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Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum: Leonardo: Experiment, Experience, Design

For Students 9th - 10th
A media-rich examination of Leonardo's work that includes a timeline of the artist's life, animations of his drawings that attempt to unlock something of the genius in his thinking, up-close details from his notebooks, thematic looks at...
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Museum of Science, Art and Perception

For Students 9th - 10th
This museum provides numerous online exhibits about everything from the science of sports to the Hubble Telescope. Each exhibit includes learning ideas, fun activities, articles, and learning games.
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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

Educational Leadership: Art and Science of Teaching /Cognitive Verbs and Cc

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) present a new mandate and challenge for K-12 educators-teaching and reinforcing cognitive verbs. These verbs, referred to as academic vocabulary, signal the type of mental operations that students...
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Library of Congress

Loc: First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald

For Students 9th - 10th
This article about the life and music of Ella Fitzgerald explores major moments in the jazz singer's career.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: News and Media Literacy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection, which includes videos, blog articles, student handouts, lesson plans, and tip sheets for families, helps students identify, analyze, and investigate the news and information they get from online sources. Media literacy...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: News and Media Literacy Collection

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection, which includes videos, blog articles, student handouts, lesson plans, and tip sheets for families, helps students identify, analyze, and investigate the news and information they get from online sources. Media literacy...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Scientific Community

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How the scientific community shares results and monitors scientific integrity.
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Other

Ncas: A Comparison Between Tolstoy and Plato

For Students 9th - 10th
"Art, Science, and Transcendence: A Comparison Between Tolstoy and Plato" is the full text of a scholarly article written by Dr. T.J. Kuijl. For serious students of Tolstoy.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Teaching With Pourquoi Tales

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features activities that revolve around "Teaching With Pourquoi Tales." Students will learn more about these types of old legends that deal with the natural world.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "You Can Buy Happiness, if It's an Experience" by Maanvi Singh

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Other

24 Hour Museum: Uk's National Virtual Museum

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The 24 Hour Museum collects in one place museum exhibit sites and news from over 3700 museums, galleries and heritage sites in the UK. Whether you are interested in history, science, literature or culture, you'll be able to find...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: What Is Antarctica?

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Why Are Bees Vanishing

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Genetically Modified Salmon: Food or Frankenfish

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Who Is Katherine Johnson?" by Nasa

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "What Is an Eclipse?" by Nasa

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Celebrate the 100th Day of School

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This resource presents many 100th Day activity ideas. They are listed by the following subject areas: language arts, math, social studies, science and even a just for fun section.
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Read Works

Read Works: Ancient Greece the Ancient Greeks

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the ancient Greeks. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Woolly Mammoth Sparks Debate Over Cloning

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Changing Seasons: Collection

For Students Pre-K - K
Join PBS KIDS and explore the seasons: fall, winter, and spring! The lessons have been co-designed by museum and educational partners and feature many of your PBS KIDS friends. Introduce media clips, extension activities, articles, and...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Voyage to Pluto

For Students 5th - 6th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: What Is the International Space Station

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Web Japan: Nipponia

For Students 9th - 10th
Nipponia is an online magazine, published quarterly, that introduces modern Japan to people all over the world. Browse articles on life and culture, travel and history, science and technology, art and entertainment, nature and geography,...
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Read Works

Read Works: As Time Flies By

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about time travel in the movies. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.