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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find stories, novels, and poems from more than one hundred authors. Download select works as MP3 files or read or listen to them online. Available selections span a wide range of literature, from nursery rhymes to the philosophy of...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Mp3 Squeeze: How Much Compression Is Too Much?

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you love to listen to your MP3 player while you're exercising, or listen to songs on the Internet? The relatively recent development of MP3 technology has made it possible to take a stack of CD's and store them on a device no bigger...
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Banjo Tablatures

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive site covers many aspects of bluegrass banjo music. It includes bluegrass news, information, history, trivia, and multimedia. Also includes lesson plans for banjo, sample tablatures, bibliographies, workshops, and...
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Cyberbee

Adventures of Cyberbee: Digital Audio Basics [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Try this beginner's tutorial for recording sound on the computer. It covers the historical background of audio files, file formats, basic audio recording, synthesized music and copyright.
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Mp3 cdburner.com: History of Mp3s

For Students 9th - 10th
This website includes the history of the mp3 and then describes legal matters with the mp3, where to find an mp3, tools and software needed to use mp3's, and an outlook of how mp3's will be used in the future. Links to resources and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: N q.a: New Cuyama

For Teachers 9th - 10th
On a road trip in California, Lisa saw a sign which made her laugh and take a picture: Aligns with N-Q.A.
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Better Lesson: What Is Math Anyway

For Teachers 3rd
It is important to go slow to go fast. Students are successful when they have a clear understanding of expectations. At the start of the school year the rules and rituals for the Math Workshop are established through modeling and practice.
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Better Lesson: Playing With Probability Some Simple Scenarios

For Teachers 3rd
Exposure to this concept now is both fun and engaging AND a crucial step toward building a foundation for deeper, long-term understanding.
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Better Lesson: Is This Math or Isn't It?

For Teachers 2nd Standards
SWBAT identify the math all around them and explain their thinking.
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Better Lesson: Distributive Property Using the Gcf

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders will relate area of rectangles to the distributive property.