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Mit Technology Review: Tomorrow's Cars

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of articles about innovations in automotive technology. Titles include: Prying Open the Prius, Cheaper Fuel Cells, Better than Hybrids, and Free Power for Cars.
Unit Plan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Differentiability and Continuity

For Students 9th - 10th
The activity investigates differentiability and continuity. The resource consists of online textbook chapters and exam questions with solutions on non-differentiable behavior. All documents were created from scanned original files and...
Unit Plan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Appropriate Integrals

For Students 9th - 10th
The activity investigates appropriate integrals. Some topics examined are areas between curves, the disk method, the washer method, and the shell method. All documents were created from scanned original files and are available as PDF...
Article
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Media Lab: All I Really Need to Know (About Creative Thinking) I Learned in Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This paper in pdf format focuses on how kindergarten students learn about creative thinking and emphasizes that their approach is ideally suited to the needs of the 21st century.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Japanese Holidays and Cultural Events

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Massachusetts Institute of Technology gives a calendar of holidays and culture events in Japan. It gives the history of days, the meaning, and why they are celebrated.
eBook
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Alexander by Plutarch

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of Plutarch's ALEXANDER.
eBook
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Caius Marius by Plutarch

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of Plutarch's CAIUS MARIUS.
eBook
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Cato Younger by Plut

For Students 9th - 10th
Text for Plutarch's CATO THE YOUNGER.
eBook
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Internet Classics Archive: On Generation and Corruption

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of Aristotle's "On Generation and Corruption," translated by H. H. Joachim. Includes a place for you to read or post commentaries on the text.
Article
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Internet Classics Archive: "The Defense" by Apuleius

For Students 9th - 10th
An English translation of Apuleius' Latin text of a legal defense.
Handout
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Infinite Discontinuity

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a brief definition of infinite discontinuity and an example.
Primary
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Agamemnon, by Aeschylus

For Students 9th - 10th
Aeschylus' famous play, Agamemnon, was written in 458 BCE. The full text available here provides an important perspective on the figure of Agmamemnon in ancient Greek culture.
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Anthropology of the Middle East

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Introducing culture-based performances from the Middle East into Western cultures and the translations and response can be enhanced with these resources.
Article
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Tech: Democratic Platform Cautiously Balances Diverse Party Opinions

For Students 9th - 10th
Article suggests the broad and seemingly contradictory statements in the 1996 Democratic Party Platform result in a "middle of the road" or "centrist" document. (August 27, 1996 - Op ed)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Tech: Article on Alex Haley

For Students 9th - 10th
This Washington Post article from The Tech on Alex Haley offers a personal glimpse into Haley's life as a writer and how his writing connected him to his family.
Article
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Tech: Clinton Assures Rabin on u.s. Role

For Students 9th - 10th
Article from The Washington Post describing possible Congressional opposition to Clinton's plans for a peacekeeping force. (November 22, 1994)
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Storing Android Accelerometer Data: App Design

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students work through an online tutorial on MIT's App Inventor to learn how to create Android applications. Using those skills, they create their own applications and use them to collect data from an Android device accelerometer and...
Handout
Olaf Vernunft

Magdeburg Deutschland Panorama

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives a truly fabulous view of all the sites to see in Magdeburg, Germany. Click on the thumbnail pictures and you are directed quickly to full panoramic pictures that you can control. The site includes such places as the...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Android App Development

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students develop an app for an Android device that utilizes its built-in internal sensors, specifically the accelerometer. The goal of this activity is to teach programming design and skills using MIT's App Inventor software (free to...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Exploring Acceleration With an Android

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students conduct an experiment to study the acceleration of a mobile Android device. During the experiment, they run an application created with MIT's App Inventor that monitors linear acceleration in one-dimension. Students use an...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Flow Charting App Inventor Tutorials

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students design and create flow charts for the MIT App Inventor tutorials in this computer science activity about program analysis. In program analysis, which is based on determining the behavior of computer programs, flow charts are an...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Mars Rover App Creation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Based on their experience exploring the Mars rover Curiosity and learning about what engineers must go through to develop a vehicle like Curiosity, students create Android apps that can control LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots, simulating the...
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Android Acceleration Application

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit includes two sequential lessons. In the first, students create mobile apps that collect data from an Android device's accelerometer and then store that data to a database. This lesson provides practice with MIT's App Inventor...
Article
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Common Lit: "When Good People Do Bad Things" by Ann Trafton

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
In this informational text, Rebecca Saxe, associate professor of cognitive neuroscience at MIT, and her colleagues conducted an experiment to study the way people behave in groups. A specific purpose for reading and vocabulary notes are...