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Handout
ibiblio

Ibiblio: The Soviet Union and the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from ibiblio.org gives information about the historical relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States. After reading the summary on this page, click on the links at the bottom of the page to read about early...
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Handout
Joe Landsberger

Study Guides and Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th
With over 100 separate pages of guides to studying and organizing work, this site gives tips on everything from learning how to learn, to managing your time, to how to prepare for essay exams. Selected site content is translated into 25...
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Interactive
Other

Elodil

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is all presented in French, but may be accessible to non-French speakers because of the simple graphics and ease of navigation. Learn how to say hello in 16 languages and see where people speak that language on a world map....
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Graphic
Other

3 D Soyuz

For Students 9th - 10th
A 3-D VRML rendering of the Soyuz spacecraft. Detailed and highly interactive.
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Graphic
Other

3 D Salyut

For Students 9th - 10th
A 3-D VRML rendering of the Salyut space station. Detailed and highly interactive.
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Activity
Other

Lib. Ru: Online Literature for Children

For Students 9th - 10th
Russian-speaking students can access a plethora of Russian folk and modern tales as well as Russian translations of world tales from one site. ESL teachers might ask their native Russian speakers to translate some complete tales or...
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Activity
Other

Winnie the pooh.ru: Winnie the Pooh

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A highly entertaining Russian content site devoted to Winnie-the-Pooh. One of its best features is the Russian parallel translation of A.A. Milne's classic book by the famous Russian writer Boris Zakhoder. Also includes animation and...
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Sputniks 1, 2, and 3

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA provides a paper that "deals with the politics, planning and technology of the period 1946-1958" in the Sputnik program.
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Website
NASA

Nasa: The International Geophysical Year

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA outlines the Sputnik program and the political underworkings that allowed it to reach fruition.
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Primary
NASA

Nasa: "Pravda" Press Release

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA provides the full text from the tersely worded "Pravda," the Russian national newspaper, that announced the successful launch of Sputnik.
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Website
BBC

Bbc World Service: Learning English Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th
The Grammar and Vocabulary area of the BBC World Service site has a section on common grammar problems and a section on idioms and expressions. There are also links to pages that provide English language learning opportunities that...
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Website
Other

National Geographic in Russian

For Students 9th - 10th
National Geographic website in Russian. Enjoy articles, photographs, and more from this leading source of world geographic news.
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Primary
Steven Kreis, PhD

The History Guide: The Sources of Soviet Conduct

For Students 9th - 10th
This sums up the ideas of containment. It is a telegram that was widely published.
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Salyut 4

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of the Salyut 4 space station mission and instrumentation. Has a great picture of the computer rendering of the space station.
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Lizard Point Quizzes

Lizard Point: Russia: Federal Subjects Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your geography knowledge by taking this interactive quiz over the federal subjects in Russia.
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Primary
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Living Language: Russian to Go [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a traveler's pocket phrase guide. It includes hundreds of essential words and phrases for every situation. Keep it with you so it will help you getting around town.
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Primary
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Living Language: In Flight Russian Learn Before You Land [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
If you can master just the words and expressions given in these lessons then you will be able to get by in Russia.
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Website
InterKnowledge Corp.

Geographia.com: The Path to Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Historical account from Geographia.com of the events that led the Russians to a Communist revolution in 1918.
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Interactive
Digital Dialects

Digital Dialects: Russian Language

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An introductory opportunity to study the language of Russia. Learn phrases, greetings and vocabulary. Practice recognizing and understanding the lingo.
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Website
Other

Iki: Russian Space Research Institute

For Students 9th - 10th
The official site for the "leading organization of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of investigations of Outer Space, Solar System planets and other objects of the Universe"
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Website
Other

Space Research Institute (Iki) Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The official homepage of the Space Research Institute, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Activity
Other

Lib.ru: Russian Prose and Science Fiction in English Translation

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of Russian prose and science fiction in English. Website features online texts of works by popular Russian authors and could be used by older students as a resource for studying English or Russian literature. Some broken links.
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Handout
Other

Lib.ru: Russian & World Poetry in Russian

For Students 9th - 10th
Large online collection of Russian and world poetry, in Russian. Includes classics by English language poets like Dante, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Frost, Eliot, Ginsburg and a few by Russian-American poets. Helpful support for the upper...
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Primary
Other

Lib.ru: Classic Russian Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
Great resource for finding online text for classic Russian literature in Russian. Features the most popular writers and their works. Valuable resource for students studying Russian. Russian-speaking ELL students might translate passages...