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National Geographic

National Geographic: Visualizing Watershed Health

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Using data visualizations that show dissolved oxygen levels, students analyze the health of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. They will also learn about dead zones, which are aquatic areas where there is insufficient oxygen to support life....
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Visualizing Topography

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the topography of a hill, a valley, and a cliff in this interactive activity featuring visualizations of three-dimensional topography in two dimensions. Adapted from Stephen Reynolds' "Visualizing Topography."
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Data: Using Graphs and Visual Data in Science

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of how data can be turned into visual forms which can help people comprehend information easier than observing numbers.
PPT
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Avoiding Design Mistakes When Creating Visuals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Using visuals in a speech can enhance the speech and captivate the audience, only if used effectively. Review design errors and learn how to avoid them when choosing visuals for your speech. SL.11-12.5 Audio Visuals
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Making a Ted Ed Lesson: Visualizing Complex Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th
How can animation convey complex, intangible concepts? A visual metaphor, or an idea represented through imagery, can take an idea as massive as Big Data and tie it to the familiar depiction of a growing tree. TED-Ed animators explain...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: A Cinematic Journey Through Visual Effects

For Students 9th - 10th
It's been 110 years since Georges Melies sent a spaceship slamming into the eye of the man on the moon. So how far have visual effects come since then? Working closely with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Don Levy takes...
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Terres en Vues (Land InSights)

Land in Sights: Visual Arts: Ashukan

For Students 9th - 10th
View examples of Ashukan, which is songs, visual arts and traditional crafts representing contemporary First Nations, by Jean-Pierre Fontaine and Isabelle Courtois.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Picture This: Visualization

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
Students will practice the reading comprehension skill of visualizing. Teachers will model the skill with All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan. Then students will listen to Robert Service's poem "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and...
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NASA

Nasa Visualization Studio: Earth Science Week 2015: Visualizing Earth Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA provides a gallery of Earth science visualizations. The gallery was created for Earth Science Week in 2015. It includes a guide for teachers, and blogs from various NASA visualizers, scientists and science educators.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A rei.b.4.a: Visualizing Completion of the Square

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this visualization task is to help provide geometric intuition for the algebraic process called ''completing the square.'' Aligns with HSA-REI.B.4.a.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: Early Visual Representations of the New World

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson that examines how Native Americans were portrayed by artists in the sixteenth century, whose aim was to convey their appearance to a European audience, and thereby encourage investment in future New World explorations. By...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Visual Representations in Informational Text

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Students will look at examples of illustrations and diagrams in informational texts and discuss how each one helps enhance the text. Students gain the knowledge that sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words because a complex idea...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Portraits: Written and Visual

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A wonderful resource on the lives and work of American authors, Louisa May Alcott and Samuel Clemens. You will get a unique look at them through the study of their portrait and their writing. Includes two great lesson plans.
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York University

York University: African Canadian Online: Visual Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you will find samples of artists' works along with biographies. Note that copying of any images from this site is strictly prohibited without written permission from the artist.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Drawing, Painting and Illustrating

For Students 9th - 10th
Artopia is an excellent art resource for students. They are able to examine important works of art, learn about styles, principles, and processes of the various art forms used in painting, drawing, and illustration, and view videos of...
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NASA

Nasa Visualization Explorer: Hot in Here

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive resource from NASA shares scientific projections about temperatures of the future.
Interactive
Davidson College

Davidson College: Visualization of Atomic Orbitals: Hybrid Orbitals

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the creation of hybrid orbitals and presents their electron density plots and energy diagrams. Requires Java.
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Other

Sarah Sanderson Science: Visual Summaries

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This strategy asks students to draw the main ideas in a text.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Compound Events Visual Displays of Sample Spaces

For Teachers 7th Standards
Seventh graders will be able to represent the sample space of compound events, and calculate the probability of events using their sample space.
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Terres en Vues (Land InSights)

Land in Sights: Visual Arts: Sylvain Rivard

For Students 9th - 10th
View works by Sylvain Rivard and learn how his background and linguistic skills make him an invaluable resource within the First Nations culture.
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Terres en Vues (Land InSights)

Land in Sights: Visual Arts: Jacques Newashish

For Students 9th - 10th
View works by Jacques Newashish, painter and printmaker and learn what influences his work.
Article
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Wildlife Habitat Category in the Groups Data Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
Habitat Network has combined all the vegetatively-complex habitat polygons into categories here.
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Virtual Salt

Visual Salt: Elements of the Gothic Novel

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives a listing and description of the typical elements usually found in gothic novels. It also provides a list of example vocabulary typically found in gothic novels.
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Other

Metrocosm: Visualizing the Flow of Asylum Seekers

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch this dynamic map to understand the flow of asylum seekers to industrialized countries. Click the interactive map to see statistics for specific countries. Data used to construct these maps from the UN Refugee Agency 2013-2016.

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