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Curated OER

Alberta Animal

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Big Horn Sheep
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Curated OER

Bbc Nature: Bharal

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A photograph of a Himalayan blue sheep.
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Curated OER

Bbc Nature: Bharal

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A photo of a young Himalayan blue sheep.
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Other

Arizona Game and Fish Department: Big Game Species

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed information on a variety of big game that are hunted in Arizona. Includes each animal's life history, their hunt history, behavior, and a chart listing facts, e.g., habitat, predators, etc., as well as a narrated video of them...
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University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Aesop's Fables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Work your way through the moral tales of Aesop. Table of context provides links to traditional tellings and modernized versions. Videos and original illustrations help tell the stories.
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Other

The Virtual Vine: Nursery Rhyme Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
You will find a thorough, cross-curricular nursery rhymes unit here. It is written by a fellow teacher, and is very creative.
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University of Washington

Klondike Gold Rush: The Perilous Journey North

For Students 9th - 10th
An easy-to-understand exhibit highlights the stampeders' journey north to the Klondike gold fields.
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University of Utah

University of Utah: Genetic Science Learning Center: Cloning in Focus

For Students 9th - 10th
This group of pages comprehensively covers the topic of cloning. There is an interactive section about how it's done, some history of cloning technology, important issues in cloning, and even an interactive quiz.
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PBS

Pbs: Dissection101: Dissection Resources for Classroom Use

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of lesson plans, quizzes, and educational videos developed for online dissections. The site hopes to improve the learning experience for students, and increase the quality of the dissection experience. Organisms included are...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Ox Cart Man

For Students 9th - 10th
A five-stanza poem about a man who gathers potatoes, shears sheep, and makes products that he sells at market. Then he sells his cart and ox and returns home to spend the winter making a new harness and cart before repeating everything...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Boy Who Cried "Wolf!" [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
"The Boy Who Cried 'Wolf!'" is a one page, folktale about a boy who got bored while watching his sheep. He cried, "Wolf" and when the village people came to help him, he laughed. He repeated this a few days later, but then when he really...
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CBS

Cbs News: Black Death "Plague Pit"

For Students 9th - 10th
Picture a landscape of rolling grass-covered hills with grazing sheep. Who would think that buried far beneath this grassland was a gruesome site waiting to be discovered? Archeologist unearthed a pit of 48 skeletons that died as a...
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BBC

Bbc Nature: Cattle Family

For Students 9th - 10th
Bovidae is the mammal family that contains all the cattle, goats, sheep, antelopes and gazelles. All male bovines have horns, though some hornless domestic cattle have been bred by man. Learn more about the cattle family in this...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Cloning

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Cloning is the process of creating an exact replica of an organism. The clone's DNA is exactly the same as the parent's DNA. Bacteria and plants have long been able...
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Text Project

Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Changing Lives, One Cow at a Time [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 3rd
Read this article to learn about Heifer International and other organizations who donate farm animals like cows, buffalo, goats, and sheep to poor people to improve their lives. It talks about 2nd graders raising money to help fund these...
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Other

Kid's World: Barnyard Palace

For Students 3rd - 8th
Kids can use this resource to get an overview of poultry, cattle, horses, sheep, pigs and goats.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Lur

For Students 9th - 10th
The Lur are found mainly in three regions of Iran -- Lorestan, Bakhtiari, and Kohkiluuyeh. Three primary languages spoken by Lur today. The traditional subsistence activity of the Lur is pastoralism; about half of the Lur population may...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Hazara

For Students 9th - 10th
Most Hazara live in central Afghanistan in an area known as the Hazarajat. Others live in areas north of the Hindu Kush. The Hazarajat and other Hazara territories are mountainous. The climate is severe in winter, with heavy snowfall;...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Gusii

For Students 9th - 10th
The Gusii are divided into seven clan clusters: Kitutu (Getutu), North Mugirango, South Mugirango, Majoge, Wanjare (Nchari), Bassi, and Nyaribari. Gusiiland is located in western Kenya, 50 kilometers east of Lake Victoria. Since...
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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: Bagirmi Kinship

For Students 9th - 10th
The term "Bagirmi" refers to a multi-ethnic society organized as an archaic state. Major populations in the Bagirmi region were the Barma, who formed and dominated the state; Arabs, who were its most numerous inhabitants; and the Fulani,...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Baggara

For Students 9th - 10th
"Baggara" as a term refers to a group of tribes that share certain cultural characteristics and claim kinship to each other and to a tribe in the Hejaz (southern Arabian Peninsula). The five main tribes of Baggara are the Messiriya,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Global Oneness Project: Rethinking the Fabrics We Wear

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students examine natural and synthetic fibers. Students explore the photo essay in groups and discuss how the sheep farmer offers an alternative to mass production with a focus on the themes of resiliency and...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Make a Match: Long Vowels

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Concentration matching game that match pictures with words. Word list for level 1: dice, mole, five, bee, rose, cake. Word list for level 2: rope, game, bike, sheep, tree, whale. Word list for level 3: flute, slide, three, feet, snake,...

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