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Discovery Education: Understanding Tsunamis

For Students 9th - 10th
Come and learn more about the devastating effects of tsunamis. This site features video segments revealing the devastation tsunamis can cause and how tsunamis are formed.
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Discovery Education: Puzzlemaker

For Teachers 9th - 10th
At this site create your own puzzles, build your own maze and print them out for yourself or others to enjoy.
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Discovery Education: World History Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These lesson plans deal with world history. Content is organized by grade level, but all lesson plans include suggestions for adaptations for older or younger audiences.
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Discovery Education: Exploring Nature

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This article gives some excellent ways we can engage our children in exploring and learning about nature.
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Discovery Education: Discovering Science at Home

For Students 9th - 10th
Parents are the primary teachers! But how do you teach Science at home? Create your own science center. Here are some great ideas to get started.
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Discovery Education: I Know That: Comparing Fractions

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
Fishy Fractions is an arcade-style mathematics game that has students find the fraction that is either greater than or less than a given fraction. In each round of the game, players answer problems by helping Ulani the pelican catch fish.
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Discovery Education: b.j. Pinchbeck's Math Homework Helper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The math section of this popular Homework Helper site features links to elementary math, algebra, geometry and other related resources.
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Discovery Education: Ivory Wars

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan that examines the trade in ivory tusks from African elephants. Students research the problem, learn about legislation that surrounds the issue, and find out about the economics of the ivory trade as well as the impact on...
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Discovery Education: Web Math: See What Place Value a Number Has

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Here's an interactive problem solver allowing you to type in a multi-digit number and get answers to what place value each number represents.
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Discovery Education: Web Math: Combining Like Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site explains how to simplify an expression by combining like terms. Enter an expression into the interactive "solver" and follow the step-by-step solution to learn how the answer was determined.
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Discovery Education: Web Math: Using a Number Line

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This WebMath site provides an interactive number line "solver." Content includes helpful hint and a full explanation of the mathematical solution.
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Discovery Education: Young Scientist Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore innovations, complete a virtual lab or travel through time with this website. Content on this page allows users to understand how products are developed.
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Discovery Education: Hope Depot: Science Fair Central

For Students 9th - 10th
Find advice on project ideas, project steps, presentation tips, classroom activities and more.
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Discovery Education: Science Fair Central

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you, your students, and their parents wandering lost in the Science Fair desert? Here's an oasis! The Science Fair Central website provides a complete guide to the topic. There's a "Soup to Nuts Handbook" that assists the student in...
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Discovery Education: Civil Rights Movement in America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Comprehensive resource focusing on the men and women who fought for civil rights. Extensive links to discussion questions, related information, timeline, and activities.
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Discovery Education: Puzzlemaker

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this free tool to create various kinds of puzzles like wordsearches, criss cross, math squares, mazes, etc. Select the puzzle type, follow the simple direction, enter your words, and print out the finished puzzle with an answer key.
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Discovery Education: The Alamo

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This project is designed to help students recognize that even though the Battle of the Alamo took place in 1836, people today still think about and debate questions and issues surrounding the event.
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Discovery Education: Comparing Countries

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Excellent instructional activity in which students make predictions and collect information about the United States, China, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. After collecting data, students compare the information and create graphs...
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Discovery Education: Catch 22

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan designed around Heller's novel includes a research component for collaborative work with a librarian, comprehension questions, extension activities, vocabulary, some suggested reading, a few web links, and correlation to...
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Discovery Education: Asian and Other Cultures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners learn about Asian cultures through national festivals and compare them to other cultures around the world.
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Discovery Education: Thomas Jefferson

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A 6-8 grade level activity on the many accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson.
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Discovery Education: The Middle Ages

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson focuses on the importance of record keeping, in journal or diary form, by people in the past. Students learn much about their lives from these documents and they study the Middle Ages as they create journal entries in the...
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Discovery Education: What Artifacts Reveal About the Past

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This site provides a lesson plan to teach the importance of analyzing artifacts, past and present.
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Discovery Education: Understanding Computing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan provides activities to demonstrate how "A pebble calculator works in a way similar to an abacus," which will allow learners to increase their understanding of how computers work. The lesson plan also provides discussion...