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Robert Smithson

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the official site of Robert Smithson who is an artist most known for his earthworks and recognized by his work 'Spiral Jetty.' There is a fantastic collection of his work, interviews, and much more!
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New York Times

New York Times: Robert Smithson: Earth Art

For Students 9th - 10th
An audio slideshow about artist Robert Smithson narrated by New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman. The slideshow, which illustrates many of Smithson's drawings and works of scuplture, including his famous "Spiral Jetty," coincides...
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California Institute of Technology

Nasa: Splendid Splinter

For Students 9th - 10th
The Splendid Splinter photo is a picture of a spiral galaxy and acts as part of a series of photographs taken from the Spitzer Space Telescope. The picture is accompanied by a textual overview of the Splinter Galaxy with specific...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Galaxy Spinning the Wrong Way

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, this February 2002 article revolves around findings posted by images from the Hubble Space Telescope which suggest a spiral galaxy spinning in an opposite direction than expected.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Milky Way Is Many Tentacled Beast

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, Larry O'Hanlon's article discusses research connected to the size of the Milky Way Galaxy. The article suggests that the galaxy, instead of being a neat spiral, stretches out through a series of arms.
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California Institute of Technology

Spitzer Space Telescope: Our Galaxy's 'Twin'

For Students 9th - 10th
This image, titled "Morphology of Our Galaxy's 'Twin'" features three individual pictures of a nearby spiral galaxy that closely resembles our own. The text under the image details various specifics about the picture.
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Sky Server: Galaxies

For Students 9th - 10th
SkyServer explains and presents images of spiral galaxies, elliptical galaxies, irregular galaxies, galaxy clusters, galaxy collisions and the like.
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Spiral Staircase

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Spiral staircase", created by Donato Bramantez.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Spiraling Content Across Grade Bands

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Read a lesson description from each grade band (elementary, middle, high school) and adapt the content from that grade band to the other two. Choose the same language and/or culture as the sample descriptions or one your are more...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Dna Spiral Staircase

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to compare and contrast the staircase pictured to the DNA molecule.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Discovering Phi: The Golden Ratio

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover the mathematical constant phi, the golden ratio, through hands-on activities. They measure dimensions of "natural objects"--a star, a nautilus shell and human hand bones--and calculate ratios of the measured values,...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: The Fishing Game

For Students 9th - 10th
A lesson outline for The Fishing Game, which is located on a linked website. Teachers register a class from within the game. Students compete against two fishing companies and try to make the most profit they can over a ten-year period....
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the novel The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky. This stunning psychological portrait tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break...
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: Hop, Hop, Hop Scotch

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn how to play hop scotch in a different way on a spiral design. Book includes audio narration in 10 additional languages with text in English.
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Calculus Animations With Mathcad: Polar Curves

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains an animation that will show you how the graphs of a number of polar equations are graphed. (Page may take some time to load completely.)
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Galaxies, the Milky Way and Beyond

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive tutorial students will explore galaxies. Learn what the Milky Way Galaxy is like, how various galaxies are grouped into clusters and superclusters and why those particular galaxies clump together.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Crime Science Investigation

For Students 9th - 10th
In this comprehensive interactive tutorial you will learn the basic components of a crime scene investigation and how they are implemented. You will also learn various evidence collecting techniques, as well as how to properly document...
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Space Telescope Science Institute

Hubble Space Photographs: Hst's Greatest Hits 1990 1995

For Students 9th - 10th
Breathtaking images from the Hubble Space Telescope give a new perspective to our world.
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Texas A&M University

Ocean World: Bringing the Ocean to the Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
Online resource for students and teachers to see information on icebergs, fisheries, coral reefs, waves, currents and more. Provides teachers with learning activities. Has its own ask-an-expert site (Ask Dr. Bob), and provides real-time...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 5: 3 D Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This fifth unit of a course on Art Appreciation looks at different forms of three-dimensional art. Students learn about sculpture and its history, government-funded art works, and controversy in art. They look at other types of 3-D...
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Drexel University: Archimedes

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive site dedicated to the life and legacy of the Greek mathematician Archimedes. Content includes a timeline of Archimedes' life, an overview of several of his inventions, and numerous anecdotes isolating various moments in his...
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Mathigon

Mathigon: Math Foundations: Divisibility and Primes: The Distribution of Primes

For Students 6th - 8th
This lesson focuses on the distribution of large prime numbers. It offers a calculator to check numbers for prime and a calculator that allows you to create prime numbers. It also provides the history of methods find the distribution of...
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Other

Broken Toyland: The Art of Valery Milovic

For Students 9th - 10th
Personal site of contemporary artist/illustrator Valery Milovic that also contains poetry, musings, and stories. Creative, intergrated site, developed around Milovic's thematic "Broken Toyland" universe.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: At a Snail's Pace

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students plot a mathematical relationship that defines a spiral. They use technology to create a spiral and to plot a set of ordered pairs.

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