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National Humanities Center

Teaching The Great Gatsby: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar

For Teachers 11th - 12th
The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...
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Transforming Education

Social Awareness Strategies

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
What are the benefits of developing social awareness? Using the resource, readers learn strategies for fostering civil discourse, creating a participatory classroom, and enhancing family involvement. Scholars also take a personality...
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Self-Management Strategies

For Teachers K - 12th
What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...
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Transforming Education

Self-Efficacy Strategies

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Scholars with high levels of self-efficacy perform better in school. Instructors review a list of strategies for enhancing self-efficacy skills. They discover how to teach learners to appropriately define success, celebrate progress, and...
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Transforming Education

Growth Mindset Strategies

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Help your students develop a growth mindset with a list of sample strategies for prioritizing efforts instead of results.Pupils learn how to embrace mistakes, set high expectations, and focus on process over product.
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Other

Webfoot: A Beginner's Guide to Effective E Mail

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An article about effective E-mail use. Includes links to an introduction, what makes E-mail different, context, format, and acronyms and jargon.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Junk Mail: Negotiating Critical Literacy at the Mailbox

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that teach students to examine junk mail critically. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Beginning Writers Compare E Mail With Letter Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that teach younger students the differences between letter writing and e-mail writing. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Recognizing Readers? Needs and Expectations for E Mail Replies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that teach about using e-mail as well as literary concepts like audience awareness. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress Prohibiting Private Mails

For Students 9th - 10th
An exposition by Lysander Spooner on behalf of the American Letter Mail Company entered according to an Act of Congress in1844, asserting that the company should have the right to establish post offices in competition with those of...
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iCivics

I Civics: Voting by Mail

For Students 9th - 10th
Because of concerns over COVID-19, many states may ask people to vote by mail this year. Are you ready to vote on Election Day 2020?
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Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: Victory Mail

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about "victory mail," the expedited wartime posting of letters written to and from soldiers serving in World War Two.
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Rand: Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for E Mail

For Students 9th - 10th
Report published in 1985 by NSF and RAND dealing with electronic mail and message systems and the issues related to use of e-mail. The report also presents a set of guidelines for effective use.
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Other

Globe and Mail

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online home of the Globe and Mail, a major daily newspaper nationally distributed in Canada, find today's top stories about Canada and the world, including news and analysis about national and international politics, business and...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: Moving the Mail

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit takes students through various means of delivering mail via land, sea, and air. Historic, primary materials are used throughout the exhibit.
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TexasHistory.com

Texas history.com: Butterfield Overland Mail in Texas

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at the history of the Overland Mail Company's Butterfield line, in honor of its 150th anniversary in 2008. It describes the tensions that existed in the territory that it crossed, between slave-owners, slaves, union supporters, and...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: Object of the Month: Mail From the Hindenburg Crash

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides background information and details of the Hindenburg crash, plus descriptions and photos of mail salvaged from the wreck. Suggested reading material and an audio/visual clip of the actual crash also included. [1:13]
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Design Packing to Safely Mail Raw Spaghetti

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use their creative skills to determine a way to mail raw spaghetti. The students will need to choose a way to safely package their raw spaghetti using only the materials provided. To test the packing designs, the spaghetti...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Creating a Business Letter Using Mail Merge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson, students will learn to use the mail merge feature of their word processing software. They will utilize the Internet for research, compose a business letter, and key the letter using mail merge. This is a Commerce and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.f Delivering the Mail, Assessment Variation

For Teachers 8th Standards
This task assesses a student's ability to construct a linear function and interpret its parameters within the context of a mail truck's mileage. Aligns with 8.F.B.4.
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US Department of Agriculture

Fsis: Mail Order Food Safety

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource focuses on information about sending perishable food by mail. It includes links to articles about related topics, and a step-by-step guide on how to ordering a mail-order food gift.
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University of Southern California

Getting E Mail to Work for You: E Mail Attachments

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on using E-mail applications, including attachments.
Article
Other

The 101 Series: E Mail

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the 101 Series describes the difference between a POP3 email account and a Web-based e-mail account. It also has further links to setting up a web-based e-mail account, email ettiquette, email lingo and spam.
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BBC

Bbc: Bitesize: Different Ways to Communicate Online

For Students K - 1st
There are many different types of communication technology. They all have different strengths. It is important to think about which type of communication is best for each occasion. Learn about five different methods of online...

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