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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Appendices: Present Discounted Value

For Students 11th - 12th
The concept of a present discounted value (PDV), which is defined as the amount you should be willing to pay in the present for a stream of expected future payments, can be used to calculate appropriate prices for stocks and bonds. To...
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Past, Present, or Future Tense

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Skillswise site focuses on verb tenses. Included are a video about why learning about tenses is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, quizzes on the information presented, and games to practice the skill. The...
Activity
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Phase 3 Build Your Presentation

For Students 9th - 10th
Some ideas to help students think of preparing a creative presentation for thier water purification PBL.
Activity
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Final Presentation

For Students 9th - 10th
Students plan to present their water purification system at the end of a project-based learning exercise.
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McMaster University

Mc Master University: Making Class Presentations [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Comprehensive guide with 17 areas of suggestions and tips for delivering a successful class presentation. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4, SL.11-12.4 Presentation
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Other

Fashion Institute of Technology: Museum: Collections (18Th Century to Present)

For Students 9th - 10th
This in-depth collection offers images and background information about fashions and accessories from the 1700's to the present day.
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Columbia University

Columbia: Tips for Effective Presentations Using Four Important Design Concepts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Excellent, clear guidelines to aid you in using visual aids in a presentation. Curser down to find the information. W.9-10.6 Techno, SL.11-12.5 Audio Visuals
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Digital Photography: Module 1: Past/present [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
In this first module of a course on Digital Photography, students learn about the history of photography, different styles and movements, photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries, tools photographers use for expression, and how...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Present at a Hanging" by Ambrose Bierce

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "Present at a Hanging" by Ambrose Bierce. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: American Revolutionary War Power Point Presentation

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This fabulous site provides a lesson plan in which the students create a PowerPoint presentation.
Activity
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: School or Club Multimedia Presentation Project

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Boast about your school or a club you belong to by creating a video or slideshow. Guidelines for creation are offered.
Website
NOAA

Noaa: Nhc:deadliest Atlantic Tropical Cyclones, 1492 Present

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Hurricane Center site contains a large body of information on hurricanes. From this site find out what a storm surge is, when the first record of a tropical storm was made. Go to the home page and find the latest forecasts.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tie It Up With Transition Words to Write a Story!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the lesson, groups of students will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will include details...
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Trent University

Mas Arriba: Actividades ( Ar Verbs)

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource allows students to practice using expressions with -ar verbs in the present indicative tense. Read the sentences, view the picture and type in your response. To check your answer, listen to the audio or click on the drop...
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Trent University

Mas Arriba: La Rutina Diaria ( Er, Ir Verbs)

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students practice using expressions with -ar, -er, and -ir verbs in the present indicative tense. Using the pictures and cues, complete each sentence using the correct form of each verb. To check your answer listen to...
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Other

How to Analyze a Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interesting approach to how to analyze a speech. Presents a rhetorical pentangle as well as a rhetorical triangle, where each of the vertices represents an item to analyze. There is also an outline of the different areas to examine in...
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Enhancing Your Listening

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this Boundless Communication students will learn the importance of being an active listener who can resist distractions and keep an open mind while suspending judgment and exercising empathy. SL.9-10.3 Eval Presentation, SL.9-10.3...
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Primary Resources

Primary Resources: Place Value

For Teachers K - 1st
A huge collection of teacher resources for teaching place value. There are games, PowerPoint presentations, pdf files, Word files, Excel files, Publisher files, and smartboard activities available for download at several different skill...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.
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BBC

Bbc: The Route of English

For Students 9th - 10th
The Routes of English is a series of four six-week features on the development of English as a language, presented on BBC Channel 4 by host Melvyn Bragg. In addition, there are three special programs which deal with the language of the...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Future Possible Selves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson, students create future-self plans. When presented with the idea of future possible selves, students have the opportunity to identify who they want to be.
Primary
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1905 Presentation Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Nobel e-Museum contains a speech, originally given in 1905, in which Count K.A.H. Morner praises Robert Koch for his contribution to the world of medicine and awards Koch with the Nobel Prize.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Bianca Gets a Present

For Students 3rd - 8th
Cyberchase video clip in which Bianca, who is babysitting, must take two girls trick-or-treating on Halloween. Students are asked to determine how the two girls will split their candy equally between the three of them. [3:27]
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Butterfly Life Cycles

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This unit introduces students to a study of life cycles by having them examine the life cycle of a butterfly. The students will observe, record and describe the changes in caterpillars as they become butterflies. The teacher will...