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University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Etheridge Knight (1931 1991)

For Students 9th - 10th
Modern American Poetry offers both biographical information about Black Arts poet, Etheridge Knight, and excepts of analyses of his poems.
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University of Illinois: World History Connected

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An online journal dedicated to the teaching and study of world history. Contains scholarly articles, lesson plans for the world history teacher, book reviews and much more.
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Interactive
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University of Illinois Extension: The Great Plant Escape

For Students 3rd - 5th
Detective Le Plant has found a strange note attached to his door. It says, "A bulb is a bulb, but not always." You and Detective Le Plant are now about to begin to unravel the true meaning of this message. Follow the clues, answer...
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Interactive
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University of Illinois Extension: Plantenstein Is the Suspect!

For Students 3rd - 5th
Detective Le Plant has discovered that one plant can produce many other plants. He needs you to help him find out how this happens. Follow along and learn about the parts of flowers and reproduction. Along the way, you will be quizzed!
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Handout
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University of Illinois: Aaa Newsletter: Excavations at Little Africa a Missouri Freedmen's Community

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at a Freedmen's community based on the archaeological study of a site in central Missouri.
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Handout
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University of Illinois: Line Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Line graphs are shown and explained here. You can learn what kind of data is best represented using a line graph. There are also line graphs with questions and answers available to help you learn how to read them.
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Unit Plan
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University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: The Geometry Center: Area of Quadrilaterals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Formulas on calculating the area of a general quadrilateral and special cases of quadrilaterals.
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University of Illinois: Scatter Plots and Correlations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site gives information on scatter plots, along with examples showing high positive correlation, low negative correlation, high negative correlation, no correlation, and low positive correlation.
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University of Illinois: The Area Under a Curve

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site explains how to find the area under of a curve.
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University of Illinois: Protein Synthesis by Cindy Kim

For Students 9th - 10th
Go through this "tour" on protein synthesis to learn about translation (3rd page). Good graphics and the codon lookup table help in understanding the information.
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Lesson Plan
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University of Illinois: Data Types

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The University of Illinois provides this site that is helpful because of the various kinds of data that can be collected. This lesson plan helps students differentiate between qualitative, quantitative, and many other types of data.
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Handout
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University of Illinois: Photosynthesis and the Web

For Students 9th - 10th
Page describes Photosynthesis in great detail. Provides an extensive amount of links on all different aspects of photosynthesis. Very thourough.
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University of Illinois: Purple Bacteria

For Students 9th - 10th
Advanced material that provides information on the purple and green sulfur bacteria and the chemical processes they use to live.
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Activity
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University of Illinois: Molecular Biology Cyberlab: Experiment 2: Gel Electrophoresis of Dna

For Students 9th - 10th
A very good page that uses a Q&A format to describe the process of gel electrophoresis. Interactive in a rudimentary way.
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University of Illinois: Maps: Causes of the Vietnam War

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay from The Oxford Companion to American Military History goes into the causes of the Vietnam War and shows how the United States became embroiled incrementally from the 1950s up to 1965. An interesting section explains how the...
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Activity
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University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Egg Math Axis of Symmetry

For Students 9th - 10th
Uses an egg to demonstrate the concept of axis of symmetry. Put your cursor over the picture to "move" around the egg. Offers links to related concepts, including Cartesian Ovals and Ovals of Cassini.
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Activity
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University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Sandburg on Race

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from the University of Illinois covers the work of Carl Sandburg as a reporter in Chicago during the riots of 1919.
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University of Illinois: Book Review of Espada's, " Imagine the Angels of Bread"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides biographical information, as well as a review of Martin Espada and his work.
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Handout
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University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Fronts

For Students 9th - 10th
With the study of weather we need to know that there is air mass like fronts that change weather. This site shows us the different kinds of fronts that we experience.
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Activity
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University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Egg Math: Spherical Geometry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains an experiment that demonstrates how transporting a tangent vector around a closed path on a sphere will cause it to come back twisted. [Requires Java.]
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Activity
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University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Robert Penn Warren

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers excerpts from interview with Warren about a reunion at Vanderbilt in 1956, on his writings and values, on HAWKS, on rhythm in prose. There is also a review of HEARTS OF AUTUMN. This site also has a photo of Warren.
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Handout
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University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Amiri Baraka

For Students 9th - 10th
Photo of Amiri Baraka, biography and selected works.
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University of Illinois: Momaday: Biographical, Literary, & Multicultultural

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive biographical introduction of Momaday, citing him as the breakthrough author for American Indian literature. Includes a bibliography for further reading.
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University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: N. Scott Momaday

For Students 9th - 10th
Home page for a wealth of resource links on Momaday and criticisms of his work.