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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Radio Reception and Transmission

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teams of young scholars learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, and test a radio receiver and optional transmitter that can receive FM broadcasts. Lesson focuses on how advances in radio communications have...
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Other

Public Relations Writing: Release Formats

For Students 9th - 10th
If you need to know how to write a public service announcement for the radio, this site will offer examples and tips on putting one together.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Radiowaves and Electromagnetic Fields

For Students 9th - 10th
Broadcast radio waves from KPhET. Wiggle the transmitter electron manually or have it oscillate automatically. Display the field as a curve or vectors. The strip chart shows the electron positions at the transmitter and at the receiver.
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BBC

Bbc: Radio 4: Seeds of Trouble

For Students 9th - 10th
Two summaries are provided of radio broadcasts concerning the ongoing political debate over genetically modified foods. Links to the actual radio broadcasts are also provided.
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Other

Azadi Afghan Radio

For Students 9th - 10th
Azadi Afghan Radio is an Afghan radio broadcast through the Web. Content also includes written news, a variety of audio interviews, and specials.
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Other

Azadi Afghan Radio

For Students 9th - 10th
Azadi Afghan Radio is an Afghan radio broadcast through the Web. Content also includes written news, a variety of audio interviews, and specials.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Machine: Radio

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Other

Academy of Radio & Television Broadcasting

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you interestes in a career in radio or television broacasting? The site has the training programs available at the Academy of Radio and Television Broadcasting.
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Other

Arrl: The National Association for Amateur Radio

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about the inner workings of Amateur Radio. Here you can find current programs on the air, learn about licensing, find out about government regulations, and more.
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: National Public Radio

For Students 9th - 10th
National Public Radio's official site offers hourly news audio as well as streaming audio and transcripts of some shows.
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PBS

Pbs: People and Discoveries: Kdka Begins to Broadcast 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from PBS details the history of radio and KDKA (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) the first radio station to offer programming. Mentions: advertising, NBC Radio, mass culture.
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: President Harding Installed a Radio

For Students 3rd - 8th
This 3-page article explores the role of radio in the 1920s, and the day that President Harding installed a radio in the White House.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Ockham's Razor: Hypatia of Alexandria

For Students 9th - 10th
The details of Hypatia's life and tragic death are given in this transcript of a radio talk show, using a satirical twist: "why girls shouldn't do mathematics."
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Other

Suny Albany: Talking History

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
SUNY Albany presents archives of the weekly broadcast/internet radio program, Talking History, begun in 1996 and focusing on all aspects of history. The goal is "to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as...
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US Department of State

America.gov: Edward R. Murrow [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Highlights the life and career of broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow. Examines his "This is London" reports during World War 11, the Senator McCarthy anti-Communist campaign in the 1950s, his critical treatment of migrant workers, and...
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Other

Lee De Forest, American Inventor: The Complete Lee De Forest

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive site covering all aspects of Lee de Forest, his inventions, writings, and personal life. Find drawings and pictures of his audion tube and find out about his legacy, especially in the world of electronics.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Invention of the Week: Lee De Forest

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website provides information on the life and inventions of Lee DeForest, the man who invented the audion tube, which made commercial radio broadcasting practical.
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Rubber Ducks Make Cross Oceanic Voyage

For Students 9th - 10th
This radio broadcast describes the tracking of rubber ducks that were accidentally dumped into the north Pacific Ocean in 1992. Scientists are learning a lot about ocean currents as the ducks arrive on land in various countries.
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Ghana Celebrates 50 Years as Independent Nation

For Students 9th - 10th
In this article and the accompanying radio broadcasts, Ghana reflects back on its accomplishments in the fifty years since it became independent of colonial rule. It was the first African nation south of the Sahara to do so. [March 7, 2007]
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Mamie Smith and the Birth of the Blues Market

For Students 9th - 10th
This overview of a story originally aired on All Things Considered on NPR provides a description of the story complete with pictures and pertinent media. The entire radio broadcast is also provided in full.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Science Show: Eight Fingered Fish Fossil

For Students 9th - 10th
Site provides a 1998 transcript of a science radio broadcast about a eight-fingered fossil fish find. Narrated by Robin Williams.
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PBS

Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Edwin Armstrong

For Students 9th - 10th
This brilliant engineer advanced both AM and FM radio, turning them into viable broadcast technologies, and innovated military radio uses in two World Wars.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Siegmund Loewe

For Students 9th - 10th
Siegmund Loewe was a German engineer and businessman that developed vacuum tube forerunners of the modern integrated circuit. He pioneered both radio and television broadcasting, and the company he established with his brother, David...
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Other

Voice of America News: Vietnamese Language Edition

For Students 9th - 10th
Vietnamese language edition of Voice of America broadcasts and online articles. Covers both world news and news about Vietnam. There is also a Special English section where non-native speakers of English can read and listen to the news...

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