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Ashbrook Center at Ashland University

The Constitutional Convention

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Imagine sitting down with representatives of your school to write a new student handbook. What arguments would ensue? How would compromises be made to finish the project? Scholars research the Constitutional Convention using a directory...
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Annenberg Foundation

Geometry 3D Shapes: Euler's Theorem

For Students 6th - 10th Standards
How do you get a theorem named after you? Euler knows what it takes! The third lesson of five asks pupils to use an interactive activity to compare the faces, vertices, and edges of seven different three-dimensional solids. They use...
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American Museum of Natural History

Being an Archeologist: Chuck Spencer

For Students 6th - 12th
Meet Chuck Spencer, an archeologist who studies the Zapotec people who lived in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico over 2000 years ago. Spencer shares in print his response to questions posed by kids.
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US Geological Survey

Usgs: Pacific Seafloor Mapping Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes the details of a project to map the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean. Includes images, movies, links to related information, and more.
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The Smithsonian: Lewis & Clark: Mapping the West

For Students 9th - 10th
The Smithsonian's EdGate project provides this illustrated narrative site that explores the mapping of the American West accomplished by the 1804-06 Lewis and Clark expedition.
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City University of New York

Map Projection Basics: Bits of Map Projection History

For Students 9th - 10th
Surveys the ideas of Claudius Ptolemy (90-170 AD) in regard to the shape of the world and his influence on the history of mapmaking.
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American University (Cairo): Theban Mapping Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the ancient city of Thebes at this amazing website that brings together zoomable maps, video, images, text, a glossary and timeline, and other resources to help learners understand the significance of the ongoing archaeological...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Science Careers: Mapping Technician

For Students 9th - 10th
Mapping technicians, also called surveying technicians, as their name suggests, use many different tools to make maps of many kinds. This Science Buddies site lays out the requirements needed to become a mapping technician, as well as...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The August Wilson Education Project

For Students 9th - 10th
The WQED August Wilson Education Project offers resources to educators including a teaching guide, video clips from the documentary, interactive maps, a biographical timeline, webinars, contests for students, and much more. The goal of...
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Mars: Mathematics Assessment Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Mathematics Assessment Project aims to bring the Common Core State Standards (CCSSM) to life in a way that will help teachers and their students turn their aspirations for achieving them into classroom realities. The project's free...
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Berkley Drosophila Genome Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is dedicated to the mapping of the fruit fly (drosophila) genome.
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Vroma Project

V Roma Project: Forum Romanum: Clickable Map of the Roman Forum

For Students 9th - 10th
VRoma provides a map of the Roman Forum. Click on different areas of the map to learn more about the history and architecture of the many buildings in the Forum.
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Other

Beyond Mannahatta: The Welikia Project

For Students 9th - 10th
The Welikia Project examined what the landscape of New York City looked like in 1609. Use the map to explore the city then and compare it to today. Provides a collection of thirteen lessons for upper elementary but which can be adapted...
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Widener University: The Nat Turner Project

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nat Turner Project is a digital archive of primary source materials related to the Nat Turner Slave Rebellion, beginning with the experiences and living conditions of slaves prior to the revolt. The archive houses newspaper articles,...
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Conservation History Association of Texas: The Texas Legacy Project: Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of links to a variety of maps and exercises about state resources, and help give historic background and regional context to the environmental issues that arise in Texas.
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Richard Phillips: Making Maps Easy to Read

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This geography research project surveys factors that make maps easy to read and to use.
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Intel Corporation

Intel: Seeing Reason: Mind Mapping Cause and Effect

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The "Seeing Reason Mapping Tool" is a free online tool that teachers and students can use to foster cause and effect understanding. Teachers must register for free access and set up projects; then their students can use the projects...
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Genome Project Information Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
This reosurce from the Human Genome Project of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) provides links to all the information you ever wanted to know regarding the Human Genome Project.
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Us Epa: Buzzards Bay Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Home page of the Buzzards Bay Project National Estuary Program. Contains links to mission statement, events/updates, bay & basin info, references to documents related to the organization, links to related sites, legislation, and...
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Rice University

Galileo Project: Longitude at Sea

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Galileo Project of the Rice University provides an in-depth look at the historic problems figuring out longitude. Links are provided throughout this article along with pictures, making this a great site to check out.
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University of Washington

Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights Projects: Seattle General Strike

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive look at the Seattle General Strike, which began in February, 1919. Here you will find an explanation of why the strike began, an interactive map of the location of important events, oral histories, contemporary newspaper...
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Trans Pacific Project: Transpacific Migrations

For Students 9th - 10th
What an incredible resource that looks at Transpacific migrations peopling the Western Hemisphere, the Pacific islands, and the Chinese diaspora. Included is information about genetic research that traces DNA patterns across the world....
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Other

Battle of Camden Project: Battle in Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
The Battle of Camden Project provides links to personal accounts, maps, timelines, much historical documentation and narratives about the Battle of Camden in 1780.
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Other

The Korean War Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains personal accounts of the war, a listing of those lost during the conflict, numerous maps, and more.

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