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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGetting Students Engaged in Nonfiction Text
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Education Theory and Practice, Light, Sound & Other Waves, Professional DevelopmentThis article describes how to help students engage with nonfiction text by asking questions, identifying facts, making connectio...Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIlluminations: Combinations
Grades: TK/K to 9Subjects: Probability, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Mathematics, Nature & Method of Science and 10 additional..This 2-lesson unit focuses on combinations, a subject related to probability. Students develop strategies for discovering all th...Contributor: The NSDL Math Common Core CollectionViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMathline Activity I -- Borda Count
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Probability, Current Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Mathematics and 8 additional..Mock-election demonstrating the Borda Electoral Count, a ranking system of elections that is rarely used for governmental electi...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMathline Activity II -- Plurality Voting
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Probability, Current Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Mathematics and 8 additional..Mock-election demonstrating plurality electoral systems, both the traditional first-past-the-post system and a plurality-with-el...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMathline Activity III -- Pairwise Comparisons
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Probability, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Current Science, Mathematics and 10 additional..Mock-election demonstrating the pairwise comparison method of decision making, whereby each candidate is compared to another and...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMathline Activity IV -- Approval Voting
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Probability, Current Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Mathematics and 8 additional..Mock election demonstrating approval voting, an electoral system in which voters can select as many or as few candidates as they...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMoney
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Addition & Subtraction, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Counting & Place Values, Mathematics and 2 additional..This interactive Java applet helps users count and understand money. Images of coins and/or bills are used to 1) determine the a...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0