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Texas Gateway: Revise Your Writing

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to revise your writing for clarity. You will begin by reviewing some major considerations for revision: genre, purpose, and audience. You will...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Nonfiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to analyze literary nonfiction, especially speeches, by making inferences and drawing conclusions based on evidence in the text. The...
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Texas Gateway: Teaching Simple and Compound Sentences in Context

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and four videos demonstrating how to teacher sentence structure through mentor sentences.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Thinking Like an Expert: Teacher Modeling and Thinking Aloud

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource explores instructional practices for using think-aloud in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies classes. Think-Aloud examples are provided in both science and math. Download and print a resource...
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Texas Gateway: Writing a Short Story With Well Developed Conflict and Resolution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about writing a short story in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Understanding the Essence, Getting an Idea, Structuring Plot, Building Conflict, and Outlining Your Own Story.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Reciprocal Pronouns

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that teaches students about reciprocal pronouns in three mini-lessons: Introduction, Each Other and Each Other's, and One Another and One Another's.
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Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about varying sentence structure in six mini-lessons: Introduction; What Is a Sentence?; Simple Sentences; Readability: How Foggy Is Your Writing?; Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex, and The Art...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Driving With Djikstra

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to one of the prominent algorithms in graph theory used to find shortest paths -- the Djikstra Algorithm. The lesson includes four graphs of increasing...
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University of Texas at Arlington: Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Online collection of articles and excerpts about critical theory from contemporary writers.
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Texas Ranch House

For Students 3rd - 8th
What was it like to be a cowboy in 1867? Visit the Cooke Ranch and explore a cowboy's working and dwelling quarters. Play the interactive games to learn about the many aspects of daily life in the American West. (Click "Interactive...
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Texas Gateway: The Arrangement of Elements: The Periodic Table

For Students 7th - 9th
In this tutorial, students will investigate the arrangement of the Periodic Table by watching videos, completing interactive activities, and quizzes.
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State Energy Conservation Office-Texas

State Energy Conservation Office: Solar Electricity Works for Texas [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses photovoltaic energy systems and their many applications, e.g., in telecommunications, consumer products, space technology, solar lights, etc.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching Appositives in Context

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and three videos demonstrating how to teach appositives with explicit instruction, systematic instruction, practice and feedback.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze how an author's style and syntax support meaning in a text. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.3
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Points of Intersection and Zeros of Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Solve equations and find zeroes of functions using the TI-83 in this lesson. Keystroke instructions and calculator screenprints are included to help students with the activity.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Financial Futures

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this activity shows students how money invested at different interest rates grow differently. The lesson focuses on aspects of interest such as compounding, length of time between...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: How to Find the Equation of an Angle Bisector Usin

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Challenge your advanced algebra or pre-calculus students to finding the equation of an angle bisector given two intersecting lines. Students can do this in several ways; the lesson plan here walks through two of them in this interesting...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring Infinite Series

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students learn to identify geometric series. They determine if a sequence converges and also learn to calculate the sum of numbers in a geometric series.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Season Fitness

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher to perform various exercises and stretches found in the different seasons. Doing activities like playing baseball and cross-country skiing, students learn about the...
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Texas Gateway: How to Capitalize Titles | No Nonsense Grammar

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Capitalizing titles of books, movies, etc. can be tricky at first glance, but is easy to figure out. Remember to capitalize the first word, last word, and any important words within the title.
Handout
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity: Key Terms

For Students 11th - 12th
This is a list of key terms and definitions covered in Chapter 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Chapter 3: Introduction to Demand and Supply

For Students 11th - 12th
This is an introduction to demand and supply. In this chapter, you will learn about the following: demand, supply, and equilibrium in markets for goods and services; shifts in demand and supply for goods and services; changes in...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 3: Demand and Supply: Key Concepts and Summary

For Students 11th - 12th
This section summarizes the key concepts of Chapter 3: Demand and Supply from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.
Handout
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Chapter 3: Demand and Supply: Key Terms

For Students 11th - 12th
This is a list of terms and definitions used in Chapter 3: Demand and Supply from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.