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University of Arizona

University of Arizona: The Biology Project: Chemicals and Human Health

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Arizona's Biology Project provides background information on toxic materials and the body's responses as well as interactive tutorials with assessment questions and an activity in which students can actually acquire and...
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Website
Native American Art and Technology

Native Tech: Eastern Woodland Metal Pendants and Ornaments

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes and illustrates the transition from bone and other materials to metal gorgets and pendants made and worn by Native Americans.
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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Borracheras

For Students 9th - 10th
This article on binge drinking presents many facts about binge drinking and the consequences of it.
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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Heroin

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this chart from Kids Health as a quick reference to information about heroin. Find out how it is used, what it's called, where it comes from, and what it does to your body.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Missouri, 1904

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1904 of Missouri showing the capital of Jefferson City, major cities and towns, railroads, and rivers. An inset map details St. Louis. "Missouri - Organized as a Territory in 1812; admitted to the statehood in 1821. Its lead...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Products of India (I), 1912

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1912 of India, showing the major agricultural production regions for millets and pulses (grain crops), cotton, coffee, opium and tobacco. The map shows major cities, rivers, and terrain that effect cultivation and...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Economic Activity in India, 1915

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1915 of British India, showing principal economic products of the region at the time. The map is color-coded to show areas where tea, wheat, rice, opium, tobacco, jute, and cotton are grown, and areas of coal extraction....
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Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Manufacturing Areas, 1900

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1907 of the United States showing the principal manufacturing areas in 1900. The star symbol in Ohio represents the mean center of manufacturing in the nation. Each symbol represents gross $25,000,000 or fraction more than...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Manufacturing Areas , 1900

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1920 of the United States showing the principal manufacturing areas in 1900. The star symbol in Ohio represents the mean center of manufacturing in the nation. Each symbol represents gross $25,000,000 or fraction more than...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: United States Economic Regions, 1900

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1912 of the United States showing the principal industries of the region. The map is color-coded to show the areas of fishing grounds, industrial centers, coal mining areas, petroleum fields, and iron ore fields. This map...
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Economic Activity in North America, 1916

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1916 of North America showing the economic production areas of the region. This map is color-coded to show industrial districts, productive, and non-productive regions. The map shows the principal extraction areas for coal,...
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Commercial Map: United States, Canada, Mexico, 1904

For Students 9th - 10th
North American commercial activities including: major agricultural crops (barley, corn, wheat, coffee, tobacco, et cetera) and secondary agricultural crops (oranges, lumber, wine); primary mining extraction (coal, gold, silver,...
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Curated OER

Unesco: China: Fujian Tulou

For Students 9th - 10th
Fujian Tulou is a property of 46 buildings constructed between the 15th and 20th centuries over 120 km in south-west of Fujian province, inland from the Taiwan Strait. Set amongst rice, tea and tobacco fields the Tulou are earthen...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Smoking Device in Two Parts

For Students 9th - 10th
A smoking device that is in two parts. There is the smoking tube, a large part of which is missing, and the tube for the coals and tobacco. Both parts have the remains of decoration.
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Curated OER

Neuroscience for Kids: Nicotine

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site learn about the dangers and effects associated with tobacco use and nicotine. Read about how nicotine effects the body and brain and how a nicotine addiction is very difficult to break.
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Curated OER

Neuroscience for Kids: Nicotine

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site learn about the dangers and effects associated with tobacco use and nicotine. Read about how nicotine effects the body and brain and how a nicotine addiction is very difficult to break.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pierre Lorillard

For Students 9th - 10th
Manufacturer of American tobacco and owner of a thoroughbred race horse.
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Activity
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Jamestown

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information about the founding and development of the settlement at Jamestown.
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Activity
Open Door Team

Open Door Web Site: First British Colony: Virginia

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a brief, to-the-point account of the settlement at Jamestown and its ultimate success.
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Handout
Other

University of Iowa Health Care: Smoking: Tips on How to Quit

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource to help people stop smoking. Includes the benefits to quitting smoking as well as the keys to success.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Unearthing Secret America: Nutrient Depletion

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Investigate the change in American society and slavery with the advent of the agricultural innovation of crop rotation. Observe nutrient depletion as you germinate and grow nutrient-demanding seedlings.
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Interactive
National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids: On the Trail of Captain John Smith

For Students 3rd - 8th
Go along with John Smith and the men who colonized Jamestown. This interactive site allows you to make decisions, play a few games, and gives an authoritative review of the Jamestown settlement.
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Southern Colonies

For Students 5th - 8th
The Southern Colonies developed their own personality, just as the New England and Middle colonies did. Read about the economy of the Southern Colonies, their labor force, and why the second-born of wealthy English familes came to this...
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Article
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

Cancer.gov: Q & a About Smoking Cessation

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses, through a series of questions and answers, the benefits of smoking cessation. Also provides links to definitions of many of the terms used throughout the site.

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