Andrew Ward decides to get into the middle of an argument between David Hume and Hume's critic Malcolm Budd about the standard for assessing the value of works of art upon the feeling of pleasure or displeasure. This topic will be a...

Feeling envious? Read Aesop's tale "The Dog in the Manger" in its traditional format and in a modern version to better understand this powerful feeling.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this formative assessment task, learners are asked to explain how rational and irrational numbers differ and why the product of a non-zero rational number and an irrational number is irrational....

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a formative assessment task where students are asked to estimate the population of Utah based on information given about its population density and the perimeter of its state boundaries. Samples...

Do you need to know a specific value of a specific quantity for any given substance? If so, this is the place. Find the heat capacity, heats of vaporization and fusion, and much more from this page.

This university site offers a detailed summary the U.S. religious revival called the Second Great Awakening. Looks at various religious movements in the early United States.

This site, compiled in hypertext format by student teams at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, from U.S. Information Agency publications, takes a brief look at Kennedy's administration, the "New Frontier."

Justice with Michael Sandel is a twelve-part university-level course about justice, equality, democracy, and citizenship that Harvard University has opened to the public. Using a video-lecture format, Justice gives viewers turns to...

Using a student-teacher dialogue format, this page discusses the nature of light as an electromagnetic wave and the electromagnetic spectrum.

This resource has a large audience of Parisien university students. It would be especially useful to students planning to enter a higher education institution in France. Also contains a lot of information about French schooling at the...

This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University provides a brief profile of Johann Bernoulli. The information is set up in a list format, covering topics such as: dates, father, nationality, education, religion, and scientific...

This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University contains information about Cardano's life in an outline format. Some topic headings are nationality, education, religion, scientific disciplines, means of support, and many more.

This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University provides very useful information on Francesco Redi. The information is broken up into chart format, covering topics such as: dates, father, nationality, education, religion, and so on.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a formative assessment task where students are asked to first make a mathematical model of a mudslide given the dimensions of the area it covers. They then use an estimate of density to...

This site from the Galileo Project of the Rice University provides a biography of Christopher Clavius in list format. The information is medium in length and worth checking out for information on the subject.

Presented in a question and answer format, this site provides some useful information about student collaboration. Some of the questions answered are "why should students collaborate" and "how do I get students to collaborate".

Explains what protoliths, i.e., parent rocks, are and gives examples of protoliths and the metamorphic rocks they transform into. Each example is accompanied by photographs.

Resource provides a good summary of APA (American Psychological Association) style, including several examples and guidelines for incorporating direct quotations into the text of a paper.

An explanation of annotated bibliographies: what they are, why they are used, and the different formats they they can take.

This short article on the oboe includes information on the development of this instrument as well as a sound clip (in AIFF format and RealAudio format) and references for further reading and research.

Resource contains very brief information on the stems of a plant. The information is set up in a very easy to understand format. Great for younger ages.

This article shows how to convert a KidPix SlideShow created on a Macintosh into HTML format for publication on the Web. Using this method, each slide is shown full-size on a separate page, along with navigation buttons for moving...

This article from the University of Groningen explains the role that Citizen Genet played in challenging foreign policy under Washington's administration.

An article describing the Internet File Transfer Protocol. Includes a FTP session, command choices, command formats, and FTP utilities.