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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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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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University of Richmond

Digital Scholarship Lab: Voting America: Elections 1840 2008

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Othello: Slideshow the Challenges of Staging the Play

For Students 9th - 10th
These activities encourage young people to join the debate about how to stage and cast Othello. They will debate the pros and cons of different productions and plan how they would stage the play if they could do so themselves. Included...
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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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Language Guide

Language Guide: La Medicina

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Here you will find the vocabulary needed to talk about things pertaining to medicine. Interactive pictures model correct pronunciation when the mouse is moved over each illustration.
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Technology Student

Technology Student: Equipment and Processes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes and illustrates the basic equipment and processes that are used in construction and manufacturing.
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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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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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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Artopia: Sculpture

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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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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Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Commentary on Epistle to the Galatians

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides you with access to Martin Luther's "commentary" on the book of Galatians. Click on the specific blue topic to learn more.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Do You Need to Know to Vote in Alabama?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Registering to vote, gathering information about the candidates, and casting a vote at the polls are vital parts of the process of selecting elected officials. Students will understand how the registration process works and how to cast...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Analyzing Characters in 12 Angry Men

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Start Here! Counting

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the math needed to solve problems counting. In the first lesson you learned that it was possible to build 1000 possible robots using only a handful of parts. Now suppose the director only asks for a cast of 6...
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PBS

Pbs: Calculating Volume: Tunnel Construction

For Students 3rd - 5th
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...