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Actorama: Casting Calls and Audition Resources
Website where actors can create profiles and search casting calls. Monologues and scenes to use for audtitions can be searched by various criteria (gender, source material, period, type, and main action and/or emotion involved.
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Cast Your Vote
Students learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, test, and evaluate a voting system made with everyday materials. The objective of the lesson plan is to learn how engineering has changed methods of voting over...
Other
Wet Canvas: Art School Online: Sculpture: Pottery Clay in Sculpting
Ceramic sculptor Andrew Werby explains sculpting using clay. He explains different types of clay, the tools that he uses, building clay armatures, firing clay, casting clay, and various clay finishes. Site by WetCanvas.com.
Greek Gods
Greek Gods: Greek Heroes: Danae
Learn about Princess Danae and why her father locked her away and later cast her and her baby out into the sea in a wooden box.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Jennie Lea Knight
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Jennie Lea Knight is described here along with information on her contributions to art through sculpture, and primarily bronze casting.
Country Studies US
Country Studies: The Society of Sri Lanka
This U.S. Library of Congress offers information on the society of Sri Lanka, including population, ethnic groups, caste, religion, health education, and more.
PBS
Pbs: The Story of India: Hinduism
PBS explores one of the world's oldest religions, Hinduism. Identifies the origins of Hinduism, the sacred text "Vedas," and the three main deities, Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Describes the influence of the caste systems on India's...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Science Careers: Mechanical Engineer
All kinds of apparatus used in every day life are designed by the mechanical engineer. The career casts a broad engineering net. This Science Buddies site lays out the requirements needed to become a mechanical engineer, as well as the...
Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company: Education Resources: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Information about and video clips of scenes from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Includes interviews with the cast and directors, performance clips and ideas for students.
Harp Week
Education at Harp week.com: The Reconstruction Convention Simulation
A simulation activity where students participate in a convention at the end of the American Civil War that never actually took place. Together they grapple with the issues that faced America in 1865 in dealing with the demise of slavery...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Testing for Static Electricity
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members show you how to make your very own electroscope. You can use it to find out if an object is electrically charged. [4:17]
University of Richmond
Digital Scholarship Lab: Voting America: Presidential Elections 1928 1968
Presented are various maps that show how American voters have cast their ballots in US presidential elections from 1928-1968.
University of Richmond
Digital Scholarship Lab: Voting America: Presidential Elections 1884 1924
Presented are various maps that show how American voters have cast their ballots in US presidential elections from 1884-1924.
University of Richmond
Digital Scholarship Lab: Voting America: Presidential Elections 1840 1880
Presented are various maps that show how American voters have cast their ballots in US presidential elections from 1840-1880.
University of Richmond
Digital Scholarship Lab: Voting America: Elections 1840 2008
Resource juxtaposes subtle pictures of the ways US voters have cast their ballots in presidential elections during the past two centuries. These animations, depicting more than forty presidential election cycles, reveal much about the...
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Sculpture
Be an art critic, and compare and contrast sculptures in this virtual art gallery. Watch short video clips about this art medium, see student sculptures, send an e-art card, or virtually sculpt your own creation.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Analyzing Characters in 12 Angry Men
Re-telling a story from the points of view of its various characters is a powerful way to review the events of a story, show how authors use characterization to reveal characters' personalities, and encourage students to view stories...
PBS
Pbs: Calculating Volume: Tunnel Construction
Investigate some of the mathematical challenges Boston engineers had to deal with during the Central Artery Tunnel Project (the "Big Dig"). This video focuses on the irregular shape of the casting basin and the volume calculations...
A&E Television
History.com: These Vintage Hot Wheels Toys Are Worth Thousands of Dollars
How does a mass-produced die-cast toy car that originally sold for less than a dollar -- and fits in a small child's hand -- become a valued collectible trading for hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars? Five of the most valuable and...
Other
Museum of Underwater Archaeology: The Sloop Industry
Learn about the cost of maintaining a maritime empire in America by considering the wreck of the British sloop Industry, which sank off the coast of Saint Augustine in 1764. The loss of the ship along with her cargo demonstrates that...
American Movie Classics Company
The Film Site: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
This resource provides a summary, movie posters, cast and production information for the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz.
American Movie Classics Company
The Film Site: The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942
This resource provides an in-depth summary, poster, and cast list for the 1942 Orson Welles film, The Magnificent Ambersons.
A&E Television
History.com: The Most Dramatic Home Run in World Series History
In the bottom of the ninth in Game 7 of the wild 1960 World Series, Bill Mazeroski of the underdog Pittsburgh Pirates toppled the mighty New York Yankees. The Pirates were huge underdogs against the dynastic New York Yankees, who had...
Columbia University
The Great Bronze Age of China
In depth description of the great bronze age of China. Also includes chronology.