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Harvard Magazine: A Conversation With Tracy K. Smith '94

For Students 9th - 10th
An interview with Tracy K. Smith, the 2017 U.S. Poet Laureate, where she talks about her memoir, Ordinary Light. (Published April 9, 2015)
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The Harvard Chaucer Page: 14th Century English

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page of Harvard University provides biographical information on Chaucer, specifically on his social class and his learning/speaking/writing French. Explanation for why the commoners and aristocrats...
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Harvard University Library: Open Collections: Contagion: Florence Nightingale

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information about Florence Nightingale along with access to Nightingale's letters and books (scanned originals plus transcripts) from Harvard's collections. Part of a larger site about historical perspectives on disease.
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Harvard University: Hemoglobin Synthesis

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and images regarding hemoglobin synthesis from heme and globin are provided by Harvard University.
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Harvard Robotics Laboratory

For Students 9th - 10th
Research projects on computational vision, neural networks, tactile sensing, motion control and VLSI systems. Plus general info, Harvard and robotics related pages.
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Harvard Medical School: History of Sickle Cell Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is put out by a professor of the Harvard Medical School. It contains factual information on Sickle Cell Disease and the information is set up by links under different subject headings. This is a great site to check out on the...
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Harvard: An Overview of Hemoglobin

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview on Hemoglobin from Harvard Medical School, with suggested medical textbooks listed for more in depth information.
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History of Computing Science: Harvard Mark I

For Students 9th - 10th
The Harvard Mark I computer was the first large-scale automatic digital computer in the USA. This lecture provides a brief description of the Harvard Mark I computer.
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Open Culture: Bill Clinton at Harvard

For Students 9th - 10th
An engaging podcast featuring Bill Clinton at Harvard.
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Open Collections Program: Expeditions and Discoveries: Modern Age

For Students 9th - 10th
An inclusive collection of maps, field notes, photos and letters of Harvard sponsored explorations and discoveries during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Harvard Univ.: Harvard College Writing Center: Ending the Essay: Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource teaches how to write a conclusion for an essay. Also includes a few pointers on how not to end one.
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Harvard College Writing Center: How to Do a Close Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief explanation of the tasks involved in doing a close reading in preparation for writing. This writer breaks the process into three steps which involve annotating the text, looking for patterns, and asking questions of the text.
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Harvard Writing Center: Tips on Grammar, Punctuation and Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rather than lists of rules, this site provides practical advice on the use of commas, semicolons, dashes, hyphens, abbreviations, acronyms, split infinitives, "this," "that," italics, and underlining. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
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Harvard University: Bar Yosef Reads Ancient Campfires

For Students 9th - 10th
An absolutely fascinating account of the findings at various caves such as Qafzeh and Kebara that signified the emergence of man out of Africa.
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Harvard: Commissioner Lin's Letter to Queen Victoria

For Students 9th - 10th
The content of the Letter Commissioner Lin wrote to Queen Victoria, along with brief analysis and historical information.
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Harvard University: Howard Aiken: Makin' a Computer Wonder

For Students 9th - 10th
About Howard Aiken's mission to build the first programmable computer.
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Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Time and the Calendar

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity helps students discover the importance of time and the calendar, and how they each bring order to life. Each activity is designed for students understand the passage of time, how to keep time, international...
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Harvard Law School: Thirteen Nuremberg Trials

For Students 9th - 10th
The website currently provides information on the documents used in Case 1, 2, and 4 of the Nazi war crimes Nuremberg Trials.
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Harvard University: Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground: The Earth's Moon

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this online textbook, students explore the phases of the moon, the moon's orbit, the origin of the moon, and the tides. Includes numerous inquiry-based activities.
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Harvard University: Berkman Center for Internet and Society

For Students 9th - 10th
This center is a research program founded to explore cyberspace by investigating the real and possible boundaries in cyberspace between open and closed systems of code, commerce, governance, and education, and the relationship of law to...
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University of Harvard: This Is a Stickup!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students are taught how to make a sundial. The relationship between angles and the sides of a right triangle are explored. Great lesson plan ideas with plenty of background information. The lesson is adapted for grade levels k-6 with...
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Harvard University: The Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
Includes a brief history of the sun's development and its future. Also provides simple statistics, solar activities, and references.
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Harvard School of Public Health: The Nutrition Source: Fiber

For Students 9th - 10th
Why is fiber important to our diets? How can we get the fiber we need from the food we eat? In addition to answering the above questions, this website also describes the diseases and disorders we can avoid by eating fiber-rich foods.
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Harvard Medicine: The Whole Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed color images of the human brain, both normal and with various brain diseases, including Alzheimer's, Huntington's, multiple sclerosis, stroke, and AIDS dementia.