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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

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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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Ions

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will be able to determine the number of valence electrons for any element and draw an electron dot diagram for any atom....
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry: Stock System Naming

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains Stock system and nomenclature of transition metal compounds.
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Handout
Grammar Tips

Grammar Tips: The Proper Use of "Lay" and "Lie"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Check this brief explanation of how to tell the difference between lay, a transitive verb, and lie an intransitive verb, and use them properly in English grammar.
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Website
Other

Panama Canal Authority: El Canal De Panama: Canal History

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents a history of the construction of the Panama Canal. Content includes information on the Panama Canal Treaty, the canal's construction, involved government leaders, and the transition of the canal from U.S. hands to...
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Website
Other

Quebec Ministry of Educ.: Functional Situations for Immigrant Literacy Stu [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Adult immigrants to Canada often have no English and little or no education. This guide provides lesson units on basic life skills they need such as how to send money to another country, how to take public transit and how to plan a group...
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: On Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive approach to writing coherent paragraphs and knowing how to transition between paragraphs.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Cold Can You Go?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore materials engineering by modifying the material properties of water. Specifically, they use salt to lower the freezing point of water and test it by making ice cream. Using either a simple thermometer or a mechatronic...
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Website
Other

National Military Family Association

For Students 9th - 10th
Website is the "Voice for Military Families" and provides help with topics such as "Deployment and You," "Education," "Family Life," and other emotional issues that military families must face.
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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spanish 2: Unit 10: Los Viajes

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tenth unit of an intermediate Spanish course, students learn about transportation systems in Spanish-speaking countries and how people travel. They will listen, speak, and write about traveling using related vocabulary. They will...
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Handout
Friesian School

Proceedings of the Friesian School/the Quantacized Atom

For Students 9th - 10th
A very lengthy page from friesian.com discussing Bohr's theory of electronic energy levels and the explanation of commonly observed atomic emission line spectra. The concept of a photon and Einstein's observation of the photoelectric...
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Website
Other

Chemical elements.com/scandium

For Students 9th - 10th
A site containing a good deal of elemental information. Information on each element includes atomic number, atomic mass, melting point, boiling point, density, isotopes and more.
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Website
Other

Physical geography.net: Introduction to the Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
A very detailed description of air masses, how they move and interact, and what weather takes place when this happens.
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Website
Other

Career Perfect: Career Planning & Testing Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
What is career planning? Learn how using planning and self-assessment tools can help you find the perfect career match for your skills and interests.
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Website
Sesame Street

Sesame Workshop: Talk, Listen, Connect, Military Families

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent videos, information and activities about emotional issues that military families go through such as deployment, homecomings, and dealing with changes.
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Academic Writing: Sentence Variety: Strategies for Variation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson offers suggestions to help you fix short, choppy sentences, combine sentences with the same subject, and revise sentences that sound the same. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Make Inferences in Informational/expository Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will be taking a look at how authors of informational texts, such as expository texts, organize their writing and the effects that organization can have...
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Website
Other

Chemical elements.com: Silver

For Students 9th - 10th
A site containing a good deal of elemental information. Information on each element includes atomic number, atomic mass, melting point, boiling point, density, isotopes and more.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Bonding in Alkenes

For Students 9th - 10th
A summary of alkene complexes formed with transition metals. Includes information on hybridization and synthesis.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Some Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th
A summary of alkene complexes formed with transition metals. Includes information on hybridization and synthesis.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Statistical Rearrangements

For Students 9th - 10th
Rearrangements of alkene with transition metal complexes. Includes information on catalysts, mechanisms and other similar polymerizations.
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Graphic
Curated OER

A Mechanism

For Students 9th - 10th
Rearrangements of alkene with transition metal complexes. Includes information on catalysts, mechanisms and other similar polymerizations.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Presidency of Jimmy Carter

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how Jimmy Carter failed to solve the ailing economy or confront a growing crisis in the Middle East during his one-term presidency.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Watergate

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon.