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Professional Doc
American Psychological Association

Sexual Orientation and Youth

For Teachers 7th - 12th
A 24-page manual provides principals, educators, and other school personnel with factual information about sexual orientation development, important legal principles they must consider, and problematic efforts to change sexual...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Nearpod: Partitioning Circles

For Teachers 2nd
In this activity on partitioning circles, 2nd graders learn key vocabulary, explore drawing equal shares, and apply their learning to a real-world scenario.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Three Equal Shares

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad must divide a wreath into three equal parts to satisfy the demands of the Three Fates.
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Handout
Other

Shared Visions: Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A nice, but brief introduction to adjectives along with a few examples. Links are provided for other useful information, including comparative and superlative adjectives.
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Interactive
Scholastic

Scholastic: Lewis and Clark

For Students 3rd - 5th
An interactive site that has students follow the Lewis and Clark's expedition. As they travel west, they are able to collect objects on their journey and put them in their specimen box. They also take notes on their specimens so they can...
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Website
Other

Migration Heritage Centre: Packing to Leave: Saris, Suits and Spices (Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
Migrants to Australia from South Asia share their personal stories as part of the "Packing to Leave" exhibit.
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Graphic
Other

Ritsumeikan University: Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages

For Students 9th - 10th
A large collection of visual illusions and anomalous motion illusions. The latter can potentially make a person feel dizzy and should be viewed or shared with caution.
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Website
National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: Learning Through the Arts [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Background about the National Endowment for the Arts. Also includes information about direct funding programs, Challenge America grants, state partnerships, federal partnerships and public-private partnerships. Research and success...
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Website
Other

Folk Arts Council of Winnipeg: Welcome to Folklorama Winnipeg

For Students 9th - 10th
Welcome to the annual summer worldwide celebration of cultures in Winnipeg, Manitoba!Pavillions, ambassadors, music, dancers, food,and much much more! Though this is a commerical site, the information shared makes one aware of how a city...
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Professional Doc
CPALMS

Cpalms: Browse and Search Resources

For Students K - 1st Standards
This site shares a collection of expert and peer-vetted teacher resources that are searchable for teachers and students. Searching can be achieved via a subject, grade, audience, and/or type. Curricula standards for the following subjets...
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Website
Other

Autism Society: National Autism Awareness Month

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about events for April, Austism Awareness Month, as well as resources to share via social media and other ways to support autism research.
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Website
Veterans Affairs Canada

Veterans Affairs Canada: Folding Origami Peace Cranes

For Students 3rd - 8th
Instructions for making paper peace cranes and directions on how to share the story of the peace crane.
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Website
Other

Carnegie Mellon University: Alice

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy for students to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. This is a free teaching tool designed to be a student's...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Bat Versus Bird

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students compare and contrast two animals to recall learned information so they can share two facts using the informational text "The Best Nest". Included is a video explanation, a printable graphic organizer, samples of student work,...
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Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Digital Trails

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Does what you do online always stay online? Students learn that the information they share online leaves a digital footprint or "trail." Depending on how they manage it, this trail can be big or small,...
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Handout
Other

Insafe: Safer Internet Centres: Communicating Respectfully [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A 16-page textbook designed to give students in Grades 1 and 2 insights into various means of communication whilst drawing on real-life parallels of rights and responsibilities. Includes coloring pages for students and links to several...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Elephant Plant: Multiplication, Division and Fractions

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Aasha is learning about multiplication. Can you help her?
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Podcasting Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using "Science Times" at NewYorkTimes.com, students will listen to podcasts to learn about and share science ideas that are currently in the news. By organizing and summarizing science thoughts, students will be able to effectively share...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision Lesson: Re Shaping Narrative Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity, inspired by the novel Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes is a fabulous classroom mentor text that helps teach a very powerful revision strategy: rewriting an idea in a completely different genre. Grimes' book...
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Lesson Plan
Education.com

Education.com: Purposeful Writing: Kindergarten

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Your kindergarten students will learn how to share their opinion with others through entertaining and purposeful persuasive writing practice. At the completion of this lesson, students will be able to...
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Website
Josie's Poems

Josie's Poems: Main Index

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
British poet Josie Whitehead shares many of her children's poems in both print and in audio on her Listening Page. Whitehead was a career teacher and provides information for teachers and parents about sharing poetry with children.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Building a Protein

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This hands-on activity is an assessment of the students understanding of peptide and disulfide bonds formed during protein synthesis, and the structure of an amino acid (R-group plus the common structure that all amino acids share)....
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Teaching Character Traits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Inspired by the music "Free to Be. . . You and Me" by Marlo Thomas, this lesson, which will take several days, asks students to compose stories that teach character traits that will be shared with elementary school children. They will...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Oh, the Places You'll Go!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After listening to Van Morrison's "Days Like This" and Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance " and reading Dr. Seuss' Oh, the Places You'll Go! students will consider their choices in life. After asking students, "Who decides your lives are...