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Cast: What Is Universal Design for Learning (Udl)?
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...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Cast Adrift by t.s. Arthur
Read the full text of the novel "Cast Adrift" by T.S. Arthur.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Cast Upon the Breakers by Horatio Alger
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.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Casting the Runes by Montague Rhodes James
Read the ghost story "Casting the Runes" by Montague Rhodes James.
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Casting Out Nines: A Math Computation Checking Strategy
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.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Nuristanis
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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Principia Cybernetica Project: Insect Societies
A description of the evolution of the caste differentiation in insect colonies.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Investigation 2 Simulating Fossil Formation
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...
The History Cat
The History Cat: Hinduism
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.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How to Write Descriptively
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Columns: Finding the Strongest Shape
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]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Triangles: Designing a Straw Bridge
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]
The Washington Post
Ancient Cahokia: Metropolitan Life on the Mississippi
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,...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Terrors of Sleep Paralysis
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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Better Homes and Gardens: Knitting 101
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...
Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: The Ballot and Questions
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.
American Movie Classics Company
The Film Site: How Green Was My Valley
This resource provides an overview of a John Ford masterpiece. Text summary, poster, links, and cast information are included. Made in 1941.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.sp Election Poll, Variation 1
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...
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Teacher Resources: Tracks!
This is an outdoor activity where students look for animal tracks and try to identify the animal. They can also make plaster casts of tracks and collect other evidence of an animal's presence.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing Across the Curriculum Lesson: This I Believe: History
This writing assignments asks students to assume the voice of a person from history they have researched. Focusing on a topic or belief the person showed passion about as history unfolded, the students write an essay modeled after NPR's...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A r.a.f.t. Writing Prompt: This I Believe
This writing assignments asks students to assume the voice of a character from a novel they are reading. Focusing on a topic or belief the character shows passion about in the novel, the students write an essay modeled after NPR's "This...
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Guidance/the Alphabet of Art/value
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.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Spouted Wine Vessel
This piece of art was on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A beautiful photograph and description are given.
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: Remembering Agnew
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.