Professional Doc
University of Oregon

Big Ideas in Beginning Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The goal for teachers from the academic content standards is every child to be reading by 3rd grade. This site will help teachers to teach the "big ideas" in reading: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text,...
Website
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: Big Baby, Brainy Baby

For Students 9th - 10th
The Why? Files have uncovered information relating baby birth size to early development. The study discusses the positives of delivering a larger baby.
Interactive
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: The Secret Life of the Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS special explores the brain from birth to old age. Take a look at snapshots of brain development at birth, as a child, as a teenager, as an adult, and in old age.
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Picasso, the Early Years 1892 1906

For Students 3rd - 8th
With the National Gallery of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Maryland Public TV developed programming and this website to explore the early years of Picasso's artistic development from his talent at 11 until early adulthood....