For Students 2nd - 4th
This tutorial is to introduce students to the concept of forces. Tutorial includes activities, content and teacher notes.
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Texas Gateway: Conservation of Mass: It's the Law!

For Students 9th - 10th
A simple tutorial that includes interactive activities and videos to introduce the law of conservation of mass.
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Texas Gateway: Newton's First Law

For Students 9th - 10th
Within this resource, you will learn more about Newton's first law and real-world applications of this law.
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Texas Gateway: Energy in Everyday Life

For Students K - 1st
In this interactive module students will identify, explore, and evaluate light, heat, and sound energy.
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Texas Gateway: Energy Transfer Through Food Chains

For Students 1st - 5th
This tutorial review over food chains and how energy is transferred through them.
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Texas Gateway: Increasing and Decreasing Energy

For Students 1st - 3rd
This tutorial will review over heat, light, and sound energy through interactive activities, videos, and quizzes.
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Texas Gateway: Exploring the Water Cycle

For Students 1st - 3rd
This tutorial includes interactive activities, videos, and teacher notes for a unit on the water cycle.
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Texas Gateway: Living Organisms

For Students 1st - 3rd
Guide your students through a learning module about living organisms in a lake environment.
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Texas Gateway: Weathering and Decomposition

For Students 2nd - 6th
Learn about weathering and decomposition in this tutorial that includes interactive activities, videos, and more.
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Texas Gateway: Electrifying Energy

For Students K - 1st
This tutorial reviews over electrical energy.
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Texas Gateway: Properties of Soil

For Students 3rd - 6th
This tutorial introduces students to the properties of soil.
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Texas Gateway: What's Happening With the Weather?

For Students 3rd - 5th
This tutorial reviews over weather symbols to decode the weather.
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Texas Gateway: Light: Reflection and Refraction

For Students 5th - 7th
This tutorial reviews over the properties of light. Students will learn about reflection and refraction through videos, questions, and interactive activities.
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Texas Gateway: Introduction to the Characteristics of Life

For Students 3rd - 8th
Earth is the only place we have found life so far. The following tutorial provides a unique look into the characteristics of life.
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Texas Gateway: Classification of Matter by Composition

For Students 9th - 10th
The following tutorial provides an explanation of classification of matter by composition.
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Texas Gateway: Elements and Compounds

For Students 9th - 10th
In this fun and engaging online lesson, students differentiate between elements and compounds on the most basic level while having fun "encoding" the Periodic Table.