This exhibition tells the story of the conception and diffusion of Isaac Newton’s ideas, and the tensions and often public clashes they engendered. Notwithstanding these burgeoning controversies, or perhaps because of them, for friends and foes alike Newton became an icon to be emulated or rejected, revered or excoriated – but always there to contend with. Hence, the era of Enlightenment and Revolution may be viewed as the Newtonian Moment.
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Use the Periodic Table as a guide to determine why certain compounds can or cannot mix -- why they either form bonds or remain in conflict.
This seven-part article series offers simple but complete information about all aspects of volcanoes. A Web site not to be missed!
An Annenberg/CPB exhibit that will help you understand volcanoes - what causes them and why they are difficult to predict. The site also offers interactive activities to help you learn more.
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of Physics 2005, http://www.physics2005.org/ .
interest to many Physics-type Folks.
* "Journey to a Black Hole"
* "Journey to the Beginning of Time"
* "Journey through the Expanding Universe"
We offer a broad educational experience to support the exploration into the greatest mysteries of the universe, for educators, scientists and students alike.
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About School.com has been on the Web for six years and offers parents, teachers, and students resources on a wide range of topics and school subjects including math, science, reading, and writing.
This site is well designed and easily navigated. Links are in the left sidebar and content is grouped by grade level: Preschool, Kindergarten, 1-3, 4-6, 7-8, and High School with special sections for teachers and parents. The site is also fully searchable.
About School.com is a rich resource for parents, teachers and students. Students can get grade appropriate homework help on virtually any subject area from preschool to high school. Included in the grade level links are Ask the Professor where students can get help on specific questions and the Quick Reference that offers links to a dictionary, thesaurus, calculator, news links, and mega-search tool. Parents of young children will want to check out the online books to read with their children. Articles on topics of interest to parents such as “Insights into Motherhood”, and links to other parenting resources are available in the parent section. Home schooling parents will find links to a wealth of information and resources. Teachers will find information on professional organizations, their state’s education resources, locating a job and more.
this site and identify many powerful Google features that you will use on a regular basis.
Summary:Search engines are great, but slogging througha few thousand search results to find somethinggets old pretty quickly. Articles often provideinformation on good sites, but aren't much help ifyou need something right away. Good sites, apparently,are where you find them, and finding them can be alot of work. Webstrider, now live at webstrider.com,hopes to fill that void.
which make some people more discerning with respect to detecting the truth.
when it comes to ferreting out lies.
possible plagiarism, etc. I though this might help.
Sightings and click on that link.
The Web Resources Gallery offers links to a myriad of useful English language arts resources on the Internet. You may use the drop-down menus above to sort ReadWriteThink's Web Resources by grade band and resource type. See our Resource Definitions for a description of each resource type.
Between the years of 1892 and 1954, you would have needed at least $50.00 and a clean bill of health to pass inspection on Ellis Island. Learn more of what it would have been like to enter the land of dreams during the early twentieth century.
As your class learns a new grammatical concept, give out these handouts to reinforce the rules and provide a ready reference. Students should have made a good grammar reference handbook of their own by year's end.
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I got great response to my target on MLA citations.
I have created a packet you're welcome to use. There areactually three .pdf files. The MLA Style Notes, Sample First Page, andsample Works Cited. These make up a single packet. If you read the SampleFirst Page, the content actually describes the formatting of a basic MLAresearch paper.
The website also includes links to other MLA resources.
Hi! It's Tuesday, November 9, 2004 and time for Science at ClickSchooling!
This site is cool as it explains the physics of everyday life.
all formatted so that you can easily print them.
explanations their children will comprehend.
This site is for the curious student who wants to investigate how some of America's most enduring inventions from the 19th and 20th centuries came to be. Browse through pencil-and-ink industrial drawings of shopping carts, Crayola crayons, T-shirts, and more. A useful resource for gaining insight into American culture and the creative process.
Subject: CIESE: National Engineer's Week: Think Engineering!
problem-solving skills to address an engineering challenge.
"This website is the celebration of rock carvings made by Neolithic and Early Bronze Age people in Northumberland in the north east of England, between 6000 and 3500 years ago. Over 1000 carved panels are known and most of them are still located in the countryside." The database can be browsed and is searchable; information on each panel includes dimensions, motifs, type of rock, photographs, and site management and accessibility. Site also provides information for tourists. From Britain's Arts and Humanities Research Board.
This site contains resources "specifically designed to help consumers and businesses take actions that help preserve forests." A consumer guide features ideas for responsible use of forest products, such as reducing paper product consumption, finding sustainable wood products, and buying recycled wood items. Also includes information about a campaign to encourage magazines to use post-consumer recycled paper, and a section on environmental aspects of forestry. From Co-op America.
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Native AmericansNovember is American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month -- the perfect time to explore Education World's resources on the history and culture of America's original inhabitants.
