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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Why Oceans?

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, which is provided for by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, gives an article on the importance of the ocean. Everyone on earth depends upon the oceans. Learn why oceans are important and what Australia is doing to help...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News: World Powers Condemn Mauritanian Coup

For Students 9th - 10th
World nations have condemned the military leaders responsible for the coup in Mauritania. Promises have been made that new elections will take place soon. Details behind the coup are reviewed. (August 7,2008)
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BBC

Bbc News: Arabic Language Version

For Students 9th - 10th
World news headlines in English with Arabic introductions and target vocabulary words, with vocabulary help in Arabic. Students can also listen to an English language broadcast of the story. Very handy site for upper level...
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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

Madison Media Institute

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you interested in exploring a media career? The site has training opportunities in electronic media, including radio and TV broadcasting, and recording and multimedia technology programming.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Australians: Henry Lawson

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography on this Australian poet and writer Henry Lawson.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Double Eye Vortex at Venus' South Pole

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, this article explores findings related to the "double-eye vortex" discovered hovering above Venus' south pole.
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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.
Article
University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 381: Civil War Submarine

For Students 9th - 10th
A short discussion about the invention of the submarine and its use by both the Confederates and the Federals in the Civil War. This is a transcript of an accompanying radio broadcast.
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PBS

People and Discoveries: Lee De Forest

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography on audion inventor, Lee de Forest, from childhood on. Hyperlinks to additional information about the radio and broadcasting.
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Other

History tv.net

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has an archive of original photographs of important events and broadcasts in the early history of experimental television. Concentrates on the archive of photographs from Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
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PBS

Pbs: Arts

For Students 9th - 10th
The home on the web for arts-related content that airs on PBS stations. You can link to the program sites of long-running arts broadcasts, sample special exhibitions, and investigate what the network is airing or has recently aired on...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Giver Authority

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A unit lesson using the book The Giver by Louis Lowry that will have students be researchers and recorders in the process of finding information on Utopian societies, cults and authority. Students will complete a PowerPoint, Glogster,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Common Application for Undergraduate College Admission

For Teachers 9th - 10th
SCU uses StoryCorps' tested interviewing techniques-combined with outstanding radio broadcasts and animated shorts-to support high school students in the development of identity and in drawing connections between their unique strengths...
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Black Past

Black Past: Winfrey, Oprah

For Students 9th - 10th
A very brief biography of Oprah Winfrey in this encyclopedia article. There is a link to her website.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: A Colorful Hypothesis

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use "Dinosaur Train" to illustrate and excite your students about creating a hypothesis. Website includes a video of "Dinosaur Train", a lesson plan, and student's handout. Lesson plan includes a lab where students can practice making...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Concept to Classroom: Workshop: Inquiry Based Learning

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Explanations, examples, defined vocabulary terms, and answers to questions about nquiry-based learning.
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Concept to Classroom: Tapping Into Multiple Intelligences

For Teachers K - 1st
Explanations, defined vocabulary terms, and answers to questions about Multiple Intelligences.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Radio Fever

For Students 5th - 8th
Radio created a mass entertainment culture that could bridge the gap between those in California and those in New York. Read about the advent of radio stations, and the companies that owned them. See why the federal government had to...