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Networking

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on connecting Mac and Windows machines to an Ethernet network. Click on icons for specific information and settings.
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New York Times

New York Times: Learning Network: Alaska Thaws, Complicating the Hunt for Oil

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Over three decades, rising temperatures have cut the frozen season in half in Alaska. Oil-prospecting convoys in search of new deposits are allowed to crisscross the fragile tundra only when it is snowy and solid. Find out about the...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: It's All Connected

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson uses students' knowledge of graph theory (networks) to introduce two measures of centrality (how connected a particular node is to the entire network), known as degree centrality...
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Cross Platform Network Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
A tutorial with information on networking Windows and Mac Operating system computers. Includes hardware, and protocols.
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Nicky Case: The Wisdom And/or Madness of Crowds

For Students 9th - 10th
Why do some crowds turn to madness and other crowds turn to wisdom? Network science seeks to explain groupthink with its core idea being we should not study the individual people, but their connections. Use this interactive site to...
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I*earn (International Education and Resource Network)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This nonprofit organization creates structured projects that facilitate engaged learning and youth making a difference on an International scale. Project areas include interdisciplinary topics such as the environment/science,...
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Mathigon

Mathigon: Graphs and Networks: Planar Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is another puzzle that is related to graph theory. In a small village there are three utility plants producing water, electricity and gas respectively. There are also three houses which need to be served. Unfortunately, due to the...
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Mathigon

Mathigon: Graphs and Networks: Parties and Dating

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson uses handshakes at a party to explain complete graphs, when every vertex is connected to every other vertex. It shows how a formula was created to calculate the number of edges.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Silk Road: Connecting the Ancient World Through Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
With modern technology, a global exchange of goods and ideas can happen at the click of a button. But what about 2,000 years ago? Shannon Harris Castelo unfolds the history of the 5,000-mile Silk Road, a network of multiple routes that...
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Get to Know Your Habitat Neighbors

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how connecting habitats in neighborhoods, counties, and geographic regions is essential in creating viable habitat patches and corridors for wildlife.
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Curated OER

Google for Education: Children and Technology: Message Routing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners simulate a server and are connected via computer networks. Representatives from each table act as routers, and as they write messages to each other, the routers help route these messages.
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Silk Road: History of the Silk Road: The Belt and Road Initiative

For Students 9th - 10th
The Silk Road was a network of trade routes connecting the East and the West in ancient and Medieval times. The term is used for both overland routes and those that are marine or limnic. The Silk Road involved three continents: Europe,...
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Oracle Technology Network: Java Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides top news stories and other useful information about the computer technology industry.
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Maine Historical Society

Maine Memory Network: Longfellow's Ripple Effect: Journaling With the Poet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a series of six lessons, designed to help students become familiar with Longfellow's work, as well as to strengthen their writing and reflection skills.
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New York Times

New York Times: Student Connections

For Students 9th - 10th
A special section of the New York Times caters to Middle and High School students. Provides a news quiz, word of the day, news summaries, and other features such as student letters to the editor.
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Maine Historical Society

Maine Memory Network: The Acadian Diaspora

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Take a fresh look at the Longfellow classic "Evangeline" in its historical context, with a look at a number of primary sources, and a connection with "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood."