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Growing With Grammar: Consonant Digraphs Wr, Kn, and Ck; Schwa Sound [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
This file contains two five-day spelling/vocabulary lessons. The first lesson covers words which contain the wr, kn, and ck digraphs; the second lesson covers words which contain the schwa sound. Each lesson contains a list of words with...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The Frontiers Decade: Medical Decade

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Explore the challenges of communicating without speaking or moving by creating a communications board from plastic alphabet letters. Explore speech synthesis files for people with communication disabilities.
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African Australian Online Resource

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers dozens of reviews of African recordings, new and re-released. Well-known musicians Zap Mama and Femi Kuti, as well as up and coming ones, are reviewed. Links to individual Web sites and audio files are also featured here.
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Classical Composers Database

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a good resource for composer information. Photos, sound files, biographies and web links for hundreds of composers throughout history. Also, a calendar listing composer births/deaths for each day of the year plus a composer...
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Elated Communications: Using Ftp

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents information about using FTP. The tutorial starts with a gentle introduction to FTP and move on to describing different FTP programs and more advanced uploading techniques.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Bright Morning

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this lesson plan to delve into the exploration of character development in fiction through the novel "Bright Morning," by Scott O'Dell.
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Curated OER

National Zoological Park: Animals, Etc.

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the National Zoological Park provides extensive information about many types of animals. Just click on the category you need. Includes pictures and live web cams.
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Cuban Crocodile

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative site explores both reptiles and amphibians. Content includes a reptile and amphibian index, fact sheets, conservation information, a photo gallery, live web cams, and more.
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Curated OER

Emperor Newt

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative site explores both reptiles and amphibians. Content includes a reptile and amphibian index, fact sheets, conservation information, a photo gallery, live web cams, and more.
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Curated OER

Anc Pa22739

For Students 9th - 10th
A thematic web exhibition featuring the 350,000 men who signed up to fight in World War I. The exhibition features why these men went and how they were persuaded to enlist using primary source images of photographs and posters. The...
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Curated OER

Ma N10053

For Students 9th - 10th
A thematic web exhibition featuring the 350,000 men who signed up to fight in World War I. The exhibition features why these men went and how they were persuaded to enlist using primary source images of photographs and posters. The...
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U Seek U Find: Tutorials N Surfing

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides links to tutorials on many WWW topics including surfing, searching and email.
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Edupodder: Podcasting in Education

For Students 9th - 10th
A personal site by Steve Sloan, from San Jose State University, in which he explores the potential for podcasting in education.
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Peoples Education: Make Inferences in Science [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 4th Standards
This online textbook selection focuses on how scientists make inferences from evidence. Students are given a reading passage about underwater exploration and are asked to make inferences based on the text. The passage is followed by...
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Tech Museum: Building for the Big One [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This resource presents a project where young scholars design and build structures that can withstand an earthquake. The project can include an extension where students look at the factors of soil type and proximity to fault in their...
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Complaints About Wealthy Donors' Influence on Candidates

For Students 9th - 10th
An article that discusses the Pendleton Act of 1883, both historically and in the context of modern politics.
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Tech Museum of Innovation: Rat Round Up [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource explains how to design a device to capture and carry a runaway rat! Students will create a device that will return a rat to its cage without harming it using specific materials. The lesson includes worksheets and teacher...
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University of Michigan

Univ of Michigan: 4 Ps: Plan, Prepare, Practice and Present Your Speech [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An outline for designing an effective speech is provided on this site. Steps included in the outline consist of the following: planning to write the speech; preparing to present the speech; and delivery of the speech. SL.9-10.1a...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Main Ideas & Details [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write the main idea in a central oval and then write four details that support the main idea of this reproducible graphic organizer.
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University of Oxford (UK)

Pitt Rivers Museum: Treatment of the Dead in Ancient Egypt

For Students 9th - 10th
A nice and concise description of the way the ancient Egyptians treated their dead. It gives details on the funerary practices, coffins, the use of shabti figures and canopic jars.
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University of Oxford (UK)

Pitt Rivers Museum: Methods of Making Fire

For Students 9th - 10th
An informative article summarizing the history of fire, how humans have used it and the various methods humans have used to start a fire.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Compare and Contrast

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
A brief graphic organizer to help students visualize the similarities and differences in a piece of informational text.
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Royal British Colombia Museum (Canada)

Kids Page: Whales [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
An activity handout for students on the topic of the varied species of whales, dolphins and porpoises found in British Columbia. The handout is in PDF format.
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University of Oxford (UK)

Pitt Rivers Museum: Human Form in Art

For Students 9th - 10th
An illustrated article that discusses the earliest forms of human representation in art, touching on their spiritual and ritual significance.

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