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University of New South Wales (Australia)

University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips: Travelling Waves I

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module exploring travelling waves. Learn about reflections, wave travelling equations, waves on a string, and travelling sine waves with animations and videos.
Unit Plan
University of New South Wales (Australia)

University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips:travelling Waves Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
Physiclips thoroughly investigates traveling wave with animations and film clips. Understand the wave equation, power in a wave, and radiation and intensity.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Travelers' Health: Disease Directory

For Students 9th - 10th
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information on over 40 diseases that travelers might need to be prepared for. Information includes description of disease, risk for travelers, preventive measures and treatment.
Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: American Notes: Travels in America, 1750 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920....
eBook
Planet eBooks

Planet E Book: Gulliver's Travels [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift is available here in PDF format. Gulliver's Travels, which was first released in 1728, is 383 pages pages long.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Space Exploration Time Line

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site provides a time line of the history of space exploration.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Gulliver's Travels

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, a picture book for children.
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University of California

The Travels of Ibn Battuta: A Virtual Tour With the 14th Century Traveler

For Students 9th - 10th
Ibn Battuta was a famous Muslim traveler in the 14th century. He began traveling in 1325 at the age of twenty, first as a pilgrimage to Mecca. But he kept on traveling - for about twenty-nine years. He visited what would today be...
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INTERNET Red 2000

All About Spain: Travel and Tourism

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive index of information about Spain and Spanish culture. It contains photo tours, city guides, a traveler's yellow pages, and a country and culture section filled with useful information.
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Other

The Travel Channel

For Students 9th - 10th
The Travel Channel site offers a TV guide of their programming, fan favorites, videos, podcasts, travel reviews, destination guides, vacation ideas, travel tools, and booking trips.
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National Museum of Science and Industry (UK)

Ingenious: Travelling in the Minds Eye

For Students 9th - 10th
Virtual travel has become a very popular form of visiting places. Travelling in the Mind's Eye historically delves into the concepts that make a virtual fieldtrip possible. The uses of photography, motion pictures, and reconstruction of...
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Other

Geo Beats: Guided Video Tours and Reviews of Travel Destinations Around the World

For Students 9th - 10th
Sample the unique character of some of the most popular travel destinations in the world at the award-winning video network site GeoBeats.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Comparing Travel Before and After the Transcontinental Railroad [Pdf]

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students will compare two primary accounts of overland travel in the 1860s,one by stagecoach, the other by railroad, to see how travel changed upon completion of the transcontinental railroad.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Gulliver's Travels in the Kingdom of Lilliput by Jonathan Swift

For Students 5th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Gulliver's Travels in the Kingdom of Lilliput by Jonathan Swift, a children's novel about a voyage to Lilliput where the people were tiny.
Handout
Other

Costa Rica Travel: Parks

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Costa Rica Travel details getting to, recreation, and history of a number of Costa Rica's National Parks.
Interactive
Geffrye Museum

Geffrye Museum: Interactive Journey: Travel Back to Victorian London

For Students 3rd - 8th
Travel back in time to the Victorian era in this interactive journey to help Ruby & Michael search for Sam, their missing dog. While you are searching, you can learn about Victorian life by examining the objects in the house,...
Lesson Plan
NASA

Nasa: Solar Energy for Space Exploration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity book includes lessons and objectives for students to explore solar energy for space exploration. Students will play an active part in decision making for space exploration.
Activity
PBS

Pbs: Nova: Time Travel: Think Like Einstein

For Students 9th - 10th
Addressed with questions about relative speed and the speed of light, students begin to "think like Einstein" while exploring the science behind the mystery of time travel.
Website
Princeton Review

The Princeton Review: Career Travel Agent

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains detailed information on the travel agent/planning career field. It has sections on the daily life of the job, job requirements, future job outlook, and what to expect while in the field.
Article
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Travel, Trade and Exploration in the Middle Ages

For Students 9th - 10th
Medieval Europeans were fascinated by the lands that lay beyond their own continent. This article looks at the real and imaginary travels of explorers and tradesmen through works including The Book of John Mandeville, The Travels of...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Village Schools and Traveling Soldiers

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Village Schools and Traveling Soldiers" by Arthur Henderson Smith, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Neo Confucianism & Fan Kuan, Travelers by Streams and Mountains

For Students 9th - 10th
We know very little about the great artist Fan Kuan, yet he painted the most majestic landscape painting of the early Song period - "Everything about Travelers by Streams and Mountains". Read about why this is an outstanding example of...
Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Irish Travelers

For Students 9th - 10th
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the Irish Travelers.
Activity
Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: Ibn Battuta: The Greatest Traveler in the Middle Ages

For Students 9th - 10th
Activity-based resource on Ibn Battuta, world traveler of the Middle Ages. Includes questions for writing and discussion, research/presentation activity for students and links to additional lessons for teachers.

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