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Social studies Common Core RST.9-10.4 resources
CURRENT EVENTS: News Article Summary, Main Idea, Reading Comprehension | NEWSELA
This Current Events Summary is an excellent tool for students to get involved with the news and the current events of the week. A simple writing format helps students find, summarize, and write opinions about current news stories and events. I find this activity to be a practical filler for various social studies courses. What's Included:Teacher directions with ideas for implementation and useSimple student directions: Find, Highlight, Summarize, Importance, OpinionGuided student writing temp
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Not Grade Specific
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Ancient Mesopotamia Gods & Myths Bundle: In-Person, Online, or Distance Learn
You can download this as a:1. PDF/Print activityor2. A ready-to-go TPT Easel Activity. You can assign Easel lessons through Google Classroom or you can copy a link to it and paste it into any learning management system you use with your students. However, for the time being, students will need to log in with a Google email account in order to access the assignment. You can use TPT Easel for free with this resource. Click here for info on how to use TPT Easel for free.Students will adore these
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4th - 10th
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Chernobyl Miniseries Episodes 1 through 5
Based upon the critically-acclaimed Chernobyl miniseries from HBO, this video guide accompanies all 5 episodes of the 5 part drama. The film is a painstakingly accurate account of the worst nuclear accident in human history. This can be used in a physics class for topics of nuclear chemistry, world history class for historical discussions of the accident and the Soviet Union during the cold war, environmental science class for the effects of the accident on the environment, or a biology class
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Cultural Diversity Lesson Plans-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion DEI Health Unit
TPT's #1 Best-Selling High School Cultural Diversity Unit!!These "Cultural Diversity Lessons" include 14 lessons that delve into the complexities of diversity and racism, followed up with 5 more lessons on celebrating students own heritage! Using Beverly Daniel Tatum's' article "The Complexity of Identity: 'Who Am I ?'" students work through several complicated identity and race issues. More About This Unit:-Includes 19 impacting lessons Powerful DEI articles, stories, quotes, videos and more!-6
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9th - 12th
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Forensic Science The ENTIRE WISEflamingo Forensics Product Line
Supplement your Forensics Curriculum or build a course from scratch using WISEflamingo Forensics Resources in one GIANT bundle. All of the best selling Forensics Resources available in one discounted bundle! Over 100 creative resources for you to use in your Forensics Classroom. This Bundle would be excellent for a student teacher, someone just starting to teach a forensics course, or someone looking to spice up the course they already teach! Content will continue to be added, and you will g
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8th - 11th
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MS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, HS-LS3-2
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Bear Brook Murders Podcast "Interrupted" Case Study Worksheet: All Episodes(1-7)
The Bear Brook Murders : An "Interrupted" Case Study Using a Popular PodcastIn 1985, a hunter walking through Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire made a grisly discovery: a 55 gallon drum left deep in the woods, containing two sets of skeletonized remains, which investigators believed had been left in the woods for years…. ....this is just the beginning to a facinating tale of a murder that would make forensic history! The effort to solve the many mysteries surrounding this inve
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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HS-LS3-1
Blood Typing & Blood Spatter Review Stations
Save yourself TIME AND ENERGY with this no-prep BLOOD EVIDENCE STATION REVIEW ACTIVITY. Use as an introductory activity, review and reinforcement exercise, homework assignment or part of a test review. This resource includes 12 EDITABLE review stations that include tasks, questions, and activities that review blood typing and blood spatter. Use my print-and-go station cards or assign as a digital assignment. What's Included: ► 12 Blood Evidence Review Station Cards (editable) ►Student Answer D
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9th - 12th
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Reading Organizers & Activities BUNDLE Grades 9-12
Common Core Aligned Organizers and Activities BUNDLE for Grades 9-12: Essential graphic organizers, forms, rubrics, and checklists to use with any high school text.
This bundle contains the following individual products (in their entirety):
READING:
Common Core Standards Graphic Organizers for Reading Grades 11-12 (Updated!)
