A&E Television
Biography: Vincent Van Gogh
A brief look at the creative, but tumultuous, career of artist Vincent van Gogh. Discusses several of his most famous works ("The Potato Eaters" and "Sunflowers"), his artistic influences, and legacy.
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The History Place: Irish Potato Famine
The History Place provides complete history of the Irish Potato Famine and life in Ireland in the 19th century.
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Web Gallery of Art: Women Harvesting Potatoes
An image of "Women Harvesting Potatoes", created by Janos Nagy Balogh from 1901-05 (Olaj, vaszon, 37 x 54 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: The Potato Eaters
An image of "The Potato Eaters", created by Vincent Van Gogh in April 1885, Nuenen (Oil on canvas on panel, 73 x 95 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Peasant and Peasant Woman Planting Potatoes
An image of "Peasant and Peasant Woman Planting Potatoes", created by Vincent Van Gogh in April 1885, Nuenen (Oil on canvas, 33 x 45 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: The Potato Eaters
An image of "The Potato Eaters", created by Vincent Van Gogh in April 1885, Nuenen (Oil on canvas, 83 x 116 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Peasant Woman Peeling Potatoes
An image of "Peasant Woman Peeling Potatoes", created by Vincent Van Gogh in February 1885, Nuenen (Oil on canvas on panel, 43 x 31 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Peasant Woman Digging Potatoes
An image of "Peasant Woman Digging Potatoes", created by Vincent Van Gogh in Summer 1885, Nuenen (Oil on cardboard on panel, 32 x 38 cm).
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Writing Instructions Sample: How to Raise Potatoes
A good example of a piece of writing which instructs the reader. Good for students to use as a model for instruction-writing essays.
NASA
Nasa: The Space Place: Make Asteroids You Can Eat
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides an interesting activity on making asteroids. "Create your own odd-shaped asteroids out of plain old mashed potatoes. Bake them in the oven to turn them asteroid...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: 19th Century: Roman Catholics & Immigration in 19th Century America
Essay answers the question, "Why did so many Catholics come to the United States at this time?" The potato famine, urban industrialization, chance for a new life, are among some of the answers.
Digital History
Digital History: Levittown
On the morning of March 7, 1949, builder William J. Levitt opened a sales office for a new development of inexpensive single-family homes in a potato field in the center of Long Island's Nassau County. In bitter-cold weather, more than a...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Understanding How Food Becomes Rancid
In this cooking and food science fair project, the student will determine how light and air can oxidize fat in potato chips and cause the chips to go rancid. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Race Your Marbles to Discover a Liquid's Viscosity
How do you like your mashed potatoes? Thin and whipped smooth? Or thick and mashed into chunks? Your mouth checks out not just the taste of your food, but its viscosity, or how it flows on your tongue, every time you take a bite. In this...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Down Core
This challenge is to design and build a tool that can take a core sample from the center of a potato. Are you up to it?
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National Junior Horticulture Association: Experiments & Fun Activities
A collection of planting activities, including how to make a terrarium and how to grow potatoes.
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Adb: How Remote Sensing Technology Improves Efficiency of Irrigation Systems
With the increase of free satellite data combined with scientific algorithms and cloud computing capacity, developing affordable operational monitoring systems for irrigation management in Asia is now feasible. The use of virtual field...
Hunkins Experiments
Hunkin's Experiments: Potato Peel a Banana Automatically
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This one is a...
S.E. Schlosser
American Folklore: Idaho Potatoes: An Idaho Tall Tale
Site features retellings of folktales from each state retold by S.E. Schlosser. This one is from Idaho.
BBC
Bbc: History: The Irish Famine
BBC historian Jim Donnelly describes how a million people died of hunger in Ireland in the late 1840s, on the doorstep of the world's richest nation. Archived.
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