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Social studies Common Core RST.11-12.1 resources
FORENSICS CURRICULUM- ENTIRE YEAR COURSE BUNDLE (FORENSIC SCIENCE)
Save time and energy with this print and digital FORENSIC SCIENCE CURRICULUM bundle! It includes all of the lessons, notes, labs, activities, mock crime scenes, case studies, practices, worksheets, projects, quizzes, review games and exams you need to teach an entire year of FORENSICS. Need a digital option? No problem!I have included both a print and digital (Google) version of the curriculum, making it perfect for:✅distance learning✅flipped classrooms✅online courses✅homeschool co-horts✅traditi
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9th - 12th
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NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, HS-LS4-1
, HS-LS1-1
, HS-PS3-1
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Introduction to Forensics Unit
Save time and valuable energy with this HUGE bundle of Introduction to Forensics resources. This resource is just what you need to teach an engaging and student-led Forensics course to your students.This ready-to-go resource is complete with everything that you'll need to teach a 10-12 week Introduction to Forensics unit, whether it's in the classroom or online! Because it's all-inclusive, this resource is especially useful to teachers that are just starting a Forensics course. Need a digital
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9th - 12th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-2
, HS-LS3-1
, HS-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
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Also included in: FORENSICS CURRICULUM- ENTIRE YEAR COURSE BUNDLE (FORENSIC SCIENCE)
Sleeping in Class Activity: Stages of Sleep, Psychology, & The Enchanted City
Is your psychology class ready to learn about sleep by actually sleeping? What if I told you that one of my best lessons is an activity that allows my students to fall asleep in class. Guess what? It's true! Although sleeping appears to be disengaging, this lesson is quite the opposite. It has become a student favorite as they are completely engaged and will never forget their sleeping activity in psychology class! This Enchanted City: Sleeping Activity is a must use lesson for all psychology
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FORENSIC EVIDENCE UNIT
Save time and valuable energy with this HUGE bundle of FORENSIC EVIDENCE resources. This bundle is the 2nd unit of my full year Forensics Curriculum and is designed to be followed by my Unit 1 Bundle: Intro to Forensics, but is the perfect supplement to any Forensics curriculum.This resource is just what you need to teach an engaging and student-led Forensics course to your students. It includes everything that you'll need to teach a 10 week Forensic Evidence unit. Because it's all-inclusive, t
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
CCSS:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, HS-PS4-5
, HS-PS4-2
, HS-LS1-1
...
Also included in: FORENSICS CURRICULUM- ENTIRE YEAR COURSE BUNDLE (FORENSIC SCIENCE)
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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Death and the Human Body: Forensics Unit
Save time and valuable energy with this HUGE bundle of DEATH & THE HUMAN BODY resources. This bundle is the 3rd unit of my full year Forensics curriculum and is designed to be followed by my Unit 2 Bundle: Forensic Evidence, but is the perfect supplement to any Forensics curriculum.This product is just what you need to teach an engaging and student-led Forensics unit to your students. This no-prep resource is complete with everything that you'll need to teach a 9-10 week DEATH AND THE HUMAN
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
CCSS:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, HS-LS1-7
, HS-LS1-2
, HS-LS4-1
...
Also included in: FORENSICS CURRICULUM- ENTIRE YEAR COURSE BUNDLE (FORENSIC SCIENCE)
AP Psychology Course | 2024 Psych Full Curriculum Bundle
A full AP Psychology high school course updated for 2024 with FRQ MCQ and more experiment-focused design on scientific method and statistics analysis, which includes: Powerpoint presentations and lessons, activities, assessments (formative and summative), answer keys, videos, review games, a full vocabulary list with 590 words, & more! Also works for general, non-AP Psychology! It's easy to differentiate by simply leaving off the FRQ for each final assessment! Check out this blog for an exa
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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US HISTORY -1980s America - visual, textual, engaging 50-slide PPT
THIS RESOURCE IS A MUST-HAVE TO HELP STUDENTS ANALYZE AND SUMMARIZE 1980s AMERICA. STUDENTS FOLLOW ALONG WITH A GRAPHIC ORGANIZER AS THEY READ INFORMATIONAL SLIDES AND CLICK ON RELEVANT LINKS TO HIGHLIGHT THE TOP TEN THEMES OF THE DECADE.This download includes both the PowerPoint AND the graphic organizer handout (in both PDF and MS WORD format)ONE OF 12 UNITS in the "DECADES SERIES"(1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s)This series of PowerPoint
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8th - 12th
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PSYCHOLOGY: Psychological Disorders Research Project | Google Classroom Ready
Looking for an engaging project to add to your unit on Psychological Disorders? Students can use this rubric guide to research, write, and present information on a psychological disorder of their choosing. This is an excellent project for a psychology class or any course discussing mental health and mental illness. You may assign students to present in any format desired: Google Slides, PowerPoint, Prezi, research paper, etc. A student instruction guide, teacher rubric, and a few helpful webs
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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
Grades:
9th - 12th
President Kennedy's Civil Rights Speech Worksheet
This primary source activity features President Kennedy's amazing June 11, 1963 speech on civil rights. The crisis in Alabama over desegregation led Kennedy to issue an appeal to the consciences of Americans to support a bold civil rights bill that addressed injustices facing African Americans.Following the 2 page speech, a set of questions has students analyze President Kennedy's words in context of the Civil Rights Movement. An answer key for these questions is provided.An editable Google Doc
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9th - 12th
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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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AP Psychology Unit 5 | Psychological Disorders & Mental Health | Psych 2024
