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Classroom TipsFrom managing the technology to tips for transporting video files, this resource offers practical advice and strategies for video use. |
Pre-K-12 |
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Effective Video-Based LessonsWe offer you some hints, gathered over long experience of helping educators integrate video into their teaching, about how to make the most of VITAL video in your lessons. |
Pre-K-12 |
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Scale City: FAQs and Media ListThis PDF answers questions teachers may have about Using Scale City To Teach Proportional Reasoning, including contact information. It also includes a Media List with the times of all the videos in the teaching modules that may be used to help plan a group professional development event around Using Scale City. |
6-8 |
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Building Video Literacy: Types of ShotsThis resource will help you and your students understand how analyzing video is similar to reading texts.
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5-12 |
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Building Video Literacy: FramingIn this activity created by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, students explore how the framing of a shot affects the meaning of an image.
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5-12 |
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Acid Mine Drainage: General Level Background EssaysThese two background essays provide general information about acid mine drainage (AMD) for grades 6-12. The first explores how AMD is formed and its environmental impact, and the second focuses on the chemical processes involved in AMD. They can be shared with students or used as a reference by teachers. |
6-12 |
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Bernheim Forest: Background EssaysThese two essays provide background information for grades 4-12 about water conservation and preservation at Bernheim Forest. The first essay describes the water-friendly features of the Bernheim Visitor Center, and the second describes two restoration projects undertaken at the forest. |
4-12 |
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Acid Mine Drainage: Advanced Level Background EssayThis background essay for high school chemistry explores the chemical processes that underlie the problem of acid mine drainage and includes detailed equations representing these processes. It can be shared with students or used as a reference by teachers. |
6-12 |
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Bernheim Forest Discussion QuestionsThis PDF combines all discussion questions from the eight “Bernheim Forest” videos into a single document for teachers to download and print. |
4-12 |
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Acid Mine Drainage Discussion QuestionsThis PDF combines all discussion questions from the eight “Acid Mine Videos” pages into a single convenient document that teachers can easily download and print. The discussion questions are divided into three levels: General (6-12), Intermediate (9-12), and Advanced (High School Chemistry). |
6-12 |
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Bernheim Forest Graphic HandoutsThis set of five graphic handouts illustrate concepts from the eight “Bernheim Forest” videos including the design of the green roof, the cistern, and the peat filtration system as well as mycoremediation to offset oil and gasoline pollution and restoring a creek to its original meander. |
4-12 |
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Acid Mine Drainage Quantitative Questions, Advanced LevelThis handout for high school chemistry students is divided into general, intermediate, and advanced problems that require students to balance chemical equations, write equilibrium expressions, and answer other quantitative questions related to acid mine drainage. |
6-12 |
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Bernheim Forest GlossaryThis glossary provides definitions for scientific and technical terms used in the eight “Bernheim Forest” videos. |
4-12 |
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Acid Mine Drainage GlossaryThis glossary provides definitions for scientific and technical terms used in the eight “Acid Mine Drainage” videos. |
6-12 |
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Acid Mine Drainage Lesson Plans, Grades 6-9These two physical science/chemistry lesson plans for grades 6-9 are both lab activities. One involves using acid/base indicators to test the acidity or alkalinity of common household chemicals, and the other involves testing how different factors affect the solubility of substances in water. |
6-12 |
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Acid Mine Drainage Graphic HandoutsThis set of four graphic handouts illustrate important concepts from the eight “Acid Mine Drainage” videos: the pH of water, what the term “logarithmic scale” means relative to pH, how raising pH causes metal ions to fall out of solution, and an acid mine drainage remediation system. |
6-12 |
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Animal Body Plans: Homeobox GenesThe homeobox genes that define the basic body plan of mice and fruit flies are illustrated in this graphic from The Human Evolution Coloring Book by Adrienne Zihlman. The accompanying article describes how these genes act as "molecular architects" in all animal species. Accessibility features: Long Description |
9-12 |
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CO2 Concentrations at Mauna Loa Observatory, HawaiʻiThis resource, adapted from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center,
provides a graph of monthly average carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration from
1958 to 2000 at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaiʻi. |
6-12 |
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Convergence: Marsupials and PlacentalsThis graphic illustrates some of the marsupial mammals in Australia and placental mammals in North America. Even though they are not closely related, these mammals look alike because they have adapted to similar ecological roles. From The Human Evolution Coloring Book by by Adrienne Zihlman. |
9-12 |
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Dab of DNA Helps Keep Counterfeiters at BayFind out in this USA Today article how
DNA sequences can vouch for a souvenir's authenticity. |
9-12 |
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