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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Which Hot Dog Cools Faster?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Different types of hot dogs will cool at different rates after they have been cooked. This activity takes the first steps in investigating this phenomenon by measuring the rate that a warmed hot dog cools. Students can compare the...
Primary
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Living Language: In Flight Turkish Learn Before You Land [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
These lessons could help you if you are planning a trip to Turkey and could use a traveler's language reference with over 400 essential words, phrases, and expressions.
Interactive
Digital Dialects

Digital Dialects: Pomakish Language

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Recognize and understand phrases and some vocabulary terms of the Pomakish language. Pomakish is a Rup dialect of Bulgarian spoken in some areas of Turkey and Greece.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Structure Within Prose

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Read an excerpt from the story "The Turkey Maiden" to learn about the different elements then practice on your own.
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Other

Propaganda Postcards of the Great War: Central Powers During World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
Celebrating the wartime alliance of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and the Kingdom of Bulgaria, this site contains information about the Central Powers Alliance in World War I. Contains...
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Other

Propaganda Postcards of the Great War: Centrals: Heads of State

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents some biographical information on the leaders of the Central Powers during WWI - Wilhelm II of the German Empire, Franz Josef I of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Mehmed Rechad V of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), and Ferdinand I of...
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State Library of North Carolina

N Cpedia: Fur and Skin Trade

For Students 6th - 8th
The fur and skin trade was a significant industry from the earliest permanent settlement of the region that became North Carolina. Pelts shipped to Europe included beaver, bear, deer, raccoon, mink, muskrat, opossum, wolf, and fox. Many...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Importance of Birds

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] You are probably familiar with birds as food. Around the world, people consume chicken, turkey, and even more exotic birds, like ostriches. Can you think of other...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Chicken Pox Math

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students will engage in a shared reading of Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox by Grace Maccarone, Arthur's Chicken Pox by Marc Brown, or Turkey Pox by Laurie Anderson. Students will discuss the text and then engage in several math-related tasks...
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Thanksgiving Crafts, Decorations, and Printouts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Enchanted Learning provides a wealth of Thanksgiving-related ideas for crafts, decorations, and activity worksheets. Make a turkey from handprints and footprints, create a thankful leaf wreath or a easy-to-make scarecrow, or follow the...
Primary
American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Harry S. Truman: "The Truman Doctrine"

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text and audio of President Truman's speech "The Truman Doctrine" before a Joint Session of Congress on March 12, 1947, concerning aid to Greece and Turkey.
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Other

Metis: Catalog of Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites

For Students 9th - 10th
A very large collection of interactive photographs of archaelogical sites in Greece and Turkey. Users can pan around the sites, zoom in for closer looks, or click on hot spots to access views of individual elements of the scenes. Some...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Wildlife Math

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This integrated lesson is the result of collaboration between Chip Blanton, a wildlife management teacher, and Greg Pendergrass, a math teacher (Ft. Payne High School). Learning to manage wildlife requires an understanding of planting...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Introduction to Ancient Rome

For Students 9th - 10th
From a Republic to an Empire. In legend Rome was founded in 753 B.C.E. by Romulus, its first king. In 509 B.C.E. Rome became a republic ruled by the Senate (wealthy landowners and elders) and the Roman people. During the 450 years of the...
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A&E Television

History.com: How Mesopotamia Became the Cradle of Civilization

For Students 9th - 10th
Environmental factors helped agriculture, architecture and eventually a social order emerge for the first time in ancient Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia's name comes from the ancient Greek word for "the land between the rivers." That's a...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Betsileo

For Students 9th - 10th
The Betsileo (Bts) are one of approximately twenty "ethnies," or ethnic units, into which Madagascar divides its population. The Betsileo began to use that term for themselves after their conquest by the Merina in the nineteenth century....
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Circassians

For Students 9th - 10th
The Circassians are a people indigenous to the northwestern Caucasus who are also found today as minority communities in four Middle Eastern countries: Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and Israel. They call themselves "Adyge," the term...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Arabs

For Students 9th - 10th
The Arab world is usually considered to be comprised of the following nineteen countries: Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Chad, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Introduction to the Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
The term "Middle East" is generally recognized today to refer to a region that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to Afghanistan in the east. It encompasses the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Israel,...
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A to Z Teacher Stuff

A to Z Teacher Stuff: Thanksgiving (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers K - 1st
A variety of lesson plans broken down by grade level geared to helping children learn about Thanksgiving, many involving interactive activities.
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Other

Turizm.net: A Great Empire: The Byzantines

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief history of the founding of the Eastern Roman Empire, now known as the Byzantine Empire.
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National Archives (UK)

Learning Curve: Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about Cuba's history and Castro's rise to power, the development of the relationship between Cuba and the USSR, a description of the events of the crisis, Kennedy's response to the discovery of Soviet...
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Digital History

Digital History: Years of Decision [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is from a unit that covers the period from the Second World War up to the Cold War. It looks at relations between the United States and the Soviet Union and the thinking of their leaders. Students are asked to consider five...
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University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania: The Truman Doctrine

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Pennsylvania gives a description of the Truman Doctrine and its contents. Then link to an excerpt from Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" and compare the differences. A great history...

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