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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Career Profile: Geographer

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the career of a geographer, a social scientist that uses knowledge of climate, culture, and topography to address a whole host of problems the world faces. Find out the educational requirements and what the job entails in...
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US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Conservation Scientists and Foresters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Comprehensive description of the career of forester is included with other conservation scientists.
Handout
US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Environmental Scientists and Specialists

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides occupational information about environmental scientists and specialists.
Website
US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Agricultural and Food Scientists

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about careers focusing in agriculture and food sciences.
Lesson Plan
Cengage Learning

Investigating Social Change: Midwest

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the evolution of the Midwest region of the United States. Students and teachers will gain a different perspective about the Midwest when they check out this site.
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: It's a Connected World: The Beauty of Network Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about complex networks and how to use graphs to represent them. They also learn that graph theory is a useful part of mathematics for studying complex networks in diverse applications of science and engineering, including...
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NOAA

Noaa: Nccos: Exploring New Ways to Communicate Scientific Results

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the many types of media technology that scientists have available today to communicate the results of their research. These include social media tools, educational web pages, videos, virtual worlds, and podcasts. Many examples...
eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Urbanization 1870 1900: Change Reflected in Thought and Writing

For Students 11th - 12th
American writers and intellectuals played an important role in articulating the changes taking place in Industrial America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Learn about some of the prominent writers, scientists, and philosophers at that...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Study of Human Geography

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Geographers are social scientists who are interested in human activities as well as the physical environment. Human geography includes a wide range of topics, such as the study of languages, religions, customs, economics, and political...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Population Pyramids: Powerful Predictors of the Future

For Students 9th - 10th
Kim Preshoff explains how using a visual tool called a population pyramid helps policymakers and social scientists make sense of the statistics, using three different countries' pyramids as examples. [5:01]
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BBC

Bbc: Science & Nature: Prehistoric Life: Latest News

For Students 9th - 10th
Offers a collection of links to news items related to prehistoric studies. A good resource for keeping up-to-date on scientists' discoveries about our Earth's past.
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Albert Einstein

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Spanish-language entry, grasp a concrete understanding of a complicated man whose discoveries impacted society more than any other scientist. This site chronicles the life and accomplishments of Albert Einstein. It also studies...
Lesson Plan
Michigan Reach Out

Michigan Reach Out: Creating a Salad Dressing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site is provided for by Michigan Reach Out! Teach the scientific method with salad dressing! Students understand the scientific process and how it helps scientists by making salad dressing.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Processes on Complex Networks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Building on their understanding of graphs, students are introduced to random processes on networks. They walk through an illustrative example to see how a random process can be used to represent the spread of an infectious disease, such...
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota: Thorstein Veblen Farmstead

For Students 9th - 10th
The Thorstein Veblen Farmstead consists of the home and farm buildings where Thorstein B. Veblen (1857-1929) grew up. As an economist, social scientist, and critic of American culture, he was the product of an austere agrarian...
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US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Chemist

For Students 9th - 10th
The BLS offers an overview of the career of a chemist. The website provides a general description of what being a chemist is like and includes information on the type of education and experience a chemist needs.
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Curated OER

Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mary Elizabeth Switzer (1900 1971)

For Students 9th - 10th
Mary Elizabeth Switzer (1900-1971) was Director of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and co-winner of the Lasker Award in 1960 with Paul Wilson Brand (1914-2003), a...
Lesson Plan
Crayola

Crayola: Birth of Bits and Bytes (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan incorporates many subjects! Young scholars create a flow chart after studying the "Evolution," of computers. Also provides adaptations and references to use. (To access this lesson plan, you must register with...
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University of Virginia

U of Virginia: Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

For Students 9th - 10th
Participants in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study were never told that they had syphilis. Instead, the doctors and scientists said they had "bad blood." Find out what took place during this study, and the social and political consequences...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Nova: The Cannabis Question: Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
The NOVA documentary, The Cannabis Question, explores the story of cannabis from the criminalization that has disproportionately harmed communities of color to the latest medical understanding of the plant. What risks does cannabis pose...
Primary
Atomic Archive

Atomicarchive.com: The Manhattan Project

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source documents on the Manhatten project and the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan in 1945. Content includes letters to and from J. Robert Oppenheimer, written deals and agreements, internal memorandums,...
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Read Works

Read Works: Excerpt From "Meet the Ologist Laurel Kendall"

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks reading from the American Museum of Natural Anthropology's website called OLogy provides an interview with the cultural anthropologist named Laurel Kendall. A question sheet is available...
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Unspeakable Perk by Samuel Hopkins Adams

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the romantic comedy "The Unspeakable Perk" by Samuel Hopkins Adams about a socially inept scientist who falls in love with a weathly society girl.
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Other

Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Ng)

For Students 9th - 10th
Nezavisimaya Gazeta is one of leading national magazines covering important issues of social, political and cultural life in Russia and abroad. Its authors include leading journalists, political scientists, historians, and art critics....