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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sistrum
The sistrum was an Egyptian instrument of music, used in certain ceremonies by that people, and especially in the worship of Isis. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cornu
Roman Cornu. Brass instrument used by the Roman Armies to give orders in battle.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sistrum
A sacred instrument in ancient Egypt used in dances and religious ceremonies.
PBS
Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]
An integrated geometry lesson on spatial sense in which students identify and use different shapes to create a tessellation. "Through a variety of modalities such as writing, music, art, poetry, and literature, students are introduced to...
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Oppenheimer: The Computer Delusion
A controversial article from The Atlantic magazine suggesting that there is no evidence to show that using computers in schools improves either teaching or learning. Argues against cutting enriching programs in art and music to fund...
SparkNotes
Spark Notes: Social Trends of the 1950s
Spark Notes gives a brief overview of the 1950s from consumerism and conformity to poverty to youthful rebellion. A good review of this important decade in American history.
Read Works
Read Works: Louis Braille
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Louis Braille and the alphabet he created for blind people. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
What Is Rubistar? How to Make Rubrics
This online tool is designed for teachers to create rubrics that correspond with project-based learning activities.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Sousa
Musical leader and composer, born in Washington, D. C., in 1854. He developed remarkable talent for music in early life, being noted as a performer in theater orchestras when only twelve years of age.
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Studio in a Box
Feature series on "The Secret History of Technology and Pop Music," traced partly through the story of an Indiana company that stopped making pianos and started cutting 78 rpm records using the talents of famous jazz musicians and others.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Charles Carleton Coffin
Coffin was an author of children's stories, mostly. His books include, Story of Liberty, Old Times in the Colonies, Building the Nation, Life of Garfield, Drum-Beat of the Nation, and Marching to Freedom.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Franz Schubert
An eminent German musical composer, born in Vienna, Austria, Jan. 31, 1797; died Nov. 19, 1828.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Master Heinrich Frauenlob
A Middle High German poet. He has a great talent for music, and held many court positions in Prague.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Robert Schumann
A musical critic and composer, born in Zwickau, Germany, June 8, 1810; died near Bonn, july 29, 1856.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A noted musical composer, born in Salzburg, Germany, Jan. 27, 1756; died Dec. 4, 1791.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Plaustrum
A cart or wagon. It had commonly two wheels, but sometimes four, and it was then called the plaustrum majus. Besides the wheels and axle the plaustrum consisted of a strong pole (temo), to the hinder part of which was fastened a table of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Jenny Lind
Born in Stockholm, she was noted for her singing voice from a very young age. When she was nine years old, her singing was overheard by a passerby, who the next day came with a music master and paid who had charge of Lind to give her up....
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ludwig Van Beethoven
A German composer and pianist. He is considered to have been the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in classical music.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Wagner
A musical composer, born in Leipsic, Germany, May 22, 1813; died in Venice, Italy, Feb. 13, 1883.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sir William Gilbert
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 - 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cornu
A wind instrument, anciently made of horn, but afterwards of brass. Like the tuba, it differed from the tibia in being a larger and more powerful instrument, and from the tuba itself, in being curved nearly in the shape of a C, with a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Franz Liszt
A pianist and composer, born in Rading, Hungary, Oct. 22, 1811; died in Baireuth, Oct. 31, 1886. He under took the study of music at the early age of six years, at nine attracted much attention by his skill on the pianoforte, and soon...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Accubatio
The act of reclining at meals. The Greeks and Romans were accustomed, in later times, to recline at their meals; but this practice could not have been od great antiquity in Greece, since Homer always describes persons as sitting at their...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Nyc Subway Turns 100
America's most famous subway has turned 100! NPR does a fun series that looks at the early technology and the usage of subway in film and song. Be sure to view the galleries of photos and listen to the memories and music!