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INTERNET Red 2000

All About Spain: Travel and Tourism

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive index of information about Spain and Spanish culture. It contains photo tours, city guides, a traveler's yellow pages, and a country and culture section filled with useful information.
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Article
Smithsonian Institution

Tween Tribune: Whales Reappear in Long Island Sound

For Students 5th - 8th
Article reports on the return of whales of varies species to the waters off of Long Island.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Join teachers and students all over the country in observing the migratory patterns of birds and butterflies and the growth changes of plants as the climate changes. "Journey North" offers a wealth of resources to use as you investigate...
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Other

Italy Guides: Rome

For Students 9th - 10th
Welcome to the 'Eternal City' of Rome, Italy! Although this is a commercial site, the interactive city map along with beautiful photos and links to historic areas make this informative for both students and educators.
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NASA

Nasa: Comet Hale Bopp Images

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains 5,161 images of the Hale-Bopp comet from 1995 to 2000. This incredible photo archive is definitely worth a visit.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Hummingbirds

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Observe hummingbirds and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterflies

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Observe monarch butterflies and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: American Robin

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Observe robins and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.
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Other

Freie Hansestadt Bremen

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven (the nearby port city), facts & figures, history, culture, economy, sights, tourism, sports, and free time activity. Lots of photos, a virtual tour of some of the sights,...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Image Formation for Concave Mirrors Case A

For Students 9th - 10th
This animation depicts the path of light to each person's eye. Different people are sighting in different directions; yet each person is sighting at the same image location. In this animation the image location is the intersection point...
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Handout
China State Council Information Office and the China International Publishing Group

China Internet Information Center: Beijing: A Guide to China's Capital City

For Students 9th - 10th
Welcome to Beijing, the capital city of China! Learn the early background and history of this ancient city as well as about its historic sights, education, economy, religion, and aspects of the new modern day Beijing.
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Boston College

A Digital Archive of American Architecture: 1893 World's Columbian Exposition

For Students 9th - 10th
Find photographs of buildings and other sights from the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Timely Enumerations Concerning Sri Lanka

For Students 9th - 10th
This poem shares the sights and treasures of Sri Lanka. The turbulent history of Sri Lanka is emphasized.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Determining Bird Populations Through Counting

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a bird count to determine the number of birds sighted in four different sites. Students draw inferences from recorded data on a bar graph in regard to the number of species in the area and relative population size.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Westward Ho! How Far Is Yonder Mountain

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson quantitative skills in geologic context are reinforced. Students create a spreadsheet to calculate the distance of a peak using vertical angles sighted from a wagon train heading directly for the peak. The spreadsheet also...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: 5th Grade Narrative Practice Prompt: Relevant Setting Details

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This exercise was designed to serve as a pre-writing activity for one of their three designated fifth grade practice prompts. The prompt is: Remember a time when you did something that made you feel proud of yourself. Think about what...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Potsdam

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides information on the history and sights of Potsdam, a city in eastern Germany, now the capital of the state of Brandenburg.
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Handout
The History Place

The History Place: The Triumph of Hitler: Nazis Take Czechoslovakia

For Students 9th - 10th
Once the German army was ensconced in the Sudetenland, Hitler set his sights on acquiring the rest of Czechoslovakia, despite having sworn he would stop in the Sudetenland. This page describes the events that unfolded as the invasion...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Making a Car for Blind Drivers

For Students 9th - 10th
Using robotics, laser rangefinders, GPS and smart feedback tools, Dennis Hong is building a car for drivers who are blind. It's not a "self-driving" car, he's careful to note, but a car in which a non-sighted driver can determine speed,...
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Other

Saudi Aramco World: The Scholar's Supernova

For Students 9th - 10th
Article explores the sightings of the supernova of 1006 that were recorded from Europe to Japan.
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Article
Nature Canada

Nature Canada: Species Spotlight: Eastern Cougar

For Students 9th - 10th
A fact sheet giving information about the eastern cougar, an endangered species. It is not certain whether the eastern cougar still survives, as there have not been irrefutable sightings in the wild since the nineteenth century.
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Handout
Nature Canada

Nature Canada: Species Spotlight: Wolverine, Eastern Population

For Students 9th - 10th
The eastern Canada population of wolverines is endangered and may even be extirpated in many areas. Sightings are hard to confirm, as it closely resembles the fisher and the porcupine. Where it has possibly survived, it is hard to help...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterfly: Journey North: Monarch Migration Update

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and learn about monarch butterfly sightings and migration, and what those can tell about the species.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Bald Eagles

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Track bald eagle migration. Report your sightings and observations to the bald eagle tracking map.

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