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Web Gallery of Art: Aristotle and Phyllis

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Aristotle and Phyllis", created by Master of the Housebook, c. 1485 (Dry point, diameter 155 mm).
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Slide Player: History of the Atomic Model

For Students 9th - 10th
Short slideshow looking at the history of models of the atom, including the contributions of Aristotle, Democritus, John Dalton, J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, and Niels Bohr.
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A Short History of the Atom

For Students 9th - 10th
A classroom wiki where students present profiles of scientists who developed models of the atom or who contributed to the understanding of atomic theory. Covers Democritus, Aristotle, John Dalton, J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, Marie...
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Web Gallery of Art: Aristotle: Works

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Aristotle: Works", created by Girolamo Da Cremona in 1483 (Manuscript , 409 x 272 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Aristotle: Works

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Aristotle: Works", created by Girolamo Da Cremona in 1483 (Manuscript , 409 x 272 mm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Aristotle and Phyllis

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Aristotle and Phyllis", created by Hans Baldung Grien in 1513 (Woodcut, 330 x 236 mm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Aristotle With a Bust of Homer

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Aristotle with a Bust of Homer", created by Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn in 1653 (Oil on canvas, 144 x 137 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Aristotle and Diogenes

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Aristotle and Diogenes", created by Davide Ghirlandaio, c. 1475 (Fresco).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Aristotle

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Aristotle", created by Joos Van Wassenhove, c. 1476 (Oil on wood, 104 x 68 cm).
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University of Virginia

Uva: The Real World Air Resistance

For Students 9th - 10th
A contrast of Galileo and Aristotle's view of inertia and motion. Describes air resistance force and how its reality seems to initially support Aristotle's view.
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New York University

Time Space in Classical Greece: The Poetics

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the beginnings of tragedy and the six necessary components of tragedy. Includes Aristotle's thoughts on tragedies.
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Polis: The City

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site draws on the writings of Aristotle to answer the question: What exactly is a "polis"?
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University of Virginia

Uva Physics: Using Vectors to Describe Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Background information on vectors and their use in describing motion in two dimensions. A comparison of Aristotle's and Galileo's perspectives on force and motion is given.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Aristotle

For Students 9th - 10th
(384-322 BC) Greek philosopher, scientist, physician
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Aristotle

For Students 9th - 10th
(384-322 BCE) Greek philosopher.
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University of South Florida

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find stories, novels, and poems from more than one hundred authors. Download select works as MP3 files or read or listen to them online. Available selections span a wide range of literature, from nursery rhymes to the philosophy of...
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Story Behind the Science

Story Behind the Science: Understanding Earth's Age [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Article describing early efforts, beginning with Aristotle, to determine the Earth's age, and the influence of current culture on the acceptability of new and radical scientific theories. Questions are posed throughout about the nature...
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Stanford University

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Saint Thomas Aquinas

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a very detailed site about the life and the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 CE). This site provides the reader with a brief biography, comparisons between Aristotle and Aquinas, commentary on Aquinas' work, and also a...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Ethics Reader: Great Ethicists of the Western Tradition

For Students 9th - 10th
A 190-page reader of selected writings from the most-influential thinkers of the Western tradition on the wide-ranging subject of ethics. Essential background information for any serious student of the principles of law, good government,...
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Society of Archbishop Justus

Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Friar, and Theologian: 28 January 1274

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of St. Thomas Aquinas and his response to Aristotle. Discusses his religious influence today.
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Robert H. Sarkissian

Island of Freedom: Rene Descartes

For Students 9th - 10th
Good overview of the life and philosophy of Descartes. Notes his impressive achievements in geometry, physiology, and natural science in addition to his important works in philosophical method and metaphysics. Credits Descartes as the...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Is There a Center of the Universe?

For Students 9th - 10th
It's been a long road to the discovery that Earth is not the center of the Solar System, the Milky Way, or the universe; great thinkers from Aristotle to Bruno have grappled with it for millennia. But if we aren't at the center of the...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What's the Definition of Comedy? Banana.

For Students 9th - 10th
What makes us giggle and guffaw? The inability to define comedy is its very appeal; it is defined by its defiance of definition. Addison Anderson riffs on the philosophy of Henri Bergson and Aristotle to elucidate how a definition draws...
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Routledge Encyclopedia: Greek Philosophy: Impact on Islamic Philosophy

For Students 9th - 10th
This article is a discussion of the Greek-Hellenistic philosophy within the Islamic world. Early Islamic philosophers shunned the influence of Greek philosophy; however, over time that view began to change. Certain philosophers hailed...

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