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Denver Museum of Nature and Science: Ancient Denvers

For Students 9th - 10th
What did Denver look like millions of years ago? Find out the answer to this and see how it has changed over time. There is also a list of parks to visit in Colorado.
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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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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Arctic Science: Dna and the Peopling of Siberia

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists from the University of Arizona are conducting Y chromosome research on native Siberians to try to determine whether there is a genetic affinity to North American native people. The rationale and direction of this research are...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Five Tools and Processes for Translating the Ngss Into Instruction and Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The Five Tools and Processes for Translating the NGSS are designed to help professional development leaders work with teachers on curriculum, instruction, and assessment as they achieve this vision. Click the link for each tool for an...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Neil De Grasse Tyson

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about Neil deGrasse Tyson, discussing his research and work in the field of astrophysics.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism: 1900 1909

For Students 9th - 10th
Albert Einstein publishes his special theory of relativity and his theory on the quantum nature of light, which he identified as both a particle and a wave. With ever new appliances, electricity begins to transform everyday life.
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Brown University

John Carter Brown Library: Atlantic Materia Medica

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibit of scientific treatises and natural histories dating from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries demonstrates the impact of trans-Atlantic trade and travel on medical practice and principles.
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Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College: Rene Descartes (1596 1650)

For Students 9th - 10th
Events of Rene Descartes' life are presented in a timeline form. The biographical information is taken from "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics" by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908).
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American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Species, Speciation and the Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
The American Institute of Biological Sciences offers this article by Niles Eldredge, evolutionary theorist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History. Eldredge begins with Darwin's theories and summarizes subsequent thought,...