"People first arrived in the Americas at least 12,000 years ago. The timing of their arrival and the route by which they travelled are not known." The site provides study materials (designed for primary through post-secondary students) that explore the evidence and ideas related to solving these issues. Includes a multimedia library with video clips, photos, games, and more. In English and French. From the Virtual Library of Canada.
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Synopsis: Follow the signs of the times, or at least the signs of the critters, at this site that celebrates biodiversity. In the Critter Catalog, you can get acquainted with representatives of several different classifications of creatures, including birds, fish, insects, and reptiles. The Sign Guide lets you consider various animal artifacts--bite marks, perhaps, or pawprints--to help determine what kind of animal left that particular imprint behind.
Synopsis: Dive into the alphabet soup that makes up every living creature. This site covers the basics of the blocks that build us--chromosomes, DNA, the human genome--and goes on to look at issues such as stem cell research and cloning. There are online games, puzzles, and activities that make the science fun.
This web site, developed by the Canadian Museum of Nature, explores many aspects of genomics, from the four bases and the scientists who discovered them to the human genome project and the potential cures of genetic diseases using gene therapy. The interactive web site uses Flash-animated games with sound, color photographs with pop-up windows, video clips, opinion polls, and fact boxes to capture the attention of the visitor. The user can navigate through the web site by clicking directly on links to new topics or by using arrows to follow the topics in order. Selected words within the text are hyperlinked to a talking glossary. In addition, links are provided for teachers to access in-class activities relating to genetics and information about how to use the web site to meet curriculum standards.
Scientific Visualization Studio, from NASA, (suggested by Barb Tewksbury, Hamilton College), view over 100 QuickTime and MPEG animations on a variety of earth processes, mostly from a remote sensing perspective. Topics are strongly geared toward environmental quality and hazard issues including volcanic eruptions, air and water pollution, landuse change, and oceanic productivity. Animations, which open in fairly small sized windows, can be searched by keyword or topic. In addition, animations can be rewound, as needed, to stress important points.
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History on the Information Age.
[NOTE: Programs in many disciplines from the Annenburg Foundation can now be viewed online free of charge.
GEsource: Consortium of Academic Libraries in Manchester, This appears to be a British effort to replicate DLESE efforts at cataloguing quality resources. "GEsource provides access to high quality Internet resources for students, researchers and practitioners in geography and the environment through five distinct subject gateways: Environment, General Geography, Human Geography, Physical Geography, and Techniques and Approaches. Each of these main headings is further divided into a series of sub-sections that together make up the browse structure of GEsource. Each resource in the main GEsource catalogue has been selected by information professionals and subject specialists to ensure relevance and quality."
Richard Altick calculates in Paintings from Books that "pictures from Shakespeare accounted for about one fifth -- some 2,300 -- of the total number of [British] literary paintings recorded between 1760 and 1900." This website "explores nineteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays and their influences on one another."
This useful resource for students offers comments and questions for consideration and classroom discussion for each act in the play.
[NOTE: See Also: Study Guides for Various Works – previously posted.
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Features transcriptions of dramas, fiction, and poetry from Elizabethan authors such as Shakespeare, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Watson, and Edward de Vere. Also includes glossaries and related material for most works, and links to information about Elizabethan literature and culture and about specific authors, such as Sir Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe. Searchable.
AT&T's (American Telephone and Telegraph Company) "roots stretch back to 1875, with founder Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone. During the 19th century, AT&T became the parent company of the Bell System, the American telephone monopoly." Features a timelines and overview of company history (including the 1984 divestiture), a history of the AT&T network, and information about the invention of the telephone and AT&T and television. Also includes video clips and other images.
"The goal of this site is to furnish high school students with direct access to materials held at the Hoover Presidential Library." The site features biographical overviews of Herbert Hoover and his wife, and lesson plans about important episodes in their lives. These include their Chinese tour, Belgian relief, building of Hoover Dam, "440 historical documents pertaining to President Hoover and the Depression," and Hoover and Harry Truman. All pages include scanned photographs, letters, and documents.
"Among the thousands of consumer fraud complaints the FTC receives yearly, those dealing with online auction fraud consistently rank at or near the top of the list." This fact sheet provides tips for buyers and sellers of items on online auction Web sites, a list of types of auction fraud, an explanation of auction rules and payment options, and places to file a complaint. Also available in Spanish. From the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Collection of papers that "explain various concepts in math and physics." Topics include partial fractions, a trigonometry review, tips for using Texas Instruments graphing calculators, general relativity, quantum mechanics, entropy, Bell's theorem, and related concepts. From two brothers with backgrounds in math, computer science, and physics.
This site provides an overview of the work of French physicist and chemist Louis Pasteur, who is known for his work in crystallography, fermentation, pasteurization, germ theory, immunology (including the rabies vaccine), and related fields. Includes highlights of his work, a timeline, a brief bibliography (mostly French titles), and a history of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. In English and French.
A useful collection of dozens of CRS (Congressional Research Service) reports on Congress as an entity. (Most reports are free; the site indicates which reports are fee-based.) Includes links to other sources of these elusive but often invaluable reports. From the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. (LLSDC).