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Lesson Plan
Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Mold and Cast

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will define the term fossil, identify the difference between a mold and a cast fossil, and understand how scientists use models to learn about the physical structure of something in the natural world.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Cast Adrift by t.s. Arthur

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the novel "Cast Adrift" by T.S. Arthur.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Cast Upon the Breakers by Horatio Alger

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the novel "Cast Upon the Breakers" by Horatio Alger. Follow the story of a educated young boy who loses his inheritance when a guardian squanders it and has to make his own way.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Cast Iron Canvasser by Andrew Barton Paterson

For Students 7th - 9th
Read the short story "The Cast-iron Canvasser" by Andrew Barton Paterson.
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Activity
Other

Casting Out Nines: A Math Computation Checking Strategy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
It's a mathematician's dream come true. An easy trick for checking mathematical computations, without a calculator! Believe it or not, it works with all four operations.
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Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Nuristanis

For Students 9th - 10th
The area known as Nuristan is located at the southern end of the Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan. There are limited amounts of arable land in the Hindu Kush, but there are abundant amounts of pastureland well suited for...
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Handout
Other

Principia Cybernetica Project: Insect Societies

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the evolution of the caste differentiation in insect colonies.
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Handout
The History Cat

The History Cat: Hinduism

For Students 4th - 8th
Discusses what Hinduism is, the Hindu view of God, how Hindus worship, the belief in reincarnation, the concept of Karma, the caste system and Untouchables, the celebration of Diwali, and the practice of yoga.
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Website
Other

Gilbert and Sullivan Archive: Gilbert's Plays

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the plays and other stage works written by William S. Gilbert without his well-known partner, Arthur Sullivan. Includes links to in-depth information about each, scripts, performances and casts, and lots more.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Columns: Finding the Strongest Shape

For Students 2nd - 8th
In this video segment, members of the ZOOM cast experiment by bending and folding sheets of paper into various shapes to see which shape will support the weight of a heavy book. [3:33]
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Triangles: Designing a Straw Bridge

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast tries to design and build a bridge made out of drinking straws that will support the weight of 200 pennies. [4:02]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Acids and Bases: Cabbage Juice Indicator

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment, the ZOOM cast demonstrates how to use cabbage juice to find out if a solution is an acid or a base.
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Lesson Plan
Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Dinosphere

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will learn how dinosaurs were classified, compare shapes and sizes, and explore how paleontologists make discoveries. They'll analyze how dinosaurs interacted back in the day, and make their own dinosaur drawings and a fossil cast.
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Article
The Washington Post

Ancient Cahokia: Metropolitan Life on the Mississippi

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from the Washington Post gives a great description of Cahokia, one of the largest cities in the world before Columbus' contact with the New World. Read about how the great mounds were made, the trade networks established,...
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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 5: 3 D Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This fifth unit of a course on Art Appreciation looks at different forms of three-dimensional art. Students learn about sculpture and its history, government-funded art works, and controversy in art. They look at other types of 3-D...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Double Indemnity, 1944

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a summary, photos, movie clips and cast information about the 1944 classic film, Double Indemnity.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Terrors of Sleep Paralysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Ami Angelowicz describes just how pervasive (but harmless) sleep paralysis is and introduces a cast of characters from sleep paralysis around the world. [4:49]
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Unit Plan
Other

Better Homes and Gardens: Knitting 101

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Better Homes and Gardens contains wonderful information on the basics of knitting. An outline in link form is provided with information on subjects such as: needles, single cast-on, purl stitch, slip-stitch, stranding...
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Lesson Plan
Center For Civic Education

Center for Civic Education: The Ballot and Questions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on a voter's need to be fully informed prior to casting a vote on Election Day and how to acquire the necessary information.
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Website
American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Beau Geste (1939)

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a poster, cast list, and in-depth summary of the classic film Beau Gest.
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Website
American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: The Roaring Twenties

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a summary, movie posters, cast and directing information about the film, The Roaring Twenties.
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Website
American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: How Green Was My Valley

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides an overview of a John Ford masterpiece. Text summary, poster, links, and cast information are included. Made in 1941.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.sp Election Poll, Variation 1

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Members of the seventh grade math group have nominated a member of their group to be class president. Every student in seventh grade will cast a vote. There are 2 candidates in the race and a candidate needs at least 50% of the votes to...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: The Presidency of John Quincy Adams

For Students 9th - 10th
John Quincy Adams narrowly beat Andrew Jackson in the presidential election of 1824. Though his 'American System' modernized the American economy, his endorsement of a protective tariff as well as his lenient stance toward Native...