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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Soaring With Literary Elements and Devices

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, learners will observe literary elements and devices in a variety of chapter books. Students will be paired with a partner and allowed to choose one book to identify literary elements. Using digital cameras and a computer,...
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Website
Other

Vic Firth: Educator's Resource Library

For Students 9th - 10th
This website is a cornucopia of resources for percussion instruction. There are videos, audiocasts, podcasts, interviews with talented percussionists. Please check out this website is you are interested in any aspect of percussion.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students begin this lesson by discussing what makes a good, vivid story and creating a working checklist of the criteria for a good story. They explore background information about the Mercury Theatre production of the "War of the...
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Handout
Other

Lexiconic.net: Elements of Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains how to approach an analysis of a poem. It discusses assumptions people may have, the importance of reading it closely before analyzing it, looking at the stanza structure, the type of poem, the sound patterns,...
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Other

21 Things4 Students: Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Media Table

For Students 9th - 10th
This chart lists different tools students can use to create digital media. The table covers animation, audio recording and podcasts, cartoons, infographics, interactives, screencasts, slideshows, and videos. Each tool has a list of...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Apa Bibliography: Electronic Sources: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces how to format an electronic source in an APA bibliography. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "APA Bibliography: Electronic Sources."
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Other

K12 Online Conference 2008

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Keep yourself up on the latest technology and how it can be used in your classroom with K12 Online Conferences. Earn credit for professional development podcasts, discover live RSS feeds of the most up to date information on events...
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Website
Crown Copyright (UK)

Department of Education: Teacher's Tv

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teachers' TV is a videocasting channel for everyone who works at any level of education. This British website take you inside classrooms and schools to see how good teachers are bringing the curriculum to life and improving schools. Many...
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Primary
Georgetown University

Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Buildings and Memorials

For Students 9th - 10th
The unifying themes of this podcast are memorialization and reconciliation. In this podcast, Georgetown University and American Studies student Kelly Skeen discusses how Georgetown University has memorialized its historic ties to the...
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: History This Week: The Mother of Level Measurements

For Students 9th - 10th
September 24, 1902. A new cooking school is set to open at Boston's 30 Huntington Avenue. The rooms will soon be filled with trainee cooks, who will watch in awe as the school's namesake and principal, Fannie Farmer, lectures on...
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Unit Plan
Geographypods

Geographypods: Theme 1: Population and Change: Population Change

For Students 9th - 10th
This learning module looks at how population changes. Covers population pyramids, the demographic transition model, the problem of a youthful population, how China tries to control the size of its population, and how HIV and AIDS have...
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Activity
Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society: Fill 'Er Up: The Evolution of Gas Stations

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a fascinating trip into the past to experience how gas stations have evolved from livery stables in Wisconsin. In addition to the descriptions of the architectural styles through the decades, history is brought to life with a video...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Ipodderx

For Students 9th - 10th
A three-part series on the "How-tos" of podcasting. The first part is how to get ?Podcasts? on your iPod. For the second part of the how-to you can listen to a Podcast, and the third part of the how-to is about making your own Podcast.