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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Draw Me the Music

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore and investigate the foundation and history of jazz music. They listen to various pieces of music while creating drawings, develop a timeline of jazz history, and read and discuss biographies of famous jazz...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Uncle Tom's Cabin

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students analyze the illustrations and cover of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. For this Uncle Tom's Cabin lesson plan, students discuss the history elements of what they see in the illustrations and cover of the book.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Beautiful Butterflies

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study the life cycle of the butterfly through this series of activities. They create projects, play games, and observe butterfly characteristic that contribute to their survival.
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Activity
Other

Color Matters: Vision: What Is Color Blindness?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the different types of color blindness and see a few simple tests that are used to diagnose this condition.
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Website
Other

The Vision Learning Center: Color Blindness

For Students 9th - 10th
Page with facts about color blindness. Provides good questions and good feedback about this eye condition and what treatments are available.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Waves: The Three Color Mystery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are presented with a challenge question concerning color blindness and asked to use engineering principles to design devices to help people who are color blind. Using the legacy cycle as a model, this unit is comprised of five...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Color Blindness

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Encyclopedia Wikipedia provides information on the condition of color blindness, including different types of color deficiencies, a discussion on the causes of color blindnes, images, and more.
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Activity
University of Arizona

The Biology Project: Human Biology: Color Blindness Problem Set

For Students 9th - 10th
This problem set is based on a question received from a woman with red-green color blind as well as other members of her family. She wanted to know if we could help her understand how she inherited her color blindness.
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Website
Other

Tsbvi: Information About Color and Color Blindness

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Provides a list of links about color blindness. Split into two categories: living with color blindness, and color blindness tests and simulations.
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Activity
Other

Well styled.com: Webdesigner Tools: Color Scheme Generator

For Students 9th - 10th
A totally cool concept! Choose your base color, your scheme (monochromatic, etc.) and the computer will show you what other colors go with it! There are even settings for various levels of color-blindness. A really cool art tool!!
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Three Color Mystery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are introduced to an engineering challenge in which they are given a job assignment to separate three types of apples. However, they are unable to see the color differences between the apples, and as a result, they must think as...
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eBook
Biology Pages

Kimball's Biology Pages: The Human Eye

For Students 9th - 10th
Written by a former author of Biology textbooks, this page describes not only color vision, but the anatomy of the eye, and color blindness. Easy to understand language.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Song Inspired Color Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students listen to the songs "Over the Rainbow," sung by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole and "Color Me Blind," sung by Extreme and read an excerpt from the book Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O'Neill. Then students work...
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Website
Other

What Color: Color Reading Pc Utility for Colorblinds

For Students 9th - 10th
Downloadable shareware utility, for Windows and Windows-compatible machines, that allows color-blind people using PCs to know the names of on-screen colors.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Waves Go Public!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students apply everything they have learned over the course of the associated lessons about waves, light properties, the electromagnetic spectrum, and the structure of the eye, by designing devices that can aid color blind people in...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Understanding the Structure of the Eye

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners learn about the anatomical structure of the human eye and how humans see light, as well as some causes of color blindness. They conduct experiments as an example of research to gather information. During their investigations,...
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Website
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: Human Genetics Project: Is the Dominant Trait Most Prevalent?

For Students 9th - 10th
Human-Genetics: A Worldwide Search for the Dominant Trait allows you to collect data and share your results with students around the world. Register your class, complete the student survey, participate in discussion boards, and interact...
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Handout
The Tech Interactive

Tech Museum of Innovation: How We See

For Students 3rd - 8th
Part of a larger sight on the eyeball and its function, this section describes the process of sight and ranges in topics from the chemical reaction of light hitting the retina to blind spots and animals seeing color.
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Activity
University of Arizona

The Biology Project: Human Biology

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides basic information on human genetics and reproduction using tutorials, simulations, images and quizzes. There are also links to other worthwhile sites.
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Website
Other

All About vision.com: Eye Conditions and Diseases

For Students 9th - 10th
Many articles with consumer information about lenses, eyewear, eye problems, and unique eye conditions. Vast content and many links to off-site information.
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Handout
Sophia Learning

Sophia: X Linked Traits

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will give examples of disorders that are linked to genes on the X chromosome.

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