Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Erosion
In this investigation, middle schoolers will use sand to build a mountain and then use a straw and watering can to simulate wind erosion and water erosion. Students will make observations and then propose ways to slow the erosion and/or...
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Read Works: How Glaciers Change the World [Pdf]
Students read about how glaciers created land forms such as mountains and lakes during and after the Ice Age. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Life as a Country Girl
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining what it is life to live in the rural mountains of West Virginia. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: Ruby Ridge (Weaver) Trial (1993)
In the 1980s, the mountainous panhandle of northern Idaho became a magnet for right-wingers of all stripes. Government-haters, minority-haters, immigrant-haters, and modern culture-haters all found refuge in the sparsely-populated...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Continent Continent Convergent Plate Boundaries
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site includes an animation and a short quiz over convergent plate boundaries.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Allegheny Woodrat
The Allegheny Woodrat is the only woodrat in its Appalachian Mountain range. Instead of building large stick houses, these Woodrats build cup-shaped nests of twigs, bark bits, and grass in rocks and buildings. Learn more about the...
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Unesco: China: Monuments of Dengfeng "The Centre of Heaven and Earth"
Mount Songshang is considered to be the central sacred mountain of China. At the foot of this 1500 metre high mountain, close to the city of Dengfeng in Henan province and spread over a 40 square-kilometre circle, stand eight clusters of...
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Unesco: Viet Nam: Citadel of the Ho Dynasty
The 14th -century Ho Dynasty citadel, built according to the feng shui principles, testifies to the flowering of neo-Confucianism in late 14th century Viet Nam and its spread to other parts of east Asia. According to these principles it...
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Unesco: China: Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa
The Potala Palace, winter palace of the Dalai Lama since the 7th century, symbolizes Tibetan Buddhism and its central role in the traditional administration of Tibet. The complex, comprising the White and Red Palaces with their ancillary...
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Unesco: Switzerland: La Chaux De Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning
The site of La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle watchmaking town-planning consists of two towns situated close to one another in a remote environment in the Swiss Jura mountains, on land ill-suited to farming. Their planning and buildings...
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Eternal Egypt: Icon of the Holy Family in Egypt
The icon depicts the Holy Family in Egypt. The Holy Virgin is sitting on a horse, and her head is surrounded by an aureole. Saint Joseph the Carpenter, leader of the journey, holds his staff in his hand and carries the Infant Jesus on...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ky: Old Morrison, Transylvania College
One of the first buildings of Transylvania University, the first college built west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Idaho: City of Rocks
Thousands of emigrants on the California Trail made this a popular resting point, and left wagon ruts that are still visible today. For these emigrants, the landscape of rock outcrops rising like city buildings, woodlands, and mountains...
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