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October 21, 2008
Enduring Resources for Earth Sciences Education is a database of materials for teaching earth science concepts. Created by teachers and earth scientists, the database includes maps, documents, and other resources for teaching about earthquakes, volcanoes, rocks, oceans, plate ...   (National Science Foundation) Loihi a.k.a. the Hawaiian Hotspot
October 21, 2008
U.S. Election and Voting Resources provides frequently asked questions, maps, and other information for learning about the presidential election process, the electoral college, registering to vote, campaign finance, opinion polls, historical election results, state ...   (National Archives and Records Administration) See caption below
October 16, 2008
Paleontology Portal invites students to discover prehistoric life in the U.S. by state and time period, see famous fossil localities and assemblages, and search fossil images and paleontology collections from participating museums. Find field guides, maps ...   (National Science Foundation) From the Quaternary in Kansas © 2005 The Virtual Fossil Museum (webmaster@fossilmuseum.net)
October 16, 2008
Teaching Boxes helps teachers create earth science activities that focus on gathering data and analyzing scientific evidence. Topics include plate tectonics, weather essentials, seasonal upwelling, sea level changes, living in earthquake country, and ...   (Multiple Agencies) Wegener’s proposed Pangaea.
October 15, 2008
Leonard Bernstein Collection includes music and literary manuscripts, photos, audio and video recordings, and correspondence from one of 20th-century America's most important musical figures. See a photo gallery and timeline of Bernstein's life (1918-1990). Read an ...   (Library of Congress) Bernstein, 1936. Photographer unidentified. (Music Division)
October 14, 2008
Creating the United States offers primary documents related to the creation of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights. Learn about the beliefs on which the American republic was founded, the forging of the federal government, the ...   (Library of Congress) Paul Revere. The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt. Engraving with watercolor. Boston, 1770. Prints and Photographs Division.
October 9, 2008
Critical Foundations for Algebra is a multimedia presentation of essential concepts, recommended practices, and planning templates from the National Math Panel ...   (Department of Education) Image of a hand writing math problems on a chalk board
September 30, 2008
How to Organize Your Teaching suggests ways to organize instruction to improve students' ability to remember information, solve problems faster, understand abstract concepts, and transfer what they've learned to new situations ...   (Department of Education) Download PDF of diagram
September 17, 2008
Einstein's Big Idea tells the story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. Learn about its discovery and legacy. Meet scientists whose experiments laid the groundwork. Read about the unknown patent clerk's bleak career prospects before his ...   (National Science Foundation) Image of a hand writing E=mc2 on a chalk board
September 9, 2008
Democracy in Brief gives a concise account of the intellectual origins, history, and basic values of democratic systems of government. The book examines topics such as rights and responsibilities of citizens, free and fair elections, the rule of law, the ...   (Department of State) In 1215, English nobles pressured King John of England to sign a document known as the Magna Carta.
September 9, 2008
Principles of Entrepreneurship describes the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, which is vital for stimulating economic growth and employment opportunities. Learn about the essentials for building and running a business from the planning stages to marketing a product ...   (Department of State) Logo
September 8, 2008
9/11 Commemorations and Information is a first stop for finding government information related to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Find national memorials in New York City, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. See online exhibits. Read and hear stories of survival ...   (General Services Administration) American flags and messages left by visitors as a memorial to those lost on Flight 93.
September 8, 2008
Educational Resources from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco provides websites, books, and newsletters about dozens of topics -- economics, economic trends, the Federal Reserve system, U.S. monetary policy, great economists, and personal finance. Learn about banking basics; building wealth ...   (The Federal Reserve ) The unfinished pyramid represents striving toward growth. The eye represents an all-seeing deity and places the spiritual above the material.
September 5, 2008
Environmental Health Perspectives is a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health. Learn about dengue, modifiers of health effects of air pollution, World Trade Center rescue worker mental health morbidity, iron ...   (National Institutes of Health) Image of a computer keyboard
September 5, 2008
Great Chicago Stories presents historical fiction that illuminates Chicago's past. Listen to (or read) 12 stories about the abolitionist movement; public housing and white flight; labor and the Haymarket Affair; progressivism, Hull House, and immigration ...   (National Endowment for the Humanities) Comiskey Park, c. 1912
September 5, 2008
NSF and the Birth of the Internet is a multimedia story of the creation of the Internet. Learn about the individuals who began connecting computers in the 1960s. Listen to Vint Cerf, often referred to as "the father of the Internet," describe their work. Find out about ...   (National Science Foundation) A visualization of Internet connections in the United States.  Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation, adapted from map by Chris Harrison, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Me
September 2, 2008
Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices provides five recommendations to improve literacy among adolescents in the upper elementary, middle, and high school grades. The guide is designed for teachers and personnel who work directly with students. It presents strategies that ...   (Department of Education) See caption below
August 22, 2008
Digging for Answers offers interactive quizzes that draw interesting historical facts from the Smithsonian's collections. Topics include dogs, horses, insects, stars, famous women, clothes, food, brain teasers, and more ...   (Smithsonian Institution) Image of a carved black horse
August 14, 2008
Country Background Notes provides factual descriptions of the world's independent states, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Learn about the people, history, government, political conditions, economy, geography, and foreign relations of China, Georgia, Pakistan ...   (Department of State) A full moon rises above a cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 14, 2006. [© AP Images]
August 14, 2008
Historians on America looks at 11 developments that altered the course of U.S. history: the trial of John Peter Zenger and the birth of freedom of the press, the Constitutional Convention (1787), George Washington's concept of a limited Presidency, the Common ...   (Department of State) Montage of superhighways from the Eisenhower administration to the present links the futuristic dreams of yesteryear to the reality of today.
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