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University of Massachusetts: Closing Entries

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents quiz questions and problems, complete with solutions, that illustrate the closing entries for a corporation.
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University of Massachusetts

Univ of Massachusetts Amherst: Mary Rowlandson Captive

For Students 9th - 10th
Mary Rowlandson's account of her capture and captivity is retold and illustrated with modern photographs. Includes quotations from her account and a brief bibliography.
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University of Massachusetts Lowell: Italian Renaissance: Neoplatonism

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains how the Platonic tradition was revived in Italian Renaissance humanism. It presents an analysis of Ancient Greece and Plato's thought, and then describes how his ideas were adapted to fit humanistic teaching. It also...
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Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art: Sol Le Witt: Wall Drawing Retrospective

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience over one hundred of Sol LeWitt's large-scale wall drawings at the MMOCA, spanning the artist's career from 1969 to 2007, installed over three stories of a historic mill building.
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Massachusetts Department of Education: Sunlight Warms Earth's Surface

For Teachers K - 1st
This unit contains a series of lessons that allow learners to explore the effect of sunlight on Earth's natural surfaces of sand, soil, rock, and water. In addition, students explore how the color and material of a surface affects how...
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50 States

50 States: Massachusetts (Ma)

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find here a collection of links to information about the state of Massachusetts. Categories include facts, government, geography, education, people, attractions, history, industry, and miscellaneous.
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Civil War Rosters: Massachusetts Links

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains links to information about Massachusetts' involvement in the Civil War. Also contains links about various Massachusetts regiments as well as information about other states' regiments.
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Massachusetts Civil War: Massachusetts Civil War Research Center

For Students 9th - 10th
A website containing a database which allows research into individuals and regiments from Massachusetts who fought in the Civil War.
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Open Door Team

Open Door Web Site: Massachusetts

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the colony the Puritans made, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a place Puritans could practice their own religion freely.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Massachusetts State History for Kids

For Students 3rd - 8th
On this webpage, students learn about the history and timeline of the state of Massachusetts including early explorers, Native Americans, the Pilgrims, an English colony, and the Revolutionary War.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: New England Colonies: Dissent in Massachusetts Bay

For Students 5th - 8th
The Puritan clergy in Massachusetts Bay colony did not allow religious dissent. Read about the fate of colonists Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams who believed in religious freedom.
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University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts: Meat and Poultry

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the University of Massachusetts you can read about the different foods that are known for being "Important sources of protein, iron, zinc, and B vitamins." Learn to cut your consumption of fat, while still benefitting...
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Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Alice Turner Curtis's A Little Maid Of Massachusetts Colony has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
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University of Massachusetts: Notes Payable

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Massachusetts Lowell presents a series of quiz questions and problems about current liabilities, with an emphasis on notes payable. Solutions and answers are provided and journal entries for various...
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University of Massachusetts: Plant Assets

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Massachusetts Lowell presents quiz questions and problems, complete with solutions, that illustrate all facets of plant assets, from their acquisition through their depreciation, including the journal...
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Yale University

Explanatory Charter of Massachusetts Bay 1725

For Students 9th - 10th
The Charter of Massachusetts Bay, digitized by the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
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Eea: Air Monitoring

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the current air quality in Massachusettes, and learn more about air pollution, air quality forecast, and governmental guidelines on air.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Massachusetts

For Students 9th - 10th
During the religious upheavals of the 16th century, a body of men and women called Puritans sought to reform the Established Church of England from within. Essentially, they demanded that the rituals and structures associated with Roman...
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The Wampanoag People

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to learn the history of the Wampanoag people, natives of the Massachusetts area. Use the links to the left and bottom of the site to obtain more interesting information on this Native American group.
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The Wampanoag People

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to learn the history of the Wampanoag people, natives of the Massachusetts area. Use the links to the left and bottom of the site to obtain more interesting information on this Native American group.
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Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: Shays' Rebellion: A Massachusetts Farmer's Account

For Students 9th - 10th
An historically based record of Shays' Rebellion, delivered by a fictious character, relaying the events and observances that occurred in the fall of 1786.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Utopian Promise: John Winthrop

For Students 9th - 10th
John Winthrop rose to power in social, spiritual and political circles and served as Massachusetts state governor for twelve years. His views are documented in "Journal." Click on "John Winthrop Activities" for related materials.
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Peabody Essex Museum

Peabody Essex Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Located in Salem, Massachusetts. America's oldest continuously operating museum, founded in 1799. Maritime arts and history; American decorative arts; early American architecture; Asian export art; Asian, Oceanic, African arts and...
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Deborah Sampson: Official Heroine of Massachusetts

For Students 9th - 10th
On May 23, 1983 Governor Michael J. Dukakis signed a proclamation which declared that Deborah Samson was the Official Heroine of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Find out why.

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