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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Science Today 2004 Corn Crop Is a Bin Buster

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With this resource, students will examine and evaluate data on the corn harvest in the United States over the past several years. Using the USA TODAY Snapshot "2004 corn crop is a bin-buster," data from the USDA Statistics Service...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti: Is Leisure Time Really Shrinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will to organize data from the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Is leisure time really shrinking?," into two scatter plots and determine the quadratic model for each scatter plot. Students will determine if these graphs intersect and learn...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today: Internet Subscribers Soar

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will create a scatter plot of the number of Internet subscribers during 2004 through 2008 using the USA TODAY Snapshot "Internet phone subscribers soar." This activity will allow students to explore real-life data that will be...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today the New Color of Money

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The USA TODAY Snapshot allows students to use scientific notation with real-life data. Students will work with large numbers when determining the height of a stack of $20 bills. Unit conversion will be used from one unit of measure to...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today Super Ticket Sales

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will create two box and whisker plots of the data in the USA TODAY Snapshot. They will calculate central tendencies for both sets of data and compare the two sets of data by analyzing the differences in the box and whisker plots.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today Is Leisure Time Really Shrinking?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will have the opportunity to organize data from the USA TODAY Snapshot "Is leisure time really shrinking?" into two scatter plots and determine the quadratic model for each scatter plot.
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US Mint

U.s. Mint: Coins: Historical Image Library

For Students 9th - 10th
See dozens of images used on American Coins including circulating coins, commemorative coins, and bullion coins. Read a brief snapshot of information about each coin image.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Kids Work! History of Theater

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief history of theater practice told in five snapshots and commentary: theater in ancient times, the medieval theater, the Renaissance theater, Kabuki, and modern-day community theater.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Worm Watch

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this field investigation, students use sampling techniques to identify the types of earthworms found in the schoolyard. Data will be combined for the whole class to get a snapshot of the earthworm population, species, and ecological...
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Other

Sociology Guide: Questions on Social Stratification

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This quick snapshot of social stratification includes twelve popular questions with corresponding explanations on the topic.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What's the Big Idea? Paleontology

For Students 3rd - 8th
Snapshot reference on paleontology explains how the fossil record drives this area of science.
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Other

The Voyage of the Ss St. Louis

For Students 9th - 10th
A personal website provides a snapshot of one Jewish family's plight during the Nazi occupation. The author highlights the journey of one man in particular as he sets sail on the SS St. Louis to flee Nazi persecution.
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Other

Honey Software: Personal Video Telecommunications

For Students 9th - 10th
Honey Q is a conferencing program that allow users to combine instant snapshots with instant messaging-style communication.
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Other

In Character: A Journal of Everyday Virtues

For Students 9th - 10th
In Character is an online journal that examines a single virtue--compassion, creativity, purpose, modesty, loyalty, or thrift, for example--from different perspectives. Articles are written by noted scholars, journalists, and critics,...
Handout
The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute: A Century of Development

For Students 9th - 10th
The Franklin Institute looks at the invention of the Brownie camera, which helped put photography into the hands of amateurs and allowed the middle class to take their own snapshots as well in the early 20th century.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today Coming Clean About Showering Time

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity using the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Coming clean about showering time," students will find the measures of central angles and arcs of a circle. They will use circumference, radius, concentric circles and degrees in a circle...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today Dangerous Births

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, using the USA TODAY Snapshot "Dangerous births" students will explore the geometric relationships of triangles using perpendicular bisectors of the sides, bisectors of the angles and medians of the triangle. They will...
Article
Other

Texas Wide Open for Business: Overview of the Texas Economy [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Office of the Governor Economic Development and Tourism, this document provides a snapshot of the Texas economy. It reports on employment data, population demographics, real estate values, industries, trade, etc. from 2015.
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Other

The World Counts: Are We Using Up More Than What Is Available?

For Students 9th - 10th
A snapshot of what the world would be like if it lost crucial natural resources such as water, oil, and trees. Lists the causes and consequences, and ways people can make a difference.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Kids Work! History of Medicine

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief history of medicine told in five snapshots of time: ancient times, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the early modern period (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), and modern times.
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Central Intelligence Agency

Cia: World Factbook: Andorra

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a useful snapshot of Andorra: its history, people, government, economy, geography, climate, natural resources and related topics are covered.
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Other

Sea Turtle Conservancy: Information About Sea Turtles: Loggerhead Sea Turtle

For Students 1st - 9th
An organized snapshot of the endangered Loggerhead Sea Turtle. Find out some biological information as well as the conservation status about this marine reptile.
Article
Other

Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum: Stephen F. Austin

For Students 9th - 10th
A quick biographical snapshot about Stephen F. Austin, the Father of the Texas Rangers. He founded the earliest precursor of the famous law enforcement organization.
Article
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us. Printable Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This article "Freedom: A History of US: Webisode 10, Segment 6: Hard Times," from Thirteen WNET New York, gives the reader an informative snapshot of the cause and impact of the Gilded Age depression of 1893. Students and teachers will...

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