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Handout
Curated OER

Kids Health: What Sleep Is and Why All Kids Need It

For Students 3rd - 8th
This comprehensive site defines sleep, its stages, and it importance. It also gives tips on how to get all the sleep you need. It also includes a game comparing the average amount of sleep that kids, adults, and different animals get...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why Do We Dream?

For Students 9th - 10th
Amy Adkins reveals the top seven reasons why we might dream. [5:38]
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Article
How Stuff Works

How Stuff Works: Discovery Health: Interpreting Your Dreams

For Students 9th - 10th
This Discovery site provides a nice concise overview on dreams and dream interpretation on easy-to-read pages. Content includes a brief overview of what dreams are and why they occur, the history of dreams and their effect, what certain...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Park

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about girl named Julie who had an odd dream. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Pieces of Mind: What's in a Dream?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore recent scientific investigations in sleep and dreams. Keep a journal to track sleep and dream activity, and find examples of ways sleep and dreams are used as images in popular culture.