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NASA

What's the Frequency, Roy G. Biv?

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
While all light travels at the same speed, each color in the visible light spectrum contains a different wavelength and frequency. Scholars determine the relationship between frequency and wavelength as they complete the activity. They...
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K20 LEARN

This Is How the World Ends: Coronal Mass Ejections/Space Storms

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Is this the end of the world as we know it? Pupils prepare for a coronal mass ejection during a lesson plan from the K20 Center. The activity combines video and Internet research in a collaborative assignment that focuses on public...
Activity
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

HIV Protease Inhibitors

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How do doctors fight a virus that's constantly mutating? Show science scholars how we fight HIV using one of its own most fundamental processes through a thoughtful demonstration. The lesson focuses on how protease inhibitors prevent HIV...
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iCivics

Mini-Lesson B: Satire

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Hey, what's so funny? Explore the use of satire in a variety of media with a hands-on lesson. Fourth in a five-part journalism series from iCivics, the activity introduces satirical language in print and online. Pupils work alone or in...
Interactive
Physics Classroom

Decibel Scale

For Students 9th - 12th
Turn it up! Sound scientists explore the decibel scale through an interactive that calculates movement up and down the scale. Part of a series of interactives that explore sounds and waves, the resource includes a help feature to support...
Interactive
Physics Classroom

Name That Harmonic: Open-End air Columns

For Students 9th - 12th
Ever wonder what really goes on inside a clarinet? Show your young scientists the physics of open-end air columns through an easy-to-use interactive. Learners examine the features of standing waves and calculate frequency and length in a...
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Deer Valley Unified School District

Close Reading: Analyzing Mood and Tone

For Students 9th - 12th
The AP Literature and Composition exam is all about close reading. Test takers are presented with a passage and asked to analyze how an author uses literary devices to create a desired effect. Prepare your students for the exam with a...
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iCivics

Mini-Lesson: Presidential Succession

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Who is in line for the presidency? Learners research the line of succession in the executive branch. They analyze the role the cabinet plays in a situation where the president and vice president are not able to serve. Along the way,...
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PBS

The Last Generation: Climate Change and the Marshall Islands

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Are some families down to their last generation? The final segment of a two-part climate change series investigates the vanishing Marshall Islands. Scholars divide into research teams to analyze three different individuals whose lives...
Interactive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The RNA Message Is Sometimes Edited

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
In 1993, Phillip Sharp and Richard Roberts won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of split gene theory. Learn about the breakthrough with the help of an online interactive. Hear both scientists explain it in their own words, watch an...
Unit Plan
Manchester University

Events leading to the American Revolution

For Teachers 5th Standards
The Stamp Act, Paul Revere's ride, and the Boston Tea Party pushed American colonists to the tipping point that led to the American Revolution. Fifth graders research the key figures of the war, study the Declaration of Independence, and...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Smoking: Grades 6-8

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Light up middle schoolers' understanding of the monetary and health costs of smoking with two activities. First, class members calculate how much a smoker would spend in a year if they smoke a pack a week or a day. They then explore...
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Academy of American Poets

Teach This Poem: "Toward the Winter Solstice" by Timothy Steele

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Timothy Steele's poem, "Toward the Winter Solstice," offers scholars an opportunity to consider what poets and scientists could learn from each other's work. First, learners examine a NASA image of a star-forming region in the Orion...
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Curated OER

About Me

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students develop their English and technology skills by having them write about themselves--their family, their home and neighborhood, their interests and hobbies, their education, and their future plans. They produce an electronic text...
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Curated OER

Extreme Weather!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a web page explaining a specfic type of extreme weather and identify recent examples of the weather occurance. They form small groups to research the weather type and build an HTML word document to share with classmates...
Interactive
Curated OER

ESL-Irregular and Regular Verbs

For Students 4th - 6th
In this verb worksheet, students use a drop down list and click on the correct past tense from of fifty given verbs.  Page has link to audio and HTML code.
Interactive
Curated OER

ESL Food Activity

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this ESL food activity students match pictures of food items to their names, read a set of labeled items, then label food items from memory. A link to audio and HTML is given.
Interactive
Curated OER

ESL Conjunctions Activity

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this ESL conjunctions worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences accompanied by pictures, using either and, but or because correctly. Page has a link for audio and HTML code.
Interactive
Curated OER

ESL-Irregular Verbs

For Students 4th - 6th
In this ESL irregular verbs instructional activity, students complete a chart of irregular verb forms, and match a set of verbs to pictures. A link to audio and HTML code is given.
Interactive
Curated OER

ESL: A, Many, An, Any, Some, Much

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this ESL vocabulary activity, students complete sentences using either a, an, some, any, many or much. A link to audio and HTML code is given.
Interactive
Curated OER

ESL: Song Activity-"Tokio Hotel"

For Students 4th - 6th
In this ESL song instructional activity, students watch a video and listen to "Tokio Hotel," then replace shown pictures with the correct words from the song. Page has a link to audio and HTML code.
Interactive
Curated OER

ESL-Present Simple Tense

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this ESL present simple worksheet, students choose correct verbs and fill in blanks in simple sentences. A link to audio and HTML code is given.
Interactive
Curated OER

ESL Irregular Verb Activity

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ESL irregular verb worksheet, students fill in blanks to complete sentences, using either hurt, go, drive, find or tell. A link to audio and HTML text is given.
Interactive
Curated OER

ESL: Such An/Such A/So/Such

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this ESL vocabulary learning exercise, students fill in blanks in sentences with either such an, such a, so or such, 27 total. A link to audio and HTML code is given.

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