Edgar Allen Poe, selected short works
Read these selections yourself
The Fall of the House of Usher
Inside Birding videos
Inside Birding: Episode One, Size and Shape
This video series from All About Birds is designed to teach children the basics to birdwatching.
Here is a summary about this episode from the All About Birds site.
Learn the most fundamental skill for identifying birds: recognizing them by size and shape.
Chris and Jessie show you how to compare different birds and employ your observations to make a confident ID. Join them in the field to practice these techniques on common birds and learn how to distinguish similar species such as Hairy and Downy woodpeckers.
Check out the online bird guide at All About Birds!
Click here for more links from All About Birds. Page down to Explore More to read about sharpening your ID skills with silhouettes, a video about the American Robin, and honing your ability to ID birds with beak size and shape.
Episode Two: Color Pattern
Episode Summary from the All About Birds Site:
If you’re relying solely on your field guide to make an ID, you might be missing out on easy opportunities to identify the birds you see.
Join Jessie and Chris as they demonstrate the importance of observing a bird’s overall color pattern. Learn to recognize specific features and patterns to identify birds with confidence.
To learn more, go to the All About Birds Site and page down to the Explore More section. You’ll find links to information about dark and light plumage patterns, key field marks to watch for, the different parts of a bird, and birding the Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Florida, an episode location.
All About Birds has the best online bird guide on the web!
Episode Three: Behavior
Summary of this episode from the All About Birds website:
Besides being fun, observing the way a bird behaves can provide critical clues to its identity. With stunning footage from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library, Chris and Jessie show you different types of behaviors to watch for and how to interpret them.
Click here to see links relating to this episode, including the Macaulay Library, behavior clues in greater detail, and birding at Green Cay, an episode location.
Episode Four: Habitat
Here is a summary about Episode Four: Habitat from the All About Birds Website:
Inside this Episode
Join Jessie and Chris as they bird the marshes, cypress swamps, and nearby mangroves of Florida’s Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in pursuit of the elusive Limpkin.
You’ll learn how to employ your observations of habitat to help you determine the probability of finding birds in certain locations and to confirm the identity of the birds you see.
For links and more information, click here. Page down to Explore More to check out the Loxahatchee Wildlife Refuge, great birding opportunities in Southern Florida, or to visit eBird for dynamic information on when and where to find birds.
All About Birds has the best online bird guide on the web!
Click here to view downloadable curriculum from CurrClick relating to the study of birds.
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The Insect Folk by Margaret Warner Morley
Download as a zipped file
Internet archive page
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Click here for a CurrClick copywork book based on The Insect Folk. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
To hear this book, click play in the box below or click on the chapter titles.
08 – The Shorthorned Grasshoppers
09 – The Longhorned Grasshoppers
11 – The Cricket-Like Grasshoppers
12 – The Cheery Cricket People
21 – The Well Dressed Lace Bug
25 – The Well Protected Stink Bug
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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton’s 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character’s fraught relationships with his “sickly, cantankerous” wife Zeena and his young, beautiful cousin Mattie Silver. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett for Librivox)
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You can stream individual chapters of this book using the player widget located on its Librivox Internet archive page
Total running time: 3 hours, 13 minutes
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Panama Canal video
Here is an interesting time-lapse video showing the journey of a cruise ship through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. In less than 2 minutes you’ll get a good understanding of the length of the canal and how a ship moves through the locks.
Parents, please do not allow your children to peruse YouTube (or any other video sharing site) alone, and preview all video content before sharing with your children.
Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick which could be used while studying the Panama Canal. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
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John F. Kennedy’s Moon speech
Parents, please do not allow your children to peruse YouTube (or any other video sharing site) alone, and preview all video content before sharing with your children.
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Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from the Frog Prince Tales.
To download this story to MP3, click here.
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp from Andrew Lang’s The Blue Fairy Book. To read the text yourself, click here. To download the entire Blue Fairy Book to MP3,click here.
Aladdin by Anonymous, from Children’s Short Stories v. 4
General Mills Radio Adventure Theater: Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Click here to see CurrClick’s downloadable copywork notebook for Aladdin. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
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Lewis and Clark Radio Theater
Lewis and Clark on the General Mills Radio Adventure theater
The American Trail: The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Click here to see downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick which could be used with a study of Lewis and Clark. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
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In Flanders Field by John McCrae
Read this poem and others by John McCrae
In Flanders Field by John McCrae
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The Sinking of the Titanic and Other Great Sea Disasters by Logan Marshall
To listen, click play in the box or click on the chapter links.
Titanic iceberg
Titanic lifeboat with survivors
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Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
To read this book yourself online, click here.
Click here for a FREE study guide for Anne of Green Gables. Clicking this link will take you away from My Audio School.
To listen, click play in the box below or click on the chapter links.
01. Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Surprised
02. Matthew Cuthbert is Surprised
03. Marilla Cuthbert is Surprised
08. Anne’s Bringing-Up Is Begun
09. Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Properly Horrified
11. Anne’s Impressions of Sunday School
13. The Delights of Anticipation
15. A Tempest in the School Teapot
16. Diana is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results
19. A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confession
20. A Good Imagination Gone Wrong
21. A New Departure in Flavorings
22. Anne is Invited Out to Tea
23. Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor
24. Miss Stacy and her Pupils Get Up a Concert
25. Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves
27. Vanity and Vexation of Spirit
30. The Queen’s Class is Organized
31. Where the Brook and River Meet
37. The Reaper Whose Name is Death
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Eric Liddell
The Torchlighters animated children’s series about Christian Heroes is very well done. Here is a preview:
Netflix subscribers can stream Chariots of Fire,the Academy Award winning movie about Eric Liddell, from their home computer. Here is the original trailer:
Parents, please use caution with You Tube videos. These videos may display a pop-up ad.
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Early America videos
Archiving Early America has several videos about the founding of our country. Click here to view their full list and to play the videos, which include:
- The Ben Franklin Story
- The Life of George Washington
- Declaring Independence
- Paul Revere, Messenger of the Revolution
- The Shot Heard Around the World
- The Treason of Benedict Arnold
- The Real Face of George Washington (video about Mount Rushmore)
- Molly Pitcher, and American Heroine
These videos play in FLASH, so you will need to have the flash plugin software installed on your computer to watch them.
Kids, please get permission from an adult before leaving My Audio School.
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The Ben Franklin Story: video
Click here to go to Archiving Early America, where you can see a two-part video about Ben Franklin.
Click here to view downloadable curriculum from CurrClick relating to Ben Franklin.
These links will take you away from My Audio School.
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The Life of George Washington: video
Archiving Early America has several videos on their site. Click here to see their three part series on the life of George Washington.
Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick which could be used to study the American Revolutionary War.
Clicking these links will take you away from My Audio School. Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School.
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Our Island Story Part 1 by H. E. Marshall
Read this book online OR Read in EPUB format on an e-reader or on your Kindle device
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Part two of this book is also available. Click here to go to Our Island Story part 2.
To hear this book, click play in the box below, or click on the chapter titles in this post.
Click here to view downloadable curriculum from CurrClick which could be used for a study of the Middle Ages. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
Our Island Story: Introduction
Chapter 1: The Stories of Albion and Brutus
Chapter 2: The Coming of the Romans
Chapter 3: The Romans Come Again
Chapter 4: How Caligula Conquered Britain
Chapter 5: The Story of a Warrior Queen
Chapter 6: The Last of the Romans
Chapter 7: The Story of St. Alban
Chapter 8: Vortigern and King Constans
Chapter 9: The Coming of Hengist and Horsa
Chapter 10: Hengist’s Treachery
Chapter 11: How the Giant’s Dance was Brought to Britain
Chapter 12: The Coming of Arthur
Chapter 13: The Founding of the Round Table
Chapter 14: Gregory and the Pretty Children
Chapter 15: How King Alfred Learned to Read
Chapter 16: King Alfred in the Cowherd’s Cottage
Chapter 17: More About Alfred the Great
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Chapter 18: Ethelred the Unready
Chapter 19: How Edmund Ironside Fought for the Crown
Chapter 20: Canute and the Waves
Chapter 21: Edward the Confessor
Chapter 23: The Battle of Stamford Bridge
Chapter 24: The Battle of Hastings
Chapter 25: William the Conqueror
Chapter 28: The Story of the White Ship
Chapter 29: The Story of King Stephen
Chapter 30: Gilbert and Rohesia
Chapter 32: Conquest of Ireland
Chapter 33: Richard Coer de Lion
Chapter 34: How Blondel found the King
Chapter 39: The Story of the Poisoned Dagger
Chapter 40: The Little War of Chalons
Chapter 41: The First Prince of Wales
Chapter 42: The Hammer of the Scots
Chapter 43: Robert the Bruce and Bohun
Chapter 44: The Battle of Bannockburn
Chapter 45: The Battle of Sluys
Chapter 46: The Battle of Crecy
Chapter 47: The Siege of Calais
Chapter 48: The Battle of Poitiers
Chapter 49: Wat Tyler’s Rebellion
Chapter 50: How King Richard II Lost His Throne
Chapter 51: The Battle of Shrewsbury
Chapter 52: How Prince Hal was Sent to Prison
Chapter 53: The Battle of Agincourt
Chapter 54: The Maid of Orleans
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Modern Kids, Vincent van Gogh. Portrait of Joseph Roulin. Arles, early 1889
courtesy of Museum of Modern Art
Click here to see a CurrClick Lapbook project pack on Great Artists of the World. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
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Modern Kids: Nicholas Nixon, The Brown Sisters. 1975-2005.
The Museum of Modern Art did not include this work of art with the podcast, perhaps for copyright reasons. I’ve posted a link below the podcast where you can see the images.
courtesy of Museum of Modern Art
This link takes you to a gallery online where you can see 32 Brown Sisters images. You’ll see one picture with an orange dot beside it. Hovering over the dot will reveal more of the photos, and you can click on the one you want to enlarge
Note: Clicking the link for the Fraenkel Gallery will take you away from My Audio School. Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School.
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Modern Kids: Robert Smithson. Corner Mirror with Coral. 1969
courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art
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Modern Kids: James Turrell. A Frontal Passage. 1994
courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art
