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Teachers’ Choice Reading List

— International Reading Association

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How It Works

This site lists approximately 100 recently published children’s books, chosen by children and sorted by reading level. Endorsed by the children themselves, these books are meant to encourage reading among children ages 5 to 14.

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Tag(s): reading lists,

Algebra Topics Index

— PurpleMath

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How It Works

This comprehensive high school & college algebra site provides actual lessons and examples for learning basic, intermediate, and advanced algebra topics. Whether used to guide lesson plans or an algebra refresher for students, this site’s practical approach to algebra topics makes it an extremely useful.

In the Classroom

An excellent tool for review, save this website on the class-computers "favorites," and post it on the class wiki or webpage, so students can access it both in and out of the classroom. Encourage students to use it to study for questions, or to better understand homework assignments.

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West Nile Virus

— Health Canada

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This Canadian site provides helpful information for minimizing the risk of getting the West Nile Virus, as well as instructions for identifying symptoms.

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Proceedings of the Old Bailey London

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How It Works

This is an interesting collection of primary resources for those interested in British History ; the site has the texts of over 100,000 proceedings of London’s Central Criminal Court. There is also a good introduction in the “For Schools” section on how to structure a legal and civic history lessons using the site. The teacher’s page is geared towards British Curriculum standards, but it is still helpful in describing the site’s application to British History.

In the Classroom

Beyond the free lesson plans, use this site to obtain plenty of primary resources from early to modern England. During a unit on the American Revolution, use this site as a way to address the treason of Benedict Arnold. Open the site on the interactive whiteboard or projector and search for crimes related to treason or espionage. Go through the cases with students, highlighting sentencing and judicial opinions related to the offense. Once you have gone through a few cases, use the results you found to discuss what British attitudes may have been towards their own "turncoat" and how this may have impacted Benedict Arnold’s future working for the British Empire. This would also be a great activity to discuss how these same attitudes in combination with Arnold’s actions impacted American legislation towards treason. This could be used in either a civics or American History course.

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Tag(s): britain, courts, england, great britain, britain,

Mathematics

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Despite its awkward subtitles, this site offers concise, amply illustrated presentations on algebra, trigonometry, and other branches of mathematics. Teachers may find this site useful when they need a perspective that’s different from their usual text. Students can use the information in the same manner, as another explanation when they’re stumped by the textbook, although there’s no real search feature. Well worth a look.

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Debates in the Federal Convention

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Cmprising the period from May through October, 1787, this site contains the daily journals of James Madison in which he discusses the progress of the Constitutional Convention. Students interested in first-hand accounts of the forming of the American Government will find these journals great reading. High ideals notwithstanding, they show that the art of compromise was alive and well at the birth of the federal government.

In the Classroom

Use this site as an anticipatory set or “activator” to introduce a unit or lesson on a projector. Fit to compliment a lesson on the Continental Congress, select a few debates in the site to exhibit how detailed some of the issues faced were. Use the examples as a writing prompt - if in the Continental Congress, what would be the most important issues the Students would raise? If the federal government ceased to exist today, what laws would they create? Would they change anything? This is a great way for students to connect the past lessons of the Revolution to the present!

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Tag(s): constitution, constitution,

Landmark Supreme Court Cases

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Here’s a site that offers the core body of essential Supreme Court decisions in a single presentation that includes lots of supporting context. In addition to the decisions themselves, there are supplementary resources, activities, and interpretive documents. There’s also a thematic organization that makes identification of specific cases easier.

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Government teachers will love this one.

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Tag(s): constitution, supreme court, constitution, supreme court,

Nationalism in the U.S. - 1815-1850

— National Humanities Center

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How It Works

Developed as part of the National Humanities Center’s Online Professional Development "Toolbox" series, this site offers history and government teachers a wonderfully succinct resource kit for building one or more lesson units. Divided into five sections: religion, domesticity, common man, expansion, and America - 1850, the site offers introductions and a set of primary source readings for each, along with presentation guidelines and discussion suggestions. This one encourages students to draw their own conclusions.

In the Classroom

Use this site to allow students to dramatize the events that occurred in 1850, leading up to the civil war. Sharing the site on an interactive whiteboard or projector, open up the section entitled "America in 1850," and assign students roles, by the documents have provided. Once students have read their "parts," or appropriate reading guides, encourage them to re-enact their character’s words. Re-enacting the events will show all sides of the argument, and provide a more tangible learning experience. Extremely useful in any American History or Civics class!

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Tag(s): civil war,

Math Manipulatives - Measurement

— Utah State University

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How It Works

This collection of on-screen math manipulatives is part of an extensive collection developed at Utah State University with funding from the National Science Foundation. Students can build an understanding of math concepts by moving and arranging the components on the screen. These exercises help high school students understand measurement, area, unit conversions, volume, etc.

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Tag(s): manipulatives, measurement,

History Writing Guide

— Bowdoin College

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How It Works

This college-level writing guide for history papers from Bowdoin College may be beyond the scope of some secondary students. But for those who can already compose a cogent paragraph, it offers great suggestions on research process and assembling a paper that uses primary resources. AP history and social studies teachers may want to review this one and suggest or adapt it for their students. There’s a wealth of information here.

In the Classroom

Open this site on the interactive whiteboard or projector and have students read the information before beginning their first big research paper. (Teachers can also print the information, but why not save some trees?) The short introductory essay offers some great tips for paper writing and has reference points for students with more questions. Have students look at the rest of the information on their own or refer students with questions to it. Save this site as a favorite on the class wiki or webpage so students can access it both in and out of the classroom.

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Tag(s): primary sources,
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