Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Madeline, a Story of the Early Spring Time by Jacob Abbott

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Madeline, A Story of the Early Spring-time by Jacob Abbott [1870], a Christian novel for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Spring Time Stories for Language Lessons by L. N. Fredericks

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Spring-Time Stories for Language Lessons by L. N. Fredericks (1883), short stories with blanks and pictures to help students learn the language.
Article
DOGO Media

Dogo News: Week of 3 10 14: Daylight Saving Time Begins This Weekend

For Students 6th - 8th
Article reports on the change to daylight savings time.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Spring and Mass Model

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive tool where students can explore how a spring behaves, and how changing the elasticity, mass, push/pull force, and friction affect its motion or period. As the spring moves, its motion is shown on a distance-time graph.
Website
Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement

Web Exhibits: Daylight Saving Time

For Students 9th - 10th
Why in the world do we turn our clocks forward in the Spring and back again in the Fall? Share with your students the rationale and history of the Daylight Saving Time concept from Benjamin Franklin through World War I and World War II...
Handout
Texas A&M University

Environmental Protection: Story Time: Rachel Carson

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth biography of Rachel Carson which gives background on her interest in biology and her eventual writing of the seminal book on ecology Silent Spring. Many hyperlinks for additional information.
Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Step 3 (Damped Spring Mass System)

For Students 9th - 10th
This program simulates a particle connected to an anchor by a damped spring. Can you make a realistic looking spring? Try changing the value of k and the amount of damping. Press "Restart" each time you change a value. How does the...
Website
Other

Time and Date: Daylight Saving Time Dst

For Students 9th - 10th
Daylight Saving Time is a way of making better use of the daylight in the evenings by setting the clocks forward one hour during the longer days of summer, and back again in the fall. To remember which way the clock goes, keep in mind...
Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Motion of a Mass on a Spring

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial investigates the motion of a mass on a spring and how a variety of quantities change over the course of time. Such quantities will include forces, position, velocity and energy - both kinetic and potential energy. Take the...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Timed Vertical Oscillation Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the period and frequency of an object oscillating on a spring. You will do this by timing enough oscillations to minimize your error to a low value. You will also use the frequency to find the spring constant of the spring based on...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Predicting the Spring Phytoplankton Bloom in the Gulf of Maine

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson helps young scholars understand the variables that influence the abundance of phytoplankton. Students will make predictions about the timing of the spring phytoplankton bloom in the Gulf of Maine. Furthermore, data from buoy...
Handout
Other

California Energy Commission: Saving Time, Saving Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
The California Energy Commission explains the history of Daylight Saving Time and why we "spring forward, fall back." There is lots of trivia included about time, a chart giving the start and end dates through 2015, and links to much...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Time to Fly!

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about monarch butterflies and their migration patterns. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Website
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: History

For Students 9th - 10th
Founded in 1904 this site traces the advances in the study of genetics from then to the present time.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Natural Wonders

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Many of the interesting landmarks around the world are formed over time by natural processes familiar to us in our everyday lives. This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features images of a variety of beautiful natural wonders.
Article
Other

Earth Sky: Everything You Need to Know: December Solstice 2014

For Students 9th - 10th
Winter solstice, earliest sunset, latest sunrise. It seems that, in the Northern Hemisphere anyway, these three events should happen on the same day. Read this explanation of the changing of the seasons and learn why the winter solstice...
Graphic
Curated OER

Spring Wagon

For Students 9th - 10th
Travel back in time to see what the pioneers used for transportation and to do their daily work. Great pictures of wagons of the west including the chuck wagon, spring wagon, farm wagon, and freight wagon.
Graphic
Other

Pioneer Yosemite History Center Online Tour: Wagons and Stagecoaches

For Students 9th - 10th
Travel back in time to see what the pioneers used for transportation and to do their daily work. Great pictures of wagons of the west including the chuck wagon, spring wagon, farm wagon, and freight wagon. There is a link at the bottom...
Article
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Martha Graham Dancers Return to the Stage

For Students 9th - 10th
This 2003 story from NPR discusses the return of the Martha Graham Dance Company to the stage. It includes images of her modern dance choreography, a selection of New York Times reviews of her work, and several links at the bottom of the...
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Classics in Western Philosophy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Utilize these excellent resources when introducing the concepts of Western Philosophy and/or analyzing changing philosophies over time.
Handout
Country Studies US

Country Studies: The Counter Culture and Environmentalism

For Students 9th - 10th
This web-article discusses how the 1960s and 1970s were a time of cultural upheaval in the US. As many young people came to reject the lifestyle and traditions of their parents and embrace a more radical way of living and thinking.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Motion Graphing Speed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this introduction to motion activity, students will get a personal understanding of speed and acceleration by experiencing it firsthand. Wheeled office chairs or other cart like devices are used to give one student a ride as a fellow...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Mouse Trap Racing in the Computer Age!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students design, build and evaluate a spring-powered mouse trap racer. For evaluation, teams equip their racers with an intelligent brick from a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Education Base Set and a HiTechnic acceleration sensor. They use...
Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Sounds of the Sonnet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Sound Experiments" drive this lesson plan. Sonnet analysis is accompanied by readings based on specific emotions. At this website, there are several links full-text sonnets by such authors as Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Longfellow, and...

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