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Language Guide

Language Guide: Los Vegetales

For Students 9th - 10th
Colorful pictures and audio files model correct Spanish pronunciation for vegetables. Pop-ups of the correct spelling for each new vocabulary word will appear as you move the mouse over the picture.
Unit Plan
Language Guide

Language Guide: Los Vegetales

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Colorful pictures and audio files model correct Spanish pronunciation for vegetables. Pop-ups of the correct spelling for each new vocabulary word will appear as you move the mouse over the picture.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Faces of America: Immigration: Irish

For Students 9th - 10th
All you ever wanted to know about Irish immigration in America. Features an impressive timeline, great photos, maps, and original documents. Use the topics at the bottom of the page to navigate the site.
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Giffen Good

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains the conditions that must exist in order for a good to be classified as a Giffen Good. It also gives examples of times when a good could become a Giffen Good, e.g., potatoes during the Irish Potato Famine.
Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Kikuyu

For Students 9th - 10th
The Kikuyu, a major ethnic group of Kenya, numbered about 4.4 million in 1987, accounting for about 20 percent of Kenya's population of 25 million.The Kikuyu were originally hunter-gatherers, but they gradually adopted horticultural...
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American Chemical Society

American Chemical Society: Best of Wonder Science: Foiling Spoiling [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
A simple experiment to observe whether adding lemon juice to pieces of potato, apple, and banana helps to preserve them.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Ox Cart Man

For Students 9th - 10th
A five-stanza poem about a man who gathers potatoes, shears sheep, and makes products that he sells at market. Then he sells his cart and ox and returns home to spend the winter making a new harness and cart before repeating everything...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Path of Electrons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students engage in an interactive "hot potato" demonstration to gain an appreciation for the flow of electrons through a circuit. Students role play the different parts of a simple circuit and send small items representing electrons...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Get Charged!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the idea of electrical energy. They learn about the relationships between charge, voltage, current and resistance. They discover that electrical energy is the form of energy that powers most of their household...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Let's Identify and Classify

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this hands-on instructional activity, students learn about scientific classification by navigating the Internet. They will examine a variety of potato chips in order to create their own classification key.
Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Gusii

For Students 9th - 10th
The Gusii are divided into seven clan clusters: Kitutu (Getutu), North Mugirango, South Mugirango, Majoge, Wanjare (Nchari), Bassi, and Nyaribari. Gusiiland is located in western Kenya, 50 kilometers east of Lake Victoria. Since...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Ganda

For Students 9th - 10th
The Ganda are a group of people who live in the province of Buganda in Uganda. The Ganda are primarily an agricultural society; their staple crops are bananas and yams. Cotton was introduced as a market crop early in the twentieth...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Enzyme Catalyzed Reactions What Affects Their Rates?

For Students 9th - 10th
Enzymes speed up chemical reactions by factors of at least a million. This project investigates some of the factors that affect how fast enzymatic reactions occur.
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PBS

Pbs: The Conquistadors: Growth of the Inca Empire

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the incredible and widespread Inca Empire. You can read about the geography of the empire, the religion, governmental structure, record-keeping system, and diet. Be sure to click on the hyperlinks or pictures to get even...
Handout
Ancestry

Ireland: The Famine Years

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers information about the famine years. Using a map of Ireland, authors discuss the percentages of the population living in the lowest class housing and the devastating effects of the famine.
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Digital History

Digital History: Immigration Begins

For Students 9th - 10th
The United States has always been a melting pot. Read about the vast increase in immigration from countries in northern Europe in the 1830s and 1840s due to famine, eviction from land, and political unrest. See where various immigrant...
Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Irish Immigrants in 19th Century America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Here, you will find lesson plans through which learners research, study, and discuss the problems faced by Irish immigrants during the 19th century. Provides bibliographies, as well as effective strategies for studying Irish culture and...
eBook
Estrella Mountain Community College

Online Biology Book: Biological Diversity: Protists: Stem Eukaryotes

For Students 9th - 10th
Through full-color images and descriptive information, learn about the evolution of the eukaryotic organisms which eventually led to the presence of protists.
Handout
Other

Evolution: The Theory of Natural Selection (Part 1)

For Students 9th - 10th
These pages are part of a site called Evolution that accompany a textbook by the same name. Mark Ridley is the author. This section has an advanced discussion of determining allele and genotype frequencies using the Hardy-Weinberg ratio.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Irish Immigrants

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Irish Immigrants to the United States. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Attack of the Leftovers

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about having to eat Thanksgiving leftovers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: St. Patrick's Day

For Students 9th - 10th
Who was St. Patrick and why do we celebrate this holiday? The Library of Congress has background information and photos to help tell the story of St. Patrick's Day.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Irish and German Immigration

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the reasons thousands of Irish and Germans emigrated to the United States in the first half of the 19th century. Find out why there was a backlash to influx of so many immigrants, and learn about the Nativists who wanted to...
Website
Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Columbian Exchange

For Students 9th - 10th
A page on the elements of the Exchange that made the most significant impact. Clicking on the item brings up a page of explanation.

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