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Discovery Education: World History Lesson Plans
These lesson plans deal with world history. Content is organized by grade level, but all lesson plans include suggestions for adaptations for older or younger audiences.
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Discovery Education: Planet Ocean: Blue Whale
This webpage provides a nice description of the Blue Whale along with several photos.
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Discovery Education: Exploring Nature
This article gives some excellent ways we can engage our children in exploring and learning about nature.
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Discovery Education: Discovering Science at Home
Parents are the primary teachers! But how do you teach Science at home? Create your own science center. Here are some great ideas to get started.
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Discovery Education: I Know That: Comparing Fractions
Fishy Fractions is an arcade-style mathematics game that has students find the fraction that is either greater than or less than a given fraction. In each round of the game, players answer problems by helping Ulani the pelican catch fish.
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Discovery Education: Sight and Light
A two-day lesson plan for young scholars to learn about the anatomy of the eye and the nature of vision. Includes a variety of supplemental resources for teachers.
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Discovery Education: The Great Gatsby
Very detailed lesson plans for teaching the novel. Includes audio links for the pronunciation of vocabulary words, discussion questions, and classroom activities.
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Discovery Education: The Amazing Octopus
This lesson plan explores how some animals have the ability to change their body color to blend in with their environments, and how this ability protects them from predators by making them practically invisible.
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Discovery Education: Birds
This lesson plan explores the evidence that birds evolved from dinosaurs, as well as how we can make judgments about such issues based on scientific research.
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Discovery Education: b.j. Pinchbeck's Math Homework Helper
The math section of this popular Homework Helper site features links to elementary math, algebra, geometry and other related resources.
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Discovery Education: Apes to Man
This lesson plan explores the primates in the African savannas that were the first animals to walk erect (bipedalism), which is a milestone in human evolution.
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Discovery Education: A Nation's Voice
A Nation's Voice is a lesson plan that uses internet sites, magazines and books, electronic encyclopedias and databases to understand the policy making of the U.S.
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Discovery Education: Creatures of the Skies
This lesson plan explores the scientific and common names of birds, how birds can be identified into a "type" by their size and shape, and how each type of bird has certain physical and behavioral characteristics.
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Discovery Education: Dynamic Earth, Tsunami
Use this site to teach your students what a tidal wave or tsunami is from this lesson plan. The discovery activity shows how a tsunami happens.
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Discovery Education: Ivory Wars
A lesson plan that examines the trade in ivory tusks from African elephants. Young scholars research the problem, learn about legislation that surrounds the issue, and find out about the economics of the ivory trade as well as the impact...
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Animal Planet: Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin
This site provides information about the Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin including what they eat and how they find food using a process called echolocation.
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Discovery Education: Web Math: Multiplying Polynomials
This WebMath interactive site allows students to enter problems and get an answer. It offers tips on how to multiply polynomials.
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Discovery Education: Web Math: Plot/graph an Inequality
This site provides a step-by-step process to graph an inequality. Simply type in your expression, and the website will graph the expression as well as explain how and why it did what it did.
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Discovery Education: Web Math: Divide Two Polynomials
This WebMath site will tell you the answer to the division of two polynomials. Great for checking your answers.
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Discovery Education: Web Math: Algebra
This WebMath site provides links to tutorials and lessons in both Algebra I and II. Links to topics such as factoring, solving equations, polynomials, simplifying equations, graphing, and much more.
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Discovery Education: Web Math: Factor a Polynomial With Three Terms Trinomials
This WebMath site allows a student to type in any trinomial and find the factorization of that trinomial and an explanation.
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Discovery Education: Web Math: Convert Regular Decimals to Scientific Notation
This site gives an answer and explanation for any conversion requested by the user.
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Discovery Education: Web Math: See What Place Value a Number Has
Here's an interactive problem solver allowing you to type in a multi-digit number and get answers to what place value each number represents.
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Discovery Education: Web Math: How to Round a Number
This site provides a description and helpful hints on how to round numbers to any place value. Content also includes an interactive problem solver complete with a full description of how the answer was accomplished.