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Article
New York Times

New York Times: Nixon's Vietnam Treachery

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article describes how Richard Nixon jeopardized Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam peace initiative in 1968 in order to win the presidential election that year. This information is based on documents...
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Activity
BBC

Bbc Science & Nature: The Life of Mammals

For Students 9th - 10th
Students can watch vivid pictures change before their eyes, from lions to monkeys to dolphins. Authors provide interactive games that aid in learning the behavior of animals. Continue to explore by investigating the habitat, diet, and...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Curious George: Sail a Boat

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In the Curious George video Junky Monkey, George sees treasures where others see trash. He transforms his junk collection into a masterpiece- reusing and recycling items from the street. Will the mayor declare George and his friends the...
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eBook
Other

Internet Service Providers Austria: The Online Zoo [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This 68-page story book aims to teach children about the Internet and its possible challenges in a playful way. In the Online Zoo, the animals use the internet. During her daily tour around the zoo, Director Elsa discovers that Panda...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Animal Measurement Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Animal Fun is here! In this week's adventure, Animal Measurement, children will explore measurement with the help of hermit crabs (investigating size correspondence by matching a hermit crab to its appropriate shell), beavers (visual...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Ateles Paniscus

For Students 9th - 10th
Taxonomy, morphology, range, habitat, and ecology are the topics explored in this in depth Black Spider Monkey site.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Ateles Paniscus

For Students 9th - 10th
Taxonomy, morphology, range, habitat, and ecology are the topics explored in this in depth Black Spider Monkey site.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Writing Fix: The Crazy Animal Game for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Colored photograph of a monkey wearing eye glasses.
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Unit Plan
Other

Historical Thinking Matters: The Scopes Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
This award-winning site has everything you need for online lessons or independent study about the Scopes Trial. Uses an inquiry based approach with lots of primary sources, and the material can be used in conjunction with almost any...
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Scopes Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the 1925 Scopes Trial.
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Activity
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: 20th Century: Religion in American History: The Scopes Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center offers an overview of the events surrounding the Scopes trial. The authors encourage an understanding of the sources of the conflict and its long-range effects.
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Primary
George Mason University

Chnm: Between the Wars: The Scopes Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the fascinating transcript of the proceedings in court when Clarence Darrow called William Jennings Bryan to the stand to expose the weakness in his argument against evolution in the famous Scopes trial.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Religion & Science

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Unit Plan
Language Guide

Language Guide: Los Animales Africanos

For Students 9th - 10th
Lots of colorful pictures illustrate African animals. Students can learn correct spelling and pronunciation by moving their mouse over each picture. Some pictures include the sound the animal makes, the name of the sound and the verb....
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Website
Ohio State University

Ehistory: Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s: The Scopes Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the index to a larger site about the Scopes trial which has photographs pertinent to the trial, cartoons and diagrams, and essays and excerpts from magazines about the trial. Great primary source material.
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Unit Plan
Other

Historical Thinking Matters: Scopes Trial

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A video and guidance to exploring the impact of the Scopes Trial. Consider intriguing questions about the trial, the era, and the take away.
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Zoo Labs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Five inquiry-based investigations designed for the observation of primates in a zoo setting. The labs ask guiding questions and list notable primate behaviors.
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation 1919 1929: Transformation and Backlash

For Students 11th - 12th
Examines the role nativism played in 1920s America, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, the disconnect between urban and rural lifestyles and values, and the fractious debate over evolution that was highlighted in the Scopes trial.
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Interactive
eSkeletons

E Skeletons Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the eSkeletons Project provides interactive views of bones. Various menus allow you to review the bones of the human skeleton and compare them to the bone structures of nine primates.
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Primary
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nobel Foundation provides this site about Karl Landsteiner, a scientist who received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Medicine "for his discovery of human blood groups." This website includes both primary texts and secondary resources and an...
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Lesson Plan
Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Scopes Trial

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In 1925, Tennessee lawmakers passed the Butler Act, explaining that teachers were not to discount Creationism in the classroom. Through documents and discussion provided with this lesson, explore how...
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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Animals: Akira Grows Up

For Students 1st - 2nd
Meet Akira, a Japanese macaque. Learn how a zoo raised her from birth after her mother was unable to care for her until she was finally accepted by the other macaques. Includes audio narration in Spanish and English, with English text.
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Interactive
National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids: Animals: Orangutans

For Students 3rd - 8th
This multimedia site includes video and audio clips. The maps and fun facts will be very beneficial to students doing research projects.
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Website
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Books for Children: Curious George

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Stop here if you are looking for anything related to Curious George! From the publishers, this is an extensive collection of materials including history of the books and authors, and a bunch of educational resources. Check out "Educators...

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