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Global Environmental and Outdoor Education Council: World of 100 (Simulation)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This simulation activity teaches students about the inequities in access to global resources, and our responsibility as global citizens to protect the rights and welfare of people around the world who may be impacted by our economic...
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Math Wire

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is an amazing Math site! The lesson activities are based on constructivist teaching. They are organized by topic, theme, standard, strand, alphabetically, etc. Each month new materials are posted related to season, celebrations, and...
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Norval Morrisseau and Medicine Painting

For Students 3rd - 8th
Norval Morrisseau, a Canadian Ojibwa, is the founder of Woodland school of Native American medicine painting.
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Waseda University: Photographs of Deir El Medina

For Students 9th - 10th
See almost 150 photographs of the village of Deir el-Medina. Photos of the craftsmen's houses, tombs, necropolis, and excavations.
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Kids for a Clean Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
Don't just complain about what is happening to the environment, become involved in environmental issues and make a change. Here's an organization that is enabling kids to make those changes.
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Institute for the Preservation of Elevator History: Frank J. Sprague

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of Sprague, who is responsible for the development of electric trailways, electric elevators, and a commercial form of the electric motor.
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Geo Times: The Ice Free Corridor Revisited

For Students 9th - 10th
A very comprehensive article about the ice-free corridor which was possibly the passageway for Paleoindians to enter North America. The discussion includes geology as well as anthropolpgy.
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Geo Times: Quest for the Lost Land

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of a migration theory of Paleoindians that went down the west coast of North America. Read about food sources, the geology, and the research behind the theory.
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Passport to Knowledge: Passport to Antarctica

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit Antarctica, the most remote continent, through this site that covers the climate, animals, geography, and first-person accounts from visitors in the 1990s.
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Open Congress

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a great tool to personalize and track all the information you want to follow about Congress. Search bills, senators, representatives, committees, issues, and forums. There are great tools to try out: facebook, widgets, and...
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Musee D'orsay: Vincent Van Gogh, Self Portrait

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, this is an image, description and explanation with an accompanying link to other facts about the post-impressionist painting "Self-Portrait" by Vincent Van Gogh.
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Musee D'orsay: Jean Francois Millet , the Angelus

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, this is an image, description and explanation with an accompanying link to other facts about the late 19th century Romanticist painting "The Angelus" by Jean-Francois Millet.
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Musee D'orsay: James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler, Portrait of the Artist's Mother

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, this is an image, description and explanation with an accompanying link to other facts about the American Impressionist painting "Portrait of the Artist's Mother" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
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Musee D'orsay: Mary Cassatt, Girl in the Garden

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, this is an image, description and explanation with an accompanying link to other facts about the American Impressionist painting "Girl in the Garden" by Mary Cassatt.
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Musee D'orsay: Berthe Morisot, the Cradle

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, this is an image, description and explanation with an accompanying link to other facts about the French Impressionist painting "The Cradle" by Berthe Morisot.
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Musee D'orsay: Gustave Courbet (1819 1877): A Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, "Gustave Courbet (1819-1877): A Biography" is presented with a breakdown of major periods of the artists life and examples of paintings from each period.
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National Library of Ireland: Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats

For Students 9th - 10th
This video masterclass offered through the Yeats Collection from the National Library of Ireland gives insight into William Butler Yeats and his writing of "Sailing to Byzantium." Requires a broadband internet connection. You can also...
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Queen Sofia Museum: Magazines and War: Spanish Civil War Print Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive look at the artwork that graced magazines that were published during the Spanish Civil War. You can read a summary of what each magazine published.
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New Bedford Whaling Museum: William Bradford: Sailing Ships and Arctic Seas

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibit of the life and work of nineteenth-century American marine artist William Bradford, whose lifelong interest in the sea led him north from New Bedford to Labrador and to the Arctic Ocean. See examples of Bradford's...
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Bfi Screenonline: Glossary of Film and Television Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow this link to the British Film Institute's glossary of film and television terms.
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Chicago History Museum: Louis Sullivan at 150

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit the Chicago History Museum's retrospective about Louis Sullivan, famous Chicago architect.
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Denver Museum of Nature and Science: Follow a Fossil

For Students 9th - 10th
Students examine paleontology, the study of ancient life on Earth. Some topics explored are vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants.
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Shoah Memorial: Mass Shootings of Jews in Ukraine 1941 1944

For Students 9th - 10th
See the moving documents on display at the Shoah Memorial which show the "holocaust by bullets" in Ukraine where more than one million Jews were shot by German mobile firing squads. Read about the exhibit; then click on documents to...
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New Orleans Kid Camera Project

For Students 9th - 10th
New Orleans Kid Camera Project is a not for profit public art project that puts cameras into the hands of the youth of the city for them to then present their world and their art to the world on the internet.