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Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Magical Realism
This site introduces Colombian author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and explains his use of "magical realism."
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.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Magic Nuts
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of The Magic Nuts by Rosie M. Pitman, a book of poems for children.
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Allmath.com: Magic Squares Game
Magic squares have been a fascinating topic in mathematics for centuries. They are formed by filling in all the squares with the numbers starting from one so that the sum of all rows, columns, and diagonals is the same. Instructions are...
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Magic Box Lesson Plan [Pdf]
As a teacher jumps rope, students determine the arithmetic pattern. Printable lesson plan.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Mineral Magic
Classify rocks and minerals according to their characteristics.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Wood Magic" by Henry Van Dyke
"Wood-Magic" is written in fable mode about a man named Luke who seems to live parallel lives. Read the full text on this site.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Magic Couch" by Guy De Maupassant
Text of the short story "The Magic Couch" by Guy de Maupassant. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Magic Jar" by Juliana Horatia Ewing
Text of the short story "The Magic Jar" by British author Juliana Horatia Ewing. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Magic Shop" by H. G. Wells
Text of the short story "The Magic Shop" by H. G. Wells. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Magic of Adding Tens
Can your students make bundles of tens? This lesson allows students to visualize adding tens to make one hundred.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Intro to Accountable Talk With "Big Anthony and the Magic Ring"
In this lesson, 1st graders will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the lesson and allow the children to "wrangle" with the content.
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Graf X Design: Paint Shop Pro Tutorials
A great collection of Paint Shop Pro tutorials. Topics included for this low-cost alternative to Photoshop are water marking photographs, magic of masks, transparent gifs, different types of buttons and more!
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Science, Magic and Religion
A collection of video lectures from a science, math, and religion course at the University of California, Los Angeles. The course investigates science and religion in the context of history. Examine Greek mysticism, reformation, Darwin,...
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Magic Keys: The Little Gingerbread Man by Carol Moore
Follow the Little Gigerbread Man through his adventues in this electornic book written and illustrated by Carol Moore.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Introduction to Accountable Talk
In this lesson plan, students will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the lesson plan and allow the children to "wrangle" with the...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Walking Coins on a (Vertical!) 'High Wire'
Here is a project that is almost like a magic trick: with a strong magnet and a simple apparatus you can build yourself, you can make a coin "walk" up and down a wire coat hanger. This project is an interesting way to learn about the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Magician's Catapult
In this activity, students reinforce their understanding of compound machines by building a catapult. This compound machine consists of a lever and a wheel-and-axel. Catapults have been designed by engineers for a variety of purposes -...
TES Global
Tes: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Rsc Themes Reference
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespeare Company teacher reference page provides a list of the themes and motifs in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream along with specific locations of where they are used.
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Mem Fox
Read all about favorite author Mem Fox in this very comprehensive website. Features her biography, her books and some stories even read aloud.
University of Oxford (UK)
Beazley Archive: Medea
Illustrated dictionary entry for Medea, daughter to King Aeetes of Colchis. Illustrates her life, identifies her connection to the Argonauts and explores her magical witch-like powers.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
In the midst of his mother's struggle with cancer, fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the opportunity to take the trip of a lifetime. Accompanying his fearless grandmother, a magazine reporter for International Geographic, Alexander...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Animation Basics: Homemade Special Effects
Animation is used everywhere to communicate big ideas-- in movies, television, and media. Do you ever stop and wonder about the magic of it all? And have you ever wanted to create your own special effects? TED-Ed animators show just how...
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Indigenous Peoples Literature: Geronimo
A comprehensive look at the life of Geronimo, whose extraordinary fierceness and independence led many to consider him gifted with magic. See quotations attributed to him, as well as tales of his fabled ability to walk without leaving...
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