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Italy Guides: Cities of Italy
Take a virtual tour of the many historic cities of Italy. Click on any city shown on the interactive map to view related facts and beautiful photos. Though a tourist site, the map and accompanying information is useful to anyone...
Read Works
Read Works: Held Up
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Leaning Tower of Pisa, what causes it to lean, and what scientists did to keep it from falling. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
Rice University
Galileo Project: The Tuscan Region
This site from Rice University of The Galileo Project provides a map (16th-Century) of the Tuscan region. The region was under the control of Florence. The map is more of a terrain map but interesting nonetheless.
NASA
Nasa: The Way Things Fall
This site from NASA compares free falling motion to falling with air resistance. Discusses Galileo's experiment. Explains why we believe all objects free fall with the same acceleration.