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The Henry L. Stimson Center: Homepage
"The Henry L. Stimson Center is an independent, nonprofit, public policy institute committed to finding and promoting innovative solutions to the security challenges confronting the United States and other nations in the twenty-first...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Henry David Thoreau, Excerpts From "Economy," Ch. 1 of Walden, 1854
A chapter from Walden that critiques and challenges the new market economy of the nineteenth century.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Assimilation and the Crucible of the City: Reading Guide: Two Stories
An excerpt from Abraham Cahan's novel, "Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto," and Charles Chesnutt's short story, "The Wife of His Youth," that describe challenges of assimilation into American culture for both European immigrants and...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Lee Chew, "The Biography of a Chinaman"
A story of the rise, the challenges, and the alienation experienced by one Chinese immigrant in America. Questions for discussion included.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Failed Colonies, American Beginnings: 1492 1690
Three European accounts of the disappointments, challenges, and outright failures to establish early successful colonial outposts in North America.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: First Arrivals, American Beginnings: 1492 1690
Numerous visual images of artifacts from English settlements at Jamestown and at Plymouth, and from Spanish settlement in Hispaniola, and three original accounts of each of those early settlements that describe the possibilities and the...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Hardships, American Beginnings: 1492 1690
Three English, a French, and a Spanish primary account of the staggering losses, misery, and deprivation that characterized early European settlement as well as the resilience needed to overcome those challenges.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Play Ball
An interactive web lesson shows examples of pictographs and challenges students to answer questions about the graphs.
US Army Center
U.s. Army Center of Military History: The Army and the New Look
Provides information on the following topics: Massive Retaliation and the New Look, "The NATO Build-up," "Continental Defense," "The Missile Era," "Challenges and Responses," "The Military Budget," "Defense Reorganization," "The Dual...
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Community Resource Center
Fas Community Resource Center: Triumphant March
Read about John Kellerman, a man born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, who, despite being born with both brain and heart damage, not only survives but also earns his high school diploma. Read about the beginning of his life, his supportive...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Practicing With Properties of Real Numbers
Test your knowledge of the number properties. This challenging practice really puts you to the test. Assessment covers all number theory properties: associative, commutative, distributive, inverse, and identity.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Logic
Understanding mathematical language in problem solving can be a difficult concept to grasp. Sharpen your logical reasoning skills at this test prep site that explains the terms: if, and, or, implies, and only if, as they relate to math....
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Algebraic Fractions
Fractions containing variables can challenge students--and for teachers to teach. Here are explanations of what algebraic fractions are, how they might be simplified, how they are multiplied, divided, added, and subtracted.
Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: Who Can Vote in the United States?
This lesson challenges learners to speculate about voting requirements. Students will begin learning vocabulary that is used when talking about voting.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Youth Health Risk Behaviors
This site from the CDC provides research results on health risk behaviors in the United States compared by race and ethnicity. Covers over twenty risk behaviors. Gives information in summaries, table sand charts.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Yrbss Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System monitors six types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults.
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Helpguide.org: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Rewards and Challenges
Provides sound advice for what to expect when raising a grandchild and how to make it a positive experience. Can be downloaded as PDF file.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making It, Making of African American Identity: V. 3
Excerpts from a novel and an interview that illustrate where the success of the civil rights movement left some middle class African Americans. They explore the obstacles the civil rights movement had to overcome and the movement's...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Physical Activity & Health: Adolescents & Young Adults
The finding on whether or not today's teens get enough exercise - they don't. Give suggestions to correct this situation and tells the benefits to daily physical activity.
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Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center: Publications
The Publications section of the website features newspapers, magazines, and souvenir pamphlets that reflect the activities of the Carlisle Indian School and its students. Many of the newspapers and magazines included here, such as The...
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Nhdhhs: A Resource Guide for New Hampshire Relative Caregivers [Pdf]
As the title states, this document provides information for caregivers who are not a child's parents, which includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. While the government and social service agencies are specific to New Hampshire,...
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Baseball Players [Pdf]
This task challenges students to demonstrate understanding of the concept of measure of center.
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Generations United: Grandfamilies
This site has lots of information for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. Find out about efforts to affect legislation, and the challenges around housing, education, health, legal issues, and finances.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: Period 9: 1980 Present: September 11th
An overview of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that resulted in the United States' declaration of a Global War on Terror.