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Handout
Other

Dade Schools: John Ferguson: Informational Text Features

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
A table explaining different text features including graphics, visuals, and sections found in text.
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Website
Other

Pankpages

For Students 9th - 10th
Site contains free downloadable graphics such as buttons and backgrounds, as well as tutorials which focus on Photoshop.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Skillful Slideshows

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this technology-based lesson, students learn how to create slideshow presentations that are creative and inviting to the audience. They use fonts, graphics, effects, etc, to capture audience attention.
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Article
Edutopia

Edutopia: Common Core in Action: 10 Visual Literacy Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Explicitly teach a collection of competencies that will help students think through, think about, and think with pictures.
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Unit Plan
University of California

University of California: Geometry in Action

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page collects various areas in which ideas from discrete and computational geometry (meaning mainly low-dimensional Euclidean geometry) meet some real-world applications.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Pict

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia entry that defines a PICT graphic file and explains how and why it was created. Links to related information are available as well.
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Website
Other

Ron Reason: Design With Reason

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Ron Reason is a very good site devoted to newspaper designs and articles pertaining to them. Offers tips on designs and interesting articles with photos.
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA uses a colorful graphic to illustrate why objects reach terminal velocity. Provides equation for the terminal velocity of an object. Graphic is accompanied by a simple explanation.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Converting Between Odds and Probability: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson demonstrates how to convert between odds and probability. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Converting Between Odds and Probability."
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Article
Other

Nielsen Norman Group: Guidelines for Multimedia on the Web

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Guidelines on how to design presentations for web media. This is an old article and some of the information is outdated, but much is still relevant. SL.9-10.5 Audio Visuals, RI.11-12.7 Eval Different Media/format....
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Graphic
Other

Michael Bein's Home Plate: Graphical History of Baseball

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents a graphical review of the history of baseball including batting, pitching, and fielding statistics.
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Graphic
Other

Free Web Graphics

For Students 9th - 10th
A page full of free animation, clip art, backgrounds, and other graphics to be used on web pages. Simply download an image to use.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Traditional Crafts of Japan

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore Japanese crafts like weaving, dyeing, pottery, porcelain and others by region of Japan or craft type. Each craft has extensive information and beautiful graphics. Bilingual English / Japanese (Japanese version has more content).