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Agnes Scott College

Agnes Scott College: Florence Nightingale

For Students 9th - 10th
Agnes Scott College includes in its Biographies of Women Mathematicians this page on the life of Florence Nightingale. Most people do not realize that in addition to her work for nursing and hospital reform, Nightingale was also a...
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Computer History Museum

Computer History Museum: The Silicon Engine

For Students 9th - 10th
Microelectronic silicon computer chips have provided the growth engine for the technology revolution. This site provides a wealth of information about the development of semiconductors. Included is a timeline of major events, a list of...
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Problem of Expansion

For Students 9th - 10th
With the end of the Revolution, the United States again had to face the old unsolved Western question -- the problem of expansion, with its complications of land, fur trade, Indians, settlement and local government. Lured by the richest...
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Frontier, "West" and the American Experience

For Students 9th - 10th
Outline of the American frontier and pioneer experience during westward expanison in the 1800s.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: j.p. Morgan and Finance Capitalism

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview on the rise of industry resulting in the need for investment banking, of which J. P. Morgan was a pioneer.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Foundations of Software Engineering: An Early History

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an early history of software engineering, dividing software engineering into three periods: the Pioneering Era (1955-1965), the Stabilizing Era (1965-1980), and the Micro Era (1980-Present).
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Article
University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 954: Moses Austin's Lead

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of the beginning of the American lead industry started by Moses Austin, a Texas pioneer. This is a transcript of an accompanying radio broadcast.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Earlier Than We Think

For Students 9th - 10th
This podcast explains how Vannevar Bush, once a computing pioneer, had become America's leading science advisor.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Carl Sagan

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia article from Wikipedia provides a brief biography of Carl Sagan, the American astronomer who pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and science in general.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Traveling West [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
"Traveling West" is a one page, nonfiction passage about pioneers traveling west in wagon trains. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes underlining the most important...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Traveling West [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th
"Traveling West" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about the difficult journey west for pioneers traveling in wagon trains and how the railroad made traveling west much easier and faster. It is followed by questions which...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Fermium: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. Fermium is named after a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and nuclear power. [1:48]
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PBS

Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Gary Kildall

For Students 9th - 10th
One-page profile of influential innovator, Gary Kildall, a pioneer in the computer age whose vision and ideas created the first disc operating system for a microcomputer.
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PBS

Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Francis Cabot Lowell

For Students 9th - 10th
This American industrial pioneer left as his legacy a manufacturing system, booming mill towns, and a humanitarian attitude toward workers.
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The History Cat

The History Cat: u.s. History: The Oregon Trail

For Students 9th - 10th
A glimpse at life on the Oregon Trail during 19th-century westward expansion. Written humorously with teen learners in mind, students can view original photographs and read excerpts from pioneer diaries for a sense of the arduous journey.
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Have Fun With History

Have Fun With History: Aviation

For Students 9th - 10th
Module with visual history of aviation in America. Students and teachers can find videos on topics beginning with pioneers in aviation, WWI and WWII, Airships and more. Links to related resources can be found on this site.
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Other

Black Inventors: Lloyd Hall

For Students 3rd - 8th
Lloyd Hall was a pioneer in the field of food chemistry, preservation, and sterilization.
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Other

Camp Hawthorne

For Students 9th - 10th
Camp Hawthorne is located on Panther Pond in southwest Maine. You can take classes that last 2,3,4 or 7 weeks. Learn how to canoe or rock climb. You can learn a few things at the pioneer village.
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Other

Women's International Center: Michael E. De Bakey, m.d

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of the pioneering physician and surgeon, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey. Includes a video of a speech where he is awarded a Congressional Gold Medal for his work.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Ancient Art Influenced Modern Art

For Students 9th - 10th
The term modern art sounds like it means art that is popular now, but the style actually originated over 150 years ago and includes artists like Picasso, Matisse, and Gauguin. What's more ironic is that this movement they pioneered-...
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University of California

University of California Museum of Paleontology: Uniformitarianism

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the pioneers in Earth's geologic history and their discovery of how the process of uniformitarianism shaped the study of evolution.
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Other

Astromador: Astronomia Para Amadores

For Students 9th - 10th
This resources focuses exclusively on astronomy. It's packed with historical facts about space exploration, famous people who pioneered the study of stars and planets. It features chronological list of space exploration, current news,...
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Wisconsin Historical Society

Turning Points Lesson Plans: Roles of Leadership

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Discuss leadership of the past and today while learning about Indian chiefs Tomah, Black Hawk, Keokuk, and others. This website includes a link to the article "Indian Chiefs and Pioneers of the Northwest," group activity and game ideas,...
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C-SPAN

Cspan American Writers: James Fenimore Cooper

For Students 9th - 10th
This biographical note about the American novelist James Fenimore Cooper provides basic information about the author of The Pioneers (1823) and other novels of the American wilderness, The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827),...

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