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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Emma by Jane Austen

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the classic novel Emma by Jane Austen. Emma is spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives,...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Helen Keller Citizen and Socialist

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Undeterred by deafness and blindness, Helen Keller rose to become a major 20th-century humanitarian, educator, and writer.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Helen Keller

For Students 9th - 10th
Undeterred by deafness and blindness, Helen Keller rose to become a major 20th century humanitarian, educator and writer.
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Highway Driving: Road Sharing With Other Vehicles

For Students 9th - 10th
There are countless cars on the highway, and you should be considerate of all of them. This driver's education website includes tips to help you with the challenges of sharing the road with other drivers. Includes information checking...
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Assistive Media

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource for students and adults with disabilities which make it difficult to read print texts in the conventional manner. Presents hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, clippings, and current and past events in audio...
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Other

International Guide Dog Federation: History of Guide Dogs

For Students 3rd - 8th
This page from the International Guide Dog Federation explores the evolution of dogs as human companions, as well as the history of dogs as service animals. This resource also includes a timeline describing how dogs came to be used as...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Body Breakdowns at High Altitudes

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Surviving Denali" Web site details the variety of ways the body can fail while climbing a high-altitude peak.
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ACT360 Media

Act Den: Outlook Express Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you looking to master Outlook Express? This fun and informative tutorial uses colorful activities and interactive quizzes to teach learners the basics of this e-mail software. The tutorial covers: sending and receiving e-mail, fancy...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Science Experiments

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the scientific experimental design.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Most Groundbreaking Scientist You've Never Heard Of

For Students 9th - 10th
Seventeenth-century Danish geologist Nicolas Steno earned his chops at a young age, studying cadavers and drawing anatomic connections between species. Addison Anderson recounts Steno's little-known legacy and lauds his insistence on...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: A Light Switch for Neurons

For Students 9th - 10th
Ed Boyden shows how, by inserting genes for light-sensitive proteins into brain cells, he can selectively activate or de-activate specific neurons with fiber-optic implants. With this unprecedented level of control, he's managed to cure...
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PBS

Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Ray Kurzweil

For Students 9th - 10th
A prodigy from Queens created hardware and software to help blind people read and musicians make music. His inventions, writings, and influential thinking have explored and exploited technology in many ways, and helped shape ongoing work...
Article
University of Washington

University of Wash: Disabilities and Computer Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
A brochure from the University of Washington on adaptive technology tools for people with disabilites. Includes tools for mobility impairments, blindness, low vision, hearing and/or speech impairments, and Specific Learning Disabilities.
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Frontiers Media

Frontiers: Seeing With Your Ears: A Wondrous Journey Across the Senses

For Students 3rd - 8th
For dozens of years it has been believed that the brain is organized into "sensory areas": that is, that there is a "visual area," an "auditory area," and so forth, and that the visual area can only process visual information. It has...
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NASA

Nasa: Eye Safety During Solar Eclipses

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource, which is provided for by NASA, gives great information on protecting your eyes during solar eclipses. Your eyes are very difficult to replace. Even when 99% of the Sun's surface is obscured during the partial phases of a...
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Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Government Spending Charity Begins at Home

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The U.S. government created a program that funds job training and placement of Americans who are blind or severely disabled. Through this activity, students will research the program to establish their own opinions as to whether the...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Invention of the Week: Ernesto E. Blanco: Stair Climbing Wheelchair

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about MIT teacher and practitioner Ernesto Blanco, inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair. This article provides details on the inventor's life, his career outside of MIT, and his inventions that continue to help the handicapped...
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Other

Simply Psychology: Social Psychology: Obedience to Authority

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduces the concept of obedience to authority and explains how it is different from conformity. Includes three downloadable articles on Stanley Milgram's famous experiments on obedience, which discuss how his research might help to...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: What's Visual Impairment

For Students 3rd - 8th
What's it like for people who are visually impaired? How does it happen and what can be done? Be sure to read the whole article and click on the tabs to the right for more information.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Three Color Mystery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are introduced to an engineering challenge in which they are given a job assignment to separate three types of apples. However, they are unable to see the color differences between the apples, and as a result, they must think as...
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Other

Codi: Voice Recognition Products

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
CODI provides valuable resources for those who need voice recognition products to enable their computing needs. The products are listed in a series of links.
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University of Chicago

University of Chicago Press: Helen Keller: A Life

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Chicago Press offers an extended excerpt from the book "Helen Keller: A Life", by Dorothy Herrmann. This biography shows her life as some of us never knew her.
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National Women's Hall of Fame

National Women's Hall of Fame: Helen Keller

For Students 3rd - 8th
This online biography of Helen Keller (1880-1968 CE) gives the highlights and accomplishments of her life.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Visual Impairment Facts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Written by an ophthalmologist, this site provides detailed information on the definition and causes of visual impairments, also including information on diagnosis. Be sure to click on tabs down the right side of the article for...

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