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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Cabinet for Storing Offerings

For Students 9th - 10th
This black cabinet was once stored in the gongkhang of an unknown temple in Tibet. Forbidden to the uninitiated, the gongkhang is a special room set aside for the worship of wrathful deities, where only the initiated monks of the...
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Investopedia

Investopedia: Safe Deposit Boxes: Store This, Not That

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the benefits of safe deposit boxes, as well as the reasons you should not store certain important items in the.
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New York Times

New York Times: After You Strengthen Your Passwords, Here's How to Store Them

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] New York Times has suggestions from tech gurus on how to create strong passwords and keep them safe.
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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Cloud Computing

For Students 9th - 10th
Wouldn't it be great if all of our documents could be stored on the internet rather than eating up our hard drive space? The concept is 'cloud computing' and this issue provides some concern over this new type of computing.
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Safety Cops: Shoplifting Prevention

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent article outlining shoplifting prevention tips and techniques.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: File Types

For Students 9th - 10th
Computers store all files as binary data, long strings of 111s and 000s. Files represent all types of data: images, videos, documents, text files, spreadsheets, and applications. Files are stored as binary data.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Higher Order Thinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As students grow older, they are asked by their teachers to do more and more with the information they have stored in their brains. These types of requests require accessing higher order thinking (HOT).
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FT Exploring

Ft Exploring: The Flea, the Catapult, and the Bow: Robin Hood Revisited

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how fleas, catapults, and archers convert stored energy into kinetic energy.
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Other

Crikey: Shopping Mall Oligopoly Cops a Hit

For Students 9th - 10th
This news article discusses how stores at an Australian shopping mall colluded in order to drive out a new competitor, along with reasons given by the judge. (Dec 19, 2004)
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Bandolier Bag

For Students 9th - 10th
Bandolier Bags are based on bags carried by European soldiers armed with rifles, who used the bags to store ammunition cartridges. These bags were especially popular in the late nineteenth century in the Eastern or Woodlands region. View...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Neolithic Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
During the Neolithic period, people settle down and begin to live in one place, year after year. This leads to massive changes in art. Neolithic sculpture became bigger, in part, because people didn't have to carry it around anymore;...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Power of Big Data

For Students 9th - 10th
Space and time are examined when storing big data.
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Other

Samuel Centre: Effects of Technological Innovations on Social Interactions

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness discusses how technology has altered humans' interactions in their daily lives. Machines and automation have replaced our interactions with service people. It looks at the...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Review: Objects

For Students 9th - 10th
A review of objects--a data type that stores a collection of properties in a single variable. This review includes creating, accessing, and modifying object properties as well as arrays of objects.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: Star Cross'd and Starry Eyed

For Students 9th - 10th
From the opening lines of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows what lies in store for the tragedy's title teens: that these two "star-crossed lovers" are doomed to die. By the end of the play, an "ancient grudge"...
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A&E Television

History.com: Women of the Wwii Workforce: Photos Show the Real Life Rosie the Riveters

For Students 9th - 10th
When the United States entered World War II after the 1941 attacks on Pearl Harbor, men shipped overseas by the millions to serve in the war. This left many of the civilian and military jobs on the home front unfilled -- and that's when...
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A&E Television

History.com: History on a Plate: How Native American Diets Shifted After European Colonization

For Students 9th - 10th
For centuries, Indigenous people's diets were totally based on what could be harvested locally. Then white settlers arrived from Europe. Native people pass down information - including food traditions - from one generation to the next...
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Energy for Sustainable Development

Kids and Energy: Biomass Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Biomass is organic material which has stored sunlight in the form of chemical energy. Biomass fuels include wood, wood waste, straw, manure, sugar cane, and many other byproducts from a variety of agricultural processes.
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Other

The Stoa Consortium: The Library of Hadrian

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Hadrian is located on the north side of the Acropolis, immediately north of the Roman Agora. The complex was built by the Roman emperor Hadrian in 131/2 A.D. It was visited by Pausanias (1.18.9) who provides a brief...
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Other

Saudi Aramco World: The Art & Science of Water

For Students 9th - 10th
The Mezquita ingenuity of a cistern that collects water for trapping, storing and managing that evanescent, life-giving commodity, water.
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Other

Crime Doctor: Shoplifting

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Crime Doctor describes shoplifting, how it occurs, and security measures retail store operators can take to reduce it. Additional links to related shoplifting topics are included.
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PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: Michael Graves on Design

For Students 9th - 10th
Get into the mind of modern designer, Michael Graves. Here on this site Graves answers some of your most frequently asked questions about his products and industrial design.
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Other

Analysis: Russian Information and Communication Technologies Industry

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview of Russia's information and communications technology which has been experiencing significant growth since 2002. Frost and Sullivan predict that Russia will be the third-largest outsourcing destination by 2010....

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