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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This four-lesson unit on search skills and critical thinking teaches learners how to target and specify their online searches to avoid unwanted results, how to judge whether a link, search result, or website is legitimate or phony and...
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Library of Congress

Loc: West Side Story: Birth of a Classic

For Students 9th - 10th
View the online exhibit featuring photographs, documents--opening night telegraphs, letters, notes by Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein, set designs--and other items such as posters, DVD covers, and a pair of slippers worn in the...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Clifford the Big Red Dog

For Students 3rd - 5th
Highly interactive site all about Clifford! Activities available include games, stories, coloring pages, crafts, letter writing, painting, and music. There's even a special section for parents and teachers with teaching and learning ideas.
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Aaron Copland Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Library of Congress has an online presentation of the Aaron Copland Collection that includes writings, correspondence, photographs, and musical sketches.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia Library: The Psychedelic '60S

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is a comprehensive online exhibit featuring 1960's American culture. Topics include civil rights, psychedelic drugs, rock music, social protest and cultural change.
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British Library

British Library: Explore the World's Knowledge

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The United Kingdom's British Library is the largest library in the world. It's collections include cultural artifacts from around the world on topics such as art, music and literature. Explore virtual reproductions of classic works of...
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Other

Benetton: Benettonplay!

For Students 9th - 10th
Suite of games and animation tools where players can design, draw, and play a variety of multimedia games. Flipbook is great for creating frame-by-frame animations that tell stories or simply explode with color. Other games, Odd One Out,...
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Other

Padlet: Paper for the Web

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tool that makes it easy to collaborate on a project. Users can incorporate images, music, video, and web resources.
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Other

Hong Kong Education City: English Campus

For Students 9th - 10th
English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Spin and Sing

For Students Pre-K - K
It's so much fun to sing along with Daniel Tiger! In this online experience, spin a wheel of eight songs to sing along with Daniel and reinforce concepts such as counting to four when mad and being a helper at home.
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Other

Harmonic Analysis of Chopin's Prelude #8

For Students 9th - 10th
This analysis is well done with clear diagrams, concise text and online sound clips. Also available in Spanish.
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Other

Mama Lisa's World: Songs & Rhymes of All Nations

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This resource was organized by a mother who wanted to give people a sense of the nursery rhymes and songs from around the world. Find rhymes and songs from every continent, in many languages--you can even listen to some online.
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Other

Mama Lisa's World: Songs & Rhymes of All Nations

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This resource was organized by a mother who wanted to give people a sense of the nursery rhymes and songs from around the world. Find rhymes and songs from every continent, in many languages; you can even listen to some online.
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Curated OER

African Canadian Online

For Students 9th - 10th
Looking for information on African Canadian culture, music, dance, film, literature and visual art? This website from Toronto's York University's Centre for the Study of Black Cultures in Canada provides a flood of valuable information....
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Learning the Blues

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan introduces young scholars to the blues. The origin and development of the blues is explored as well as its distinctive structure.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Sacred Songs for Little Singers by Frances Ridley Havergal

For Students 2nd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Sacred Songs for Little Singers by Frances Ridley Havergal [1870], a collection of children's Christian songs with both words and music.
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Other

Gamelan Tunas Mekar

For Students 9th - 10th
Music and dance of Bali, as practiced and presented by a community of Indonesian artists devoted to the traditional Balinese arts. At the online home of Gamelan Tunas Mekar, a Denver-based gamelan orchestra, find audio clips of Balinese...
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs by J W Elliott

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs set to music by J. W. Elliott (c1875), a collection of nursery rhymes set to music.
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PBS

Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An integrated geometry lesson on spatial sense in which students identify and use different shapes to create a tessellation. "Through a variety of modalities such as writing, music, art, poetry, and literature, students are introduced to...
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Other

Tinfoil

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has commentary and great photos of early recording devices and online sound clips of actual wax cylinder recordings.
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University at Buffalo

Illuminations: Re Visiting the Pan American Exposition

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibit celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. Read about the food available at the fair as well as the music, immigrant experience, and the assassination of President William...
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Other

Flamenco World: Mundo Flamenco

For Students 9th - 10th
A pioneer bilingual flamenco site that offers services and daily information on flamenco, music, and culture. Some of the features are: introduction to flamenco, festivals, guitar, dance, as well as online store, artist's encyclopedia,...
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Other

I Was Doing All Right: Ear Trainer

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent online ear training tool is available at this website. Identify intervals, chords and short melodies.
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Other

The Center for Public Integrity: Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Excellent site for journalists and others who feel that it is their beat to keep a watchful eye on the political culture of the country through investigations and analyses of public service.

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