National Snow and Ice Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center: All About Glaciers
Extensive information about glaciers. Tells about the life of a glacier, how they form, how they impact the surrounding areas, and what happens when glaciers stop growing. Includes a photo gallery, and links to scientific research on...
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Data Driven Decision Making: A Powerful Tool for School Improvement [Pdf]
This resource will provide a basic framework for analyzing today's data-driven decision-making options and outline information about the basic elements and steps involved in implementing a data-driven decision-making system to facilitate...
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Images of the American Revolution
The National Archives and Records Administration provides a lesson plan on the American Revolution. Content includes excellent historical background, as well as several primary source documents, pictures, and engravings detailing various...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Third From the Sun
Students learn about the history of Earth imaging, the Landsat satellite program. They develop interpretation skills as they play a game that involves inferring the subjects of various Landsat images.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Library of Congress: Media Gallery | Women's Suffrage
This collection of primary source documents from the Library of Congress supports teaching about women's suffrage in the United States. These primary sources include images, song sheets, articles, statistical documents, maps, political...
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Basic Strategies in Reading Photographs
Strengthen your art vocabulary. This site will define for you many of the terms used to describe photography. Use them in critique and impress everyone with all that you have to say.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spreadsheet Software: M4: L5: Show Me Your Skills: Practice Skills
In Module 4 Lesson 5 of this course on spreadsheets, students review what they have learned in the previous four lessons about building charts, using conditional formatting, and enhancing their spreadsheet by inserting images, text, and...
ArtLex
Art Lex: Constructing Sculpture
A great lesson idea! This site from Artlex walks you through a lesson on Constructing (Assemblage) sculpture. It is based upon the work of Deborah Butterfield and there are great images of some of her sculptures of horses. There is also...
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University of Wisconsin Green Bay: Faults and Earthquakes
This site is primarily set up as an outline and is loaded with graphs, maps, and images. It covers a variety of earthquake-related topics, such as what causes earthquakes, fault lines and structures, seismology, a historical look at...
Defenders of Wildlife
Defenders of Wildlife: Hummingbird
Comprehensive wildlife site provides extensive data on the Hummingbird. Discover more about its' diet, population, range, behavior and more.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Time Period Clues
In this lesson, students examine photographs from different time periods in American history and try to put them in order on a timeline. Includes a worksheet and a vocabulary list with explanations.
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Ward's Science: Speedy Energy
This is an interactive inquiry where students will investigate the speed of an object and the energy it exerts as it crashes into other objects. Students will understand that the more speed an object has, the more energy it has in a...
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Ten Rhetoric of War Writing Projects
Created by a teacher responding to the events in Kosovo, this list is a great start for a media literacy class project. Good discussion-starting questions are included with each item on the list. Requires some independent research to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Glacial Change
This collection of comparative glacier images adapted from the National Snow and Ice Data Center shows substantial changes in five Alaskan glacier positions over periods of 60 to 100 years.
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Nesdis: Investigating Oceans: Algae Blooms
Explore how scientists use satellite data to detect and monitor Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs). HABs can be toxic to both humans and marine life. Students will learn how to read and interpret satellite images to better understand HAB events.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Evaluating Other Energy Sources
A comprehensive lesson where students examine the different costs and benefits associated with renewable and nonrenewable sources of electricity. Includes a 22-question interactive module where they look at real-world data and images...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Vermeer, Jan
This site offers brief biographical information about Vermeer but emphasizes his works. Over 20 paintings are featured as enlargeable images so you can get a close look at each one. Several works have in depth description and analysis...
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Macalester College: Brasilia
This site provides political analysis of the decision to build the city of Brasilia. Includes information on Niemeyer and images of some buildings.
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Lunar and Planetary Institute: Wham! Moon!
In this hour long activity, "children color images of the latest scientific data depicting the Moon's formation to create their own comic strips of our Moon's birth" using a variety of art supplies and books as resources.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Dna Rna Protein
Through illustrations and data, viewers will understand either basic or advanced levels of DNA replication, RNA transcription, and protein translation. Click on images to move through this interactive program.
Library of Congress
Loc: Does the Camera Ever Lie?
A presentation of how photographs were manipulated by photographers during the Civil War.