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Pbs Teachers: Methuselah Tree
Examine how scientists determine the age of living and non-living trees and identify factors that impact sizes of tree rings. Analyze tree ring samples and determine the age of the oldest sample.
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Read Works: Friends Food Fun at the Zoo
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage about animal keepers is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It...
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Read Works: Friends, Food and Fun at the Zoo
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage describes how animals play at the zoo and explains the roles of the animal keepers at the zoo. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: My Whiskers
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text with a cat telling about how he uses his whiskers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Learning About Your World
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how the five senses help people learn about their world. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Groundhogs Are Diggers
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about groundhogs and the burrows they live in. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: From Calf to Camel
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about camels and their baby calves. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science Homework Help
The science section of this popular homework helper site features links to chemistry, life, earth, physical, and space science resources.
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Read Works: Monster of the North
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the skeleton of a plesiosaur, a giant sea monster, found by scientists near the North Pole. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Sea Monsters
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about three groups of reptiles that lived in prehistoric oceans: ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Huntington Library: Learning From Leaves: From Observation to Inference [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students explore plants from three different ecosystems and make inferences about plant structures and their environments. Includes discussion questions, a vocabulary glossary, and handouts.
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Read Works: A Day at the Pumpkin Farm
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a brother and sister who visit a pumpkin farm with their parents. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Monster Meals!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Tyrannosaurus Rex. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Magic Tomatoes
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Luke who lives on a farm. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Oxen
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the importance of oxen to Cambodian farmers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Safe at Home
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about endangered lowland gorillas. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia: Morris Panych
This is a pretty complete summary of Panych's career, which is extensive. Plot summaries of his plays are available here too, as well as further reading.
Northwestern University
Di Humani Corporis Fabrica
A historically significant translation of the groundbreaking text on human anatomy that changed the study of anatomy forever.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology Foundations: Unit Test
A nine-question unit test over biology foundations along with a review of the chemistry basics to help you understand the beauty of life.
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Khan Academy: Ap Biology Standards Aligned to Course Content
A page that lists every biology standard once and lists all the Khan AP Biology course content that covers that standard.
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Khan Academy: Ap Biology Content Aligned to Standards
A list of every piece of Khan AP Biology content once and shows all the standards covered by that content.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Energy in Ecosystems Habitat
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses the habitats in ecosystems.
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Class Flow: Fingerprints
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students identify fingerprints. They will look at contrasts in different prints and make generalizations.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Snacks
Exploratorium's snacks aren't edible, but they are good! Use your science skills to discover gravity, learn about biology, do fun experiments.