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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Exploring States of Matter Gases

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this series of chemistry labs, students learn about the three states of matter by observing how molecules contract or expand as they change state.
Article
Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: Infection Time

For Students 9th - 10th
Article reports on a recent study that seems to indicate that what time of day an infection is contracted may impact how severe it is. Includes a vocabulary list of words from the article.
Handout
PBS

Pbs: Who Made America? Theodore Dehone Judah

For Students 9th - 10th
Judah died on a trip to New York, contracting yellow fever on his voyage through Panama. A transcontinental railroad, had it existed, would have spared his life.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Contractions

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
An online version of "flashcards" for students to use in learning the contracted forms of phrases. Students can see the word or contraction, flip the page to the other side, or discard the flashcard altogether.
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Cengage Learning

Gale Hispanic Heritage Biographies: Alex Rodriguez

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography and interesting facts about this Hispanic American major league baseball player who signed a record $252 million contract.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Word Roots Lesson 5: Nat Tract Sequ: Word Roots #5 Beginner

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson plan features the Latin roots NAT = be born; TRACT = pull, draw; SEQU/SECU = follow. Choose 1 of the 8 different word puzzle activities from the list below. Each word puzzle will have directions, a clue, and a vocabulary word...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: Star Route Service

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of the contract service for carrying the mail, called Star Route Service. You can read a brief explanation of the Star Route scandal that came to a head during the term of Chester A. Arthur.
Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Skeletal Muscle

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes information about skeletal muscles, of which the best-known feature is its ability to contract and cause movement.
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Other

Medinfo: Common Conditions: Influenza

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatments, new developments, preventions, and high risk groups that would be susceptible to contracting influenza.
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Other

Cancer Index: About Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Cancer Index explains what cancer is and gives statistics (mostly in the form of graphs) about who is most likely to contract which type of cancer. The topics are presented in link form at the top of the article for...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: The Buzz Z Z on West Nile Virus

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out what you can do to reduce your risk of contracting West Nile virus. Listen to the podcast of read the transcript.
Primary
American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Elizabeth Glaser: 1992 Democratic National Convention Address

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text and audio of Elizabeth Glaser's address to the 1992 Democratic National Convention on July 14. 1992, in New York; She and her two children had contracted AIDS due to a blood transfusion.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Measles

For Students 9th - 10th
The CDC provides a general overview of measles, including a focus on the risk of contracting the disease while traveling and adverse reactions to the vaccine.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's in a Box?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The class has been contracted to work for a box factory. They are to make cube shaped jewelry boxes. Students determine how many different nets are possible and then analyze the resulting cubes. This real-world situation helps to develop...
Article
A&E Television

History.com: How Cesar Chavez Joined Larry Itliong to Demand Farm Workers' Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
In the late 1960s, grapes grabbed national attention -- and not in a good way. Newly organized farm workers, fronted by Mexican-American civil-rights activist Cesar Chavez, asked Americans to boycott the popular California fruit because...
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Other

Rousseau Association

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive resource with hyperlinks to music, writings, and biographical information on Rousseau.
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Other

Streetlaw: Consumer and Housing Law

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about contracts, warranties, credit, deceptive sales practices, cars, and housing--important topics for consumers. This website provides introductory material to each of the above topics and links for further information and research.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Clinton Presidency

For Students 9th - 10th
Short, but comprehensive, synopsis of Clinton's two terms as president. Included in the article is the 1992 campaign, successful and controversial legislation, and the scandals that would eventually become part of his presidential legacy.
Primary
University of Groningen

American History: Documents: John Locke on Government

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Groningen provides the complete John Locke's "Second Treatise on Government." It discusses everything from slavery and property to civil government and its functions.
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Employment Spot

Employment Spot: Freelance Employment

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore Freelance Employment opportunities using the Employment Spot career resources.
Website
Digital History

Digital History: By What Right [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two opposing philosophies concerning the relationship between government and its citizens were expressed by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke in the 17th century. Compare these two philosophies and see how they were related to the colonists'...
Primary
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Two Treatisies on Government

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides selections from John Locke's "Two Treatisies on Government." It contains evaluations on the sections 'Of the State of Nature' and 'Of Political of Civil Society.'
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Rice University

Galileo Project: Thomas Hobbes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University presents Hobbes' life in an outline, giving easy access to the critical information. This is a great site to check out for information on the subject.
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Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Sharecropping

For Students 9th - 10th
Features a detailed discussion of sharecropping, a labor system that developed in Georgia after the Civil War in which workers raised crops for someone else in exchange for a share of the crop.

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