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Cryptography on the TI-83 Graphing Calculator
Students explore the history of cryptography. They assess function notation and transformation, matrix operations, and the fundamentals of modular arithmetic. Using graphing calculators, students develop their own encryption schemes.
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Stimulus Response
Students explore the five steps in the stimulus-response pathway. They analyze the senses and the difference between animals' primary and secondary senses. Students collect information about animal behavior to debate the ethics of...
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Henry VIII (1509-47 AD)
In this English history worksheet, learners investigate the life of King Henry VIII by reading a six paragraph biography and answering four short answer questions about it.
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The Concept of Energy
For this energy worksheet, students read about the discoveries of Galileo and how different philosophers contributed to our understanding of energy. Then students complete 4 short answer questions.
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Working for Water
Learners examine the ways that government works to help improve aquatic habitats. In this water habitats instructional activity students view a video and plan a school restoration project.
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English Exercises: Verb Tense and Pandas
In this verb tense and pandas learning exercise, 6th graders read a long passage about panda and interactively select the correct word to fill in 44 blanks in the story, with immediate online feedback.
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Making Faces: Understanding Artifacts Through Design Elements
Pupils examine and discuss drinking container artifacts from Jamestown. They view images of the artifacts, discuss their purposes, draw an original facial expression for a brown paper jug, and write a description of the facial expression.
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What Arkansans Contributed to the WW I War Effort
Students examine the Arkansas as home front support during World War I. They determine why the troops who were overseas during the War were important to those at home. They look at the war effort and locate the area of Arkansas were...
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A Day in the Life from Several Perspectives
Seventh graders role-play the role of people in different cultures throughout Europe. After the role-play, they discuss the main characteristics of culture and identify where they were seen. They discover how the government of certain...
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Dig Magazine Archeology Quiz #66
In this Dig Magazine archeology quiz, students answer 4 multiple choice questions covering a variety of topics. Page contains answer and additional resources link.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Portrait of a German Officer, Marsden Hartley
From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, here is the image "Portrait of a German Officer", a painting by German modern artist Marsden Hartley.
International Institute of Social History
International Institute of Social History: Art to the People Gerd Arntz
From the exhibit at the International Institute of Social History, "Art to the People", the work of the German communist artist Gerd Arntz is examined with descriptions and images.
Other
History of German American Relations: 1683 1900: History and Immigration
From the U.S. State Department, a comprehensive reference tool about the history of Germans in America starting in 1683 up until the present. Provides background, exhibits, digital images, statistics, teacher resources, internet links,...
Other
German Culture: Famous Germans
Brief biographical profiles of famous Germans recognized worldwide in the arts, military, movies, politics, sciences, and sports.
CommonLit
Common Lit: East German Man Receives Contest Prize 45 Years Later
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Other
Columbus Museum of Art: Curator's View: Nolde's "Sunflowers in the Windstorm"
From the Curator's View series at the Columbua Museum of Art, this is the piece profile on the Emil Nolde paiting 'Sunflowers in the Windstorm'.
Other
Frye Art Museum
Charles and Emma Frye rose to prominence in Seattle's business community in the late 1800s. This museum was established from the Fryes's extensive personal collection of over 230 works of art. "In the belief that art should be accessible...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Hans Hofmann
The Luce Foundation Center for American Art in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, presents this short biography, a photographic portrait of the artist and an example painting with a map to its exhibit location in the museum, by the...
Goethe-Institut
German Visual Arts From Goethe Institut
The Goethe-Institut provides a wonderful resource leading to many German visual arts sites on the web. Sites include current national topics in German visual arts, visual arts guides from Germany, art projects world-wide, and even brief...
Goethe-Institut
German Design and Fashion From Goethe Institut
The Goethe-Institut provides a wonderful resource leading to many German design and fashion sites on the web. Sites include current national topics in German design and fashion, home and furniture designs from Germany, German designs of...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Last Jews in the Last Months of the German Reich
As WWII drew to a close and a loss seemed imminent for the Germans, the SS were ordered to clear the concentration camps so no witnesses would be left. The Jews were led on extreme marches which culminated in 200,000-250,000 deaths. Read...
Other
Kunstmuseum Basel ( Fine Art Museum of Basel, Switzerland)
This is the home page of the Fine Art Museum in Basel, Switzerland. You can browse through the artworks in the collection online. Among the paintings on exhibit are ones by such renowned artists as Picasso, Gauguin, Monet, and Van Gogh....
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History; Adam and Eve
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the German Renaissance engraving "Adam and Eve" by Albrecht Durer, with a description and images from the book.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Coming to Terms With the Past
Students will examine the work of German artist Anselm Kiefer and discuss how art might be a means of understanding and coming to terms with history. Students will follow in Kiefer's practice by creating their own works of art that...