Common Core Standards Graphic Organizers for ELA Reading Grades 9-10 *Newly Updated Jan. 2014 - 50 organizers added!*
Common Core Standards Reading Graphic Organizers f
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9th - 12th
Glacial Erosion and Deposition | Digital & Editable Lab Activity | NGSS
In this Google Slides™ digital lab activity, the students will explore the effects of glaciers on landscapes. They will learn about the characteristic erosional and depositional landforms formed by glaciers such as striations on the bedrock, U-shaped valleys, drumlins, glacial erratics, finger lakes, moraines, kettle lakes, and outwash plains. This resource focuses on evidence of glacier erosion and deposition in New York State. This is an interactive lab activity with drag & drop features,
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8th - 10th
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MS-ESS2-2
, HS-ESS2-2
Chernobyl Miniseries Episode 1 Worksheet with Discussion Questions and Answers
Based upon the critically-acclaimed Chernobyl miniseries from HBO, this video guide accompanies episode 1 of the 5 part drama. The film is a painstakingly accurate account of the worst nuclear accident in human history. This lesson plan can be used in a physics class for topics of nuclear chemistry, world history class for historical discussions of the accident and the Soviet Union/Ukraine during the cold war, environmental science class for the effects of the accident on the environment, or a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Chernobyl Miniseries Episodes 1 through 5
Psychology Pack: Dream Theories, Journaling & Analysis (Critical Thinking)
This is a complete packet to fully invite students to not only learn about the historical perspectives and theories on dreaming, but to record their own dreams and synthesize that knowledge and application by writing a critical thinking response to their dream(s). This 12-page PDF includes dream theories from antiquity, Freud's psychoanalytic theory on dreaming (with discussion of the id, ego, and superego), as well as Carl Jung's perspective on dreams, grown out of and developed from his one-ti
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Forensics Digital Access Virtual Activities Bundle DISTANCE LEARNING FRIENDLY
FORENSIC SCIENCE, DISTANCE LEARNING & DIGITAL PRODUCTS! All distance learning & digital products from the WISEflamingo Forensics Product Line are Included! Faced with questions about what to do in a virtual school setting? Computer Savvy & like assigning work digitally? This bundle is perfect for you! Included are Wiseflamingo Virtual/Digital Forensics Products that are suitable for distance learning or sharing via a LMS platform. Most of the resources can also be printed and used
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8th - 12th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
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The Articles of Confederation worksheet
The Articles of Confederation worksheetAIM: To what extent was the Articles of Confederation successful in guiding the nation through the Critical Period?Common core aligned worksheet that focused on the strengths and weaknesses of the United States' first constitution, the Articles of Confederation. Contains several student-centered activities designed to promote class discussion, active engagement, and critical thinking such as:Do now that appropriately sets up the worksheet - constituti
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8th - 12th
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Child Development: Ethics/Genetics Testing Informational Article Analysis
Polished, graphic, 2-page 2014 PDF! Focuses on student reading and critical analysis of a hot Child Development / Psychology topic: genetics testing -- especially pre-natal genetics testing. From the preview, you may note details on the Human Genome Project as well as relevant dates in the last twenty+ years indicating advancements and legal determinations in regard to such genetic testing. The PDF invites students to work as a whole class as well as an invvitation to partner work, diagramming t
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Psychology PPT: Infancy/Child Development ~ Piaget, Kohlberg + More!
