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Doina Popovici

Math Play: Subtracting Integers Math Racing Game

For Students 6th - 8th
Get practice solving integer subtraction problems with this math racing game.
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: Race to Watch: Campaign 2008, Role of Technology and the Internet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Is the internet effective as a campaign tool? Help your students explore how presidential candidates use technology and the internet in their political campaigning in the twenty first century with this lesson plan from PBS NewsHour.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Start of the Space Race

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at the USSR's launch of Sputnik and the galvanizing effect it had on America's motivation to fund aerospace research. NASA was soon formed and more funding was put in place for public education in the sciences and math.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: United States Presidential Election, 2004

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides information on the 2004 presidential election. It gives a list of the presidential candidates by political party, a month-by-month timeline of events pertaining to the 2004 campaign, electoral college changes since the...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Art Gives Shape to Cultural Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The "post-black" artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new dialogue about race...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Divisions: Black & White

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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University System of Georgia: Civil Rights Digital Library

For Students 9th - 10th
Compilation of primary resources from broadcasters, museums, libraries, and other content repositories, constituting a scholarly collection of primary sources that document aspects of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s....
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Thomson Reuters

Find Law: u.s. Supreme Court: Plessy vs. Ferguson

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcript of the infamous Supreme Court decision that established the constitutionality of the principle of "Separate but equal," public facilities for members of different races. This was eventually overturned by the 1954 and 1955...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Mutual Assured Destruction

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete description of the concept of Mutual Assured Destruction. Explains what the concept means, and how the concept was used during the Cold War and up to the George W. Bush Administration. Includes links to terms that may require...
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Other

Iki: Russian Space Research Institute

For Students 9th - 10th
The official site for the "leading organization of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of investigations of Outer Space, Solar System planets and other objects of the Universe"
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Thomson Reuters

Find Law: u.s. Supreme Court: Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text of the Supreme Court decision of Shelley vs. Kraemer, relating to the enforcement by the courts of private agreements that exclude persons of color.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Nicholas Trajano Molnar, "On the Eve of Immigration Restriction"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explores the 1920s immigration and social policies of the outsider "law and order" candidate Leonard Wood and the lessons that can be drawn from his candidacy for our time. Wood gave a popular voice to an immigration...

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