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Character Lab

Character Lab: Social Blind Spots: Feedback to Develop Social Intelligence

For Students 9th - 10th
How do we know when we are being rude? Research shows we can be quite blind to our social blunders. Read about why social intelligence is in the eye of the beholder.
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Read Works

Read Works: Flying Blind

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This realistic passage isshares the story of a state trooper who responds to an accident during a dangerous storm. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills...
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Other

International Guide Dog Federation: History of Guide Dogs

For Students 3rd - 8th
This page from the International Guide Dog Federation explores the evolution of dogs as human companions, as well as the history of dogs as service animals. This resource also includes a timeline describing how dogs came to be used as...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Science Experiments

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the scientific experimental design.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Three Color Mystery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are introduced to an engineering challenge in which they are given a job assignment to separate three types of apples. However, they are unable to see the color differences between the apples, and as a result, they must think as...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: What's Visual Impairment

For Students 3rd - 8th
What's it like for people who are visually impaired? How does it happen and what can be done? Be sure to read the whole article and click on the tabs to the right for more information.
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Curated OER

Blind Weaver at Victorian Institute for the Blind.

For Students 9th - 10th
A broad selection of images featuring blindness can be found on this site by Picture Australia. By clicking on individual images you'll find high quality photographs as well as a brief description.
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Curated OER

[Broom Making, Blind Institute.]

For Students 9th - 10th
A broad selection of images featuring blindness can be found on this site by Picture Australia. By clicking on individual images you'll find high quality photographs as well as a brief description.
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Curated OER

Deaf Dumb & Blind Asylum, Adelaide [Picture].

For Students 9th - 10th
A broad selection of images featuring blindness can be found on this site by Picture Australia. By clicking on individual images you'll find high quality photographs as well as a brief description.
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Curated OER

Ononghe, a Blind Boy [Picture].

For Students 9th - 10th
A broad selection of images featuring blindness can be found on this site by Picture Australia. By clicking on individual images you'll find high quality photographs as well as a brief description.
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Curated OER

The Blind Asylum [Picture].

For Students 9th - 10th
A broad selection of images featuring blindness can be found on this site by Picture Australia. By clicking on individual images you'll find high quality photographs as well as a brief description.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Visual Impairment Facts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Written by an ophthalmologist, this site provides detailed information on the definition and causes of visual impairments, also including information on diagnosis. Be sure to click on tabs down the right side of the article for...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Collecting Data From Experiments: Experiment Techniques

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept introduces students to good design for statistical studies or experiments.
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Goshen College

Bird Ritual

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This opening art exercise, although intended to increase art fluency, would be a great motivation for a lesson on Brancusi's "Bird in Space."
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Other

Bookshare

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Bookshare.org offers both individual subscriptions and accounts for schools or groups a program that allows persons with blindness or visual impairments to download popular books from the Internet. Digital books can then be read with a...
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University of Wisconsin

Uwm: Apple Macintosh Software Toolkit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A complete page of free downloads that allow the Macintosh computer to be more easily used by people with poor vision.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: What Is Experimenter Bias and How to Avoid It?

For Students 9th - 10th
When doing research, it is important to be aware of one's biases and how to prevent them impacting on the design of an experiment or analysis of a research topic. Learn some techniques used to avoid bias in an experiment.
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Other

Highway Driving: Road Sharing With Other Vehicles

For Students 9th - 10th
There are countless cars on the highway, and you should be considerate of all of them. This driver's education website includes tips to help you with the challenges of sharing the road with other drivers. Includes information checking...
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Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Government Spending Charity Begins at Home

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The U.S. government created a program that funds job training and placement of Americans who are blind or severely disabled. Through this activity, students will research the program to establish their own opinions as to whether the...
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Frontiers Media

Frontiers: Seeing With Your Ears: A Wondrous Journey Across the Senses

For Students 3rd - 8th
For dozens of years it has been believed that the brain is organized into "sensory areas": that is, that there is a "visual area," an "auditory area," and so forth, and that the visual area can only process visual information. It has...
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NASA

Nasa: Eye Safety During Solar Eclipses

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource, which is provided for by NASA, gives great information on protecting your eyes during solar eclipses. Your eyes are very difficult to replace. Even when 99% of the Sun's surface is obscured during the partial phases of a...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Ray Bradbury

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the world of Ray Bradbury when you visit this educational resource. Each work is hyperlinked to study guide questions.
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University of Michigan

The Mother Goose Pages: Nursery Rhymes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An outstanding resource to get all your favorite Mother Goose nursery rhymes. Activities included are suggestions on reading and teaching nursery rhymes to children at varying ages. Has a list of recommended resources that go along with...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: George Frederick Handel

For Students 9th - 10th
The blind Handel being led to the organ. - Cooke, 1910