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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Computer Programming: Html/js: Making Webpages Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to combine previous knowledge of HTML/CSS with knowledge of JavaScript to make webpages interactive.
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Other

Kids Online: Writing Your Own Web Pages (Html)

For Students 9th - 10th
The HTML code for a very simple web page is examined and explained line by line. Next, follow the instructions to create your own HTML file, view it in your Web browser, and see the effects of making small changes to the code.
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Other

W3 Schools: Html Canvas Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to use HTML canvas, a programming element used to draw graphics on a web page.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Web Design: Module 2: Web Authoring / Intro to Html

For Students 9th - 10th
In Module 2 of this course on web design, students learn how to begin creating a web page using a text editor, how to use tags and attributes, how to format text, and how to use lists. The last section covers accessibility issues and how...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Using Hour of Code With Your Child

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of Khan Academy's Hour of Code--self-paced courses on JavaScrpt, HTML/CSS, and SQL. The programs include videos, coding challenges, and a final project.
Interactive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dolan Dna Learning Center: Dna Molecule: How Much Dna Codes for Protein?

For Students 9th - 10th
A quick overview of the human genome, and how much of our DNA contains genes and non-coding DNA. [1:02]
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University of Hawai'i

University of Hawaii: Business Editors Ethics Code

For Students 9th - 10th
The official ethics code of The Society of American Business Editors and Writers provided for by the University of Hawaii.
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Code.org

Code.org:lesson 8: Clean Code and Debugging

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students deal with common issues that arise when designing web pages in HTML. Students will correct errors in a sequence of increasingly complex web pages. In the process they will learn the importance of comments, whitespace, and...
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NASA

Nasa: Spitzer Science Center: Code of Faraway Worlds

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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City University of New York

Bio Lab Module: Breaking the Genetic Code

For Students 9th - 10th
Try this interactive module from the Brooklyn College to help understand the genetic code and how changes in the code effect the final protein product.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The 1890s: Black Codes

For Students 9th - 10th
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."
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Other

Html Goodies: So You Want a Background, Huh?

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to learn how to change backgrounds using HTML for your web pages.
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Other

Codecademy

For Students 9th - 10th
Codecademy is a creation designed to educate users in writing code, using JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Python, and other programs. Review tutorials, create web designs, interactives, and apps, and collaborate or share with the Codecademy...
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Google

Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Gumball's Coding Adventure

For Teachers 5th - 9th
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.
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Intel Corporation

Intel Education: Lesson 1: What Is Binary Code?

For Students 9th - 10th
A short description of binary numbers and how they work.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Nova: Send a Coded Message Virtual Enigma

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the NOVA's Virtual Enigma machine used during WWII. You can send an encrypted message to a friend along with the special key needed to decipher the message. A link is also included to the Virtual Enigma.
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: How to Crack the Code

For Students 9th - 10th
Through a series of illustrations, learn about the physical carriers of inheritance. Discover facts about DNA, the blueprint of life, and RNA, the blueprint copy.
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Other

Ziring Micro Web: Dictionary of Programming Languages

For Students 9th - 10th
A compendium of computer coding methods assembled to provide information and aid your appreciation for computer science history. The dictionary currently has over 120 entries which are searchable in various ways.
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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: The Human Genome Project, a Decade Later

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Other

Bar Codes

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a FAQ's site for bar coding, one of the most widely used forms of product tracking.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of the American Indian: Native Words, Native Warriors

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent online companion site to a traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition on the World War I & World War II American Indian Code Talkers. Features information on Native languages, boarding schools, code talking, and lesson...
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US National Archives

Nara: Presidential Election Laws: Presidential Election Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this site from the National Archives and Records Administration on the US Constitution and the United States Code for laws and provisions regarding presidential elections.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Decoding the Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a rich learning module where students explore the use of telegraphs and of Union codes during the Civil War. Both topics have an "Explainer" to introduce it, pre- and post-activities, and primary and secondary source materials to...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Journey Into Dna

For Students 9th - 10th
Travel deep into the human body to see exactly where your DNA resides. From the NOVA: Cracking the Code of Life Web site.