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Jacques Edouard Berger Foundation: World Art Treasures

For Students 9th - 10th
Berger's slide library is overflowing with information about art from around the world and from every period in history.
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Bobby Fischer: 1943 2008

For Students 9th - 10th
NPR presents a slide show on the life of chess sensation Bobby Fischer who "became a cold war hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion" Boris Spassky in 1972. Fischer was the first U.S. born world chess champion.
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Greenland: Ice on the Move

For Students 9th - 10th
NPR offers a photographic slide show on the status of Greenland's ice glaciers as they start to melt and the consequences of the melting for the future.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Divided Quotation Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th
An eight-slide presentation explaining how to properly punctuate a divided quote.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
A ten-slide presentation demonstrating how to edit writing for sentence variety and how to identify and correct sentence errors such as fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
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PBS

Pbs Orchid Hunter: Orchid Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
NOVA presents a slide show of orchids with brief descriptions of each of the 15 pictures. See the beauty of each orchid, who it was named for and where it lives.
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TES Global

Tes: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens: The Plot

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This 8-slide PowerPoint gives a brief synopsis of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
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Other

Voice Thread: Baby Farm Animals

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Narrated slideshow introduces viewers to a variety of baby animals and answers such questions as, what are baby goats called? what are baby cows called? what are baby swans called? [Registered users can comment on each slide, via text,...
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Scale Box With Scales

For Students 9th - 10th
This box is for keeping a scale and weights. It contains a sliding rule of two levels, carved and divided to contain balances.
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Curated OER

Using a Compound Microscope (Photo by Paul Billiet)

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site is a step by step instructions on how to use a microscope. Begins with the proper way to get the microscope and ends with putting the microscope. The correct way to look at slides and care for you microscope are also discussed....
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Curated OER

Compound Microscope Showing the Stage and Spring Clips

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site is a step by step instructions on how to use a microscope. Begins with the proper way to get the microscope and ends with putting the microscope. The correct way to look at slides and care for you microscope are also discussed....
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Curated OER

A Compound Microscope

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn how to calculate the total magnification of a microscope on this concise site. Links to making a slide, questions on the use of the microscope, and other related microscope topics are included on this site.
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Curated OER

Oronhyatekha

For Students 9th - 10th
Oronhyatekha, also called Peter Martin, is profiled in this comprehensive and fascinating web site! He was one of the first native people to earn a medical degree,held positions in government, but most importantly did not forsake his...
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Curated OER

The First Mechcanical Calculator:

For Students 9th - 10th
Blaise Pascal, the seventeenth-century French mathematician, thinker, and scientist, built the first mechanical adding machine in 1642 based on a design described by Hero of Alexandria (2 CE) to add up the distance a carriage traveled.