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Mit: Open Course Ware: Software Engineering for Web Applications

For Students 9th - 10th
This course gives students some experience in dealing with the challenges that are unique to web applications, such as concurrency and security risks.
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete course on theoretical Computer Science presented at the college undergraduate level. The course attempts to describe Computer Science beyond the computer, focusing on mathematical tools, complex systems and classic problems,...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Embrace nature when considering architectural design to bring the two together. Prof. Jan Wampler provides several resources including video clips.
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Classics in Western Philosophy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Utilize these excellent resources when introducing the concepts of Western Philosophy and/or analyzing changing philosophies over time.
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Weight Training

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An introduction course to weight lifting focusing on proper technique and understanding the biomechanics involved in the exercises. Curriculum includes a calendar, lecture notes, suggested reading, and video demonstrations.
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Mit: The Re:constructions Project

For Students 9th - 10th
re:constructions is an online resource and study guide, designed to spark discussions and reflections about the media's role in covering the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath. Through discussions with students, staff, and...
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Mit: Scratch: Decimals and Fractions on the Number Line

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
The interactive activity has students place decimals and fractions on the correct place on a number line.
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Helen Murray Free

For Students 3rd - 8th
Biography of Helen Free, detailing her life as a chemist and inventor who developed many products for consumer use, including a convenient at-home glocose level test.
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Mit:glossary of 18th Century Costume Terminology

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive glossary explains the vocabulary relating to fashions of the 1700's. Includes links to visual examples.
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Mit: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a variety of resources, information about, and research concerning artificial intelligence.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Physics: Electricity and Magnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
College-level physics course highlighting electromagnetism. This course also includes a wide variety of other physics topics including lightning, electrocardiograms, metal detectors, and atom smashers, to name a few. Course includes a...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Supplemental Resources: Electromagnetic Fields and Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
College-level textbook highlighting electromagnetism concepts. Many of the topics are explained in video demonstrations.
Primary
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Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a collection of links to the full texts of all of William Shakespeare's works. They are categorized by genre: Comedy, Tragedy, History, and Poetry.
eBook
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Mac Arthur Foundation: Measuring What Matters Most: Choice Based Assessments [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An educator's guide to understanding and implementing choice-based assessment in the classroom. This guide argues that choice should be the interpretive framework within which learning assessments are organized.
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Mit: Blossoms: Will an Ice Cube Melt Faster in Freshwater or Saltwater?

For Students 9th - 10th
Engage learners in the study of the ocean and saltwater with these activities. Students will see that saltwater has different physical properties than freshwater - mainly density. This lesson can serve as a springboard into other...
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Robert Fulton

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website contains biographical information about Robert Fulton, including the events leading up to his design of the first successful steamboat.
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Mit: Inventing Modern America: Games

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are challenged to a five-question quiz about when certain objects are invented.
eBook
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor's Handbook: Patents

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has everything you would want to know regarding United States patents is included in this handbook for the "Aspiring entrepreneur."
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Civil Environmental: Ecology I: The Earth System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level online course highlighting the fundamentals of ecology. Course topics include coevolution of the biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere; photosynthesis and respiration; and the carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles....
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Mit: Can Deflation Be Prevented?

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an opinion essay by a faculty member from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) of an article from The Economist. This is a good site for the serious student.
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Mit: The Wind Swe Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a technical site from MIT. It provides data and information from satellites which observe solar winds. Provide 3-D models of the heliosphere and uptodate plots of solar wind data.
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Madame c.j. Walker

For Students 3rd - 8th
At this site from the MIT Program you can read how Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker, or Madame C.J. Walker, and Marjorie Joyner "founded beauty schools for blacks" and changed the lives of African-Americans.
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Virginia Apgar

For Students 3rd - 8th
At this site from MIT Invention Dimension you can read about Virginia Apgar and her accomplishments as "One of Columbia University's first female M.D.s," as a researcher of childbirth, and as the inventor of the "Newborn Scoring System."
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Eli Whitney

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the MIT Invention Dimension provides the history of Eli Whitney's cotton gin. Important part of the Industrial Revolution.