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Nebraska Studies

Nebraska Studies: Building a Sod House

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's great information on building sod houses. You can even watch a video of a famous two-story sod house that stood until 1967.
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Curated OER

Internet Pioneers: Marc Andreessen

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent biography of Marc Andreessen and his contributions to the World Wide Web and browsing.
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Curated OER

Internet Pioneers: Marc Andreessen

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent biography of Marc Andreessen and his contributions to the World Wide Web and browsing.
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Curated OER

York Region District School Board: Pioneer Life in Upper Canada: Maple Syrup

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Native people were making maple syrup long before the settlers came to Upper Canada. Learn about the process and what the settlers did to make it easier.
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York Region District School Board: Pioneer Life in Upper Canada: Blacksmith

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Do you know where the Blacksmith got his name? Find out and learn about the different tool that the Blacksmith used.
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Curated OER

York Region District School Board: Pioneer Life in Upper Canada: Blacksmith

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Do you know where the Blacksmith got his name? Find out and learn about the different tool that the Blacksmith used.
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Curated OER

York Region District School Board: Pioneer Life in Upper Canada: Blacksmith

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Do you know where the Blacksmith got his name? Find out and learn about the different tool that the Blacksmith used.
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Curated OER

York Region District School Board: Pioneer Life in Upper Canada: Blacksmith

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Do you know where the Blacksmith got his name? Find out and learn about the different tool that the Blacksmith used.
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Curated OER

York Region District School Board: Pioneer Life in Upper Canada: Blacksmith

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Do you know where the Blacksmith got his name? Find out and learn about the different tool that the Blacksmith used.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Go West: Imagining the Oregon Trail

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A 2,000-mile trek across a continent-with no idea what awaits you on the other side. Tell your students to put on their traveling shoes and prepare for the journey of their lives! In this lesson, students compare imagined travel...
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George Mason University

Chnm: Eubie Blake and Ragtime

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a great interview with the pioneer of ragtime music, Eubie Blake. It also contains an audio clip of the interview.
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Florida State University

Florida State University: Science, Optics & You: Augustin Jean Fresnel

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788-1827), a French physicist best known for his pioneering work in optics.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Westward Expansion

For Students 9th - 10th
This article offers a detailed history of early 19th century westward migration and the social diversity of the pioneers moving west.
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Agnes Scott College

Agnes Scott College: Florence Nightingale

For Students 9th - 10th
Agnes Scott College includes in its Biographies of Women Mathematicians this page on the life of Florence Nightingale. Most people do not realize that in addition to her work for nursing and hospital reform, Nightingale was also a...
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Computer History Museum

Computer History Museum: The Silicon Engine

For Students 9th - 10th
Microelectronic silicon computer chips have provided the growth engine for the technology revolution. This site provides a wealth of information about the development of semiconductors. Included is a timeline of major events, a list of...
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Problem of Expansion

For Students 9th - 10th
With the end of the Revolution, the United States again had to face the old unsolved Western question -- the problem of expansion, with its complications of land, fur trade, Indians, settlement and local government. Lured by the richest...
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Frontier, "West" and the American Experience

For Students 9th - 10th
Outline of the American frontier and pioneer experience during westward expanison in the 1800s.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: j.p. Morgan and Finance Capitalism

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview on the rise of industry resulting in the need for investment banking, of which J. P. Morgan was a pioneer.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Foundations of Software Engineering: An Early History

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an early history of software engineering, dividing software engineering into three periods: the Pioneering Era (1955-1965), the Stabilizing Era (1965-1980), and the Micro Era (1980-Present).
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 954: Moses Austin's Lead

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of the beginning of the American lead industry started by Moses Austin, a Texas pioneer. This is a transcript of an accompanying radio broadcast.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Earlier Than We Think

For Students 9th - 10th
This podcast explains how Vannevar Bush, once a computing pioneer, had become America's leading science advisor.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Carl Sagan

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia article from Wikipedia provides a brief biography of Carl Sagan, the American astronomer who pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and science in general.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Traveling West [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
"Traveling West" is a one page, nonfiction passage about pioneers traveling west in wagon trains. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes underlining the most important...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Traveling West [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th
"Traveling West" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about the difficult journey west for pioneers traveling in wagon trains and how the railroad made traveling west much easier and faster. It is followed by questions which...

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