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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Japanese Internment
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity delving into the reasoning behind interning the Japanese-Americans following the Pearl Harbor attack. Students will explore primary source documents to draw their conclusions.
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Beyond the Bubble: Lange's Iconic Photograph
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Resettlement Administration was one of President Franklin Roosevelt's agencies that helped people from the Dust Bowl. This agency hired photographer Dorothea Lange to take pictures that would build...
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Dreme: Data in the Preschool Classroom
What are the important concepts involved in data collection and data use in the preschool classroom, and how can teachers support the mathematics of data? This article gives a brief description of the concepts that children need to grasp...
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Stanford University: Electronic Instruments
This resource provides information about a number of different types of synthesizers used from 1890 to 1980.
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Stanford University: A Sound Board Model
This resource provides three different examples of sound boards, and allows you to play them.
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Stanford University: Overview of Leibniz
This site outlines Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's life. Categories include principal works, Leibniz's life, Leibniz's contributions to philosophy, and further readings.
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What Is Deconstruction? Jacques Derrida
Easily digestible definition of deconstruction and its influence on literary criticism. Offers bibliography also.
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Stanford University: Solar Flare Leaves Sun Quaking
A report on the discovery that solar flares produce seismic activity. Site also includes movies, images, background information, and other media reports concerning solar flares.
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The Hidden Picture
What can you see in the sun's granules? This site includes links and further information for teachers on how to teach convection.
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The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Responses
The worldwide spread of influenza in 1918 activated much scientific research into the source of the virus, its treatment, and therapy for those affected. Read about how the concept of a virus causing such a disease was validated.
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The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Read a general overview of the influenza pandemic of 1918 which hit across the world just as World War I was ending. Find out how the virus spread, how fast it killed its victims, and how public health groups tried to deal with the flu.
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Stanford University: Charles Dickens: A Brief Biography
A short but detailed biography of the writer Charles Dickens. Provides information about birth, early life and poverty, literary career and success, and death in 1870.
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Stanford: A Tale of Two Cities Historical Context
An excellent resource for students studying the historical context of Dickens' Tale of Two Cities. Site provides details on the context both within the setting of the novel (on and around the French Revolution) and the publication of the...
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Stanford: Great Expectations Historical Context
A helpful resource concerning the historical and cultural context of Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations, both within the setting of the novel itself (1812-1840), and the novel's publication (1860-1861).
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Stanford: Great Expectations Biographical Context
A brief biography of the author Charles Dickens, particularly in reference to his writing the novel Great Expectations. Includes brief but helpful information concerning his birth, early life, and career until the publication of Great...
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Stanford University: Hard Times Biographical Context
A brief biography of author Charles Dickens, particularly in reference to his writing the novel Hard Times, released in 1854. Includes more information about his early life, literary career, and eventual death and burial.
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Stanford Exploration Project: Complex Roots
A description and examples of complex roots.
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Political Communication Lab
An interactive website that is dedicated to gathering and disseminating public opinion on a variety of issues that shape U.S. politics.
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Mlk and the Global Freedom Struggle: Albany Movement
Encyclopedia entry examines the Albany Movement, a desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Ga. in 1961 with the purpose of ending all forms of racial segregation in the city.
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Mlk and Global Freedom Struggle: Congress of Racial Equality
Encyclopedia entry explores the involvement of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in America's civil rights struggle throughout the late 1950s and into the mid-1960s.
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King Institute Resources: Freedom Summer (1964)
Discussion of one of the last major interracial civil rights efforts of the 1960s to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.
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Mlk and the Global Freedom Struggle: Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Encyclopedia entry provides a detailed account of the assassination of Civil Rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Stanford University: King Institute: Encyclopedia: Memphis Sanitation Strike
An overview of the strike, in 1968, by sanitation workers in Memphis, a key episode in the long struggle for civil rights in America and the site of Martin Luther King's assassination in April of that year.
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Gendered Innovations: Race & Ethnicity
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.