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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Hole in Your Hand

For Students 9th - 10th
Create an optical illusion with this activity. Understand what your brain interprets if it receives conflicting information from your eyes.
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Kids Health: Eyes

For Students 3rd - 8th
Your eyes see, but how does vision happen? Find out how the eyes and brain work together through this video and accompanying activity guide. [6:09]
Lesson Plan
Other

Community Resources for Science: Seeing Is Believing?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
This lesson plan focuses on the parts of our bodies that we use to see and how the brain actually causes changes in what we see. Specific instructions and talking points are provided along with multiple activities for the students to...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: I Know Why I Like Pie

For Teachers K - 1st
Active, imaginative teaching with nursery rhymes takes advantage of how the brain learns best! In this lesson plan, students will use a Venn Diagram to compare "Little Jack Horner" to "Sing a Song of Sixpence"
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University of Washington

Neuroscience for Kids: Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th
This university site contains lessons, games and worksheets that are ready to print out.
Website
Maths Challenge

Maths challenge.net: Problem Solving Database

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Need some challenging problem-solving work for your students in the following areas: Discrete, Geometry, Numbers, and Code Breaking? This is the place for an enormous database of problems aimed at high school age students. They are...
Lesson Plan
University of Washington

University of Washington: The Senses Touch

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Do you know what the largest sensory organ of the body is? Use this site on skin and its sense of touch to learn more.
Activity
University of Washington

Our Sense of Hearing Experiment: Locating Sound Sources

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever wondered how your ear works? This website will provide you with knowledge on how to locate sound sources among other ear information.
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Other

Middle Tennessee State University: Study Skills Help Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The Study Skills Help Page offers many learning strategies for success. The website is based on a college course - it has a wide variety of online learning resources such as study skills course objective, notes, and practice tests/games.
Professional Doc
Other

Effective Decoding Instruction for Diverse Learners

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you implement effective decoding instruction for diverse learners in your classroom? This site focuses on phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, morphology, and the six basic types of syllables in the English language.
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Other

Science Hobbyist

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a fun site filled with odds and ends of science. Wacky and amazing. Fun site to browse for ideas.
Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: Novels for Growing Readers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Come and check out this informative resource featuring novels for growing readers. This site lists several appropriate books for students ranging from grades three through six.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Annie and the Wild Animals Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson contains pre- and post-reading activities for Jan Brett's Annie and the Wild Animals. Students identify setting and animal characters from the story and learn about Scandinavia (where the...
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Electroencephalogram

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wikipedia Encyclopedia entry provides a brief explanation of an electroencephalogram test, (EEG). Includes information on the EEG's discovery and use.
Lesson Plan
Treehut

Suzy's World: Eye

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Find out how your eyes work and try an experiment involving a cartoon flip book.
Activity
Treehut

Suzy's World: Touch

For Students 3rd - 8th
At this site find out how you can feel hot and cold and try this experiment using your sensory nerves.

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