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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: John Brown and the Valley of the Shadow

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a look at John Brown's life. Content includes a chronology of events in his life, a look at his family and cohorts, newspaper articles, eyewitness accounts, and more.
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Math Medics

S.o.s. Math: Solving Equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial explains how to solve a variety of equations, from simple to complex, and gives examples and solutions. Students are asked to solve for x before looking at a solution.
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Math Medics

S.o.s. Math: Algebra

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson provides basic instruction on the major concepts in algebra. Content includes a focus on fractions, units of conversion, complex numbers, quadratic equations, factorization and roots of polynomials, solving equations, systems...
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University of California

University of California, Irvine: War Within: Dissent During Crisis in America

For Students 9th - 10th
View works created by eight artists in response to war and its consequences.
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Frostburg State University: Organic Chemistry Help

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is designed to be a supplement for students of organic chemistry. Its tutorials and self-grading tests are interactive and extremely helpful.
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Other

Anarchy Archives: Emma Goldman's Collected Works

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the book "Anarchism and Other Essays" here on this site. Includes a biographical sketch of Goldman and several essays pertaining to women's rights.
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Chicago History Museum

Chicago Historical Society: The Dramas of Haymarket

For Students 9th - 10th
The Chicago Historical Society presents extensive information about the 1886 bombing at Haymarket Square that helped change the course of the labor movement. Read about the bombing, arrests, trial, executions, and other events that...
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Other

University of Western Georgia: Reconstruction in the South

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent distillation of the many issues addressed in the Reconstruction period in the South in the twelve years after the end of the Civil War.
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Colby College

Spanish Language & Culture: El Presente

For Students 9th - 10th
This Spanish grammar exercise provides excellent practice conjugating verbs in the present indicative tense. Fifty-six different infinitives give the student plenty of practice with regular, irregular, and stem-changing conjugations. A...
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: George Eliot

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Mary Ann Cross -- better known as George Eliot -- who was the author of "Middlemarch" and "Silas Marner." This page includes biographical information as well as insight into individual literary works by Eliot.
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Other

Womens health.gov: Hysterectomy

For Students 9th - 10th
What is a hysterectomy? How common are hysterectomies? How is a hysterectomy performed? These and other questions are answered on this page.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Rational Exponents and Nth Roots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty-two problems present a variety of practice working with nth roots and rational exponents. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View...
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Answermath: Raiz

For Students 9th - 10th
An online root game which offers practice in mental math and times practice. When you submit the wrong answer, it provides the correct one. Students and teachers can choose square root or cube root problems. In Spanish, with links to...
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Zionism

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a wealth of information and documentation regarding Zionism, the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel. Content ranges...
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PBS

Pbs: Cet: Africans in America: The Raid on Harper's Ferry

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS' four-part series, "Africans in America," highlights the antislavery movement, including a focus on John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry. Content includes a description of the event, as well as the after-effects including the news of...
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University of Washington

University of Washington in Seattle: The Great Depression in Washington State

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides a large collection of resources, many of them primary resources, for studying about the impact of the Great Depression on Washington State.
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Resources: Sacco and Vanzetti

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read about the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, charged and convicted of murder. See why this case was a divisive one and read the broadside, published by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, which raised...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Brown: The Fourteenth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
The background essay provided in this lesson plan on the later ramifications of the 14th Amendment explains the Congressional legislation of all types during Reconstruction. Click on the 'View' button to read the Amendment.
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Math Planet

Math Planet: Algebra 1: The Pythagorean Theorem

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides examples and a video lesson that illustrate the Pythagorean Theorem which provides us with the relationship between the sides in a right triangle. [4:41]
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: African American Abolitionists

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about three African-American abolitionists who worked alone and in concert with white abolitionists. The most radical was David Walker, who was the founder of radical abolitionism.
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The History Cat

The History Cat: Countdown to Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Begins with a description of the British system of mercantilism that was imposed on the American colonies along with the taxes levied through the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act. The Americans complained that it was taxation without...
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Curated OER

History Matters: Parsons Responds to Powderly

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an excerpt from a letter written by Chicago radical and Haymarket defendant, Albert Parsons, to the "Chicago Times" concerning Terence V. Powderly and the Haymarket riot. Also links to other related sites.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Boston "Tea Party"

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1773, however, Britain furnished Adams and his allies with an incendiary issue. The powerful East India Company, finding itself in critical financial straits, appealed to the British government, which granted it a monopoly on all tea...
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Samuel Adams

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview on the early American radical, Samuel Adams, a political organizer who called for American independence.

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