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Cast: What Is Universal Design for Learning (Udl)?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about Universal Design for Learning, which uses new brain research and new media technologies to respond to learner differences. Check outcome suggestions of how to use UDL and easily integrate various forms of technology into the...
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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: Casting the Runes by Montague Rhodes James

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the ghost story "Casting the Runes" by Montague Rhodes James.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Sculpture

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a one-minute tour through the history of sculpture. View a variety of sculpture techniques and be a sculpture critic. Visit the sculpture studio and learn about carving, casting and modeling. Meet artists, and see them at work....
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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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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Investigation 2 Simulating Fossil Formation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan includes directions for 5 different activities for making a variety of fossil types. The fossils included in all five activities are casts, petrification fossils, imprints and preserved fossils. The labs require a number...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How to Write Descriptively

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story. But how do writers suck readers into stories in this way? Nalo Hopkinson shares some tips for how to use language to make your...
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PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: First Post Apartheid Elections

For Students 9th - 10th
In April 1994, South Africans, for the first time, were able to cast their vote in a national election. View this illustrated account of Nelson Mandela's landslide victory.
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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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My Learning

My Learning: The Mysterious "Lost Wax" Process

For Students 9th - 10th
Walk through the entire process of sculpting using the lost wax method. Watch videos of each step of the way.
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Website
South Carolina Educational Television

Kids Work! Real People: Actor

For Students 3rd - 8th
Interview [1:14] with a cast member of the stage production of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" in which she answers questions about her job as an actor, her qualifications, and other career-related issues.
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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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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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Article
Other

Guidance/the Alphabet of Art/value

For Students 9th - 10th
An informative site that explains Value as an element of art using examples of Rembrandt's work. This is a good juxtaposition between the works "Night Watch," and "The Anatomy Lesson," by Rembrandt.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: Remembering Agnew

For Students 9th - 10th
A transcript from a news cast with David Keene, who was Agnew's political assistant at the White House, remembering Spiro Agnew. Also contains an audio clip of the segment.
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Article
Learn Out Loud

Learn Out loud.com: Introduction to Podcasting

For Students 9th - 10th
This article gives an introduction to podcasting including ways to listen to a podcast. The site also talks about how podcast directories can be used.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: List of Ferrous Metals and Their Uses

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes different alloys made with iron and what they are used for.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Types of Fossils

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes four different kinds of fossils and how they form.