AP Psychology 2024 Unit 5: Abnormal Psychology - Mental and Physical Health: Health Psychology; Positive Psychology; Classifying Psychological Disorders; Categories of Psychological Disorders; Treatment of Psychological Disorders.This unit is part of our full AP Psych course. Buy the bundle and save! This high school unit is updated for 2024 with FRQ MCQ and more experiment-focused design on scientific method and statistics analysis, which includes: Powerpoint presentations and lessons, activiti
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: AP Psychology Course | 2024 Psych Full Curriculum Bundle
AP Psychology Unit 4 | Social Psychology and Personality | Psych 2024
AP Psychology 2024 Unit 4: Social Psychology and Personality: Attribution Theory and Person Perception; Attitude Formation & Change; Psychology of Social Situations; Psychodynamic & Humanistic Theories of Personality; Social-Cognitive & Trait Theories of Personality; Motivation; Emotion.This unit is part of our full AP Psych course. Buy the bundle and save! This high school unit is updated for 2024 with FRQ MCQ and more experiment-focused design on scientific method and statistics an
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: AP Psychology Course | 2024 Psych Full Curriculum Bundle
AP Psychology Unit 3 | Development and Learning | Psych 2024
AP Psychology 2024 Unit 3: Development and Learning: Themes and Methods in Developmental Psychology; Physical Development; Gender and Sexual Orientation; Cognitive Development; Communication and Language Development; Social-Emotional Development; Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning; Social, Cognitive, and Neurological Factors in Learning.This unit is part of our full AP Psych course. Buy the bundle and save! This high school unit is updated for 2024 with FRQ MCQ and more experiment-f
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: AP Psychology Course | 2024 Psych Full Curriculum Bundle
AP Psychology | Cognition | Psych 2024 Unit 2
AP Psychology 2024 Unit 2: Cognition: Perception; Thinking, Problem Solving, Judgments, and Decision-Making; Introduction to Memory: Encoding, Storing, and Retrieving Memories; Forgetting; Intelligence and AchievementThis unit is part of our full AP Psych course. Buy the bundle and save! This high school unit is updated for 2024 with FRQ MCQ and more experiment-focused design on scientific method and statistics analysis, which includes: Powerpoint presentations and lessons, activities, assessmen
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: AP Psychology Course | 2024 Psych Full Curriculum Bundle
BINGO: US Presidents (100+ printable boards, caller's sheets, and markers)
PRINT AND PLAY!Print as many unique game boards as you want (up to 100).Print and cut as many markers as you'd like, or use pieces of paper, supplies, dobbers, markers, or chips.Use the provided questions sheet to play multiple unique games. Ask one question, or ask many to help your students along.This set will play multiple unique games! It contains 100 bingo boards and over 400 questions (over 10 each per president) to ask your students.Play short, long, or unique games.A rule guide is provid
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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AP Psychology Course | 2024 FRQ Free Response Question Packet
AP Psychology 2024 Free Response Question packet with 51 FRQ and answer keys inside. Need a quick fix for your Psychology class's new AP test focus? Need a lesson without planning? Sick day and need an easy plan for a sub? This packet is designed to focus on the changes coming up in 2024-2025 AP Psychology test with 51 Short Constructed Response questions and answer keys covering all 5 of the AP Psychology test units, including many on experimental design and statistical analysis.Check out this
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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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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MLA-APA-Chicago Citation Style Guide
Do your students forget which citation style to use when? At our school, students produce text in multiple subjects- History, English, Science, and more! It's totally understandable that they might confuse APA citations with MLA citations, and that's why I designed this quick reference guide.This reproducible handout compares the 3 most commonly used citation styles in student-friendly terms. By using this, students will understand the demands made by MLA, APA, and Chicago style requirements. It
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Types of Forensic Evidence Sorting Activity
Learn the types of forensic evidence with a fun 2 set card sorting activity. This activity covers direct, circumstantial, biological, physical, class, individual, trace, and comparative evidence terms, definitions, and real-world examples. This ready-to-use resource is a supplementary activity geared toward an introductory forensic science class.What Is Included?This resource contains 2 Sets of Sorting Cards: Terms and Definitions (16 card set) and Evidence Examples (24 cards). Teacher Tips for
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9th - 12th
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CCSS:
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, HS-ETS1-1
, HS-ETS1-4
Forensics True Crime Case Study Student Assignments BUNDLE Forensic Science 9-12
True crime is a creative and exciting way to teach scientific principles in your science classes! If you teach Forensic Science and are looking for some major cases involving forensic science, these are the perfect addition to your class! Murder, death investigations, blood spatter, stomach contents and performing an autopsy are all topics covered in these products!This bundle includes my favorite cases to teach through my year-long course in Forensic Science. All of these cases can be used indi
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9th - 12th
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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
BUNDLE “CSI Effect” Professional Journal Article Read and Analyze Activity
Upper level students need to be able to read critically and for information. This assignment has them reading a 6 page, professional journal article from the National Institute of Justice and answering 12 higher level thinking questions that explains a study done to answer the question “What is the effect of crime shows on jurors? “ This activity could be done in class, as a homework assignment or an online assignment. Due to the higher reading level of the information, I have found that student
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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