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University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: Kitchen Science

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This guide focuses on everyday substances and how we can change their properties by adding heat or cold, physically manipulating them, or mixing them together.
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University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: Physical Science

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This guide focuses on four physical science topics that fascinate children and scientists alike. They are motion, magnets, sound, and light. With your guidance and support, these topics provide children with many opportunities to explore...
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University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: Plant Life

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This teacher's guide focuses on the fascinating world of plants. Through books and other print materials, and exploration of actual plants, children will identify plants as living things, examine the parts of plants, experiment with what...
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University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: Our Natural World

For Teachers K - 1st
The focus of this guide is the natural world around us and its aim is to foster children's understanding and appreciation of the environment right outside their doors.
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University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: Investigating Water

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This guide engages children in the process of scientific inquiry using the context of a favorite early childhood pastime-water play.
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University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: Animals 1: Fur, Fins, Feathers, and More

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This teacher's guide focuses on familiar animals such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.
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Handout
University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: Animals 2: Insects and Spiders

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This teacher's guide focuses on the smaller animals that inhabit our world: insects and spiders. These fascinating creatures provide young children many hands-on opportunities to learn about the diversity of living things, how living...
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University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: My Body My Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This teacher's guide introduces children to the human body and the five senses and covers the major body parts and what they do. Children also will use their five senses to learn about the world.
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Handout
Florida State University

Florida State University: Science, Optics & You: Timeline in Optics

For Students 9th - 10th
A timeline from prehistory to modern days of advances in optics and related disciplines, and of the people responsible for them. The timeline is categorized into distinct spans of time, each accompanied by extensive information.
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Website
Florida State University

Florida State University: Women and Gender in Classical Athens

For Students 9th - 10th
A lecture describing the marriage practices and legal status of women in Classical Athens.
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: Parallel Histories: Exploration and Early Settlement

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Spanish conquistadors who explored what was to become Spanish America. Included are links to digital collections from the Library of Congress and the National Library of Spain.
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University of South Florida

Exploring Florida: Nasa Photographs

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This colorful display has numerous photographs taken throughout the history of Cape Canaveral. Images include shuttle launches, landings, and even the astronauts themselves. Captions are included with each picture.
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Curated OER

Usf: Jean Ribault Claims Florida for France

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the early French settlements in Florida and South Carolina and the Spanish treatment of the settlers there. The site map will take you to many other articles about Florida history.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Florida Mouse

For Students 4th - 8th
Hot, dry, sandy uplands in central and coastal Florida are habitats for prickly pear cactus, pocket gophers, gopher tortoises, and the Florida Mouse. Gopher tortoises dig long, deep burrows that provide homes for Florida Mice and as many...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Julia Tuttle

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet Julia Tuttle, recognized as the only female founder of a major USA city - Miami! She recognized the potential of the area and was able to persuade H.Flagler to extend his railway to what is now Miami. The rest is history.
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Other

Augustine.com: St. Augustine Slave Trade Market

For Students 9th - 10th
The first public market in st. Augustine, Florida dates back to the era of slavery. Learn about the slave trade and the role it played in the city's early history as well as the modern civil rights movement.
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Handout
University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: About the Florida Bay

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the habitats found where the Everglades run into the sea. A wonderful resource for learning about a unique part of the world.
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: The Mariel Boatlift: How Cold War Politics Drove Thousands of Cubans to Florida in 1980

For Students 9th - 10th
After Fidel Castro loosened emigration policies, some 125,000 Cubans landed on U.S. shores over a span of five months. The Mariel Boatlift of 1980 was a mass emigration of Cubans to the United States. The exodus was driven by a stagnant...
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: The Mariel Boatlift: How Cold War Politics Drove Thousands of Cubans to Florida in 1980

For Students 9th - 10th
After Fidel Castro loosened emigration policies, some 125,000 Cubans landed on U.S. shores over a span of five months. The Mariel Boatlift of 1980 was a mass emigration of Cubans to the United States. The exodus was driven by a stagnant...
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Article
George Mason University

George Mason University: World History Sources: Hammurabi's Code

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Nancy L. Stockdale. who teaches at the University of Central Florida, describes how she mediates a discussion of Hammurabi's Code with her students.
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Florida-Spectrum Environmental Services

Florida Spectrum: Chemical Fact Sheet: Neon

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed information on neon, its properties, history and uses. A good resource for this element.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Disputed Election of 2000

For Students 9th - 10th
Online summary of the dispute over the presidential election of 2000 and the outcome.
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Website
Other

Florida Museum of Natural History: The Gopher Tortoise

For Students 9th - 10th
Details surrounding the habits of the gopher tortoise are discussed in this resource by The Gopher Tortoise Council. The problems facing this tortoise are listed and potential solutions are outlined.
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Handout
University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ichthyology: Fish Groups

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides information on, and photographs of, the primitive fish classes. Discusses the Superclass Agnatha, the Class Chondrichthyes, and the Osteichthyes. Very interesting, with lots of pictures!

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