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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   11 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Blast from the Past with Nuclear Chemistry
   After researching the history and basic facts of a nuclear chemistry topic, students utilize the Web 2.0 tool Timetoast to create an electronic timeline that they use to present their research to the class.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 25
   Celebrate Digital Learning Day today.
   Students reflect on recent learning and the role digital tools and media have played in supporting or enhancing it.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide Series
   Developing Academic Vocabulary
   In this Strategy Guide Series, you'll find creative and compatible ways to build, maintain, and extend students' vocabulary across academic disciplines.
4. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines
   Written with the Common Core State Standards firmly in mind, this book presents a much-needed instructional model for disciplinary literacy.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Fashion Fun with Fossil Fuels
   After researching specific fossil fuel issues, students create their own clothing brands that express their opinions about the issues and then share their information and clothing line using either PowerPoint or Prezi.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Getting Graphic with Alternative Energy Sources
   After researching alternative sources of energy, students create online comic books to present their information.
7. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   Nonfiction Roundup
   With each annual crop of new nonfiction, teens have the opportunity to discover and explore new disciplinary worlds. Tune in to hear about an array of recently-published nonfiction titles that will engage teens in learning about history, science, economics, and medicine. You'll hear about junk food and advertising, the atomic bomb and civil rights, bird watching and volcanoes – books written in a variety of formats for a variety of teen readers.
8. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   Science Books for Teens
   Books about science allow readers to encounter new concepts, ask new questions, and discover what we can learn simply by paying close attention to our surroundings. You'll hear about ecology and climate change, food production, infectious disease, ancient human history, the universe, and our power as humans for both ingenuity and destruction.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
   Trading Card Creator
   This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a variety of topics such as a character in a book, a person or place from history, or even a physical object. An excellent tool to for summarizing or as a prewriting exercise for original stories.
10. Professional Development | Grades   4 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Using Generative Sentences to Apply Academic Vocabulary
    In this guide, you will learn how to use generative sentences to give students opportunities to apply their knowledge of new words in writing.

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