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Wnet: Thirteen: Concept to Classroom :Tapping Into Multiple Intelligences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a wealth of information on Gardner's theory of multiple inteligences. It discusses what it consists of, the difference between it and the traditional definition of intelligence, how it has developed since its...
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Soundpiper Music: Music for Children, Teachers and Parents

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Song lyrics and sound files (in Real Audio format) along with resources for teachers and parents to help incorporate music into classrooms and homes to aid learning. CDs of the songs are available for purchase.
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University of Washington

University of Washington: Music and Memory and Intelligence

For Students 9th - 10th
Good discussion of the conflicting findings on the "Mozart Effect". Also a good, easy-to-understand site about music's affect on the brain.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 3: Fifties/sixties Musical Playwriting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit appeals to multiple intelligences, encourages interdisciplinary learning, reinforces self-confidence, and stimulates creativity, co-operation and critical thinking. Using songs with a strong narrative, learners are asked to...
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Jefferson Sd: Multiple Intelligences Assessment

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a test for multiple intelligences that can be printed out and completed.
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American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Ray Kurzweil

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information on Ray Kurzweil offers details about his life, inventions and work as a pioneer in artificial intelligence.
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Ed Web: Mi the Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information on multiple intelligences, and touches on all seven postulated in Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 16: Barriers in Communications

For Teachers 9th - 10th
From Robert Frost's 'Mending Wall' to Pink Floyd's 'The Wall,' humankind erects and maintains real and symbolic barriers to protect and defend opposing stances, beliefs and territories. Examples of real walls in history have been the...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 10: Interpretation and Meaning

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using the lyrics, music and video of a selected song (example used here is 'One' by the Irish group U2), students will explore the ways in which words, music and visual images interact to create meaning. Students will analyze the...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 40: Rock and Poetry: A Thematic Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Rock music can serve as a way to increase student interest in the curriculum, and a way to help students make sense of who they are and what their place is in the world, so asking students to bring in their own music to teach each other...
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Indiana University

Indiana University: Howard Gardner

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This website from the Indiana University gives an overview of Howard Gardner's life and work. Learn more about this educational reformer by reading about his work.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mister Chris and Friends

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Mister Chris and Friends is a show for young children produced by Vermont PBS. Each gently-paced episode begins with a wish made to a magical Wishing Well. This wish propels Mister Chris and his friends on an adventure to discover more...
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Ld Pride: Learning Styles Explained

For Teachers 9th - 10th
LdPride.net offers resources that explain the different styles of learning. Tests can also be found on this site that helps determine which intelligence you favor most.
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Frontiers Media

Frontier: So You Think You Can't Dance?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Believe it or not, even babies can feel the beat of a rhythm. However, science has documented the first case of a person who could not dance to the beat. His name is Mathieu, and he is an intelligent, talented - even musical - guy with...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Community Resource Center

And the Beat Goes On

For Students 9th - 10th
In this article, the author talks about her adopted son, John, who has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). Read about the struggles she has experienced in raising him and learn about the problems John has overcome, despite his physical and...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can Robots Be Creative?

For Students 9th - 10th
People have been grappling with the question of artificial creativity- alongside the question of artificial intelligence- for over 170 years. For instance, could we program machines to create high quality original music? And if we do, is...
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Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Ray Kurzweil

For Students 9th - 10th
A prodigy from Queens created hardware and software to help blind people read and musicians make music. His inventions, writings, and influential thinking have explored and exploited technology in many ways, and helped shape ongoing work...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can Machines Read Your Emotions?

For Students 9th - 10th
Computers can beat us in board games, transcribe speech, and instantly identify almost any object. But will future robots go further by learning to figure out what we're feeling? Kostas Karpouzis imagines a future where machines and the...
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The Second Principle: Brain Based Education: An Overview

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource provides historical information, core principles, implications and suggestions, 12 design principles, and suggestions to utilize both music and art.
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Slavery & the Making of America

For Students 9th - 10th
Using primary documents, oral histories, and other historical resources, discover how the arts of Africa, Europe, and pre-Civil War America influenced the culture of enslaved African Americans.
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Ld Pride: Learning Styles Explained

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource helps explain the different styles of learning. Also includes tests to see what kind of a learner you are.

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