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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Make Sense of Nature

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in this program that heightens their awareness and curiosity of nature as well as their sense of adventure and exploring new surroundings. They identify and choose an object from nature after exploring it with other...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Vocabulary Elementary School

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students answer 30 questions on two pages with varied vocabulary building exercises. Included are: similes, idioms, collective nouns and meaning matching. Note: Some vocabulary here is only...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Adapting to the World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers consider dog breeds that are helpful to humans and their hereditary link to wolves. In this biology lesson, student research a dog breed for traits that make it useful to humans.  Students write a report of how these...
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Website
Other

National Center on Deaf Blindness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Site consists of an extensive library of materials, and information specialists to help serve children who are deaf-blind.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: 19th Century Schools for the Deaf, Blind

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the development of schools for deaf and blind students in the nineteenth century.
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Activity
Other

American Foundation for the Blind: Anne Sullivan Macy: Miracle Worker

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive biography of Anne Sullivan Macy, who pioneered techniques for teaching the blind and deaf through her work with Helen Keller. Includes many images and primary source documents, such as letters. Anne had a difficult...
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Unit Plan
Other

American Foundation for the Blind: Helen Keller

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive resource module provides biographical information about Helen Keller.
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Activity
Other

American Foundation for the Blind: Anne Sullivan Macy

For Students 9th - 10th
A biographical overview of the life of Anne Sullivan Macy, devoted teacher of Heller Keller and a pioneer in the education of the visually impaired which earned her the nickname "miracle worker". Learn about her through her own letters,...
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Handout
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Helen Keller Biography

For Students 5th - 9th
Interesting biographical information, fun facts, and famous quotes about Helen Keller, a deaf-blind American author, political activist, and lecturer.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Deaf Dumb & Blind Asylum, Adelaide [Picture].

For Students 9th - 10th
A broad selection of images featuring blindness can be found on this site by Picture Australia. By clicking on individual images you'll find high quality photographs as well as a brief description.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Collection: Becoming Helen Keller

For Students 9th - 10th
Rediscover the complex life and legacy of the author, advocate and human rights pioneer. Helen Keller (1880-1968), who was deaf and blind since childhood, used her celebrity and wit to advocate for social justice, particularly for women,...
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Website
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Helen Keller

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of Helen Keller's remarkable accomplishments learning to speak, though blind and hearing impaired. Helen Keller was exceptional in her ability to communicate the challenges that handicapped people face to the rest of the...
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Handout
Digital History

Digital History: Pre Civil War Reform: Assisting the Disabled

For Students 9th - 10th
The early 19th century saw giant strides in social reform. Read about those who advocated for the mentally ill, deaf, and blind from the Digital textbook from University of Houston.
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Website
University of Chicago

University of Chicago Press: Helen Keller: A Life

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Chicago Press offers an extended excerpt from the book "Helen Keller: A Life", by Dorothy Herrmann. This biography shows her life as some of us never knew her.
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Article
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Helen Keller

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968 CE), noted for her numerous literary accomplishments despite her severe handicaps.
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My Hero Project

My Hero: Helen Keller

For Students 3rd - 8th
Despite her disability Helen Keller became a famous lecturer, writer, and advocate for the deaf and blind. Read about Keller's education and influential life and check out the "related links" for further reading and research.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Biography: Helen Keller for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
Find information about a woman who was blind and deaf and learned to read, write, and talk. This webpage contains information about Helen Keller.
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Lesson Plan
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Helen Keller Citizen and Socialist

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Undeterred by deafness and blindness, Helen Keller rose to become a major 20th-century humanitarian, educator, and writer.
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Handout
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Helen Keller

For Students 9th - 10th
Undeterred by deafness and blindness, Helen Keller rose to become a major 20th century humanitarian, educator and writer.
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Website
National Women's Hall of Fame

National Women's Hall of Fame: Helen Keller

For Students 3rd - 8th
This online biography of Helen Keller (1880-1968 CE) gives the highlights and accomplishments of her life.
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Unit Plan
Other

Ivy Green: Birthplace of Helen Keller

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A detailed site that recounts the story of Helen Keller and describes her birthplace at Ivy Green, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Click on the links down the left-hand side to see maps, artifacts, and more to find games and activities for...
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Handout
Alabama Humanities Foundation

Encyclopedia of Alabama: Helen Keller

For Students 3rd - 8th
The infamous Alabama native Helen Keller is featured in this brief biography highlighting her early years which led to her fame as well as her later years as an activist on many issues.
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Website
Other

W3 C Recommendations: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
"These guidelines explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. The guidelines are intended for all Web content developers (page authors and site designers) and for developers of authoring tools."
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Article
New York Times

New York Times: On This Day: Helen Keller, 87, Dies

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting look at the life of Helen Keller through her New York Times obituary.

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