Article
Other

Prism Magazine: Student Plagiarism in an Online World

For Students 9th - 10th
Prism Magazine offers an essay on student plagiarism and how to track down if the paper is plagiarized.
Unit Plan
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna Interactive: Genome

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided for by DNA Interactive. The genome is the entire endowment of genetic information. It is the "Book of life," on an organism. This site demonstrates the methods used to map and sequence the human genome and to...
Interactive
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Hexadecimal Drum Machine

For Students 9th - 10th
Create rhythms on this 4-instrument hexadecimal drum machine and see what your rhythms look like in the binary, decimal, and hexadecimal number systems.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Fire

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine the facets of fire safety and analyze the fire safety features of public and private buildings in the community.
Handout
PBS

Pbs: Hopes on the Horizon Morocco

For Students 9th - 10th
A companion website to a documentary on the rise of pro-democracy movements in Morocco during the 1990s.
Handout
Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department: 23 Interesting Facts About the Sistine Chapel

For Students 9th - 10th
Lots of interesting facts about the Sistine Chapel, its history, Michelangelo, and about visiting it.
Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Robert Frost

For Students 9th - 10th
The site provides background and texts of numerous poems. Follow the links at the bottom of the page to specific poetry books to find complete text of individual poems.
Website
Other

Aicpa: Taxes: u.s. Federal Government

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource contains links to federal tax information.
Handout
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Binary Digits

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the two binary digits, 0 and 1, and how they are combined to make numbers that correspond to our standard number system. Looks also at the relationship between binary and hexadecimal digits.
Handout
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Binary Number System

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about the binary number system and how to count in binary. Includes a set of practice questions.
Handout
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Binary Fingers!

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to count in binary using just your fingers and how this skill can help you in arithmetic. Includes a set of practice questions.
Activity
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: The Supreme Court: Landmark Cases: Schechter v. u.s. (1935)

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS provides details on the landmark Supreme Court case of Schechter v. U.S. which dealt with congressional powers under the Commerce Clause.
Primary
Thomson Reuters

Find Law: u.s. Supreme Court: Plessy vs. Ferguson

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcript of the infamous Supreme Court decision that established the constitutionality of the principle of "Separate but equal," public facilities for members of different races. This was eventually overturned by the 1954 and 1955...
Article
History of Computing Science

History of Computing Science: Binary Representation

For Students 9th - 10th
The binary number system is a perfect fit for the dual-state technologies used in digital computing devices. This lecture series presents a brief description of how the two fit together.
Website
Other

B R Price: Bottom Up Algorithms Dynamic Programming

For Students 9th - 10th
This site considers a bottom-up algorithmic paradigm called dynamic programming including links to examples with source code.
Lesson Plan
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Government Travel and Staffers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Who should pay for politicians traveling before it violates ethical codes of abuse of power? Legislators and their staff were offered and accepted millions of dollars worth of free trips. This instructional activity explores the ethics...
Website
Other

Historical Boys' Clothing: The American Civil War: Reconstruction

For Students 9th - 10th
Outlines the major programs of the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, and the discrimination that African Americans faced, such as from the Black Codes and the Ku Klux Klan. Also discusses the amendments made to the Constitution...
Website
Other

Thurston High School: The Tundra Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Weather Game Flashcards

For Students 9th - 10th
Improve your memory of Spanish vocabulary words pertaining to weather expressions by playing the flashcard game. On one side of the card is a word in Spanish dealing with the weather and when you click the card it turns over and displays...
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Ap Expressions With Tener

For Students 9th - 10th
A set of four interactive games that focus on the vocabulary for expressions with "tener". If you click on list of terms you can print out a color-coded list of vocabulary words.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Unspoken Words of Media Ethics (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson that takes students through an exploration of the codes of ethics for journalists and the unspoken rules that govern the media and the news we hear. Students also examine the ethical dilemmas faced by reporters.
Activity
Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: Decode the Barcode

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you know what the barcode means at the bottom of an envelope? See if you can figure out how to crack the code that the postal service uses to deliver mail in this fun activity.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Go Beyond the Hour

For Students 9th - 10th
Take another step in learning computer programming during Khan Academy's Hour of Webpages.
Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench Showcase: From to Dna to Proteins

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate protein synthesis in this learning module.