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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Music Conducting: Classroom Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An excellent lesson plan that helps students learn the role of a music conductor. Students will engage in various activities that allow them to have a hands on approach to conducting their classmates.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Interval

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about simple intervals and compound intervals in this well writtern lesson. You will also learn how an interval is classified. Included are several self checking problems.
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Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Key Signature

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about key signatures with this well written tutorial. You can test what you have learned near the bottom of the page with a key signature problem. The solution is available with just a click of the mouse.
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Water Balance

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how water levels in the body influence the thirst cycle and body fluid regulation. Find out about dehydration and identify common causes of dehydration.
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Open Stax: Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an overview of the role of energy in chemical reactions.
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Open Stax: Anatomy and Physiology: Types of Tissues

For Students 9th - 10th
The term tissue is used to describe a group of cells found together in the body. Although there are many types of cells in the human body, they are organized into four broad categories of tissues: epithelial, connective, muscle, and...
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Open Stax: Anatomy and Physiology: Connective Tissue

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the major functions of connective tissue is to connect tissues and organs. Learn all about connective tissue here.
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Open Stax: Exercise, Nutrition, Hormones, and Bone Tissue

For Students 9th - 10th
All of the organ systems of your body are interdependent, and the skeletal system is no exception. The food you take in via your digestive system and the hormones secreted by your endocrine system affect your bones. Even using your...
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Open Stax: Anatomy and Physiology: Nervous Tissue

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn here about nervous tissue, tissue that is composed of two types of cells - neurons and glial cells.
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Open Stax: Anatomy and Physiology: The Function of Nervous Tissue

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn here about how nervous tissue is capable of communicating within the nervous system.
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Body Fluids and Fluid Compartments

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the chemical and physical characteristics of the fluids that make up the human body.
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Open Stax: Work, Energy, and Power in Humans

For Students 9th - 10th
In the following interactive students will begin to explain the human body's consumption of energy when at rest vs. when engaged in activities that do useful work. They will also calculate the conversion of chemical energy in food into...
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Open Stax: Conservation of Momentum

For Students 11th - 12th
From a chapter on Linear Momentum and Collisions in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter discusses the principle of conservation of momentum and the expression for it, along with examples. It then explains the role this...
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Open Stax: Homesteading: Dreams and Realities

For Students 11th - 12th
After reading this section from a chapter on "Westward Expansion", students will be able to identify the challenges that farmers faced as they settled west of the Mississippi River and describe the unique experiences of women who...
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Open Stax: The Great Depression 1929 1932: President Hoover's Response

For Students 11th - 12th
Examines how Herbert Hubert responded to the crisis of the Great Depression and his personal belief system that caused him to respond that way. Also looks at how governments at other levels addressed the Great Depression, and why most...
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Open Stax: Elements and Atoms, the Building Blocks of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an overview of elements and atoms, the building blocks of matter.
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Open Stax: Andrew R. Barron: Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (Vsepr) Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed explanation of Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) Theory with examples and questions for the reader to check comprehension. Also includes step-by-step instructions for correctly building molecules using VSEPR Theory....
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Anatomy of the Lymphatic and Immune Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn and apply understanding of the structure and function of the components of the human lymphatic and immune systems.
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Organs and Structures of the Respiratory System

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn and understand the structures that make up the respiratory system, and then apply that knowledge to understand the process of oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange.
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Open Stax: Anatomy and Physiology: The Urinary System and Homeostasis

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn how the functions of the urinary system and other systems of the human body are interrelated.
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Open Stax: Anatomy and Physiology: Female Reproductive System

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about the structure and function of the organs of the female reproductive system.
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Open Stax: Anatomy and Physiology: Male Reproductive System

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about the structure and function of the organs of the male reproductive system.
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Open Stax: The Great Depression 1929 1932: The Depths of the Great Depression

For Students 11th - 12th
Examines the challenges faced by the average American, by African Americans, and by farmers on the Great Plains during the Great Depression, and the government's response or lack thereof.
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Open Stax: Gyroscopic Effects: Vector Aspects of Angular Momentum

For Students 11th - 12th
From a chapter on Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter explains how to use the right-hand rule to determine direction for angular velocity, momentum, and torque. Also discusses the...