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The Rad Rider Web Site: Homepage

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use this site to meet the comic book superhero, Rad Rider. Read and listen to his comic book adventure to learn important bike safety tips. Then take the online quiz to see if you're ready to bike with Rad.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor of the Week: Garrett A. Morgan

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides information on Garrett A. Morgan (1877-1963 CE), who is credited with inventing the gas mask, and, in turn, saving firefighters from suffocating while putting out fires...
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Safety & Consumer Protection: Seat Belt Safety

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides a general look at how safety belts, air bags, nad child safety seats protect passengers and save lives. Includes statistics as well as "life-saving advice."
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Tadoussac, 1608

For Students 9th - 10th
A facsimile from a map by Samuel Champlain (1613) of the vicinity of Tadoussac at the confluence of the Seguenay and St. Lawrence Rivers, where he first visited on 3 June, 1608. The map is keyed to show (A) Round Mountain, (B) harbor,...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Routes to the Panama Isthmus, 1913

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1913 of the eastern United States, the Caribbean, and the Panama Isthmus showing the directness of the steamship routes from New York and New Orleans to Colon. Since the Panama Canal did not open to commercial traffic until...
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Unesco: Spain: Vizcaya Bridge

For Students 9th - 10th
Vizcaya Bridge straddles the mouth of the Ibaizabal estuary, west of Bilbao. It was designed by the Basque architect Alberto de Palacio and completed in 1893. The 45-m-high bridge with its span of 160 m, merges 19th-century ironworking...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey: Radburn

For Students 9th - 10th
An early planned community which aimed to separate traffic by transportation mode. It introduced the residential superblock.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Wa (State): w.t. Preston (Snagboat)

For Students 9th - 10th
From 1929 to 1981, the Preston worked clearing rivers of debris, to make them passable to ship traffic. Today the boat is in permanent dry dock, and houses a museum.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Montana: Fort Benton

For Students 9th - 10th
Established as a fur trading center in 1847, the fort prospered with the growth of steamboat traffic starting in 1859 and an 1862 gold strike, but declined with the advent of the railroad.
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity: Garrett Morgan

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents a radio program (with accompanying text) focusing on Garrett Morgan, inventor of the traffic signal, gas mask, and an innovative hair straightener.
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity: Garrett Morgan

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents a radio program (with accompanying text) focusing on Garrett Morgan, inventor of the traffic signal, gas mask, and an innovative hair straightener.
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The Reagan Years: Inside the White House

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a cnn.com in-depth special "The Reagan Years", this site provides you with brief explanations of the US in 1980, the 1980 presidential election and assorted topics of Reagan's presidency including the assassination attempt, the...
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The Reagan Years: Inside the White House

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a cnn.com in-depth special "The Reagan Years", this site provides you with brief explanations of the US in 1980, the 1980 presidential election and assorted topics of Reagan's presidency including the assassination attempt, the...
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Science Kids: Science Images: Rotation

For Students 9th - 10th
This rotation symbol can be used to mean a number of different things. It could represent recycling, a round about traffic sign or the circulation process of water. It is blue and features three large white arrows.
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American Forum for Global Education

American Forum for Global Education: Sign Walk

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Designed for primary age students, this site from the American Forum for Global Education is a lesson plan for teachers who want to make their students more aware of signs in the community.
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Deutschland.de German Transportation Information

For Students 9th - 10th
A German Government site with links to many excellent, up-to-date transportation sites in Germany, including information about trains, buses, cycling, automobiles, air travel, cableways, and ferries. Many of these sites are in both...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Protein Targeting

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how molecular labels are used to direct proteins to different parts of the cell and to the cell exterior.
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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Engineering Ups and Downs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Engineering design lesson examines the principles behind working elevators. Teams of students explore how elevators work, then design, build, and evaluate their own elevator to service a toy car garage.

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