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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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Handout
Vancouver Island University

Malaspina College: Early Chinese Bronze Casting

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses early Chinese bronze in terms of historical and cultural significance. Includes several pictures and links.
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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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Unit Plan
TES Global

Tes: Reel to Real: Much Ado About Nothing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource, created for the Reel to Real education project with the Victoria and Albert Museum, provides film-focused activities based on the 2013 adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. These include...
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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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Website
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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Website
American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: The Philadelphia Story

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides summary, photos, film clip, quotes, and cast information about the classic film, The Philadelphia Story.
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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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Article
Other

Louis D. Brandeis School of Law: Harlan's Great Dissent

For Students 9th - 10th
An article from the University of Louisville about Justice John Harlan, who courageously cast the sole dissenting vote in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, which approved of the principles of separate but equal.
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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.