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Defense: American Indian Heritage Month: Code Talkers
Find out about the Native Americans who used their tribal languages as code during World War I and World War II. Includes information on Charles Chibitty, a Comanche code talker who was inducted into the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Cracking the Code: Explore a Stretch of Code
Investigate the makeup and function of genes and genetic code by exploring an actual stretch of human DNA in this activity.
NASA
Nasa: Spitzer Science Center: Code of Faraway Worlds
Under the heading, "Cracking the Code of Faraway Worlds" this site explores the uses of spectrum (and spectrograph, spectra) in planetary study. In addition to an image, a description of spectrum and its uses in space science is provided.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The 1890s: Black Codes
Here is a brief description of Black Codes, which were set in place in Texas in 1866 and "outlined a status for African Americans not too much removed from their earlier condition as slaves."
Google
Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Gumball's Coding Adventure
Teaches basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. In this activity, learners use characters from Cartoon Network's "The Amazing World of Gumball" to create an animated story.
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: The Human Genome Project, a Decade Later
This article reviews advances made by medical researchers since the complete mapping of the human genetic code ten years earlier. Although the expectation then had been that cures could be found for many diseases based on this new...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Pixel Flow Code Cracking
This article reveals some techniques and vulnerabilities in Unix-based computer networks.
Indiana University
Ensi: Comparison of Human: Chimpanzee Chromosomes Lesson
This is a great lesson plan that combines Karoytypes and evolution. Young scholars will recognize that the chromosomes of chimpanzees and humans are remarkably similar, then correlate that to their evolutionary relationship.
Bio Topics
Bio Topics: How Dna Controls Protein Synthesis by Means of a Base Code
A worksheet and comprehensive notes discussing how DNA controls protein synthesis by means of a base code.
University of Auckland School of Computer Science
Morris: Radix Sorting
A detailed description of the Radix sort algorithm, including a code solution written in the C programming language and an interactive animation / visualization of the sort at work.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Justice and Injustice
In this self-guided unit, you will be exploring the themes of justice and injustice. Included are lessons, self-assessments, background information, and learning activities. At the end of the unit, you will follow the research process to...
Google
Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Art: Activity 2: Animation
A set of eight activities that teach students basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. Includes lots of additional supports for teachers. All materials are free and teachers sign in to create a class. This...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dolan Dna Learning Center: Transcription & Translation: Rna Splicing
See how DNA is transcribed into RNA and spliced to remove non-coding regions, leaving only the protein-coding regions, called exons. [1:37]
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors
This site provides information on American inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Singer, Wilbur Wright, Thomas Alva Edison, Elias Howe, and Alexander Graham Bell. It offers pictures from and...
Other
Prism Magazine: Student Plagiarism in an Online World
Prism Magazine offers an essay on student plagiarism and how to track down if the paper is plagiarized.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: The Supreme Court: Landmark Cases: Schechter v. u.s. (1935)
PBS provides details on the landmark Supreme Court case of Schechter v. U.S. which dealt with congressional powers under the Commerce Clause.
Other
Thurston High School: The Tundra Climate
Site discusses and analyzes the daily weather in the tundra. Provides a map of the world that is color-coded to show the different biomes and systems of the world.
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Samuel Morse
Contrary to myth, Samuel Morse did not invent the telegraph, but he made key improvements to its design, and his work to deploy it would transform communications worldwide.
Library of Congress
Loc: A Historic Message
This site, which is provided for by the Library of Congress, gives information on the first telegraph invented and the first message ever transmitted.