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Activity
PBS

Pbs: Pioneer in Intelligence Testing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site, which is provided for by PBS, gives a brief summary of Alfred Binet's major contributions to intelligence testing.
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Other

Finding Dulcinea: Billie Jean King, Tennis Star and Feminist Pioneer

For Students 9th - 10th
Article on former tennis pro Billie Jean King, with career highlights and an overview of her personal life. Dated November 2010.
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Other

African American Pioneers: Richard Allen

For Students 9th - 10th
This page from Afgen.com contains the life history of Richard Allen. Richard was the founding bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Kinghorn School Days

For Students 9th - 10th
The history of the one-room school house in Kinghorn, Ontario operated between 1895 and 1936. Its history is told here through narratives, sound and images.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The French Connection

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibit features narratives and pictures that recount the history of French settlers to the banks of the Detroit River in the 1700s.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Victorian Fashions in the Upper Ottawa Valley

For Students 9th - 10th
100 years of fashions, 1840-1940, are showcased in this collection of images. Included are close-up photographs that detail much of the intricate work produced during the Victorian Period.
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University of Alberta

Atlas of Alberta Railways: The Railway Labourers: The Navvies

For Students 9th - 10th
Many immigrants died during the building of Canada's railway. How they were recruited, their housing, food, pay, etc. are detailed here.
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Interactive
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Building a Sod House

For Students 3rd - 8th
Ready to be an early settler on the plains? While playing this interactive game, you'll get to build your own sod house ..if ..you have the right answers.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Sterling Flour Mill

For Students 9th - 10th
Trace the history of milling and learn about the milling of flour as you explore the stories celebrating the history of the Sterling Flour Mill in Strome Alberta. Included are images of artifacts and primary source documents.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Work of the Blacksmith Green Family Forge, Trinity, Nl

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the tools used by the blacksmith at the forge and how iron was worked with to create such things as horseshoes and the iron bands for cart wheels. Selecting the print story provides for more detailed information.
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Other

Canadian Pacific Railway Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out the awesome images of the railroads as they helped to connect Canada's east and west.
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NASA

Nasa Star Child: Probes to the Outer Planets (Level 2)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a description of the many probes sent to the outer planets, including pictures and vocabulary words linked to a glossary of terms. Other links on interesting facts and more detailed information are also included.
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Canadian Museum of History

Cmc: The Last Best West: Advertising for Immigrants to Western Canada

For Students 9th - 10th
Government claims to lands in Western Canada was one matter but maintaining sovereignty over these lands was quite another. Sir John A Macdonald's approach to maintaining sovereignty in western Canada by not losing the land to American...
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Reading Writing & 'Rithmetic in the One Room Schoolhouse

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Comparing and contrasting are skills that are utilized in this lesson plan. Teacher resources and detailed activities will help the students learn about the schools in early America.
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NASA

Nasa: Robert Goddard and His Rockets

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical site provided by NASA on the life and work of Robert Goddard. The site also includes a brief history of rockets up to the work of Dr. Goddard.
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Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Fenimore Cooper the Last of the Mohicans

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of James Fenimore Cooper's novel, "The Last of the Mohicans." Chapters of the text are preceded by an "Author's Introduction," as well as a brief paragraph introducing the context, characters, and plot of the novel.
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Primary
Duke University

California Gold: The Diary and Letters of James M. Burr

For Students 9th - 10th
Wonderful primary resource on the California Gold Rush. Read actual letters and a diary--with explanatory annotations--by a prospector from 1850-1853.
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Handout
ESPN Internet Ventures

Espn: Althea Gibson Broke Barriers

For Students 9th - 10th
Gibson was a woman of many firsts. She was the first black to compete at a national tennis tournament and then later at Wimbledon. She was the first black to win either and also won the French championship. This article discusses her...
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University of Alberta

Atlas of Alberta Railways: Land Grant System

For Students 3rd - 8th
Presented by the University of Alberta, this resource contains information on the land grant system in the Alberta region. Information on how the Canadian government used land grants in the late 19th century to spur population growth in...
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Rutgers University

Blueprint for Change: The Life and Times of Lewis H. Latimer

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive look at the inventor, Lewis Latimer, from the Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University. Read essays about his life and inventions, the culture in Boston which encouraged his work, and his life outside his inventions. A...
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Handout
Science Museum, London

Science Museum Online Stuff: The First Flight

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent article about how Orville and Wilbur Wright's interest in flight developed and led to the first airplane flight.
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Primary
Purdue University

George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers

For Students 9th - 10th
The world's largest collection of Amelia Earhart papers, memorabilia and artifacts.
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Other

Paul Yee

For Students 9th - 10th
Paul Yee is a Chinese-Canadian children's writer who has written books about Chinese experiences of coming to Canada. Some of his stories are set in the 1800s. His website provides information about his life and his books, as well as...
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Other

Gustavus University: Willa Cather Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive collection of publications by and about Cather, including some of her most impressive quotes from numerous sources. Features detailed biographical information and specific Nebraska historical information related to the...

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