Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Origin Story: Modern Scientific
Read about how modern science accounts for the beginning of our Universe on this page.
PBS
Pbs Teachers:origins Back to the Beginning
This hour long program by NOVA is split into six segments and examines a issues influencing scientists' current understanding of how the universe was formed. This includes The Big Bang and its lasting effects.
University of Chicago
University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Origins of Civilization
Learing module on the origins of civilization explains the chronology and environmental context of the so-called Neolithic revolution, the period when early civilizations in the Middle East arose and began to domesticate plants and animals.
NASA
Nasa: Space Place: What Is the Big Bang?
With exciting illustrations, NASA's Space Place explains the theory of the origin of the universe known as the Big Bang.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Is the Universe Made Of?
The atoms around you have existed for billions of years- and most originated in the flaming, gaseous core of a star. Dennis Wildfogel tells the captivating tale of these atoms' long journeys from the Big Bang to the molecules they form...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Poet of the American Revolution: Philip Freneau
One poet, Philip Freneau, incorporated the new stirrings of European Romanticism and escaped the imitativeness and vague universality of the Hartford Wits. The key to both his success and his failure was his passionately democratic...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Origin of the Elements
Discussion of the creation of the chemical elements that make up the matter we observe throughout the universe.
Other
University of Leicester: Comets
A detailed look at comets. Content outlines our observational history, as well as the origins of comets and an explanation of the appearance of comets.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Adventures of a Penny by Mrs. Perring
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Adventures of a Penny by Mrs. Perring (1865), a fictional account of the life of a penny as told by the penny itself.
NASA
Nasa Star Child: The Universe (Level 2)
This site provides a description of the universe and what it contains. Includes links to definitions, activities, and an audio song. Printable version available.
University of Michigan
University of Michigan: A Monetary Explanation of the Great Stagflation [Pdf]
A comprehensive look at the economic condition of the 1970s termed stagflation. Authors take a different view noting that oil price increases were not as essential to stagflation as thought. They develop the relationship between monetary...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Quiz: Creation of Complex Elements
Take a five question quiz to review over your knowledge of the formation of complex elements and where they are found throughout our universe. The quiz is multiple choice.
United Nations
United Nations: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
This is a site containing the original text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights written over fifty years ago.
Texas A&M University
Texas a & M University: The Origins of Greek Mathematics [Pdf]
Describes the history of Greek mathematics and the major figures and schools of mathematics.
University of Nebraska
U. Of Nebraska: Railroads and Making of Modern America: Origins of Segregation
Primary source materials that focus on the segregation of African Americans that took place on the railroads in the 1800s. Content includes newspaper articles, anecdotal accounts, letters, legal cases, etc.
Utah Education Network
Uen: The Periodic Table and the Universe
Students will apply the atomic number of elements on the periodic table to the origin of heavy elements in the star cycle.
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia: Songs of the Pueblo Indians
Maintained by the Electronic Texts Center at the University of Virginia, this library reproduces a collection of poems that Lowell originally published in 1920 in the literary magazine "The Dial."
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
This University of Virginia Library site provides the full text of Carroll's English fiction poetry, "The Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits." Also available are original photos of the cover and title page.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Dog Crusoe: A Tale of the Western Prairie by R. Ballantyne
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's novel The Dog Crusoe: A Tale of the Western Prairie by R.M. Ballantyne (1861).
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Strange Adventures of the Venerable Gooroo Simple by Beschi
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Strange Surprising Adventures of the Venerable Gooroo Simple and His Five Disciples by Costantino Beschi (1861), a collection of stories about Gooroo Simple and his...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Seven Little Maids: The Birthday Week by Mary A. Lathbury
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Seven Little Maids: The Birthday Week by Mary A. Lathbury (c1884), includes an illustrated poem for each day of the birthday week.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Rip Van Winkle: A Legend of the Hudson by Washington Irving
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Rip Van Winkle: A Legend of the Hudson by Washington Irving (1887), a children's novel.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Children of the Week by William Theodore Peters
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Children of the Week by William Theodore Peters (1886), an illustrated children's novel.