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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Descriptive Writing: What Is Descriptive Writing?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on what descriptive writing including defining it and discussing the characteristics. It includes links to several websites about descriptive writing including the Discovery Education Video: "Literature for Children:...
Website
PBS

Pbs: Ten Steps to College With the Greenes

For Students 9th - 10th
A website created to organize a college admissions campaign. Includes worksheets for students and parents as well as video from top admissions officers at various colleges.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Newton's Triple Play: Baseball Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, students watch a video and animations that relate Isaac Newton's three laws of motion to baseball and apply what they've learned about these laws to another sport or other real-life situation. It includes formative and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Abraham Lincoln: A Good Man? Or a Good Man!

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students use video from American Masters: Bill T. Jones: A Good Man along with primary sources to investigate the life of Lincoln and write a one page argument essay on whether Lincoln was "a good man."
Professional Doc
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching Revising and Editing Skills: Teaching Revision

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Watch twelve videos and download content to learn more how teachers can use a revision guide to teach students how to revise a literary essay.
Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Geometry Playground

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Colorful explorations of geometry, taken from a museum exhibit. With sections on the geometry of light, the geometry of movement, and the geometry of patterns. Includes photo essays, videos, and activities.
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: Age of Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the exploration of the Americas. Site includes primary source documents, videos, essays, and lesson plans to help students research the exploration of the new land.
Website
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Required Works of Art for Ap* Art History

For Students 9th - 10th
The list on this site links to videos, essays, images, and additional resources for the 250 required works of art for the AP* Art History course and exam.
Website
Other

European Free Improvisation Pages

For Students 9th - 10th
A site about the European free improvisation scene. Contains articles, mp3's bibliography and videos.
Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History Exam Skills and Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Khan Academy resource provides a number of charts and videos that demonstrate how to approach the following types of AP US History Test questions: multiple choice, short answer, DBQ, and long essay. Exemplars for the planning of...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Analysis of to Kill a Mockingbird

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Used as a follow-up lesson after reading the novel and viewing the entire video of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, students will analyze the opening title credits which show the cigar box and its contents which Jem and Scout have found in the...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: What Is a Myth?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about myths from around the world in this self-guided unit while also learning how to construct a compare and contrast essay. Included are characteristics of creation myths, videos about Chinese and Egyptian myths, and a step by...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Opinion/persuasive Writing 3rd Grade

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
A collection of resources that includes videos, images, activities, and graphic organizers to use while learning to write opinion and persuasive pieces.
Graphic
Swiss Educ

Swiss Educ: Miller, Arthur, 1915 2005

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Rich and varied resources dealing with the author's life, his politics and his work. Video, still images, audio files and essays by him and about him are all available.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: On Various Kinds of Thinking

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with an essay by James Harvey Robinson titled "On Various Kinds of Thinking" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Excerpt From "Our America"

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with Jose Marti's essay "Excerpt from 'Our America'" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Animal Adaptations: Fishing Cat

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how the semi-aquatic fishing cat evolved millions of years ago to live in the wetlands of South and Southeast Asia in this video from NATURE: The Story of Cats (4:18). The accompanying activity prompts students to write an...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Genre Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 9th Standards
This learning module provides remediation with identifying genre of books and various texts. Practice with capitalizing nouns is provided with through worksheets, an online site, and a video tutorial. .
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing Narratives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes, a PowerPoint presentation, two videos, a song, an exercise, and a game help students to understand how to write a narrative. Elements of a narrative as well as the use of figurative language and sensory images are introduced and...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Excerpt From "Civil Disobedience"

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with Henry David Thoreau's "Excerpt from 'Civil Disobedience'" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Excerpts From Thomas Jefferson's Writings on American Indians

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
A learning module that begins with the historical text "Excerpts from Thomas Jefferson's Writings on American Indians" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a...
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Progressive Era to the New Era 1900 1929, World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about World War I from the primary source documents contained here. Also contains a short overview, lesson plans, timelines, maps, and images, as well as recommended videos, books, and other...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Space Exploration 5 Paragraph Persuasive Essay

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Learn to write a five-paragraph persuasive essay by working through six links to videos, graphic organizers, and activities on space exploration.
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TES Global

Blendspace: 2014, Term1 Writing Expositions Week 3

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A four-part learning module with links to images, a website, and a video explaining how to write an argumentative piece.