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Handout
San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Gorilla

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents detailed information about the gorilla, including several photos and an audio clip. [1:52]
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Activity
Washington State University

Washington State University: Literary Movements

For Students 9th - 10th
This Washington State University site provides a wonderful source for all the literary movements that have taken place in American Literature from 1620-1920. Click on the movement (listed on the left)you are interested in (Naturalism,...
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Website
Washington State University

Washington State University: Literary Movements: The Slave Narrative

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to defining "Slave Narrative," this website includes information on the styles and influences associated with slave narratives. Also provided, are links to several examples of nineteenth- and twentieth-century slave narratives.
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Article
BBC

Bbc Newsround: Week of 8 18 14: Sea World to Redesign Whale Tank

For Students 1st - 5th
Learn about the larger tanks that SeaWorld has promised to create for the killer whales it houses.
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Article
National Wildlife Federation

National Wildlife Federation: Bright Lights, Bird City

For Students 9th - 10th
Birds of prey--raptors--are increasingly making urban areas their own. Here is an interesting look at a change of habitat for these magnificent birds.
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Defenders of Wildlife

Kids' Planet: Wolf Discovery Curriculum

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Here is a wonderful resource for both students and teachers alike! Content includes a wealth of articles on wolves, ranging from vital statistics to hunting techniques, as well as lesson plans and quizzes for kids of all ages!
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Which Strategy Is Best to Ensure the Conservation of Endangered Species?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is an exploration of the topic of captive breeding in zoos and aquariums, and whether this is the best option for preserving endangered species. (The National Geographic lesson referenced on this page has been archived. This...
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

National Park Service: Teaching With Historic Places: Roadside Attractions

For Students 9th - 10th
This captivating site explores American's love of road trips and includes critical thinking questions and eye-catching pictures. Discover funny and unique roadside attractions throughout America, from buildings shaped like milk bottles...
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Handout
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Pattillo Higgins 1863 1955

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read the captivating story of Pattillo Higgins and his role in making Texas the leader in the oil industry.
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Website
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Bessie Coleman 1892 1926

For Students 3rd - 8th
The first African American woman to receive an official pilot's license, Bessie Coleman led a captivating life. Here you can learn about her many accomplishments.
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Handout
History Link

Bertha Pitts Campbell: An Oral History

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Washington State Oral History Project comes this captivating interview with Bertha Pitts Campbell, an African American woman and early Seattle civil rights worker. Campbell talks about the discrimination and segregation she...
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: The Titanic: Shifting Responses to Its Sinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In 1912, popular media headlined the sinking of the world's largest luxury passenger ocean liner while on its maiden voyage. Newspapers captivated the world's attention with stories from survivors and about victims who did not survive....
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Betsy and the Emperor by Staton Rabon

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Fourteen-year-old English girl Betsy Balcombe and her family have an unusual houseguest: Napoleon Bonaparte, former emperor of France and the most feared man on earth. Once lord and master to eighty-two million souls, now, in 1815,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Importance of the Origin

For Students 6th - 8th
The CyberSquad tries to rescue the Cyberchase Council, which is being held captive by Hacker in this video segment from Cyberchase.
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Interactive
CNN

Cnn: Life Inside a Fema Trailer

For Students 9th - 10th
Captivating audio slide show that details a family's experience in a FEMA trailer after they were displaced from their home by Hurricane Katrina.
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Article
CNN

Cnn: 3 Days of Death, Despair and Survival

For Students 9th - 10th
Captivating September, 2005, article that vividly recounts the story of a family trapped in their attic as they escaped the flood waters brought by Hurricane Katrina.
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Website
InterKnowledge Corp.

Geographia: An Introduction to Costa Rica

For Students 9th - 10th
Travel to the Latin American nation of Costa Rica and explore its captivating geography, culture, and history. Informative and helpful site for developing an understanding of Costa Rica, fast becoming the ecotourism capital of the world.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Link O Vision

For Students 1st - 5th
Use animal characteristics to link animals to each other. This engaging game from PBSkids will captivate students. Just click on the t.v. until you think you have a match.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na'vi Real Languages?

For Students 9th - 10th
What do Game of Thrones' Dothraki, Avatar's Na'vi, Star Trek's Klingon and LOTR's Elvish have in common? They are all fantasy constructed languages, or conlangs. Conlangs have all the delicious complexities of real languages: a high...
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Other

Sandy Skoglund Art Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Enter the bizarre world of installation artist Sandy Skoglund. You will be captivated by her odd creations and amazed at her imagination. Watch videos of behind the scenes footage and read interviews and essays about her work.
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Other

Spanish arts.com: The Museum of "El Prado"

For Students 9th - 10th
Enter the largest art gallery in the world, the museum of "El Prado." Click on sculpture, drawing and coin exhibits. Peruse through exhibits online and be enriched by the captivating works of art.
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Handout
Understanding Slavery Initiative

Understanding Slavery Initiative: Atlantic Crossing

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the period some refer to as "Middle Passage," when enslaved Africans were transported across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean or America. Read first-hand accounts of the torture and deprivation experienced by thousands of...
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Website
Other

Coelacanth: The Fish Out of Water

For Students 9th - 10th
A captivating site that explores all facets of this "fossil fish". Recent history, conservation, and biological behavior are only a few of the areas explored.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed:why Vermeer's "Girl With the Pearl Earring" Considered a Masterpiece

For Students 9th - 10th
Is she turning towards you or away from you? No one can agree. She's the subject of Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with the Pearl Earring," a painting often referred to as the 'Mona Lisa of the North.' But what makes this painting...

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