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Center for Ecoliteracy: New York Times Magazine: We Are What We Eat

For Students 7th
This article discusses the overproduction of corn and how it is contributing to obesity in our population. Corn, a starchy substance, is in everything we eat and drink. It explains the effect and what needs to be done to reduce it.
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Time, Inc.: Martin Luther King Jr.: Never Again Where He Was

For Students 9th - 10th
Original article text from Time Magazine, January 3, 1964, in which Martin Luther King, Jr. was featured as "Man of the Year."
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Youth Time Magazine: Does Over Reliance on Tech Affect Our Ability to Spell?

For Students 9th - 10th
Technology can bring a lot of convenience into our lives. But it can also make us rely a little too much on our phones, tablets, laptops, and smart watches. Spelling and grammar is something that seems to suffer due to our over-reliance...
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Time

Time Person of the Year 2015: Donald Trump

For Students 9th - 10th
Time Magazine Person of the Year article features Donald Trump.
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Text Project

Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Vol. 1, Issue 3: Posters Over Time [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
This magazine article explains how posters were used years ago for news and how they are used today for advertising.
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Azizah Magazine

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a commercial site for Azizah, a magazine by and for Muslim women in North America. Site contains some news headlines, but you must subscribe in order to see magazine articles. Articles cover such timely topics as women's roles in...
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Text Project

Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Changing Lives, One Cow at a Time [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 3rd
Read this article to learn about Heifer International and other organizations who donate farm animals like cows, buffalo, goats, and sheep to poor people to improve their lives. It talks about 2nd graders raising money to help fund these...
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St Online / Japan Times Ell Newspaper

For Students 9th - 10th
The companion site for Weekly ST, which the Japan Times publishes to help young audiences learn English. You can read articles, some in English, some in Japanese, and listen to the audio version. The English article comes with online...
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US National Archives

Nara: Prologue Magazine: War of 1812: Stoking the Fires

For Students 9th - 10th
According to this very interesting article, it seems that the United States was just as culpable as Great Britain when it came to impressing sailors to serve on their ships. Read about the story of Charles Davis, a British citizen, who...
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Other

Flickr: The Lives and Times of the Hell Fire Club

For Students 9th - 10th
A article on the Hell-Fire club, its history, what they did, and the people involved with it, including possibly Benjamin Franklin. Published in BEYOND magazine in 2008.
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Time

Time: Bacteriologist, Alexander Fleming

For Students 9th - 10th
Time Magazine offers a detailed account of Alexander Fleming's work in the field of bacteriology with penicillin. View a timeline of Fleming's most noted accomplishments and answer the "pop" quiz question to see if you really the...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: Desert Shell Game

For Students 9th - 10th
Howard Youth's article, "Desert Shell Game," examines information related to the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii. Topics covered include Fast Times for a Desert Ancient, The Tortoise and Its Lair, and more.
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Curated OER

Time Magazine: The Time 100, Pablo Picasso

For Students 9th - 10th
Article that appeared in Time magazine June 1998 about the famous Spanish artist.
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Scientific American

Scientific American: Einstein's Hot Time

For Students 11th - 12th
This article, published by Scientific American (September 2002), re-publishes a short paper by Albert Einstein which "explains" relativity to the layman the pretty girl/hot stove abstract.
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Time Archives: Richard Nixon's Long March to Shanghai

For Students 9th - 10th
1972 Time magazine article written after Nixon's return from China. Discusses the events and future effects of the visit.
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Symmetry Magazine

Symmetry Magazine: Explain It in 60 Seconds: Simulations

For Students 9th - 10th
Simulations are useful research tools for scientists and save a lot of time and money. Some of the ways they are used are described in this article. "Explain It In 60 Seconds" is an article series that aims to summarize in a few...
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Symmetry Magazine

Symmetry Magazine: Explain It in 60 Seconds: Magnet Quench

For Students 9th - 10th
A magnet quench, explained here, is a routine event that happens within a particle accelerator that can require the accelerator to be shut down for a period of repair, losing valuable research time. "Explain It In 60 Seconds" is an...
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Curated OER

Time: Bill Gates Software Strongman

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Time Magazine provides a Time 100 article on his Bill Gates' works. Includes a timeline. Very thorough.
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Curated OER

Time: Bill Gates Software Strongman

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Time Magazine provides a Time 100 article on his Bill Gates' works. Includes a timeline. Very thorough.
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Curated OER

Time: Bill Gates Software Strongman

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Time Magazine provides a Time 100 article on his Bill Gates' works. Includes a timeline. Very thorough.
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Curated OER

Time 100: A Brief History of Relativity

For Students 9th - 10th
"An easy primer by the world's most famous living physicist," this is a readable, understandable, an absolutely authoritative text on relativity from TIME magazine. A five-page article.
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Curated OER

Time 100: A Brief History of Relativity

For Students 9th - 10th
"An easy primer by the world's most famous living physicist," this is a readable, understandable, an absolutely authoritative text on relativity from TIME magazine. A five-page article.
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Curated OER

Time 100: A Brief History of Relativity

For Students 9th - 10th
"An easy primer by the world's most famous living physicist," this is a readable, understandable, an absolutely authoritative text on relativity from TIME magazine. A five-page article.
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First World War

Satrical Magazines of the First World War

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the "Humor," magazines of the Great War and their role in the conflict. The site includes illustrations from the publications and views of various scholars about them. A bibliography follows the article. Site by First World...