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Discovery Education: Planet Ocean: Blue Whale
This webpage provides a nice description of the Blue Whale along with several photos.
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Discovery Education: Sight and Light
A two-day lesson plan for students to learn about the anatomy of the eye and the nature of vision. Includes a variety of supplemental resources for teachers.
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Discovery Education: The Great Gatsby
Very detailed lesson plans for teaching the novel. Includes audio links for the pronunciation of vocabulary words, discussion questions, and classroom activities.
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Discovery Education: The Amazing Octopus
This lesson plan explores how some animals have the ability to change their body color to blend in with their environments, and how this ability protects them from predators by making them practically invisible.
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Discovery Education: Birds
This lesson plan explores the evidence that birds evolved from dinosaurs, as well as how we can make judgments about such issues based on scientific research.
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Discovery Education: Apes to Man
This lesson plan explores the primates in the African savannas that were the first animals to walk erect (bipedalism), which is a milestone in human evolution.
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Discovery Education: A Nation's Voice
A Nation's Voice is a lesson plan that uses internet sites, magazines and books, electronic encyclopedias and databases to understand the policy making of the U.S.
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Discovery Education: Creatures of the Skies
This lesson plan explores the scientific and common names of birds, how birds can be identified into a "type" by their size and shape, and how each type of bird has certain physical and behavioral characteristics.
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Discovery Education: Web Math: How to Round a Number
This site provides a description and helpful hints on how to round numbers to any place value. Content also includes an interactive problem solver complete with a full description of how the answer was accomplished.
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Discovery Education: Around the World
This resource will compare different regions of the world by climate, geography, animal life, and culture. The site focuses on the differences within the United States regions.
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Discovery Education: Glaciers and Icebergs
A lesson plan for simulating glacial scraping with extensions that investigate iceberg towing and iceberg melting.
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Discovery Education: The Phenomenon of Sound Waves
A lab activity on sound waves is presented on this website. Learners will learn about sound waves produced by different objects in this activity. There are also a set of discussion questions and two other variations of the lab exercise.
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Discovery Education: Friction in Our Lives
Learners observe objects in motion down a ramp to discover how the force of friction affects an object's motion. Includes the lesson plan, vocabulary list, and extensions for students.
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Discovery Education: Bears Lesson Plan
This lesson plan explores how polar bears survive in areas near the North Pole.
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Discovery Education: B. J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper for Social Studies
The Social Studies section of this popular Homework Helper site contains links to maps and flags, U.S. geography, world history and more.
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Discovery Education: Barracuda
Learn all about Barracuda, also known as the "Tiger of the Sea."
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Discovery Education: Physical Science: Gravity Gets You Down
In this lesson, students make predictions about falling objects of different sizes and masses to learn about gravity and air resistance. Includes audio vocabulary list and extension activities.
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Discovery Education: Making Math Real
Parents strive to open the doors for their children into the vast halls of learning. How to start! Family-friendly ways to incorporate math concepts at home are given here.
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Discovery Education: Learning to Study: The Elementary Years
Teachers teach the subjects, but parents teach how to study. Many of us are not set up to do that! The author shares some good tips that just might help.
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Discovery Education: Geo Game
Test your knowledge of capitals around the world. Play this game to see if you can identify 10 different capitals. Then read other information pertaining to that city.
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Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Science Fair Central
All-in-one science fair resource includes project ideas, sample projects, suggestions for organization, and tips for delivering an outstanding presentation on the day of the fair.
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Discovery Education: The Ultimate Roller Coaster Contest
Young scholars design and build a three hill "tennis ball" roller coaster made of cardboard. During the design and building process, students explore the concepts of potential and kinetic energy and how they change as the roller coaster...
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Discovery Education: Tour of South America
Familiarize your students with South America by having them create a slideshow of a "Tour of South America" that focuses on its culture, geography, and history. This will help the students learn more about South America's people and places.
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Discovery Education: Technology Its Benefits and Negative Effects [Pdf]
In this lesson, students consider advances in technology over the past several hundred years and the positive and negative impacts these advances have had on human beings and the natural world. Note: The video referred to in the lesson...