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Mit: Open Course Ware: The Ancient City

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Comparing Roman and Greek architecture? Unearth new resources for teaching about the methods of development in these ancient cities.
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Mit: Open Course Ware: Photography and Truth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Photography plays an essential role in anthropology. Draw from these materials to assist in illustrating this role.
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Mit: Open Course Ware: Relativism, Reason, Reality

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Questioning the theory of relativism, use this collection of resources to help aide or prompt discussion on topics such as morality or rationality.
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Mit: Open Course Ware: Moral Psychology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These resources are beneficial in illustrating the connection of tying together the philosophical look at actions individuals take with the psychological motivation behind those actions.
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Mit: Open Course Ware: From Print to Digital: Technologies of the World

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Uncover new resources to better illustrate the changes that have evolved in the world of the printed word in the 1450s to that of the present digital word.
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Mit: Open Course Ware: Java Preparation

For Students 9th - 10th
This course provides an introduction to the Java programming language. It was designed for students at MIT that lack sufficient Java skills. The course covers a fairly wide range of Java topics in a compact form.
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Mit: The Tech: Tommy Tune Gets Another Smash Hit in Bye Bye Birdie

For Students 9th - 10th
Review of revival Broadway show "Bye Bye Birdie", starring Tommy Tune, focusses on Tune's talents and performace.
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Mit: The Tech: Talent and Grace Make Alvin Ailey Amazingly Enjoyable

For Students 9th - 10th
Review of a performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, provides information on dance style, performance aspects and choreography.
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Mit: The Tech: Five Moe's Amuses With Laughs, Crowd Interaction

For Students 9th - 10th
This site reviews the 1993 production of "Five Guys Named Moe" at Boston's Wilbur Theater. It gives a good summary of the musical, as well as a critique of that production.
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Mit: The Tech: Clunky French Camille Claudel Gets Stuck in Hollywood

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a review of the film about Camille Claudel's sad life and aspiring career as a sculptress.
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Mit: The Tech: A Clever Camera Helps Out Heavy Cinematic 'Woolf'

For Students 9th - 10th
Maintained by "The Tech," (Massachusetts Institute of Technology's student newspaper), this website consists of Scott Deskin's essay on the Mike Nichols film version of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." The article focuses...
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Mit: The Tech: Obituary: Isaac Asimov

For Students 9th - 10th
This plain text obituary from Newsday is published in The Tech, MIT's "Oldest and largest newspaper."
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Mit: Scratch: Animal Inequalities

For Students K - 1st Standards
Help Sharky and Ducky compare numbers in this inequalities game practicing greater than, less than, and equals.
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Mit: The Tech: Questions About Bush's Iran Contra Role

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from the Los Angeles Times discusses President George H.W. Bush's involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal and implications for the 1992 presidential election.
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Sam Colt (1814 62)

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief article, with biographical details, about Sam Colt's invention of the Colt revolver, the first weapon with a revolving cylinder that could hold six bullets.
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Granville T. Woods: The Multiplex Telegraph

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of Granville Woods' successful invention, the multiplex telegraph, which greatly improved railroad safety. From the Lemelson-MIT Project.
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Edmund Cartwright

For Students 9th - 10th
Edmund Cartwright is featured in this brief biography for automating the textile industry with a power loom.
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown, inventors in New York state who developed the antifungal drug Nystatin, are featured in this brief biography.
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Frederick M. Jones

For Students 9th - 10th
Inventor Frederick M. Jones is featured in this brief biography for his lasting contributions to the refrigerator and cinema industries.
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Jan Matzeliger

For Students 9th - 10th
Jan Ernst Matzeliger is remembered for his creation that had a tremendous effect on the shoe industry. He was a Surinamese inventor of the "lasting machine," patented in 1883.
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Luther Burbank

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief article talks about how Luther Burbank (1849-1926 CE) invented the "Idaho" potato, the July Elberta peach, the Santa Rosa plum, and the Flaming Gold nectarine through his crossbreeding experiments, which changed the world of...
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Philo Farnsworth

For Students 9th - 10th
Crack open a present day television today and it may not be as apparent, but every television designer is aware of the name Philo Farnsworth. Find out about the man behind the first all electric television among the 299 other patents...
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Robert Hall

For Students 9th - 10th
A bio on this important 1960's inventor who provided the world with the semiconductor injection laser, a purification of germanium and much more - most of which is still in use today.
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Roy J. Plunkett

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read about Roy Plunkett's invention, teflon, one of the best-known and most widely used polymers that was created by accident.