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Government of Alberta

Alberta Human Resources and Employment: Oc Cinfo: Retail Store Manager

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the career of a retail store manager. This resource provides information on duties, working conditions, skills, education, employment, and skills.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Changes in Energy Stores

For Students 9th - 10th
Energy can be described as being in different "stores". It cannot be created or destroyed but it can be transferred, dissipated or stored in different ways. There are seven main stores of energy: magnetic, internal (thermal), chemical,...
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Digital History

Digital History: Consumer Economy and Mass Entertainment

For Students 9th - 10th
This article traces the rise of consumerism; from the car to installment credit buying, and the rise of chain stores such as Woolworths.
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Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Natural Gas

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how natural gas forms, how scientists find it beneath the Earth's surface, and how it is produced, stored, and transported.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Tallying Those Favorite Flavors

For Teachers 1st - 5th
After reading Tim's Ice Cream Store by Rachel Griffiths and Margaret Clyne or Curious George Goes to the Ice Cream Shop by H. A. Rey, students create an ice cream chart and learn to tally their favorite flavors.
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PBS

Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: John Wanamaker

For Students 9th - 10th
Wanamaker's legendary department stores were palaces of consumption that turned shopping into an event for ordinary people.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Leyden Jar

For Students 9th - 10th
These devices, though quite humble, represented a tremendous breakthrough in the history of electricity; they were the first capacitors, and as such were able to store electric charge. (Java tutorial)
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PBS

Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Albert Spalding

For Students 9th - 10th
Baseball great A.G. Spalding opened his sporting goods store to produce and sell the official National League baseball. A tireless ambassador for baseball, he cleaned up corruption and earned worldwide exposure.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Track the Path of Coffee From Farm to Store Shelf

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Consider how individuals making economic decisions connect countries to one another around the world. Discuss what happens and how farmers and factory workers in third-world countries are affected when production exceeds consumption.
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State Library of North Carolina

N Cpedia: Logging

For Students 9th - 10th
For more than four centuries, North Carolinians have benefited from the commercial use of the state's timber resources. As early as the seventeenth century, the Carolina colony's rich forests gave rise to a lucrative naval stores...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Greenland Mass Variation Since 2002

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists study ice sheets because they influence weather and climate, playing a role in atmospheric and ocean circulation. Ice sheets can also have huge impacts on global sea levels because they store so much water. Explore this...
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Biological Molecules: Lipids

For Students 9th - 10th
Lipids are defined. Chemical structures are used to demonstrate that fats and oils store energy.
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Other

Archives & Museum Informatics: The Digital Hammurabi Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes the Digital Hammurabi Project at The Johns Hopkins University. Its purpose is to advance scanning technology in order to produce high-quality 3-D images of cuneiform tablets, and to store these in a digital library...
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Scientific American

Scientific American: What's a Dvd and How Does It Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
This "Ask the Expert" article answers the question "What's a DVD and how does it work?" clearly and thoroughly. Compares the DVD to other data storage units, and to itself! Did you know there are more types of DVDs other than what you...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Ice Cream Cone

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
You have been hired by the owner of a local ice cream parlor to assist in his company's new venture. The company will soon sell its ice cream cones in the freezer section of local grocery stores. The manufacturing process requires that...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Suburban Strip: Sandy Boulevard, Portland, Oregon 1949

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibition focusses on the relationship between transportation and suburbia in the mid 1920s until after World War II when many grocery stores, car dealerships, and other businesses moved out of the city to the suburban strip.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Water Conservation: Denver, Co

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from Last Oasis explores the use of new dams as a way to provide or store water. In the 1990s, the city of Denver was looking for a new source of water for its growing population, and its plan to build a new...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Rev. Frank Dukes: Selective Buying Campaign

For Students 9th - 10th
In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Frank Dukes describes his role in the 1962 boycott of discriminatory stores and businesses.
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San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Kids: Bee

For Students K - 1st
Bees fly from flower to flower, sipping nectar and collecting grains of pollen. Bees have a special tongue that sucks up the nectar and a crop in their throat for storing it until they get back to the hive, where it is turned into honey...
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US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Pharmacy Technician

For Students 9th - 10th
The US Department of Labor site offers substantial information on the Pharmacy Technician Career. Page provides employment projections detailing nature of the work, employment training, job outlook, and earnings potential.
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Other

Linux Online

For Students 9th - 10th
Linux Online is the official website for the free operating system, Linux. The site includes basic information, applications, documentation, distribution, downloads, and books.
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Manitoba Department of Education: Science Safety

For Students 9th - 10th
A basic manual on how to handle and dispose of laboratory materials safely. Includes a lesson plan on how to read a materials safety data sheet.
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US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Land, Waste, and Cleanup Topics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is loaded with information on solid waste and hazardous waste. It includes industries' effects on the environment, waste programs, treatment, control, pollution prevention, recycling, and cleanup programs.
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US Geological Survey

Geographic Information Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an extensive resource explaining what Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are, how they work, applications of GIS, and GIS through history.

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