Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Modernism: In Another Country

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Ernest Hemingway and his short story "In Another Country." It includes a links to a Discovery Education video about Ernest Hemingway and the text of the short story. It also provides reading questions for the story.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: The Great Gatsby: Chapters 1 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on reading The Great Gatsby: Chapters 1-3. It features links to a study guide over the novel, a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a Discovery Education video about Fitzgerald, and a quiz over chapters 1-3.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: The Great Gatsby: Chapters 4 6

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson continues the reading of The Great Gatsby with Chapters 4-6. It features a discussion of connotations, character, and major themes. Links are provided to a Discovery Education video about characters in Gatsby (Registration...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Postmodernism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is an introduction to American Literature Postmodernism, after WWII an age of rapid development in science and technology. It discusses the characteristics of Postmodernism and lists some of the authors and their new ideas....
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Postmodernism: "Everyday Use"

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Alice Walker and her short story "Everyday Use," which explores the generation gap between a mother and daughter and the relationship among a mother and her two daughters. Links are provided to the text of the...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anglo Saxon Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the Anglo-Saxon culture. It features links to Mead Hall Information, BBC History British Museum, an Anglo-Saxon Collection, Discovery Education: The Dark Ages, Part One video (Registration required), The Sutton Hoo...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anglo Saxon Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the Anglo-Saxon culture including how the pagen Germanic tribes were converted to Christianity by St. Augustine, creating the first English bishopric in Canterbury. It offers links to an overview of Anglo- Saxon...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Mythology and the Odyssey: Background Mythology

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the story of the beginning of Greek Mythology. It tells the story of Uranus (Father Heaven) and his wife Gaea (Mother Earth) and their childen the Titans and the monsters. It follow the story through Zeus and the...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Great Expectations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discovery Channel School offers a lesson plan regarding the study of Charles Dickens novel, "Great Expectations." Students are asked to note that a writer considers theme, plot, characters, setting, and point of view when writing a...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Plants

For Teachers K - 1st
The Discovery Channel provides numerous lesson plans dealing with plants. Content is organized by grade level, but all lesson plans include suggestions for adaptations for older or younger audiences.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Homework Helper: Math

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is provided for by DiscoverySchool.com. A ten-year-old boy and his father found over 625 links to educational sites. Need help with homework ask B.J.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Physical Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Discovery Channel provides numerous lesson plans dealing with the physical sciences. Content is organized by grade level, but all lesson plans include suggestions for adaptations for older or younger audiences.
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Other

State of Alaska: Department of Education: Alaska's Gold

For Students 9th - 10th
Information, stories, historical images, and documents about the discovery of gold in Alaska in the late nineteenth century.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Journey of Discovery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The "Journey of Discovery" project through Yad Vashem serves to make sure we know the stories behind the victims of the Holocaust in order to see them as humans and not numbers. Using the database and information on Yad Vashem, students...
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National Institutes of Health

National Center for Biotechnology Information: Education

For Students 9th - 10th
This link has many tools to help understand the revolutionary sciences and discoveries in genetics.
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Other

Fisher Science Education: Headline Discoveries Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
What's new in the world of science? Find the latest articles about the newest discoveries and research in all the science disciplines: anatomy, astronomy, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, consumer science, environmental, forensics,...
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Other

Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre

For Students 9th - 10th
Welcome to the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in the rural town of Morden, Manitoba. It houses the largest collection of marine reptile fossils in Canada. Meet 'Bruce,'the fiercest of all the marine reptiles who's actually bigger than...
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Mariners' Museum and Park

Mariners' Museum: Education: Viking Ships

For Students 9th - 10th
The Mariners' Museum provides a history of Viking ships, explorers and their discoveries.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Web Math: General Math

For Students 3rd - 8th
An extraordinary site that will help you with your math homework. Presented in a format that is both easy to understand and educational. Navigate through numerous instant-answer, self-help math solvers to help you figure out your math...
Website
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Challenge

For Students 3rd - 8th
Have you ever imagined going on an actual archaeological dig, climbing aboard a NASA spacecraft, or collecting insects in remote rain forests? This NASA site is your chance to join Discovery School winners on their exciting science...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Space Age Living: Building the Iss

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover what the International Space Station is, what it does, who is building it, where it is and the answers to many more ISS questions.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Dictator for a Day

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is a lesson plan for better student understanding of life in ancient Rome. Students experience and analyze the pros and cons of a dictatorship.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Inventors and Inventions 1

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils research and explore the importance of two inventions that people use every day: sticky notes and Velcro.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Search for Ancient Sharks: Prehistoric Shark Gallery

For Students 3rd - 8th
Users will take a step back in time when they visit this virtual prehistoric art gallery of sharks. Select a shark to view and obtain a brief informational description of each prehistoric predator.