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Defense: American Indian Heritage Month: Code Talkers
Find out about the Native Americans who used their tribal languages as code during World War I and World War II. Includes information on Charles Chibitty, a Comanche code talker who was inducted into the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes.
George Mason University
George Mason University: World History Sources: Hammurabi's Code
Nancy L. Stockdale. who teaches at the University of Central Florida, describes how she mediates a discussion of Hammurabi's Code with her students.
Google
Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Gumball's Coding Adventure
Teaches basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. In this activity, learners use characters from Cartoon Network's "The Amazing World of Gumball" to create an animated story.
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: The Human Genome Project, a Decade Later
This article reviews advances made by medical researchers since the complete mapping of the human genetic code ten years earlier. Although the expectation then had been that cures could be found for many diseases based on this new...
Bio Topics
Bio Topics: How Dna Controls Protein Synthesis by Means of a Base Code
A worksheet and comprehensive notes discussing how DNA controls protein synthesis by means of a base code.
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: Ancient Mesopotamia: C .3000 1700 b.c.
Tom Richey presents this learning module on ancient Mesopotamia and provides unit materials, primary sources, video explaining the Code of Hammurabi and Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as lecture notes for students and teachers.
Sam Houston State University
Shsu: Early Japan: Taiho
This site contains a brief, informative explanation of the Taiho Code. The explanation is in the last paragraph of the section labeled "KOFUN AND ASUKA PERIODS, CA. A.D. 250-710."
PBS
Frontline: Insanity Defense Fa Qs
The PBS documentary series FRONTLINE publishes a list of questions and answers regarding the legal issues raised by insanity defenses.
Other
Union of Journalists: Memorandum on Digital Manipulation
This is an article offering possible guidelines (and marking techniques) to avoid the unethical alteration of photos through digital manipulation or tampering.
Other
Thurston High School: The Tundra Climate
Site discusses and analyzes the daily weather in the tundra. Provides a map of the world that is color-coded to show the different biomes and systems of the world.
Other
Us flag.org: Evolution of the United States Flag
This is a guide to the evolution of the United States flag. It contains a timeline from 1777 when the Continental Congress passed the first Flag Act to the Executive Order of President Eisenhower in 1959.
Library of Congress
Loc: A Historic Message
This site, which is provided for by the Library of Congress, gives information on the first telegraph invented and the first message ever transmitted.