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Gilbert and Sullivan Archive: Gilbert's Plays

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the plays and other stage works written by William S. Gilbert without his well-known partner, Arthur Sullivan. Includes links to in-depth information about each, scripts, performances and casts, and lots more.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Artificial Intelligence Teaching a Computer to Play Tic Tac Toe

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a more challenging JavaScript project. You will have to figure out a way to translate game strategy into a computer algorithm. Directions will show you how to create a working Tic-Tac-Toe board on a webpage. Just by showing the...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Playing a Credit and Debit Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students play a game to practice and explore positive credit and debit card behaviors.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Back to School: Play Your Way Back to School!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Play your way and choose activities, games, and videos to enjoy as you prepare to go back to school.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Ewww, Dog Breath! Does Active Play Take a Dog's Breath Away?

For Students 3rd - 5th
A project that requires you to play with a dog cannot be all that bad, right? This scientific experiment entails the respiratory functions of dogs. Learn the chemical and bodily processes going on within your canine companions...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Games People Play

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will learn about other cultures through playing games.
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Edutopia

Edutopia: How to Use Play for Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Play is a primary and integral mode through which children make sense of the world, and that it is essential to their development and well-being. This article offers ideas on how to balance play and academic expectations in your classroom.
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PBS

Pbs: Creativity and Play: Fostering Creativity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
One of the most important types of creative activity for young children is creative play. This article discusses the benefits of creative play and other ways to foster creativity in your classroom.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Princess Presto's Spectacular Spelling Play

For Students K - 1st Standards
Help Princess Presto put on a spelling play! After she makes the letter sound, choose the correct letter with your wand to make a simple word. The word you spell will become part of the play!
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Teach Preschool: Invest Time in Pretend Play

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Pretend play inspires imagination...that's where the real learning begins! This lesson centers around the book "Pumpkin Soup" by Helen Cooper. Each character has a special role in creating the soup, so centers can be set up for the...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Did Shakespeare Write His Plays?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Some people question whether Shakespeare really wrote the works that bear his name- or whether he even existed at all. Could it be true that the greatest writer in the English language was as fictional as his plays? Natalya St. Clair and...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Playing an Insurance Game

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers play a game to explore types of insurance and how they help protect people.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Playing an Insurance Matching Game

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners play a game to demonstrate their understanding of how insurance reduces financial risk.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Noh Plays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a very comprehensive resource that includes discussion of Japanese Noh plays as well as the texts for thirteen plays. The texts are available in both Japanese and English. RL.9-10.10a&b text complexity, RL.11-12.7 Multi...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Word Play [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
Classroom teachers will learn about word play, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement word play, understand how to measure progress with word play, find research that supports word play, and find a list...
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Pets at Play

For Students K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of Pets at Play, a book of poetry for children.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Book: "About Play Acting" by Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the full text of "About Play-Acting" by Mark Twain, a critique of the theater production of The Master of Palmyra.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Crab That Played With the Sea" by Rudyard Kipling

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is the complete text of the short story "The Crab that Played with the Sea" by Rudyard Kipling.
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Akron Children's Hospital

Akron Children's Hospital: Kidshealth: Can Kids With Asthma Play Sports?

For Students 3rd - 8th
If you have asthma you can still play sports. Find out how to do it safely in this article for kids.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Play Doh Math

For Students 3rd - 5th
One piece of Play-Doh can make many different shapes. Even though you can change the shape by squishing or stretching the Play-Doh, it is still the same size unless you add or take away some of the dough. Try this experiment to test how...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African American History: Playful Performers

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A past exhibition that offers a fascinating look at the African tradition of mask-making and masquerades. Includes colorful photos and information, to spark children's creativity.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Reading the Play

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This comprehensive lesson plan uses Julius Caesar to teach multiple author tools such as figurative language and foreshadowing. Included are reproducibles, activities for each act, lesson extensions, ideas for different learning types,...
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The Actuarial Foundation: Play Ball! [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students will understand and apply concepts of data collection, representation, and analysis in a sports context.
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Bright Horizons: How Unstructured Play Can Encourage Healthy Risk Taking

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Discover how unstructured play can help your child understand and develop healthy risk-taking skills. This article gives ideas on how to create risk-taking opportunities in a preschool environment.

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