Curated OER
Reintroduce /au/
Practice decoding au words with your first and second graders. They state the sound of au when the teacher points to the corresponding letter combination, and remain silent when any other letter combination is displayed. Complete this...
Chemicool
Chemicool: Gold
Chemicool.com offers a quick look at the element gold. Includes natural abundance data and approximate cost.
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Francais Interactif
This full-featured interactive textbook encounter utilizes French speakers in real life scenarios. Well structured for work on grammatical concepts (links to Tex's French Grammar), vocabulary, listening comprehension and exposure to...
Nine Planets
The Eight Planets: Earth
Excellent Eight Planets site that provides a vast amount of information about planet Earth. Very comprehensive and complete site.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Aw, Au, Al Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "aw", "au", or "al" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Aw, Au, Al Quiz
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of "aw", "au", and "al" words. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: aw, au, al" lesson.
Cyberbee
Adventures of Cyberbee: Digital Audio Basics [Pdf]
Try this beginner's tutorial for recording sound on the computer. It covers the historical background of audio files, file formats, basic audio recording, synthesized music and copyright.
University of Texas at Austin
Tex's French Grammar: Contractions of a and De
This lesson from Tex's French Grammar is a wonderful site with clear explanation of forming conntractions with the prepositions "a" and "de", with written and audio usage examples and interactive practice exercises.
University of Texas at Austin
Tex's French Grammar: Prepositions With Places
Tex's French Grammar clarifies the usage of prepositions (a, de, d', du, des, au, en, aux) with regard to geographic locations--and gives usage examples and interactive practice exercises (written and audio).
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Asteroid
This site from the encyclopedia Wikipedia is a good resource page on asteroids. Gives details on different groups of asteroids that have been identified; how they get their name and number after identification; the six types of...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Gold: Periodic Table of Videos
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. The famous element gold is the number 79 on the periodic table. [9:04]
Other
Spacetech's Orrery: Comets Visitors From Afar
This site provides a report on comets, with many links to more detailed information. Content includes a focus on Halley's Comet, Hale Bopp, and Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: At Dawn Dipthongs Au and Aw
This printable diphthongs worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will fill in words to complete sentences with au or aw in them; then they will draw a picture of what they have...
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Gold
This page gives useful numerical and quantitative information about gold, chemical symbol Au. Includes videos of certain reactions, electronic configuration, and information about the isolation of gold metal.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Strength of Intermetallic Bonds
View two different substances made from the same two elements. Observe the different strengths of bonds between the two different substances.
Other
Mrs. Gottrocks: Gold and Precious Metals Information
Explains the karat system of expressing the purity of gold.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Gold
Fun and interesting information about Gold which has been exceptionally valuable throughout history. Learn about its characteristics, uses, where it is found, and discovery.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: How Is Gold Formed?
Useful information about the precious metal gold, how it is processed, lode and placer mining, and other interesting facts.