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Read Works

Read Works: A Secret Note

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction piece shares the story of a camper who receives a mysterious note. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works

Read Works: A Well Kept Secret

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passages describes the discovery of an ancient civilization relics in the Range Creek Canyon of Utah. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading...
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Ohio State University

Osu History Teaching Institute: Code Talkers the Navajo Soldiers of Wwii

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This instructional activity explores the unique role that the Navajo secret codes played in winning WWII.
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PBS

Nova Online: Japan's Secret Garden

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explore a year in the life of the people and wildlife around Lake Biwa in Japan. Study hibernation, rice cultivation, and the metamorphosis of insects in the area.
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Other

Think Green: Secret Life of Landfills

For Students 3rd - 8th
Visit this landfill in Florida, and learn about the job of this waste management plant. [1:32]
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Search for Secret Agents

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students embark on a scavenger hunt around the school looking for indoor air pollution and mapping source locations.
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Utah State Office of Education

Utah Science: The Mysterious Force

For Students 3rd - 8th
There is a secret mysterious force in your home right this very moment! Try these activities to first identify that force and then extend your knowledge of the force by investigating the other activities provided.
Article
New York Times

New York Times: The Roanoke Island Colony: Lost, and Found?

For Students 4th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The mystery of what happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke has gripped imaginations for centuries. Now archaeology may be able to provide answers before long. This article describes the history of the...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Submarines, Secrets, and Spies: Sounds Underwater (Hot Science)

For Students 3rd - 8th
Examine factors that affect how sound travels underwater and explore the range of sounds underwater creatures make.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Secrets of Lost Empires I Colosseum

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Discover how to use pulleys to change the direction of force, compare different pulley designs and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a pulley.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Secrets of Lost Empires Ii: Lever Lift

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Examine the classes of levers and discover how levers work by raising a brick with shish kebab skewers.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Secrets of Lost Empires I Obelisk

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Investigate how levers can be used to lift objects and discover how the position of the fulcrum affects the force and the distance of the load lifted.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Secrets of Lost Empires I: Stonehenge

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Investigate center of gravity by changing the weight distribution of a suspended object.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: The Scoop on Gossip

For Students 3rd - 8th
We've all probably heard a bit of gossip, a story about someone we know that might embarrass him. Despite whether the information is true or not, the fact that it is being passed on to other people could be harmful for him. It may be fun...
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PBS

Pbs Nova: The Vikings

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site, a companion to the NOVA program on PBS, examines the Vikings and whether or not their reputation as "barbarians" is founded. Content includes a look at a Viking Village, the Norse people, Viking ships, the Viking alphabet, and...
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Other

Avi's Web Site!

For Students 6th - 8th
This is Avi's very own website. It includes a categorized list of all his books (including individual summaries), plus highlights of soon-to-be-published and recently published books. A short biological sketch recommends a biography...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Hedy Lamarr

For Students 6th - 8th
Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress and inventor who pioneered the technology that would one day form the basis for today's WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Set in 1943 when the Nazis occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is asked to carry out a heroic deed and aid her uncle in his efforts to smuggle Danish Jews across the sea to Sweden, where they will be safe. She has already...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: The Curse of the Gloamglozer

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this prequel to the first three volumes, readers meet young Quint long before his sky pirating days, as he becomes the apprentice to Linius Pallitax, the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax. Shortly after his arrival, Quint is enlisted...
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Tom Swift and His Air Glider by Victor Appleton

For Students 4th - 9th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Tom Swift and His Air Glider, an adventure multi-chapter book from 1912, written by the ghost writer Victor Appleton. In this book's quest, the main...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: 'Crossbow' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In Crossbow by Canadian Author Dayle Campbell Gaetz, fourteen-year-old Matt sets out to live as a hermit in a cabin and encounters a stranger who has moved in. At first, they are friends but Matt realizes the stranger is hiding dangerous...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: 'Sewer Rats' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Sewer Rats by Sigmund Brouwer is an adventure tale. A group of kids secretly play paintball games in urban underground drainage tunnels. Then one of them gets lost in the tunnels just as a heavy rainstorm begins. This teacher's guide...
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Other

Parliamentary Archives: Gunpowder, Treason, Plot

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource of archived content presents the tale of wars, murder, secrets, and lies. Discover the story of Guy Fawkes and the failed Gunpowder Plot by exploring pictures, diagrams, original documents, and more.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Tom Swift and His War Tank by Victor Appleton

For Students 5th - 8th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Tom Swift and His War Tank, an adventure multi-chapter book from 1918, written by the ghost writer Victor Appleton. In this book's quest, the main character...

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