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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Power Point Tool Tips

For Students 9th - 10th
Printable directions on how to work within PowerPoint to do things like change the template, change slide colors, add and manipulate clip art, add animations, set transitions between slides, and change text on action buttons. Directions...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Graphs of Polynomials Using Transformations

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students apply transformations to uncommon polynomial functions. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Wind Power

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How wind can be used to generate power, and its consequences.
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Mind Tools

Mind Tools: Mind Maps: A Powerful Approach to Note Taking

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource for learning about the organizational concepts of the Mind Map. The site includes definition, uses, and examples. This technique would work especially well for visual learners.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Analysis: Power Property of Logarithms

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers how to use the power property of logarithms.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Calculus Tools App

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This user-friendly application extends the build-in power of your TI-89 and TI-92 Plus by providing more specialized functionality. Use Calculus to investigate applications of differentiation, compare numerical integration techniques and...
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Other

Power Up What Works: Conducting Research

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
This resource describes the first phase of a Grade 6 teacher's lesson where students develop a plan for working on a research project and then collect information. Each student has chosen a topic relating to how the economic systems of...
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Other

Power Point Palooza

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Susan Pojer is a high school Social Studies teacher in New York that has digitized her curriculum which includes this extensive list of PowerPoint slides. These can be used to support the instruction of a variety of topics including...
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Stanford University

Stanford University: Magnetic Force Microscopy

For Students 9th - 10th
Help students learn how scientists use powerful tools to visualize, study and control materials at the nanoscale.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Ti 89 Activities for Pre Calculus and Ap Calculus

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity, students use the statistical, graphical, and symbolic capabilities of the calculator to make it a powerful tool for investigating and developing mathematical concepts. Includes teacher...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Physical Science: Energy Resources

For Students 4th - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses nonrenewable and renewable energy resources. Outlines world energy use and ways to conserve energy.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Riding on Air Build a Real Hovercraft

For Students 9th - 10th
You will get to build a working hovercraft that will glide over surfaces on a cushion of air in this week long science project. With the use of some power tools, you will create your hovercraft, and ultimately understand how air...
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Financial Calculators

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore your own financial information in greater detail by using these powerful tools for forecasting and assessing your financial choices. During the process, you might discover expenses you can eliminate or more effective ways to...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Who Gets to Be President?

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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New York Times

New York Times: Lesson of the Day: 'The Lost Diaries of War'

For Students 9th - 10th
Volunteers have begun an effort to transcribe the pages of more than 2,000 diaries written by ordinary people during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Their voices, filled with anxiety, isolation and uncertainty, resonate...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Making a Ted Ed Lesson: Two Ways to Animate Slam Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
Slam poetry packs an emotional punch by using powerful verbal metaphors; animation can do the same using visual tools. TED-Ed animators show how two separate techniques- rotoscoping and more traditional hand-drawn animation- bring to...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 4.nbt What's My Number?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
The purpose of this task is for students to reason about base-ten numbers on the number line in a way that will require them to use what they know about place value. Students first represent addition and subtraction on the number line in...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Measurement: Conversions in Metric Units

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert among metric units of measure using powers of 10.
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Google Sheets

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial, learn how to use the powerful tools in Google Sheets for organizing, visualizing, and calculating data in a spreadsheet.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Out of School Time Case Studies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Khan Academy can be a powerful tool for targeted remediation, tutoring, and enrichment. Learn about a wide variety of out-of-school time programs that use Khan Academy for a wide variety of reasons.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade K: Chrysanthemum

For Teachers K Standards
Young children are naturally interested in their names, and it is usually the first written language they recognize. Thus, using students' names is a powerful tool for introduction of the alphabet. Students explore their names and the...
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University of Michigan

Children's Literature a Powerful Problem Solving Tool

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Using children's literature for young students can be a good way to teach problem solving skills. This brief article explains how the local police department and teacher use children's books to help their students develop their problem...
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University of Michigan

Children's Literature a Powerful Problem Solving Tool

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Using children's literature for young students can be a good way to teach problem solving skills. This brief article explains how the local police department and teacher use children's books to help their students develop their problem...
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Other

Digital Promise: Choosing Technology Tools [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Being able to thoughtfully choose the right technology tool for a learning task from the vast array of choices available can be a significant challenge. So using an evaluation strategy to make good technology tool choices is an important...