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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Polarized Light Mosaic

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to make stained glass window art using the phenomenon of polarized light.
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Other

Paper Mosaics

For Students 9th - 10th
A unique combination of origami paper folding and mathematical tessellations create these stunning works of art. Definitely not for the beginning paper folder to try! Site includes printable patterns.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Mosaic America: Civil Rights Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson unit designed to outline the civil rights movement as seen through the eyes of African Americans, Chicanos, and Native Americans.
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Library of Congress

Loc: African American Mosaic: Black History and Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Online version of a Library of Congress exhibit, covering information about black history, including colonization, abolition, migrations, and the WPA. It is multimedia and contains hundreds of primary source documents.
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Library of Congress

Loc: African American Mosaic: Western Migration and Homesteading

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains text and photos on the African-American exodus to the West. Includes primary source documents and maps from the era.
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Library of Congress

Loc: African American Mosaic: Wpa

For Students 9th - 10th
A short description with primary source examples of the aid African American artists received from the WPA.
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BBC

Bbc: Crushing Iraq's Human Mosaic

For Students 9th - 10th
An insightful look at the troubling fate of small minority groups in Iraq often overlooked by the world. Includes e-mailed comments from members of Iraqi minority groups. (July, 2007)
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United Nations

Unesco: Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna

For Students 9th - 10th
This World Heritage website features Ravenna in Italy, which was the center of the Roman Empire at one point, and later of the Byzantine Empire in Italy. Presented on this website are eight Christian buildings, and their mosaics, from...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Membrane Proteins

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Activity explores proteins in the plasma membrane describing their structure and function. The Fluid Mosaic Model is also summarized.
Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: American Notes: Travels in America, 1750 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920....
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Marlene Epp, "Narrating the Canadian Mosaic: Immigration and Ethnicity"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on Canada's efforts to create a series of booklets about the immigration for each ethnic group in Canada. Thus far they have completed 34 booklets. They have 200 different ethnic groups in Canada.
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Mosaic of Two Men Wrestling

For Students 9th - 10th
The square mosaic portrays two naked men, one white and one black, wrestling. The mosaic illustrates the Alexandrian lifestyle during the first three centuries BC and is distinguished by its strong expression.
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Plaque of Marble Mosaic

For Students 9th - 10th
A plaque consisting of small pieces of marble mosaic has a drawing of geometric units in which white and blue marble pieces were used.
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Mosaic of Berenice the Second

For Students 9th - 10th
The mosaic represents a portrait of Queen Berenice the Second, wife of Ptolemy the Third. She is shown with the prow of a ship on her head to symbolize the dynasty's naval power.
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Mosaic of the River God Alpheus

For Students 9th - 10th
The colored mosaic shows a scene inspired by Greek mythology, the story of the river god Alpheus who pursued the nymph Arethusa to Syracuse in Sicily.
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Curated OER

A View on Cities: Antwerp: Dead Skull' Mosaic

For Students 9th - 10th
'Dead Skull' mosaic at the Hanzestedeplaats near the MAS. (Antwerp)
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Curated OER

A View on Cities: Budapest: Art Nouveau Mosaic 'Our Lady of Hungary'

For Students 9th - 10th
Art Nouveau Mosaic 'Our Lady of Hungary', Szervita ter (Budapest)
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Curated OER

A View on Cities: Vienna: Mosaic Roof of the Stephansdom

For Students 9th - 10th
Mosaic roof of the Stephansdom (Vienna)
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Curated OER

A View on Cities: Barcelona: Miro Mosaic at the Rambla

For Students 9th - 10th
Miro Mosaic at the Rambla (Barcelona)
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Curated OER

A View on Cities: Philadelphia: Dream Garden Mosaic

For Students 9th - 10th
Dream Garden Mosaic, Curtis Center (Philadelphia)
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Curated OER

Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Roman Mosaics

For Students 3rd - 8th
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Roman Mosaics."
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Wendell Meredith Stanley Nobel Lecture

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can download and read Wendell Meredith Stanley's Nobel Lecture, entitled "The isolation and properties of crystalline tobacco mosaic virus." Lecture is available in PDF format.
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Other

Thocp: Marc Andreesen

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource, a thorough biography of Marc Andreessen, discusses his childhood love of computers and programming, his creation of the Mosaic Internet Browser while in college, his partnership with Jim Clark in the establishment of...
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NASA

Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Mercury From Mariner 10, Degas Crater

For Students 9th - 10th
Single image mosaic from NSSCD Mariner 10 collection. Shows detail of an impact basin with typical ray structures. Thumbnail image links to large graphic file with more detail.

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