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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Xeriscaping In Your Community

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a service-learning project to design landscaping that maximizes water use and utilizes indigenous plant species.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

For the Record: Black Inventors and Inventions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars create a database with the inventions of African-Americans. They analyze and sort the data in an appropriate fashion. They use the internet to gather their information for the database.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Breaking News English: We Spend Half Our Time Daydreaming

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English instructional activity, students read "We Spend Half Our Time Daydreaming," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Interactive
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: The Birth of the Internet

For Students 9th - 10th
This visually engaging feature by the National Science Foundation provides an excellent explanation of how the internet came to be and those responsible for it's inception. Many original computers and other instruments are discussed and...
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Website
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Using Probeware in Biology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article discusses knowledge and skills developed by educators who use technology to teach science.
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Website
Other

Neurociencias Para Ninos / Neuroscience for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the brain and brain science using this Spanish version of the excellent Neuroscience for Kids site. Translation of the site is a work in progress. Portions are in Spanish but links for many pages still lead to the English...