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US National Library of Medicine

Medline Plus: Vitamin D

For Students 9th - 10th
This website on vitamin D is organized into the following sections: "Illustrations," "Definitions," "Function," "Food Sources," "Side Effects," and "Recommendations." Click on the thumbnail images in the "Illustrations" section to see...
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Tech Target

Whatis.com: Specific Gravity

For Students 9th - 10th
This article tells what specific gravity and how to compute the specific gravity for solids, liquids, and gases.
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize: How to Find Mean, Median, Mode, and Range

For Students 3rd - 5th
This ten question quiz will help you assess your understanding of mean, median, and mode. Links are provided that allow you to enlarge the quiz to fit your full screen, see the quiz in a different format, review the definitions of mean,...
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National Center for Families Learning

Ncfl: Wonderopolis: Wonder of the Day #1324: What Happened to the Lost Colony?

For Students 3rd - 6th
A video and article about the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Has an audio feature that highlights text as the article is read aloud. As well, individual highlighted words link to pop-up definitions and are used in a word definition game. [1:59]
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Other

Learning theories.com: Summaries of Learning Theories and Models

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lists many models and theories of learning. Each one links to the summary of an article. A paid subscription is necessary to access the full article. But if a definition or brief explanation of a term is needed, the summary should...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Cricket

For Students 9th - 10th
Providing a detailed encyclopedia article on the game of cricket, this website includes a general definition, the laws of cricket, a history of the sport, references, and more. Find photos of a cricket match, diagrams showing a standard...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Wave

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth encyclopedia article from Wikipedia on waves gives a definition for what a wave is. Other content in the article includes a list of examples and characteristics of waves, information about the difference between transverse...
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New Advent

Catholic Encyclopedia: Miracle Plays and Mysteries

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The New Advent provides an excellent explanation of both mystery plays and miracle plays; five paragraphs are devoted solely to mystery plays, including definition, differences between 15th Century standards and modern...
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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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CommonLit

Common Lit: A Slick Little Robot

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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CommonLit

Common Lit: Why Afghanistan's "Underground Girls" Skirt Tradition Live as Boys

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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Other

Students With Traumatic Brain Injury [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A helpful PDF article on meeting the needs of students who suffer from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The article provides a personal story, definition, and characteristics of TBI, and outlines specific classroom strategies and helpful...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Community as Place, Making of African American Identity: V. 3

For Students 9th - 10th
Articles examining the notion of community as place. An essay by James Weldon Johnson and R. Edgar Iles provides different definitions of community by illustrating regional culture.
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USA Today

Usa Today: Weather Basics: Understanding Humidity

For Students 9th - 10th
This article is a guide to understanding humidity and related weather concepts. Includes helpful definitions of multiple terms.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Teach the Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
To improve students' reading comprehension, teachers should introduce the seven cognitive strategies of effective readers: activating, inferring, monitoring-clarifying, questioning, searching-selecting, summarizing, and...
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Matrix

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
From Mathworld.com as site on Maxtricies. Includes formulas, definitions, and links to related articles.

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