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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: Musical Families

For Students 1st - 2nd
Learn about the different groups of musical instruments. Book includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
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Other

The Joy of Cello Playing

For Students 9th - 10th
A great site with teaching examples, excerpts from his book and cartoons. Site promotes and endorses book, "The Joy of Cello Playing".
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Wesleyan University: Learning Objects Studio: Virtual Instrument Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Access the world musical instrument collection of the Music Department of Wesleyan University through this virtual museum interface. Search for and learn about instruments by type, geographic location, instrument material, and genre....
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New York Times

New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Musical Instruments

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An interactive and printable crossword puzzle developed by the New York Times Learning Network. The theme of this puzzle is Musical Instruments.
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Read Works

Read Works: Instrumental Talent

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about Ruby Jane Smith, a 12-year-old who plays 11 different instruments. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works

Read Works: Instrumental Talent

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a young lady named Ruby Jane Smith who can play eleven different musical instruments. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Harp, String Instrument

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use this resource to learn about the harp, find out how it is played and see pictures. Use RealAudio or Windows Media Player to listen to the harp play with the rest of the orchestra.
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Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: French Horn, Brass Instrument

For Students 3rd - 5th
Visit this resource to find out how the French horn is played. Read more about the brass family. Use RealAudio or Windows Media Player to hear the French horn on its own, or with the orchestra.
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Music Education

Learn About Instruments: The Brass

For Students 3rd - 8th
Besides providing general information on various brass instruments, such as the French Horn and trombone, one can listen to sound clips of these instruments being played.
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Play Guitar: A New Method for the Study of Guitar

For Students 9th - 10th
If you would like to learn to play the guitar, you will want to visit this website. These online lessons guide you through the basics of learning to play the guitar. This site is also available in Hebrew.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Eyes Have It

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson lands students as investigators who must explore the usefullness of iris scan (security) algorithms. In the first part of a lesson, a given probability is used to determine how...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: I, It, Itera, Iteration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the notion of Brownian motion and has students graph a sample Brownian particle. In Brownian motion, each "step" depends on the "steps" taken previously,...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Rational Timer

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the calculator to play a game that requires them to convert numbers to fractions, decimals, or percent quickly and accurately.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Solve It! App

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This App helps students develop mental math skills through structured play activities. Students progress from simply filling in missing values to actually finding both a number and an operation to make a true sentence.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Hey, That's Not Fair! (Or Is It?)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students can use the calculator to simulate the dice rolls to play two different games. They will decide if the games give each player an equally likely chance of winning. They also compute the probability of an event...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Fours and Sevens, Oh My!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of random numbers and shows how human-generated random numbers are not always "really" random. This is done by framing the lesson in terms of...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Chase

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students develop the concept of pursuit curves, in which one object moves according to the movements of another object. This lesson is framed in the context of an officer...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Factor Game

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, the teacher and students play a game which involves identifying the factors of a number.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Match the Graph (Linear And/or Absolute Value)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The students will follow instructions on slope and linear functions, with playing match the graph on the TI-Navigator. Several digital pictures are provided, or you could find your own!
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Percent Square

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students use the Rational Number Rampage application to play a game and explore fractions, decimals, and percents. They are shown a hundred square grid with different number of squares colored and are required to...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Parabolas: Numb3 Rs: Structural Corruption

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson helps students understand how changing the values of y=a(x-b)^2+c changes the graph of the associated parabola. This is framed in the context of a bridge jumper, who enters the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: How Much Can They Win?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students create data points from given information, plot those points, and then create a line of best fit. This is done in the context of playing blackjack, although the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sir Models

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson helps students understand how diseases, epidemics, etc. are tracked by health organizations. Using the SIR (susceptible, infected, recovered) model, students track the number of...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Rational Match

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the Rational Number Rampage application to play a game to find numbers that are equivalent fractions, decimals, and percents.