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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Greek Heroes: Calchas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site focuses on Calchas, ancient Greek seer famous for his interpretations of omens. It includes his ancestry, his part in the Trojan War, and his death.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Examples of Analogous Structures

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains that analogous structures are ones that are similar in different organisms yet have no common ancestry. This type of phenomenon occurs with convergent evolution. Includes lots of examples for both animals and plants.
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Activity
Northern Arizona University

Northern Arizona University: Embryos and Evolution

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, students study the embryos of different organisms at three stages of development to look for features that suggest a common ancestry.
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Website
Lin and Don Donn

Lin and Don Donn: Ancient China: Daily Life During Shang & Chou Dynasties

For Students 9th - 10th
This page has information about the Shang & Chou dynasties, including specifics about family, ancestor worship, oracle bones, kings and nobles, warriors, farmers, and merchants and craftsmen.
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Handout
CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of 24 Grade-Leveled texts (5-11) on the topic of Immigration. Most Americans can trace their ancestry back to immigrants coming to the New World. Learn about America's history of immigration, particularly during the...
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University of Groningen

American History: Biographies: Warren G. Harding

For Students 9th - 10th
Warren Gamaliel Harding, twenty-ninth President of the United States, was born on November 2, 1865, on the family farm at Blooming Grove, Morrow County, Ohio. His parents were Dr. George Tryon Harding and Phoebe Dickerson Harding,...
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Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society: Elizabeth and Henry Baird

For Students 9th - 10th
Elizabeth and Henry Baird played a major role in the settling of Wisoncisn to white settlers in the nineteenth century. Elizabeth had been Henry's pupil and married him at the age of fourteen. With her knowledge of the fur trade and her...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Personal Heritage Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This research project requires learners to connect with the past by researching both primary and secondary sources for family history. Their findings are presented in a keepsake portfolio and in a multimedia presentation comparing the...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Yemenis

For Students 9th - 10th
The Yemenis are a Muslim and Arabic-speaking people who are mainly Arabs, although a small percentage of the population has African and Asian ancestry. Yemeni values have traditionally relied on a hierarchical, tribally organized, and...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Zande

For Students 9th - 10th
The Zande, whose homelands lie within three modern African states (Republic of the Sudan, Zaire, Central African Republic), constitute a large and complex amalgam of originally distinct ethnic groups, united by culture and, to a...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Tswana

For Students 9th - 10th
Batswana are divided into a number of subgroups or "tribes", There are approximately twenty-five totems, which crosscut "tribal" boundaries. Although Batswana received Christian missionaries in the early nineteenth century and most...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Shona

For Students 9th - 10th
The Shona-speaking peoples comprise about 80 percent of the population of Zimbabwe, with significant groups in Mozambique. Most of what follows applies to the Shona in Zimbabwe, who have been extensively studied. There are now around...
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Article
PBS

Pbs: American Roots Music: Historical Background

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What is American roots music? The term "American roots music" may not be a familiar one, and requires some explanation. At the beginning of the 20th Century, the term "folk music" was used by scholars to describe music made by whites of...
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Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Okiek

For Students 9th - 10th
"Okiek" is the name of a Kenyan people who formerly lived by hunting game, making beehives, and gathering and trading honey; it is also the name of their language. The collective name "Okiek" includes over two dozen local groups, each...
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Other

Somos Primos: Hispanic Heritage and Diversity Issues

For Students 9th - 10th
Access is free. Articles explore topics such as Hispanic heritage, the Black/Latino connection, and Hispanic patriots involved in the American revolution. There is a database through which users post surnames they are hoping to trace the...
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Lesson Plan
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Making a Phylogenetic Tree Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Constructing phylogenetic trees may be a daunting task for young scholars, but this lesson plan is a simulation of what molecular biologists must do to determine relationships. This plan is for students who have a good grasp of DNA...
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University of California

Ucmp: Aves: Fossil Record

For Students 9th - 10th
A very good article on the fossil evidence and the prominent theory on the evolution of birds. Addresses both sides and presents information. Predominently agrees with the pro-dinosaurian point of view.
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University of Guelph

Canada's Aquatic Environment/evolution of Birds

For Students 9th - 10th
A good site that goes over the similarities and differences of reptiles and birds. Good look at the issue from a seemingly neutral view.
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Handout
University of California

Ucmp: Systematics

For Students 9th - 10th
A good overview of the radiation within the class through geologic time.
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Article
Stanford University

Gendered Innovations: Race & Ethnicity

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the definitions of race and ethnicity, and how the terms have been used. Also lists several problems with labeling people or groups as a particular race or ethnicity.
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Handout
Talk Origins Archive

Talk Origins: All About Archaeopteryx

For Students 9th - 10th
Good site which appears to take an unbiased approach to examining the wealth of evidence about the origins of birds. Provides tons of information about specimens, features, feather development, and more.
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Article
American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Evidence of Evolutionary Transitions

For Students 9th - 10th
Charles Darwin's theory that all living organisms are connected in some way has been confirmed through intense studies over centuries. Understand the similarities that bond all things living to the same family tree by checking out this...
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PBS

Nova: Identifying Remains With Dna

For Students 9th - 10th
Mitochondrial DNA has different properties than nuclear DNA which make it beneficial in certain forensic settings. Get the details on the ways mitochondrial DNA is being used in forensic science.
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Lesson Plan
Indiana University

Indiana University: German Americans and Their Contributions to Us Culture

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site outlines two well-organized lesson plans for teaching about German culture in the United States. Also includes extra credit ideas.

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