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http://staff.washington.edu/muzi/LC/LCmap.html
This resource, from the University of Washington, features an activated map of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Students can click on different parts of the map and learn about Lewis & Clark's journey. This resource is referenced in the EconEdLink lesson titled "Lewis and Clark Barter with the Native Americans."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/hi/timemap/ti.html This resource, from the EconEdLink-reviewed Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy Web site, presents an historical atlas that tracks the economic development of countries around the world, from 1910 to the present. The atlas highlights key events that have had a major impact on the evolution of the modern global economy and illustrates changes in economic systems over time.
 * Time Map**

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/ This resource, found in the Xpeditions Atlas, is a printable map of the world. The maps available in the atlas allow the user to choose basic or detailed view, turn borders on or off, and save the map as a .pdf or .gif file. There are over 1800 maps available in the atlas.
 * Atlas**

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/messenger/psc/PlanetSize.html This tool, created by Science NetLinks, features an animation in which students can find out how Mercury "sizes up" to Earth or any other planet. At the top of the screen, students can choose what planets they want to compare. At the bottom of the screen, students can see the dimensions for each planet as well as how they compare in size. While this page links to the overview for the tool for grades 6-8, you can access reviews for additional grades and benchmarks using the navigation tools at the top of the overview.
 * Planet Size Comparision**

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html This E-sheet, from a Science NetLinks lesson, is used by students to play a game that challenges their knowledge of plant and animal traits. When they have finished the game they are prompted to answer a series of questions and then create their own game. Click "Display Full Record" and see the Relation field for a link to the lesson this E-sheet supports.
 * Touch of Class**

http://americanhistory.si.edu/anatomy/collection/nma03_collection_human.html The National Museum of American History's online Artificial Anatomy collection contains over 30 papier-mâché anatomical models of humans, animals and plants. Students can explore a variety of human anatomical models.
 * Artificial Antomy**

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/tools.cfm?DocID=70&Grade=3-5 This interactive tool, created by Science NetLinks, allows students to virtually launch a rocket into space to see how the force of gravity can pull an object toward the earth and moon. Students can also experiment with different thrust and angle settings to learn how these settings change the motion of the rocket. While this page links to the overview of the tool for grades 3-5, you can access reviews for additional grades and benchmarks using the navigation tools at the top of the overview.
 * Gravity Launch**

http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=U104 In this eight-lesson unit, from Illuminations, students investigate fractional parts of the whole and use translation, reflection, rotation and line symmetry to make four-part quilt squares. Teams of students make paper quilts from squares they have designed. Each team presents its quilt design to the class and describes how it arrived at the design. The teams analyze the different quilt designs and discuss the numerical and geometrical similarities and differences among them.
 * Paper Quilts**

http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=U83 In this five-lesson unit, from Illuminations, students participate in activities in which they focus on connections between mathematics and children's literature. Five pieces of literature are applied to teaching a wide range of topics in the mathematics curriculum, from sorting and classifying to the meaning of averages.
 * Mathematics and Children's Literature**

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=12 This interactive game, from Illuminations, allows students to exercise their factoring ability. They can play against a friend or the computer as they take turns choosing a number and identifying all of its factors.
 * Factor Game**

[|**http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=775&title**]**=** In this interactive WebQuest, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, students learn about author Patricia Polacco and the vocabulary from her books "Chicken Sunday" and "Rechenka's Eggs." Click "Display Full Record" and see the Relation field for a link to the lesson this interactive supports.
 * Patricia Polacco Webquest**

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/index.html** This student interactive, used in several ReadWriteThink lessons, invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and more). Click "Display Full Record" and see the Relation field for a link to an annotated list of lessons this interactive supports.**
 * Comic Creator

