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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Using Databases: Periodical Indexes and Abstracts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on using databases: periodical indexes and abstracts including the differences between periodical and journals, selecting the right number of keywords, and full-text databases.
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Other

Emory University: Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Voyages

For Students 9th - 10th
Take advantage of this thorough database covering all of the voyages which participated in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Annotated List of Useful Databases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an annotated list of useful databases including the difference between search engines and databases and between databases and catalogs, broad-based databases, source-type databases, and subject-type databases.
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Concord Consortium

The Molecular Workbench Database: Chemical Reactions

For Students 11th - 12th
Observe that chemical reactions follow the pathway the uses the least amount of energy in this simulation.
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The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Introductory Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
Nine full-color, excellent quality maps depicting the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, each with an interpretation and explanation of the voyages portrayed during the specific time period.
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Planetary and Space Science Centre

Passc: Earth Impact Database

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive site which allows you to do research on any impact crater found on the Earth. You can sort them by name, size or age. The site also contains maps of the continents marked with the locations of each crater. Satellite...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

The Molecular Logic Database: Mutations: Changing the Genetic Code

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will learn about the different types of mutations and how they work. They will compare the effect of these different types of mutations in DNA, including nucleotide substitution, nucleotide insertion, and nucleotide deletion....
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Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center: Global Indicators Database

For Students 9th - 10th
About the Key Indicators Database: Pew Research Center conducts public opinion surveys around the world on a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world...
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Other

The Aria Database

For Students 9th - 10th
The searchable Aria Database features over 1,200 arias from 170 operas by 60 composers. It includes lyrics, translations, synopses of operas, and MIDI files.
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Other

Classical Composers Database: Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided for by the Classical Composers Database. Biographical information on Albinoni with comparisons made to Telemann and Vivaldi' compositions and preferences.
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Planetary and Space Science Centre

Earth Impact Database: Popigai Impact Crater

For Students 9th - 10th
View satellite images of the Popigai Crater along with data such as its age, diameter, and exact location. The site links with a comprehensive database that allows you to compare impact craters found around the world.
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Other

University of Wyoming: Predator Prey Database

For Students 9th - 10th
You can download a database made by Dr. Robert LaVinge. The database will give you almost every predator prey relationship.
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Other

Global Nonviolent Action Database: The Albany Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn comprehensive details about the Albany Movement which was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance and its goal which was the enfranchisement of the black voter and full integration of all public facilities. Although...
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Other

Classical Composers Database: Thomas Tallis

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers three biographical accounts of the life of Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis. Links to other composers are provided.
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Soylent Communications

Notable Names Database: Edmund Randolph

For Students 9th - 10th
A short biography of this delegate from Virginia to the Constitutional Convention. He is the author of the "Virginia Plan" and he later became the first attorney general of the United States.
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The Washington Post

Washington Post: Us Congress Votes Database: Senate Confirmation: John Roberts

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief analysis of the confirmation vote on Chief Justice John Roberts to the Supreme Court. (2005)
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cornell Lab of Ornithology: E Bird

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge database is accumulating that can be used by educators and scientists to examine the status of bird populations in locations of their choosing. It is becoming a goldmine of information about bird biodiversity around the globe. All...
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Other

L Soft: Cata List Catalog of Listserv Lists

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is the catalog of LISTSERV lists. From this page, you can browse any of the 72,524 public LISTSERV lists on the Internet, search for mailing lists of interest, and get information about LISTSERV host sites. This information is...
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Poets

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a searchable database of the biographies of more than 2500 contemporary and classic poets. Browse all poets, filter the list by state and schools & movements, or search by name.
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Museums Victoria

Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons

For Students 9th - 10th
A database with detailed fact sheets for seventeen dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, including illustrations, a map, a timeline, physical characteristics, etc.
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Sun Associates: Basic Tools for Educators

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Many teachers have found that the technology tools that are most accessible and versatile are those broadly classified as "Applications." This page discusses the many ways that spreadsheets, word processors, databases, and presentation...
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American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: For Sale: Iceland's Genetic History

For Students 9th - 10th
Icelandic biomedical company, deCODE, owns exclusive rights to a genetic database of all Icelanders. Studying the genome of the entire population could reveal trends because Iceland is such an isolated and hardly migratory nation. As...
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Other

My Sql Ab Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Looking for a database management system without the price tag? MySQL is an open-source (read: free) solution! Download it here. MySQL AB, the company founded by the creators of the MySQL database, provides MySQL software development and...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institute Research Information System

For Students 9th - 10th
A site from which to search databases of collections belonging to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and for information on hundreds of thousands of artworks in public and private collections worldwide. For serious researchers only,...

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