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Tate

Tate (Modern, Britain, Liverpool, and St. Ives)

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the home page of the Tate, a group of four prestigious galleries around England.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Mona Van Duyn

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to biographical notes about Van Duyn, this site has four essays about her poetry, one by Van Duyn.
Handout
University of Maryland

University of Maryland: The People's Republic of China

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive article focuses on the radical policy change known as the Four Modernizations which Deng Xiaoping introduced to China.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Latin American Modernism

For Students 9th - 10th
How much do you know about the painting Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park by Diego Rivera? Find out by answering this four-question multiple-choice and true/false quiz. Check each answer before moving to the next...
Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Modern Classification Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
Identify the four new kingdoms that were added to the original Linnaean taxonomy.
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Buddha Dharma Education Association

Buddha Net: Buddhism: A Modern Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
Buddhanet offers a lecture on the basic tenents of Buddhism and a description of their relevance to modern life, especially in the West.
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PBS

Pbs: A Modern Mass Extinction

For Students 9th - 10th
Are we in the midst of a mass extinction? Is Homo sapiens triggering this mass extinction? Four expert panelists have written responses to the aforementioned questions for this highly informative site.
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The British Museum

British Museum: Artists of the Modern Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
The online home of "Word into Art," an exhibition mounted by the British Museum that details the way in which artists from across the Middle East and North Africa use written language in their art. The exhibition follows four thematic...
Lesson Plan
Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Modern Economy of Texas [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
An activity guide where young scholars refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, they examine the economies of the four geographical regions of Texas,...
Handout
Thomson Reuters

Find Law: Article Iv: Development of the Modern Rule

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about Article IV of the United States Constitution.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Modern Muslim Women

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video provides an introduction to the four personable female stars of Sweet Talk, a popular television show in the Arab world.
Primary
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Peter I

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Fordham University presents first-hand accounts of tsar Peter I. It contains four separate accounts of the tsar at different periods during his reign.
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: On "The Weary Blues"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features four different reviews of Langston Hughes' debut award winning volume of poems "Weary Blues". Compiled by the University of Illinois.
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: France Since 1871

For Students 9th - 10th
This course of twenty-four college video lectures covers the emergence of modern France. Topics include the social, economic, and political transformation of France; the impact of France's revolutionary heritage, of industrialization,...
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Sound Bites: Tasting the Texture of Classical Music

For Students 9th - 10th
Did you know that your sense of hearing can determine texture? This Science Buddies science fair project has you experiment with four major eras in western music to determine the texture of the music. The Science Buddies project ideas...
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Other

Magnet Sales & Manufacturing: Permanent Magnet Design Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Very advanced information about permanent magnets and how they are constructed. Covers different functions they perform, the four classes of commercial magnets, how magnets are measured, design considerations, the B-H curve, calculations...
Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Lyonel Feininger

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical account covers the life and career of Lyonel Feininger, a German-American painter associated with the Expressionist movement and a leader in the development of Modernism.
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BBC

Bbc: The Route of English

For Students 9th - 10th
The Routes of English is a series of four six-week features on the development of English as a language, presented on BBC Channel 4 by host Melvyn Bragg. In addition, there are three special programs which deal with the language of the...
Interactive
Mariners' Museum and Park

Mariners Museum: Exploration Through the Ages

For Students 9th - 10th
This website focuses on exploration and offers links to Ancient Exploration, Medieval Exploration, The "Age of Discovery" and Modern Exploration. It also provides pictured links to four explorers: currently they are Christopher Columbus,...
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Digital History

Digital History: Freedom Now

For Students 9th - 10th
When four African American North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College students refused to leave the lunch-counter at the F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro they started the first non-violent, "sit-in" movement. Although the...
Primary
University at Buffalo

University at Buffalo: Derek Walcott

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, created by a University of Buffalo math professor with a deep interest in African American and Caribbean writing, gives four poems by Walcott an audio of him speaking, and a biography and bibliography.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Henrik Ibsen

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia article from Wikipedia gives some wonderful insight into Henrik Ibsen's (1828-1906 CE) controversial playwriting style. It discusses four of his plays and the controversy surrounding these. The article also gives some...
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Anton Chekhov

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Anton Chekhov including a biography and the full text of 11 novels, 121 short stories, and four plays.
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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Atomic Models: Everything You Need to Know

For Students 8th
A detailed slideshow for Grade 8 students that looks at the history of our understanding of atoms. Looks at the ideas presented by Democritus, John Dalton, J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, and Niels Bohr, and the modern-day wave model. A...