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Miniature Earth: Comparative Demographics Worldwide
Miniature Earth reduces the world's population to 100 to underscore the dramatic differences in wealth, age, faith, education, environment, and health among people who live on this planet. An excellent apply-what-you-know site for...
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum (Uk): Biodiversity
Find a wealth of scientific information on the status of biodiversity in the world today, the threats it faces, and why it is critically important to preserve it.
Regents of the University of Michigan
Animal Diversity Web: House Mouse
This complete site presents a wealth of information about the house mouse including topics such as habitat, physical description, reproduction, lifespan/longevity, behavior, communication, diet, predation, and more.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Poverty Trends: What Does It Mean to Be Poor in America?
Use math to learn about changes in US wealth distribution and poverty rate over time in this interactive from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students interpret the graphs and consider how the poverty rate spike following...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Ibibio
The name "Ibibio" identifies the largest subdivision of people living in southeastern Nigeria, in Akwa Ibom State, and it is generally accepted and used for both ethnic and linguistic descriptions. Like their Igbo neighbors, the Ibibio...
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Inequality.org
This site is dedicated to teaching people about the potential problems with an increasingly unequal distribution of income. The site exposes greed and excess, and includes a variety of links.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: It Ain't Where You Start, It's What You Got, and Where You End
This year's federal elections will involve electing a president, all members of the House of Representatives, and one-third of the Senate. Barring some international crisis, economic issues appear likely to dominate the debates. In past...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Charles Fourier
Read an excerpt from Fourier's 1820 book, "Theory of Social Organization," which explains his theory of communal work distribution that influenced a number of social experiments, including the Israeli kibbutzim.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Lorenz Curve
This website describes what a Lorenz curve is, and shows what it would look like graphically. A mathematical formula is also given.
Travel Document Systems
Tds: South Africa: Economy
Read about the improvements South Africa is making in its economy in its attempt to improve the lives of its citizens. Information is from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.
Geographypods
Geographypods: Introducing Global Development
This exercise has five objectives: to find out how big the gap between rich and poor is, to learn a little more about the issues facing people with limited access to food around the world and the features and extent of malnutrition, to...
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: St Anthony Distributing His Wealth to the Poor
An image of "St Anthony Distributing his Wealth to the Poor", created by Master of the Osservanza, c. 1440 (Tempera and gold on wood, 47 x 35 cm).
Other
Zut!: Interactive French Activities
This site provides activities for teaching and learning French organized by level. Basic lessons include learning to talk about oneself and numbers; more advanced lessons cover contemporary France, immigration, the distribution of wealth...
Sea World Parks & Entertainment
Sea World: Bony Fishes
This site provides a wealth of information regarding bony fishes. Content includes a focus on their habitat, distribution, physical characteristics, senses, behavior, diet and eating habits, reproduction, anatomy and physiology, and...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Socialism
Links to a wide variety of socialism resources. Selections marked "at this site" are parts of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook, and all others are outside resources.
The World Bank
World Bank Group: Income Inequality
This website examines the topic of income inequality and compares Brazil and Hungary. Lorenz Curves and Gini coefficients are used in this analysis. Includes a few discussion prompts.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Government & Politics: Sovereignty, Authority, and Power
Learning module explores the concpets of Authority, Power and Sovereignty in various political systems. Comprehensive materials and assignments.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Gross Domestic Product
Features a series of engaging resources that fully explain Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: The Osage "Reign of Terror" Murder Trials
The "Reign of Terror" that overtook the Osage Reservation in 1921 is just one chapter in the long story of mistreatment of Native Americans by whites, but is one of the most horrifying. Before the chapter ends, untold dozens of Osage...
Sea World Parks & Entertainment
Sea World: Animal Bytes: Gorillas
This site from SeaWorld/Busch Gardens provides a wealth of information regarding gorillas. Content includes a focus on gorilla habitats and distribution, physical characteristics and special adaptations, senses, behavior, diet,...
University of Richmond
Digital Scholarship Lab: Atlas of the Historical Geography of United States
Review America's history with over 700 individual maps that address a broad range of issues with this atlas. This atlas maps a variety of historical topics: "exploration and settlement of the continent, the location of colleges and...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Socialism
This encyclopedia article examines the different strains of socialism, a political and economic organization of society based on collective ownership.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Introduction to 19th Century Socialism
This article discusses the origin of 19th-century socialism. Discusses the Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, social classes, Karl Marx and labor unions. An in-depth article.
Teachers.net
Teachers.net.: Animal Farm
This site features a complete project guide for George Orwell's book "Animal Farm."