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E Cycle Best: Making the Tablet Pc Eco Friendly

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Do you know that tablets are now being manufactured to be environmental friendly? This article describes how tablets are being made to more eco-friendly.
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Khan Academy: Cuneiform Tablets: Backstory

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The looting and illegal sale of important historical artifacts is detrimental to global cultural heritage for many reasons. This article explains the ramifications of this illegal activity using the Hobby Lobby case as an example.
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Study: Sharing I Pads Beats 1 to 1 Programs for Improving Student Learning

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This article from Education Week discusses a study where kindergartners who shared iPads in class scored higher on literacy assessments than their peers in 1-to-1 or tablet-free classrooms. The researcher said the results suggest that...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Gaming

For Students 9th - 10th
Gaming involves playing 'video games' on a games console (such as a PlayStation 4, XBOX One, or Nintendo Switch) a PC or mobile games on a smartphone or tablet. This site includes a list of questions, answers to the questions, and tips...
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Youth Time Magazine: Does Over Reliance on Tech Affect Our Ability to Spell?

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Technology can bring a lot of convenience into our lives. But it can also make us rely a little too much on our phones, tablets, laptops, and smart watches. Spelling and grammar is something that seems to suffer due to our over-reliance...
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Kwasi: 7 Futuristic Predictions From 1968 That Came True

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1968, a science fiction writer named James R. Berry wrote an article entitled '40 Years in the Future' for the magazine Mechanix Illustrated. It was his futuristic vision of the 21st Century. Berry's predictions of a world featuring...
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Partnership for a Drug Free America: Pcp

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America is organized in question/answer format, this website provides a good introduction for students wanting to know about PCP and its hazardous effects on the human body and brain.
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Khan Academy: The Rosetta Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
The Rosetta Stone is one of the most important objects in the British Museum as it holds the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs-a script made up of small pictures that was used originally in ancient Egypt for religious texts....
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Khan Academy: Hammurabi: The King Who Made the Four Qtrs of the Earth Obedient

For Students 9th - 10th
Hammurabi's famous legal code survives in partial copies on a stele in the Louvre and on clay tablets. Read a short description of Hammurabi's Code in this article.

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