AdLit
Ad lit.org: A Closer Look: Closing the Performance Gap
The performance gap - what students are expected to do versus what they can do - is compounded each year a child falls short of acquiring expected skills. As a result, underachieving high school students are at great risk for academic...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: The Last of the Sky Pirates
Fifty years after Captain Twig severed the anchor chain securing the floating rock of Sanctaphrax to Undertown, all is not well in the great floating city or the urban sprawl of Undertown. Rook Barkwater is selected as a Librarian Knight...
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 1199: Gallup Poll
An informal, almost light-hearted, discussion of two of the great historical failures of public polling experts. This is a transcript of an accompanying radio broadcast.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Right or Wrong
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson helps students draw a connection between binomial expansions, probabilities, combinations, and Pascal's Triangle. The lesson is framed in the context of randomly guessing a number...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Tiles in a Bag
How many tiles would you have to pick to be confident that your estimated probability truly represents the situation? In this activity, you will draw a tile from a bag, record its color and put it back in the bag. The bag contains 24...
Patrick McSherry
Spanish American War Centennial: The Attempt to Raise the Cristobal Colon
Spanish-American War era newspaper article on the attempts to raise the wrecked ship, Cristobal Colon, whiched proved a failure. Links to photos of the undersea divable ruins of the ship shows what it looks like today.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Angle of Repose
In this activity, students measure the maximum slope at which grains are stable (the angle of repose). They explore how different properties of the sediment influence slope stability and lead to different slope failures (mass movements)....
CNN
Cnn: Bush: 'I Take Responsibility'
As criticism of the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina mounted, President George W. Bush took responsibility for the government's failures. Report from September, 2005.
AllRefer
All Refer Reference: Soviet Union: Economic Policy
A great overview of the economic policies implemented in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1985. Describes collectivization, economic priorities, successes, and failures. Readers will come away with a sound understanding of Soviet...
Curated OER
Google for Education: Children and Technology: Full Development Cycle
Experience what it's like to work in the field of technology, and take on something never done before. Brainstorm, prototype, plan, implement, work in a team, coordinate between teams, learn from failures or enjoy a success.
BBC
Bbc News: The Key Findings of the 9/11 Report
A nice summary of the final report of the 9/11 Commission broken down by failures in the intelligence community, missed chances to stop the attacks and more. The article is dated July 23, 2004.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Mysteries of Vernacular: Fizzle
From a stinky and crude inception, the word fizzle's history is nothing to poo poo at. Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel track the road from flatulence to its modern meaning of a failure or weak ending. [1:50]
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Avoiding Armageddon: Laws of Disarmament and Nonproliferation
A lesson plan for learning about nuclear weapons and nonproliferation agreements. Takes students through the process of comparing and contrasting various treaties and of evaluating their relative successes and failures. Includes a...
PBS
Commending Heights
These interviews with individuals central to the development of ISI (import substitution industrialization) in Latin American economies features discussions of the controversial practice of ISI and its subsequent failure to jump start...
Other
Samuel Hearne: Explorer and Naturalist
Though he "has not always been thought well of," Samuel Hearne is the first--and one of the best--naturalists in Canadian history. This article lists some of the reasons he has been perceived as a failure and highlights the first-class...
Other
Life of Amos Bronson Alcott
Biographical survey of the educational and religious philosophy of Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), author, teacher, conversationalist, transcendentalist philosopher, and outspoken advocate of educational and social reform. Includes extensive...
Other
Workers Online: Unions: Behind the Scenes
The story of the 2000 Olympics in Australia, and the relationship between the unions and the workers of the Olympic games. Successes and failures are both portrayed.
National Archives (UK)
The National Archives: Living in the British Empire: India
Was British rule in India a success or failure? Examine the consequences of British colonization of India in the following article that lays out the history and pros and cons of British rule. Primary source documents include a telegram...
Other
Cronodon: Atoms Models of the Atom
Presents models of the atom developed by Thomson, Rutherford, Bohr, and Schrodinger. Includes successes and failures of each, illustrations, and detailed descriptions. Also discusses Dirac's model of the atom and introduces quantum...
Other
Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum: Remarks, "The Trouble With Washington"
Who is Gerald Ford? Learn about the 37th President of the United States through his own words. In this speech he gave in 1996, he summarizes his political beliefs, his battles, his failures, and his accomplishments. Contains humorous and...
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Concord Coalition
This homepage is for the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan organization founded by Senators Rudman and Tsongas in 1992 to promote a balanced federal budget, in light of the failure of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollins Act. It advocates putting the...
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute: Flights of Inspiration
Franklin Institute site showcases the first flight taken by the Wright brothers. Follows the Wright brothers plan to achieve first flight as they used their failures to win them success in aviation.
NASA
Nasa: Eye Safety During Solar Eclipses
This resource, which is provided for by NASA, gives great information on protecting your eyes during solar eclipses. Your eyes are very difficult to replace. Even when 99% of the Sun's surface is obscured during the partial phases of a...
Other
Chamberlain and Britain Prepare for War
Article describing the failure of Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy. Includes links to Realtime Audio copies of two of Chamberlain's speeches.
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