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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Rewards and Challenges of Self Employment

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Analyze the rewards and challenges of self-employment.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Rational Exponents Challenge

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Choose equivalent forms of radical and exponential expressions. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Articles of Confederation

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions over The Articles of Confederation. These questions are intended for students taking high school or college level American Government and Civics courses, including the AP...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Paragraph Stats: Writing a Java Script Program to 'Measure' Text

For Students 6th - 8th
This is a challenging first-time programming project. You'll learn how to use JavaScript to create a simple program to analyze one or more paragraphs of text. Your program will count sentences, words and letters, and report the resulting...
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Article
CNN

Cnn Money: Twitter, Pipe Dream or Next Big Thing?

For Students 9th - 10th
Twitter has taken the world by storm, even made its name a verb, but are they challenged late in the game to try making money from the service? This article examines this question in depth.
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Article
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

Ascd: Building Literacy in Social Studies: Ch 1: Reading Social Studies Texts

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Article provides excellent tips and strategies for building comprehension and critical thinking skills in Social Studies. It describes some of the challenges students have with reading and understanding their textbooks.
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Website
Other

Little Inventors: Ingenious Ideas!

For Students 1st - 6th
Here you will find examples of inventions created by children. They submit their ideas along with drawings and plans. Many of these are made into real objects and posted for the inventors to see what they would look like in real life....
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Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: How Technology Makes You Feel

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson challenges kids to pay attention to their feelings while using tech. With an engaging emoji game, 1st graders learn practical strategies for managing their feelings - good, bad, and...
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Handout
State Library of North Carolina

N Cpedia: John W. Kinchelo, Iii: American Indians at European Contact

For Students 9th - 10th
Native Americans inhabited the New World long before European explorers began establishing settlements on the land. This entry addresses the challenges the natives had to face upon Europe's arrival, trials in relationships, and how...
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: The Olympic Torch Tour

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you find the best route for the Olympic Torch relay to take? This more challenging activity is designed to be accessible to GCSE maths students (grades 8, 9, and 10).
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Lesson Plan
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Tracking Income and Benefits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using a case study about an urban family, students calculate monthly net income and explore how irregular income may make it challenging to manage monthly expenses.
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Website
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: A Small Step to the Moon, a Giant Leap to Mars

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the article or listen to the story of remembrances of the Apollo program, especially Apollo 11. Explains some of the challenges of sending astronauts to Mars.
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Handout
Other

Lieutenant Governor of Ontario: Aboriginal Literacy

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about support for aboriginal literacy. As Lieutenant Governor, David Onley focused on accessibility issues and considered the literacy needs of aboriginal people to fall into this category.
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Unit Plan
Nebraska Studies

Nebraska Studies: Homestead Act: Searching for Water: Windmills

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of how watermills work and how they were used on the Great Plains.