Here we have a near-100 slide, detailed MS 2013 Powerpoint slideshow to introduce a Psychology unit (in Psych I or II -- AP Psych, too) on Child Development: Infancy and Childhood, including:
a.) theories on nature/nurture
b.) parenting styles
c.) attachment styles
d.) maturation processes
e.) twin studies
f.) role(s) of mother/father
g.) single parent families/divorce/working mother families
h.) language development
i.) Piaget - in depth
j.) Kohlberg - in depth
k.) sibling / birth order
l.) mu
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Brain Mapping Lab: Create Your Own Homunculus
Looking for a FUN, engaging lab that your Anatomy or Psychology students will love? This lab is can be given in an Anatomy class at any time during the Nervous System Unit to teach about brain mapping, or in a Psychology class to teach about the Motor & Sensory Cerebral Cortex and the Sensory Homunculus. It is really is such a fun and simple lab that it can be given at any time during the year because it does not require any background knowledge! In this Lab, students will...Read the info on
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Psychology PPT: Consciousness/Sleep Stages with Analytic Activities
This is a 14-slide, newly revised MS 2013 PowerPoint presentation including:
a.) Introduction to consciousness
b.) Various stages of consciousness identified (controlled processes; automatic processes; daydreaming; altered states; sleep and dreams; unconscious/implicit memory - Freud)
c.) Sleep cycle
d.) Review of REM sleep, including dreaming
e.) Relevant graphics
f.) Custom transitions between slides
g.) Custom animations within slides
h.) Engaging student-focused reflective questions/activit
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Psychology Unit: Drugs & Addiction Overview w/Critical Thinking PPT
This is a highly informative Powerpoint introduction for a Psychology course unit/mini-unit on drugs and addiction; this would work well within a Consciousness unit -- also a PPT available in my store (including sleep/dreams).
Here, you are purchasing a highly informative, detailed, graphically-stimulating 12-slide PowerPoint introductory unit to Drugs and Addition with custom transitions and animations for you to deliver as a lecture, either in one class period or split among two (several, ev
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Psychology: Classical & Operant Conditioning PPT + Analytic Activities!
This is a detailed, updated and graphic MS 2013 PowerPoint to be utilized in a unit on Learning in Psych I/II or AP Psych, focused on the distinctions between two powerful learning theories: classical and operant conditioning.
With this newly revised 12-slide PPT, you're purchasing:
a.) detailed information, beginning with focused learning goals
b.) custom graphics
c.) custom transitions between slides
d.) custom animations within slides
e.) introduction and description to classical conditioni
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Topographic Maps Unit Notes & Workbook | Editable
This one-week-long low-prep unit covers everything your students need to know about topographic maps for the NYS Earth Science Regents exam. The students will learn how to interpret and draw isoline maps and analyze topographic maps including contour intervals and elevation, steep and gentle slopes, depressions, river flow direction, and highest and lowest elevations on a topographic map. They will also learn how to calculate elevation gradients and draw profiles using contour lines. What's inc
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8th - 10th
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MS-ESS2-2
Psychology: Split Brain Theory ~ Informational Text Critical Thinking Activity
This is a polished, graphic, new, single page 2013 PDF for critical thinking analysis of a 1998 article in Scientific American on the arguments and science behind left vs. right brain or brain lateralization. The question set could be addressed individually by students, in small collaborative groups, or as a whole group Q and A discussion to inspire problem-solving and critical thinking on a timely, hot topic in contemporary Psych/brain studies.
I have found this to be a highly thought-provokin
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Medical Mysteries: Readings & Resources on the Fight against Disease
Medical Mysteries is a one or 1 1/2-week lesson unit with readings and associated comprehension questions, a webquest, video links, optional writing assignments, and other resources on the impact of diseases on history and people’s efforts to understand and control them.It's now a zip file, including an editable Word document so you can make changes in the lessons to better meet your students' needs.It's an introduction to the diseases that made scientific research both urgent and difficult, and
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
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Psychology: Personality Theory PPT ~ Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism, Humanism
Introductory PowerPoint for a Personality unit in Psychology course. Highly detailed, graphic and accurate 49-slide 2013 presentation and introduction to the following seven theories on personality development: Freudian Psychoanalytic theory; Behaviorism; Humanism; Trait Theory; BioPsychological theory; Evolutionary Psychology theory; Type Theory.
With this extensive 49-slide, at least 2 full class periods presentation, you get:
a.) Learning Targets
b.) Highly detailed, accurate information p
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Ancient Earth Series, PBS NOVA Viewing Guide Bundle
Fill-in-the-blank and short answer viewing guides for the complete Ancient Earth series by PBS NOVA. Each worksheet follows the individual episode in order and culminates in two short answer questions that can be the springboard for a class discussion or larger activity. These are great to add a visual component to a lesson, are easy for a substitute teacher to use, or a great resource to use throughout the year! Each worksheet has a regular version, modified copy with a word bank, and a color-c
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9th - 12th
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