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Apple

I Tunes Store for Podcasts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Both students and teachers can find podcasts that can be subscribed to, or downloaded to a computer or any MP3 playing device. Most are free and those that carry a fee are clearly marked. The best place to start is under the Education...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Magnetism and Sound: Creating Your Own Headphones

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will explore how magnets can create a current by making their own headphones and listening to music from their iPods.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing Across the Curriculum Lesson: This I Believe: History

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This writing assignments asks students to assume the voice of a person from history they have researched. Focusing on a topic or belief the person showed passion about as history unfolded, the students write an essay modeled after NPR's...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A r.a.f.t. Writing Prompt: This I Believe

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This writing assignments asks students to assume the voice of a character from a novel they are reading. Focusing on a topic or belief the character shows passion about in the novel, the students write an essay modeled after NPR's "This...
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Article
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Giant Magnetoresistance: The Really Big Idea Behind a Very Tiny Tool

For Students 9th - 10th
This itsy-bitsy phenomenon makes your iPod and hard drive tick.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Apple Ii Plus 1979

For Students 9th - 10th
Long before the iPhone, the iPod or even the Mac, there was the Apple.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Modulated Coil

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you hear a magnet? In this activity you will be able to transfer the sound from your iPhone, iPod or radio to a cassette-tape player.
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Other

Design at Apple

For Students 9th - 10th
Jonathan Ive, vice president of industrial design at Apple, discusses the design of the iMac, iPod and other innovative products.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Capitalization in Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson focuses on the use of capital letters in sentences including the following: after a colon, after a semicolon, titles, and lower case proper nouns at the beginning of sentences (eg. iPod). She also offers a memory trick...
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Other

Nm Learning Games Lab: Math Snacks

For Students 9th - 10th
Games and videos, each accompanied by guidelines for teachers and students, cover math topics such as proportion, ratio, number line, scale, and measurement. Downloads are available for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Fried Green Tomatoes & Cultural Crossroads

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Having read Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, students will conduct research through an interview with an elderly person from the community (a field trip to local nursing home facility) to determine the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Tech Tours Using Google Earth

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Grab your passport and head around the world as K-2 students become reporters using Google Earth and podcasting to learn and share about maps, globes, people and places around the community, state and world. Tools featured include:...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Poems About Ages and Stages

For Teachers 9th - 10th
William Shakespeare's "The Seven Ages of Man" pointed out how life happens in stages. Modeling the Bard himself and Harry Chapin's "Cat's In The Cradle", which breaks a father-son relationship into four stages (verses), each student will...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Legend Lives On

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity, learners will Use "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", sung by Gordon Lightfoot as a model. They will write poems that tell a detailed story of a historical event. The poem will be brought to life using a...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Creating a Second Person Choice Story

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan is designed to help students understand plot dimensions and literary devices while writing a multi-faceted short story that has many possible outcomes. For inspiration, students will analyze songs that tell stories for...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: One Minute in Time Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Cure's song "10:15 on a Saturday Night" explains what happens in one slowed-down minute as the singer is waiting for an important phone call, while also utilizing some catchy onomatopoeia to emphasize the seconds ticking by. In this...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Color My World Grey and Blue

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After listening to the song "Grey Street" by the Dave Matthews Band, and the song "Blu is a Mood" by Blu Cantrell, students will explore the lyrics and discover what role color can play when combined with a particular setting. Students...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Beautiful Noise Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, learners will listen to just the sounds from two YouTube videos; they will use a graphic organizer to create a mind movie. Inspired by the images that their minds created, they will then listen to Neil Diamond's...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Ain't That America

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students think that classic literature and historic events have little in common with life today, right? Think again! In this lesson, students get a chance to compare themes from classic novels or from American history to those found in...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Advice to Youth on Things Now Gone

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Poetry and music are unmistakably intermixed, and in this lesson, we focus on the word choice and idea development of both song and poem. After listening to the modern song and reading the famous old poem, "Gone" by Switchfoot and "To...
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Other

Podcasting 101 for K 12 Librarians

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article gets down to the basics, including what podcasts are, how to access them, how to create them, and why to use them. While it is specifically directed toward school librarians, the information is equally applicable for...
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Other

K12 Handhelds: Podcasting

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a great introduction to podcasting. Find out how to create and publish your own podcasts from this K12 Handhelds informational site.
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AulaClic

Aula Clic: Aprende a Usar I Tunes + I Pod

For Students 9th - 10th
This article will show you how to install and use the free program iTunes in Spanish. It has screen shots and a video tutorial.
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Other

Class Tools: Choose Game Formats: Figurative Language

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Pick a game format that you would like to play: "Matching Pairs", "Wordshoot", "Flashcards", "Manic Miner", or "CannonBall Fun". For each game, choose the literal meaning for the figurative language presented. Also available in formats...

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