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Adobe Illustrator

For Students 9th - 10th
Adobe provides a detailed overview of their drawing application, Illustrator. Includes product information, examples of completed work created with Illustrator, customer stories, training tutorials, purchase information, and the like.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Expanding the Work Energy Theorem

For Students 9th - 10th
A narrated tutorial which illustrates how the work-energy theorem can be expanded to include other kinds of energy. [10:07]
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Work, Energy, and Power: Internal vs. External Forces

For Students 9th - 10th
Through illustrated examples and interactive examples, students learn about the two categories of forces are referred to as internal forces and external forces.
Website
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Rowena Dugdale: Collage & Photomontage Illustration

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a personal site of illustrator Rowena Dugdale. It includes her portfolios of work in collage and photomontage. She explains her creative process as well some personal information about her. Her new work consists of images created...
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Illustrated "Old Christmas" by Washington Irving

For Students 9th - 10th
Open Library offers this beautiful, Caldecott-illustrated volume of Washington Irving's "Old Christmas," with the added bonus of being able to hear the work read aloud as you page through the volume.
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Emory University

Emory University: Shakespeare Illustrated the Plays

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Emory University contains a list of Shakespeare's plays. By clicking on the any of the plays, it will display a list of paintings inspired by the chosen work.
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Mitsubishi Public Affairs Committee: A Collection of Illustrated Diaries

For Students 3rd - 8th
Browse through a colorful gallery of children's artwork created for an Asian's children's literacy festival. Visitors can not only explore works that share similar subjects but they can view all works submitted by children from one...
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US Department of Energy

U.s. Department of Energy: Wind Program: How Does a Wind Turbine Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
This animated illustration shows how a wind turbine can generate electricity for homes and communities.
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Harold D. Underdown

Getting Out of the Art File: Tips for Book Illustrators

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource for illustrators to format their work in order to get the attention of a publisher. Intended for children's literature, but may also apply to other genres.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Reasoning About Multiplication

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This is a good task to work with kids to try to explain their thinking clearly and precisely, although teachers should be willing to work with many different ways of explaining the relationship between the magnitude of the factors and...
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Emory University

Shakespeare Illustrated

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Paintings from the 19th century which portray scenes from Shakespeare's work are the focus of this site.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Multiplying Decimals by 10

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
The purpose of this task is to help students understand and explain why multiplying a decimal number by 10 shifts all the digits one place to the left. This understanding builds on work around place-value that students have done with...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Using Operations and Parentheses

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
The purpose of this task is to give students a chance to work creatively with three of the four fundamental arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, and multiplication). It is well suited for helping students develop fluency with...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Finding Common Denominators to Subtract

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Part (a) of this task asks learners to use two different denominators to subtract fractions. The purpose of this is to help students realize that any common denominator will work, not just the least common denominator. Part (b) does not...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Chocolate Bar Sales

For Teachers 5th - 8th
n this task students use different representations to analyze the relationship between two quantities and to solve a real world problem. The situation presented provides a good opportunity to make connections between the information...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Seven to the What?!?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
At first glance, this might seem like an impossible problem because the number $7^{2011}$ is much too large to evaluate even with a calculator. It requires a starting point, and, to many, such a starting point might not be obvious....
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 4.nf Doubling Numerators and Denominators

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
The purpose of this task is to assess whether students understand the meaning of the numerator and the denominator in a fraction. This task is not appropriate for a high-stakes summative assessment, but it could be very helpful in...
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Read Works

Read Works: Genre 2nd Grade Unit: Encyclopedias

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia edited by Jayne Parsons to learn to locate information and find facts about a subject in an encyclopedia. Lesson includes...
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Genre

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to compare and contrast fiction and non-fiction, identify the characteristics of non-fiction, and use guide words to locate topics in an...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 4.md Margie Buys Apples

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This task gives students an opportunity to work with familiar fractions and decimals in a context involving money. Aligns with 4.MD.A.2.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 4.oa Identifying Multiples

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
The goal of this task is to work on finding multiples of some whole numbers. Aligns with 4.OA.B.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 3.g Representing Half of a Circle

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
This task asks which pictures represent half of a circle? Moving into more complex shapes where geometric arguments about cutting or work using simple equivalences of fractions is required to analyze the picture. Aligns with 3.G.A.2.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Work, Energy, and Power: Application/practice Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
Through illustrated examples and practice problems, students apply the relationship between work and mechanical energy change to a variety of motion scenarios in order to test our understanding.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Work, Energy, and Power: Potential Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
This introduction to potential energy contains illustrated examples, example problems, and interactive exercises for application of learning.