National Basketball Association
Nba: :Legends Profile: Earvin "Magic" Johnson
This site, from the NBA, offers a thorough summary of the life and career of basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson, with links to other resource information and career statistics.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Magic Carpet Ride [Pdf]
In this activity, a reader's theater script for A Magic Carpet Ride is provided. Two character roles are needed in this activity.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: "The Wizard, the Fairy and the Magic Chicken" [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Helen Lester's early childhood book, The Wizard, the Fairy and the Magic Chicken, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Themes: Magic and Supernatural
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources will help to understand the significance of magical characters and events in Shakespeare's works. Enchantment and the occult fascinated the Elizabethans. It includes videos,...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Magic Realism
A chronological list of artists associated with the Magic Realism movement, with links to famous works and biographies.
British Library
British Library: Teaching Resources: The Tempest: Magic
This activity encourages students to explore Shakespeare's presentation of Prospero and his arts in the light of attitudes to magic in the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period. Included are discussion questions, primary sources, links...
Other
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Magical Realism
This site introduces Colombian author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and explains his use of "magical realism."
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Unicorns, Dragons, and Other Magical Creatures
This online lesson plan deals with children's natural interest in imaginary play, fantasy, and make-believe by tying it into discovering and understanding different cultures from around the world.
CPALMS
Cpalms: The Magical Library
In this tutorial, students will take a virtual trip to a library and learn how to identify the genre, author, and illustrator of a book. After listening to short segments from a magical wizard, students will identify books that are story...
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: The Other Side of the Magic Shop
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a girl named Bella who worked at a magic shop and answer questions in comprehension, setting, characterization, main idea, inference, transitions, and more. A link to a...
Other
Mostly Fiction: Latin American Writers and Magic
The writer of this site tells about her experience with reading literature written in the "magical realism" style. It is a personal response to literature, rather than a scholarly analysis, but it is well-written and knowledgable. Many...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Multiplying Magic Squares
The math concept of "Magic Squares" is explored here with basic terminology and examples to begin with. Once students have mastered these, the more challenging idea of how to multiply magic squares is introduced. Review materials are...
TES Global
Tes: Midsummer Night's Dream: Magic Flower Task
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students design an advertisement for a magic flower like Oberon does in A Midsummer Night's Dream. They begin by answering questions as to product name, what it does, how it works, the...
Read Works
Read Works: The Other Side of the Magic Shop
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about girl named Bella who works at a magic shop. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
TES Global
Tes: The Tempest: Magic Gallery
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of magic photos from the Royal Shakespeare Company's various productions of Shakespeare's The Tempest, which could be useful in comparing different interpretations and sparking...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Secrets of Mozart's "Magic Flute"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Die Zauberflote" ("The Magic Flute") is widely regarded as one of the most influential operas in history. And while it may seem like a childish fairytale at first glance, it's actually full of subversive...
Other
Luther College: Magic and the Common People of Early Modern Europe
Examines the role that superstition and a belief in magic played in people's lives in early modern Europe.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Magic of Vedic Math
There is more than one way to reach a correct answer in mathematics. Vedic math, an ancient Indian method, sidesteps traditional computations in a manner that provides a shortcut, while being fun to use and to learn. Gaurav Tekriwal...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Visiting the Magic Kingdom!
Have you ever wondered what the magic kingdom would look like on a coordinate grid?
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Magic, Illusion, and the Supernatural
Mischievous fairies, monstrous apparitions, and scheming witches: examine how Shakespeare and Renaissance writers played with the magical and supernatural.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Magical Realism
A seven-slide presentation explaining and identifying the characteristics of the fictional genre of magical realism. Examples are provided.
TES Global
Blendspace: Magical Realism
A fourteen-part learning module with links to images, slides, videos, texts, and websites on the literary technique of magical realism.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Adventurous Magic
This writing activity is inspired by Bruce Coville's Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, and learners will be asked to write about an original magical object that they have discovered in the "Elives' Magic Supplies," just as Jeremy does in...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Magical Animal Encounter
This writing lesson plan is fashioned after Harry Potter's encounter with a communicative boa constrictor at the zoo. Inspired by Rowling's original idea, students will be asked to create a three-part story about an original magical...
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