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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Scattering Concepts

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of several pages explaining the principles which underlie Rayleigh scattering of light.
PPT
Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement

Web Exhibits: Causes of Color

For Students 9th - 10th
Why are things colored? This site explores the 15 phenomena that create our colorful world. Learn how light is made, lost, and moved!
Website
Other

Welcome Aboard Theodore Taylor's Life and Times

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is the official website of writer Theodore Taylor. Includes biographical information, a personal narrative about his childhood, a bibliography, and responses to several student questions.
Article
Other

Texas Military Forces Museum: 36th Division in Wwi: Texas National Guard in Wwi

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the mustering of the Texas National Guard to participate in the World War I war effort. Discusses how they were reorganized, trained, sent overseas, the hardships they faced, the military maneuvers and engagements with the...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Dispersion

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate the dispersion of light through a prism and solve practice problems involving this phenomenon.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Camp Paws and Claws: Pets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This multi-day series of lessons will engage students in reading and listenting comprehension strategies related to books about animals. Students will retell, dramatize, and illustrate their new animal knowledge.
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Robert S. Duncanson

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides in-depth biographical information on Robert S. Duncanson in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: I'm So Bright! I Wear My Shades Indoors!

For Teachers 6th
This lesson engages students in learning about light through multiple sources. Students will learn how light is produced, reflected, refracted, and separated. Students will communicate their findings through an independent project that...
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Enlightening Explorations, Part Ii

For Teachers 6th
This instructional activity engages students in learning about light. Studets will describe how light is produced, reflected, refracted, and separated.
Website
Other

Pat Mora: Personal Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Everything a person wants to know about Pat Mora. This is her own personal page. It has links to her nonfiction, her poetry, her children's books and interviews with her. There are some great resources for teachers at this site. Students...
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Refraction and the Ray Model of Light

For Students 9th - 10th
Six complete lessons on refraction and the ray model of light. Tutorials include informational text, interactive activities, animations, and quick, interactive comprehension checks along the way.
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Curated OER

National Park Service: International Civil Rights Walk of Fame: Jesse Jackson, Sr.

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a succinct biography on the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. and his role as a Civil Rights Leader.
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Other

Greenpeace: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive site about the Green Peace organization.
Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: The Art and Science of Color

For Students 9th - 10th
This series of programs includes hand-tinted archival films, contemporary offerings by local artists, and films created by artists drawing and painting on the film surface itself. Featuring animated, documentary, and homemade works.
Website
British Library

British Library: 20th Century: Gender and Sexuality

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how 20th-century literature explored, questioned, and exploded traditional ideas of gender roles and sexuality.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Battle on the Ballot: Political Outsiders in Us Presidential Elections

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibition explores the rich history of select individuals, parties, events, and movements that have influenced US presidential elections from the outside-outside Washington politics, outside the two-party system, and outside the...
Website
British Library

British Library: 20th Century: Exploring Identity

For Students 9th - 11th
Examine how writers have explored identity - through the prisms of ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality - in the modern world.
Website
British Library

British Library: 20th Century: Capturing and Creating the Modern

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the ways in which writers captured the fast-changing world around them during the 20th Century.
Website
British Library

British Library: 20th Century: 20th Century Theatre

For Students 9th - 10th
Find close readings, critical interpretations, and personal responses to the works of key 20th-century playwrights and practitioners, including Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Shelagh Delaney, and Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Measuring Liquid Volume

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this lab, learners will measure and combine colored liquids to receive the expected results. The intended outcome would be to take primary colored liquids, measure them and combine them to create a "rainbow" colored set of water in...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Quantum Mechanics Explains Global Warming

For Students 9th - 10th
You've probably heard that carbon dioxide is warming the Earth. But how exactly is it doing it? Lieven Scheire uses a rainbow, a light bulb and a bit of quantum physics to describe the science behind global warming. [5:01]
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Zeeman Effect 1896

For Students 9th - 10th
Most of us have seen the rainbow-hued breakdown of the composition of light. Light is of course a form of energy. A magnetic field changes the behavior of light- a phenomenon known as the Zeeman effect.
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Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Prism

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Use this interactive tool to explore prisms. Change the height and the shape of the base to see how these affect the prism. There are also several additional options, e.g., making it oblique or transparent. Properties of a prism are...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Energy of Light

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this introduction to light energy, students learn about reflection and refraction as they learn that light travels in wave form. Through hands-on activities, they see how prisms, magnifying glasses and polarized lenses work. They also...

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