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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Fun on the Farm

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this lesson plan, students will navigate the Internet to learn about farm animals. Students will take a virtual field trip with the teacher to explore a farm. They will also visit a website and explore farm animals and their sounds.
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Unit Plan
University of New South Wales (Australia)

University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips: Doppler Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this learning module to explore the doppler effect. Learning module includes animations and videos to explain the concept.
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Website
Other

Earliest Voices: Thomas Edison

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource offers historic voice recordings of Thomas Edison. There is a recording of animal sounds, and a speech given at an electrical exhibition in 1908. A biography and downloadable images of him are also included.
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Activity
abcteach

Abcteach: Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This link will place at your fingertips all kinds of resources for your science unit pertaining to animals such as birds, bugs, dinosaurs, endangered species, fish, mammals and reptiles.
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Handout
San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Goats

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth description of goats, including their classification, appearance, habitat, adaptations, reproduction, diet, and other interesting facts. Also includes pictures, video, and sound bytes.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Pete's Sheep (Long E Listening Practice)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn the long E sound in English while enjoying an animated story about sheep. You can listen to the story over and over again and watch the story come alive with animation.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Radio Transmission

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity from A Science Odyssey tracks the journey of a sound wave from the moment a musician sings into a microphone until his voice reaches the vibrating speakers of an AM Radio.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Peg the Hen (Short E Listening Practice)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
English language learners and beginning readers can listen as they read this wonderfully animated story about Peg the Hen. Excellent drill for learning to pronounce the short E sound with excellent reinforcement of basic vocabulary...
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Handout
Other

Young People's Trust for the Environment: Communication in Animals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Facts about the many ways animals communicate. Included is information about scent, sound, sight, and touch.
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Activity
Songs for Teaching

Sciences Songs All Day Long: Nocturnal Animals

For Students Pre-K - 1st
By listening to this song your students will learn all of the animals that are awake during the night. They will equate the sounds they hear at night with the animals and their sounds in the song.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Chunk That Word

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A short but clever animation that helps early readers learn to pronounce words by chunking them into letter groups and syllables.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Fear of Physics: Sound

For Students 9th - 10th
Great animations showing how sound is produced.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: A World of Stories: Old Man Juan Had a Farm/viejo Juan Tenia Una Granja

For Students K - 1st Standards
Listen for different animal sounds in this Spanish version of "Old McDonald Had a Farm." The nursery rhyme is available in English and Spanish.
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Interactive
Defenders of Wildlife

Kids' Planet: Who Am I?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Being a good listener is the key to winning this interactive game. Click on the numbers and listen to the sounds. To win, you must identify the animal making the sound. Immediate feedback given.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: The Amazing Adaptable Frog

For Students 9th - 10th
Journey back over a million years ago and see how the common frog has adapted and changed.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: We Saw Him at the Zoo

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, the mentor text utilized is Deborah Guarino's book, Is Your Mama a Llama?, with the focus of sentence fluency. Each student will think of an animal that that has the same initial sound as his/her name. Using the...
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Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Boundary Behavior

For Students 9th - 10th
Educational tutorial features a physics tutorial on the behavior of sound waves specifically focusing upon boundary behavior. Be sure to view the attached animations for further understanding.
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Unit Plan
Starfall

Starfall: How the Alphabet Got Its Order

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A cleverly animated story about how the alphabet got its A-to-Z order. Helps beginning readers and English language learners learn to recognize and pronounce all the letters of the alphabet.
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Graphic
University of Utah

University of Utah: Hyper Hearts: Tutorials

For Students 9th - 10th
This sites gives a great break down of the cycles of the heart. An animated cross section shows how the blood being pumped into each chamber causes sound and in turn affects an electrocardiogram.
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Interactive
Other

S Cool Youth: Diffraction, Interference and Superposition

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive resource on diffraction, interference and superposition with descriptions, animations, and questions.
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Website
Other

Yahoo! Japan: Multimedia Zukan Encyclopedia

For Students 3rd - 5th
Japanese content! Includes search and browse function to research animals, insects, plants, and birds by names and glossary. Video and audio available as well.
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Handout
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Longitudinal Waves and Guitar Strings

For Students 9th - 10th
A reference page including content and animations on longitudinal waves. Understand how sound waves are produced from vibrations in guitar strings to produce longitudinal waves.
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Handout
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Longitudinal Waves and Tuning Forks

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource explores how vibrating objects produce sound waves. The site contains information and an animation.
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Interactive
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Audio Engineer | Kids Work!

For Students 3rd - 5th
Students will play the role of the audio engineer who monitors and adjusts the audio levels for a production. This animated interactive job exploration experience familiarizes students with some of the skills involved in audio engineering.

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