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MadSci Network

Mad Scientist Network: How Do Planes Fly Upside Down?

For Students 9th - 10th
Question and answer regarding the physics principles that apply to a plane flying upside down.
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MadSci Network

Mad Scientist Network: Toxins of Blue Green Algae

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the dangers of blue-green toxins on humans.
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MadSci Network

Mad Scientist Network: Differences in Vortex and Venturi

For Students 9th - 10th
Question and answer regarding the basic differences between a vortex and the Venturi effect.
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MadSci Network

Mad Scientist Network: How the Venturi Effect Relates to Architectural Design

For Students 9th - 10th
A question and answer regarding wind velocity and its effects on architectural design. A good site for applying the concept of the Venturi Effect.
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MadSci Network

The Mad Scientist Network: Bouncing Rubber Ball

For Students 9th - 10th
A question and answer format is used to relate elastic potential energy to the bounce of a rubber ball. Explanation of this simple phenomenon is thorough, complete, and free of trite statements.
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MadSci Network

The Mad Scientist Network: Microwave Physics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using a question and answer format, this page attempts to answer the question "How much light do sunglasses block?" Explains polarized light and the ability of filters to selectively absorb polarized light.
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Quia

Quia: Multiplication Madness

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this interactive website put twenty multiplication problems in order according to the increasing value of their products.
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Quia

Quia: Multiplication Madness Fives & Sixes

For Students 3rd - 5th
Do you need practice learning and remembering your multiplication facts for the fives and sixes? This concentration game is the web site for you! There is a link to a list of the facts being used so you can check your answer.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Mad About Measuring

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart has good beginning activities for introducing measuring with an inch ruler.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Multiplication Madness

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an introduction to Multiplication using arrays and repeated addition. Interactive flipchart that can easily be used as a center - page notes contain all student instructions.
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MadSci Network

Mad Sci Network: Gelatinous Vector Components

For Students 9th - 10th
An edible lab activity utilizing Jello to demonstrate the x and y components of vectors.
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MadSci Network

The Mad Scientist Network: About Nuclear Fusion

For Students 9th - 10th
Using a question and answer format, this page introduces and explains the idea of nuclear fusion. The hydrogen bomb and its operation is discussed. Other applications of nuclear fusion are described. Short but clear.
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Other

Dr Leslie Project: Lynd Ward

For Students 3rd - 8th
Lynd Ward is considered one of the master book illustrators of his time, especially for his woodcut novels God's Man, Mad Man's Drum, Sons Without Words, and Vertigo.
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Forum Romanum

Outlines of Roman History: Julian Emperors: Reign of Caligula

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the insanity of Caligula in William Morey's 1901 textbook.
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Flow of History

Flow of History: Nuclear Arms Race

For Students 9th - 10th
The events and countries involved in the nuclear arms race are profiled. Text plus a colored graphic flowchart make the topic visually appealing and of interest to both students and educators.
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Other

Bedtime Story Classics Alice in Wonderland

For Students 9th - 10th
This beautiful online edition of the Lewis Carroll classic is written in large text for easy legibility, and includes illustrations from eleven different versions of the story. It also includes background information on the writing of...
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Coping.org: Tools for Handling Control Issues

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive site covers numerous control-related issues and provides tips for maintaining composure. Issues surrounding self-control are discussed as well.
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Yale University

Avalon Project: Treaty of Greenville 1795

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the Treaty of Greenville which was negotiatied following the Battle of Fallen Timbers, and which ceded most Native American land in Ohio,Indiana and Illinois to the US government.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Dealing With Anger

For Students 3rd - 5th
What happens when you feel angry? Do you throw things? Yell? Stomp your feet? Anger is an emotion that we all feel, but we deal with it in different ways. If you would like some ideas on ways to handle your anger, or how to tell if...
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Cuban Foreign Relations

For Students 9th - 10th
Documents on Cuban's international relations, focusing on its relationship with the Soviet Union, China, and the United States.
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Cuban Missile Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
Documents concerning the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962-a major confrontation that brought the Soviet Union and the United States close to war over the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
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Ohio History Central

Ohio History Central: Treaty of Greenville

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcript of the conditions of the Treaty of Greenville. Links to significant names.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Robert Lowell

For Students 9th - 10th
An intimate look into the poetry of Robert Lowell, with a short biography and links to critical essays on thirteen of his poems. Click on the "Online Poems" link to read the full text of the highlighted poems.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 12: Hamlet

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Students explore the concept of revenge, its relationship to madness, and its consequences. Students explore the treatment of women in the play and come to understand the weaknesses in Hamlet's character. Finally, students consider...