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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: John Daniel Kraus

For Students 9th - 10th
For a man whose career involved the entire known universe, John Kraus had a remarkably insular upbringing. He was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in physics, all at the...
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Abigail Smith Adams

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818 CE), wife of President John Adams and avid letter writer. Additional content includes the full text to two of her letters.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History:sarah and Angelina Grimke

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography about the Grimke sisters, both Quakers and avid social reformers. They spoke out about women's rights and slavery.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: An Introduction to Decorative Arts at the J. Paul Getty Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Mr. Getty began acquiring European furniture in the 1930s and soon became an avid collector of European Decorative Arts. Today the J. Paul Getty Museum has an extensive collection primarily from the 17th and 18th centuries. Some of the...
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Other

Velorama Bicycle Museum: Netherlands

For Students 9th - 10th
The Dutch are known for being avid bike riders, and this site by the Dutch Fietsmuseum proves it. Watch a slide show on various bicycle inventions over the years or take a virtual tour of the museum to learn about cycle history.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Tv Ratings (Pdf)

For Students 3rd - 8th
Here's a challenge for the avid TV watcher. Use your data interpretation skills to explore America's TV watching habits in this NCTM Math Challenges for Families activity. See if you can figure out which night of the week has the...
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Bernard Shaw

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Bernard Shaw, an American television journalist and the first chief anchor for the Cable News Network (CNN). Shaw's childhood heroes included newsman Edward R. Murrow, whose television...
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Other

Chemistry 112: Properties of Acetic Acid

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a Lewis dot structure diagram of acetic avid, as well as a few properties of this compound.
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Curated OER

A Yukon Romance: Claude and Mary Tidd

For Students 9th - 10th
Claude Tidd was an RCMP officer in the Yukon and an avid photographer. Together with his wife, Mary, a prolific letter-writer, they documented life in the Yukon as they lived and saw it. They intermingled with all strata of society and...
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Curated OER

300 Women Who Changed History: Sarah Grimke

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography about the Grimke sisters, both Quakers and avid social reformers. They spoke out about women's rights and slavery.
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Graphic
Curated OER

300 Women Who Changed History: Angelina Grimke

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography about the Grimke sisters, both Quakers and avid social reformers. They spoke out about women's rights and slavery.

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