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University of Michigan

Making of America: Ballads of New England

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the University of Michigan provides access to online text for "Ballads of New England," an 1870 collection of Whittier's poetry. Poems can be viewed in plain-text format or as page-by-page images from the original work.
Online Course
Yale University

Open Yale Courses: Introduction to Ancient Greek History

For Students 9th - 10th
Access any of the twenty-four lectures in a university-level course in ancient Greek history up to the time of Alexander. Lectures available in audio, video, or text format. With coverage of Bronze Age Greece, the Persian Wars, the rise...
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Other

Philip Mc Rae: From Distraction to Addiction?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To better understand the scope of physical, mental and social consequences of digital technologies in areas such as exercise, homework, identity formation, distraction, cognition, learning, technology compulsions, nutrition and sleep...
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University of California

Ucmp: Divisions of Precambrian Time

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a brief overview of the Precambrian Era and provides a clickable chart that breaks down this era into five different time frames. A lot of info is provided on each of the five.
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CPALMS

Moving on Up

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be preparing for a move to another state. Students must work in cooperative groups as they determine which moving company will be the best for...
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Colorado State University

Writing @ Csu: Writing Guides

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a list of writing guides for various types of writing
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Rice University

Galileo Project: Francesco Redi

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Rice University

Galileo Project: Isaac Newton

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Galileo Project of Rice University is a sort of encyclopedic entry that outlines important information about Newton's life and work. The information is presented in a list format and is worth checking out.
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Rice University

Galileo Project: Girolamo Cardano

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Rice University

Galileo Project: Christopher Clavius

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Learning Myths, Writing Myths

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This supplement to a Social Studies unit on Ancient Greece asks students to examine the universal themes of mythology and create their own myths. Three lessons and three PDF format handouts are available.
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University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: Twister: The Tornado Story

For Students 9th - 10th
The Why? Files, provided by the University of Wisconsin provides a discussion of tornadoes and the environmental conditions that generate them. Includes some great pictures of the formations of the whirlwinds. Also includes a link to a...
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Exploring Ancient World Cultures

Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Literature and the Middle Time

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an essay from the University of Evansville discussing the evolution of the Middle Ages and the formation of various languages that would yield literature.
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Other

Georgia Southwestern State U.: Physical Geology: Metamorphic Rocks: Protoliths

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: The Black Hole

For Students 9th - 10th
This site examines the black hole as an object in astrophysics. Delve into this comprehensive resource that covers this concept from its history, to qualitative physics, the reality of black holes, mathematical physics and more.
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Indiana University

Indiana Univ. Bloomington: Geo Notes: Standing Rocks: Remnants of Erosion [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what standing rocks are, how they are formed by erosion, and gives the names of some well-known ones in Indiana.
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Other

The Evidence for Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
These pages are part of a site called "Evolution," that accompanies a textbook by the same name. Mark Ridley is the author, and in this section he discusses the evidence for evolution.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Kennedy and the New Frontier

For Students 9th - 10th
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."
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Other

Universite D'avignon

For Students 9th - 10th
Avignon is the location for a national public university, presented on this website. You can read its history, from the Great Schism (14th c)to the present, its majors ("formation"), and a few pictures. Check out the "SRI", the popular...
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Arizona: Desert Laboratory

For Students 9th - 10th
Founded in 1903 to study plant adaptation to an arid desert environment with long term experiments, this laboratory contributed significantly to the formation of Ecology as a science. Part of the University of Arizona.