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Earthworks: Jobs

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you interested in an environmental career? Explore current environmental job opportunties in the Earthworks database.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Stefan Hirsch

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Stefan Hirsch in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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National Portrait Gallery: Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg Gotha: Portraits

For Students 9th - 10th
Access images in the online database of the National Portait Gallery of Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria. Database includes portraits of Prince Albert in all media and in single and group sittings, often with Victoria at his side.
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University of California

Uc Museum of Paleontology: Understanding Science

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A site that contains a resource database for how science really works. This is a good place for teachers to start as they start to plan for lessons in their classroom.
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University of Oxford (UK)

Beazley Archive: Greek Pottery

For Students 9th - 10th
Access to the pottery database and an introduction to Greek pottery. Techniques and styles including shapes and inscriptions are explained in detailed accompanied by photos. Search by a painter and/or potter and view their work, or use...
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International Committee for Egyptology: The Global Egyptian Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
The Global Egyptian Museum is an ambitious, long-term project that intends to eventually gather digitized versions of artifacts from Egyptian history that are housed in museums around the world. This amounts to 850 collections and 69...
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Bullock Texas State History Museum

Bullock Museum: Artifact Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
A database of artifacts and articles related to Texas and its history. The artifacts are in different museums, or you can restrict your search to the Bullock Museum. You can search by time period from BCE to the present day, and by type...
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NASA

Nasa: Human Spaceflight Gallery Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
Search this NASA gallery database for multimedia resources (images, video, audio) from these NASA space programs: the shuttle missions, the International Space Station, and the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab space missions.
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Colorado State University

Colorado State University: Guide to Poisonous Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
A database that is very helpful when searching for info on different reactions to the poisons in the plants - mainly for animals though.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Blast Into the Past Identify T. Rex's Closest Living Relative

For Students 9th - 10th
Believe it or not, scientists were recently able to recover tissue and partial sequence information for protein molecules from a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil. In this genomics science fair project, you will use the T....
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University of California

University of California Berkeley: Digital Scriptorium

For Students 9th - 10th
Browse and search an image database of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts from many participating institutions.
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Mesoweb: An Exploration of Mesoamerican Cultures

For Students 9th - 10th
An Exploration of Mesoamerican Cultures and Art is a database of many resources, publications, books, and articles. Click Search and enter the topic. Click Resources for archaeological sites and monuments such as Chichen Itza and Cacaxtla.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Global Volcanism Program: Volcanoes of the World

For Students 9th - 10th
The Smithsonian Institute presents a searchable database on volcanoes of the world. Search by region, volcano name, or eruption date. There is also a chronological list of large eruptions during the last 10,000 years.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Browse Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The following database allows teachers to search for lessons for all age groups covering a wide range of subjects. Simply click on the age group and the following content: arts, foreign language, literature and language arts,...
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Harvard University

Harvard Graduate School of Education: Research for Educators

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Research database for educators. Search for educational topics, including standardized testing, arts in schools, or literacy and find current research and information regarding the issue.
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US National Archives

National Archives and Records Administration: Founders Online

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the texts of nearly 200,000 historical documents related to six Founding Fathers, including the papers of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. The...
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Volunteer Match

For Students 9th - 10th
This database allows you to search for a volunteer opportunity either by location or by the type of activity that interests you.
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National Audubon Society

National Audubon Society: Audubon Guide to North American Birds

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge database of North American birds which can be searched within a taxonomic family as well as by region. Each bird is accompanied by high-quality photos, audio recordings, a map of its distribution and migration areas, and...
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The Cincinnati Art Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
The Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, Ohio), offers a comprehensive website exploring its current exhibitions as well as searching their collection database. Other content includes virtual tours, museum history, and teacher guides with...
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Indiana Historical Society: Digital Image Collections

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Vast database of images and artifacts tells the story of Indiana and its people. Search by keyword or browse preset special collections of notable Hoosiers, the history of African Americans in Indiana, or Indiana military history, among...
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Princeton University

Princeton University: Qed: Mapping Globalization: Map Category Queries

For Students 9th - 10th
A large database of historical maps that can be searched by map type, time period (prehistory to 21st century), theme, and world location. Themes cover economics, war, disease, trade, migration, and much more.
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Lesson Plan: Money, Money, Money

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
It all about money! Explore the concept of money in this real-world, unit plan. A collection of six lessons where students practice skills such as coin identification, mental math, menu math, making change, math operations with coins,...
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US Government Publishing Office

U.s. Government Publishing Office: Guide to House and Senate Members

For Students 9th - 10th
A searchable database and directory which contains contact information, a biography and a photo of all current members of Congress.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Charles Wells

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Charles Wells is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with sculpture and portraits.

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