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Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies: Irish Script on Screen

For Students 9th - 10th
Featuring primary-source documents, this online exhibit contains digital images of Irish manuscripts while providing exposure of a vital part of Ireland's cultural heritage.
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Simple Science: Taking Temperatures

For Students 9th - 10th
The innovative resource investigates endothermy and ectothermy. Students compare body temperature of a snake and rat before and after exposure under a heat lamp. The activity has an interactive online version and a printable data sheet.
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US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Air Toxics Website Nickel

For Students 9th - 10th
Very detailed information on the chemical element Nickel. Discusses its uses, physical properties, and the potential effects of exposure.
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Pollution Probe: Mercury in the Environment [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
High levels of mercury exposure can cause birth defects, permanent brain or kidney damage, and/or death. This resource focuses on the impacts of mercury in the environment. Learn how mercury can reap havoc on lakes and other aquatic...
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Canadian Lung Association: Air Quality Statistics

For Students 9th - 10th
Get the statistics on air quality in Canada. Under the category of indoor air quality, get the facts and figures of exposure to second-hand smoke. Statistics on outdoor air quality in Canada is also provided.
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US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Asbestos

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about everything to do with asbestos. Learn what it is, where it can be found, the health impact of exposure, how to protect yourself, federal requirements for buildings and removal, cleanup sites, and how to become an...
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NASA

Nasa: Los Misterios Del Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the greatest dangers of space travel is the development of cancer through exposure to radiation in space. Scientists discuss studies of the development of cancer and its relation to this particular type of radiation.
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Catching the Light: Astrophotography

For Students 9th - 10th
Author and astrophotographer, Jerry Lodriguss, offers up tips, techniques and various images that he's taken both with and without the use of digital enhancement. An amazing amount of detail is provided to explain his approach towards...
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US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Basic Information About Lead in Drinking Water

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the threat of lead in drinking water and what actions you can take to prevent or deal with exposure.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Measuring Noise Pollution

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Through investigating the nature, sources and level of noise produced in their environment, students are introduced to the concept of noise pollution. They learn about the undesirable and disturbing effects of noise and the resulting...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Who Needs What?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
The teacher leads a discussion in which students identify the physical needs of animals, and then speculate on the needs of plants. With guidance from the teacher, the students then help design an experiment that can take place in the...
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University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Francais Interactif

For Students 9th - 10th
This full-featured interactive textbook encounter utilizes French speakers in real life scenarios. Well structured for work on grammatical concepts (links to Tex's French Grammar), vocabulary, listening comprehension and exposure to...
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Carnegie Mellon University: Alice

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy for students to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. This is a free teaching tool designed to be a student's...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: A Book About Me

For Teachers K
This lesson plan engages students in using a template to help them with personal writing. Students will gain exposure to several autobiographies and then will write their own autobiographical pieces.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Familiarizing Students With the 5 Food Groups

For Teachers 1st
This module provides a multiple-day unit about the five food groups. Teachers of the unit will explicitly teach students about analyzing charts. Then students will gain exposure with written and visual resources to help apply the...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: The Good, the Bad, and the Both

For Teachers 6th Standards
After exposures to assorted forms of informational text and media, Istudents will identify positive and negative effects of microorganisms. Students will explore how some micooorganisms have overcome their negative attributes while...
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Department of Defense: Gulf Link

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an official Dept. of Defense site from the Office of the Special Assistant for the Gulf War Illnesses. It contains many information resources such as a timeline of events, environmental exposure reports, declassified documents...
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Eco Usa: Antimony

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on exposure to antimony and its health effects on humans. Informative and well written.
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NASA

Nasa: Ozone Hole Watch

For Students 9th - 10th
You may have heard of CFCs and how harmful they can be to the ozone layer, but do you know the process that chlorine undergoes to contribute to this destruction? NASA explores this topic and has charted the depletion of the ozone since...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Gold Collar Jobs

For Teachers K - 1st
As we expose our students to different ideas, it is important they see that not all words come from books- some of our best ideas come from conversations and things we see or do! A quick, easy and free way to help our students get...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: The Fox and the Grapes Moral

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will get exposure to a folktale and work to understand the moral. This instructional activity uses two fables "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Fox and the Hen". The instructional activity involves guided practice where the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Light Plants and Dark Plants, Wet Plants and Dry Ones

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students plant sunflower seeds in plastic cups, and once germinated, these are exposed to different conditions of light levels and/or soil moisture contents. During exposure of the plants to these different conditions, students measure...
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Eco Usa: Mercury

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough summary of the sources of mercury exposure, the fate of mercury in the body and its metabolism, and the consequences of mercury toxicity, as well as the treatment.
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University of Texas at Austin

Francais Interactif Secondary School & University

For Students 9th - 10th
Dynamic site featuring interactive video, extensive vocabulary lists and grammar points all relating to the French educational system. Great for lisening comprehension and exposure to French life and culture.

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