AdLit
Ad lit.org: Movie Read Alikes From Yalsa
If the teens in your life love movies, check out this list of read-alikes for blockbusters like The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Pairing Texts With Movies to Promote Comprehension and Discussion
Thematic pairings of novels/short stories with movies can help students access difficult texts and can lead to deeper comprehension and lively classroom discussion. This article suggests pairings for some commonly assigned middle and...
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Film Sound: Designing a Movie for Sound
What is sound design? This well written column explains in detail the importance of sound design for movies and film.
University of California
Ucmp: Dinosaurs, Movies, & Reality
A very good review of how "movie science" can present an inaccurate or incomplete picture of actual scientific knowledge and methods.
Stanford University
Stanford University: Alcohol, Tobacco Staples of Movies
This site from Stanford University shows how you can learn how the entertainment industry sends both positive and negative messages concerning substance use through movies and music. This article summarizes government research that...
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: First Talking Movie
A comprehensive overview with many interesting facts and information about the first talking motion picture, the movie studios, and movie stars.
Ibis Communications
Eyewitness to History: Making Movies, 1920
Firsthand account of the filmimg of director D.W. Griffith's movie Way Down East staring actress Lillian Gish.
Made From Media
Made From History:10 Historical Myths Everyone Believes Because of Hollywood
An article which highlights either myths that have emerged from factually incorrect movies or historical films that have had their facts tweaked in the name of art.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Popular Culture and Mass Media in the 1950s
In the 1950s, financial prosperity allowed young Americans to participate in a shared culture of rock and roll music, movies, and television.
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Kidman Rebaja Su Cache Para Rodar Con Amenabar Y Su "Talento Originalisimo"
Article about the young Spanish movie director Alejandro Amenabar and one of his new movies with Nicole Kidman, from the Spanish newspaper El Pais. (Published July 27, 2000)
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Abre Los Ojos', De Amenabar, Gana El Gran Premio Del Festival De Tokio
Article about the young Spanish movie director Alejandro Amenabar and his first movie "Abre los ojos." (Published November 9, 1998)
Pennsylvania State University
Applied Physics: Model Analysis of an Electric Guitar
Great site explores the physics behind an electrical guitar. Outlines process for conducting an experiment on sound vibrations and provides animated GIF movies showing the first five modes of vibration.
New York Times
New York Times: Harold Pinter
[Free Registration/Login Required] The New York Times offers a collection of resources about famous British playwright, Harold Painter, who died in December 2008. Content includes: photos, theater and movie reviews, film, TV and Broadway...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Intro to Particle Systems
An introduction to strategies for implementing programming for a particle system. The focus is to keep track of a system of many elements. A sequence of the movie, Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan is used to illustrate particle system which...
Frontiers Media
Frontiers: How Do We See Color
The heroine of the movie is leaning over a ticking bomb. Under the bright white lights of the mayor's office, the timer is racing down to zero and she has only one chance to defuse it. As she opens the cover from the control panel, a...
Frontiers Media
Frontiers: Building the Roads in the City of Your Brain
"Are you ready to go into the spaceship? Remember to stay very still!" This is what you hear before the bed you are lying down on starts to slide into a long, tube shaped machine. You can almost imagine that it really is a spaceship, and...
New York Times
New York Times: 10 Ways to Celebrate Summer
What do you like to do in summer? Do you need some new ideas? Check this out! There are ideas for travel, reading, learning new things, celebrating, learning new songs, watching or playing sports, movies, fashion, food, and more.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Kenya
Even if you've never been to Kenya, chances are you know what it looks like. Kenya's savanna is familiar from movies, TV shows, books, and commercials. It's the landscape many people imagine when they think of Africa.
Smithsonian Institution
Tween Tribune: How Would You React if We Discovered Alien Life?
There are many books, movies, and television shows speculating what it would be like if aliens actually came to Earth and humans interacted with them. Let's consider some possible scenarios.
NASA
Nasa: Huge Springtime Storms Hit the Planet Uranus
Describes in detail the devastating storms that occur on Uranus.Also includes an .mpeg movie showing the rings of Uranus up close. (Mar. 29, 1999)
Curated OER
Kids Health: Lyme Disease
KidsHealth describes how to avoid Lyme disease. Features include a movie clip showing how to remove ticks from skin.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Tween Tribune: The True Story of "Hidden Figures"
"Hidden Figures" was a blockbuster movie and book about African-American women working for NASA beginning after WWII. These women not only made great strides for the space program but also advanced the civil rights movement. Learn more...
Senses Of Cinema
Senses of Cinema: Don Siegel
Learn about Siegel's 49 year film directing career and the great movies he added to the all-time greats list.
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