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Resonance: Drawing Resonance Structures
An extensive lesson from UCLA on drawing resonance structures. Includes several examples, and links to related topics. Practice problems are also provided.
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Beringia Chronology: Prehistoric Beringia
Extensive coverage of the prehistoric era where groups settled into the region called Beringia from the Bering Land Bridge that once connected North America and Asia. Provides information about various groups, where they settled, and...
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Supply
This site provides an explanation of the difference between a change in supply and a change in quantity supplied, terms which many economics students confuse.
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University of California Berkeley: Blaise Pascal
This site from the University of California, Berkeley provides a biography on the life of Blaise Pascal, including extensive information on his accomplishments.
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University of California Berkeley: Francois Viete
This site from the University of California, Berkeley, provides a description of the life of Francois Viete, along with information about his works and his construction of a regular heptagon.
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History Project: Bacon's Rebellion
Students will write an essay on the history of Bacon's Rebellion based on the analysis of sixteen primary source documents.
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History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement
This middle school lesson focuses on the women's suffrage movement. Provided is detailed background information followed by excerpts from eleven early twentieth-century primary source documents, along with questions to help young...
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History Project: The Path to Watergate
Students will write an essay on the causes of the Watergate affair using background information, a chronology of events, and nineteen primary source documents.
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History Project: The Pullman Strike of 1894
Given background information and primary source documents, students will write an essay describing the events of the Pullman Strike of 1894 organized around a theme.
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History Project: The Homestead Strike of 1892
This high school lesson focuses on the Homestead Strike of 1892. Students are asked to write an essay explaining why the strike occurred and how the Carnegie Company went about winning the strike. Included are twenty-seven primary source...
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History Project: The Bonus Army in Washington
In this high school lesson plan, students will analyze twenty-two primary source documents then answer questions pertaining to the "bonus marchers" in Washington in the summer of 1932.
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History Project: The Antinomian Controversy
Using ten primary source documents, high school students will write a 2 1/2 page interpretive history of Puritan Society focusing on the antinomian controversy in Massachusetts.
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Jamestown Settlement Panoramas
View panoramas and photos of Jamestown in the Virginia Colony to learn about the life and struggles of the colonists and Indians that lived there. These panoramas, and the extra photographs and quotations which accompany them allow you...
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Understanding Science: Newton's 2nd Law: Inquiry Approach Lesson
For this lesson, students develop their own scientific experiment to test Newton's hypothesis that the acceleration of an object depends on the net force acting upon it and its mass. After completing their designed experiment, students...
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University of California Santa Barbara: What Is Roman Concrete?
Provides information on how Roman concrete was produced and how this technique contributed to the architectural concepts of their buildings.
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University of California Television: Conversations With History: Linus Pauling
A televised interview with Linus Pauling, from 1983, focusing on Pauling's efforts for world peace and the roles that scientists can play in the peace process. 59 minutes,
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Ucmp: The Grassland Biome
A good site to begin your study of grasslands as it gives clear definitions of terms and an explanation of how the grasslands came into existence.
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Ucmp: Tundra
Characteristics given about tundras. The two types of tundras, arctic and alpine, are both discussed.
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University of California Museum of Paleontology: Science Checklist [Pdf]
Use this seven item checklist to make sure all the parts of a good science investigation are in place.
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University of California: Understanding Science: How Science Really Works
Need a tutorial about the nature and process of science? Here is your one stop for knowledge about what science is, how it works, science and society, and why science matters. This site expands on your scientific toolbox by allowing you...
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University of California at Berkeley: How Science Works Flowchart [Pdf]
A flowchart for elementary students outlining how the scientific process works.
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University of California: Roman Building Technology and Architecture
This site offers information on Roman Engineering, Roman Baths, Roman Aqueducts, roads, bridges, buildings and concrete.
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University of California Museum of Paleontology: Evolution 101: Speciation
In this tutorial students can learn the definition of species, how new species evolve, and the processes that can cause new species to arise. At the end of the tutorial students can take a quiz to evaluate what they learned about...
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Understanding Science: The Core of Science: Relating Evidence and Ideas
Learn that the real process of science proceeds at multiple levels and sorts through many ideas, retaining and building upon those that work, and relating the evidence discovered with scientific ideas.