Military Campaigns of the Civil War

**//Force & Motion//**
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L296**** In this lesson, from Illuminations, students play a game to learn about the four forces of flight: lift, drag, thrust, and gravity. Before playing the game, students conduct a probability experiment with spinners and record their results in tally tables and bar graphs. They then use their findings to select spinners with the greatest probability of helping them win the game. In a portion of the game, students use ordered pairs to plot points on a coordinate grid to show their flight path.
 * Resue Mission Game

Gravity Launch [|**http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/tools.cfm?DocID=70&Grade=3-5**]** This interactive tool, created by Science NetLinks, allows students to virtually launch a rocket into space to see how the force of gravity can pull an object toward the earth and moon. Students can also experiment with different thrust and angle settings to learn how these settings change the motion of the rocket. While this page links to the overview of the tool for grades 3-5, you can access reviews for additional grades and benchmarks using the navigation tools at the top of the overview.

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=159 In this Science NetLinks lesson, students explore magnetism. They experimentally measure the strength of a magnet and graph how the strength changes as the distance from the magnet increases and as the barrier (masking tape) is built between the magnet and an iron object.
 * How Strong Is Your Magnet**

Aquarium Habitats** http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/08/g35/aquarium.html In this lesson, from Xpeditions, students consider how aquariums can provide realistic habitats for marine animals. They use the Internet to "visit" three aquarium habitats and determine whether these aquariums succeed in providing high-quality environments for the animals that live in them. Students conclude by designing their own aquarium habitats based on what they have learned.
 * //Habitats//

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/08/g35/crocseat.html This lesson, from Xpeditions, introduces students to the SuperCroc (Sarcosuchus imperator) and its diet and eating habits. Students also investigate the diet and eating habits of American alligators and Nile crocodiles. They draw pictures and write paragraphs explaining the similarities and differences they discover and the reasons they think scientists are so interested in what and how these animals eat.  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/18/g35/seaspenguin.html**
 * What Did They Eat?**
 * What's Happening To The Emperor Penguins?**
 * In this lesson, from Xpeditions, students learn about emperor penguins' habitat and behaviors through Web sites such as National Geographic's "Creature Feature." Students illustrate a map to show what they have learned, view pictures of icebergs that are affecting penguin colonies, and consider what impacts these icebergs might have on the penguins. Finally, students write paragraphs describing the maps they have illustrated.

//Multiplication// Multiplication Stories http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L529 In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students practice memorization of multiplication facts where one factor is 6 or 7. They create multiplication stories, play a multiplication game, and then record their current level of mastery of the multiplication facts. Click "Display Full Record" and see the Relation field for a link to the unit overview.

Multiplication: It's in the Cards [|**http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=U110**] In this seven-lesson unit, from Illuminations, students use the properties of multiplication to help them master the multiplication facts. Students explore patterns in multiplication, the order property, the multiplicative identity, and the zero property in multiplication, and work towards mastery of the multiplication facts.

Pascal Petals** [|**http://illuminations.nctm.org/WebResourceReview.aspx?ID=319**] In this Math Forum activity, reviewed for grades 3-5 by Illuminations, students examine Pascal's triangle. They investigate the relationships between any number in the triangle and the six surrounding numbers. Read the full review on the Illuminations site, where you can access this resource directly. Click the full record view to see alternate reviews of this resource for different grade bands.

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=173 This student interactive, from Illuminations, allows students to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and addition in a fun environment. In the game of Krypto, students combine numbers with mathematical operations to obtain a target number.
 * Primary Krypto**

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/tools.cfm?DocID=183 This tool, created by Science NetLinks, challenges students to consider mathematical equations to get from one number to another in a math maze. Students use a series of addition, subtraction, and multiplication equations to reach their goal. From here you can access a review of this resource for grades 3-8. You can access reviews for additional grades and benchmarks using the navigation links at the top of the review.
 * Number Cruncher**

Life In A Drop of Pondwater** [|**http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=378**] In this Science NetLinks lesson, the second in a two-part series on microorganisms, students observe microscopic organisms found in pond water using a hand lens, 30x magnification, and 100x magnification. Then students participate in discussions about how single-celled living things might satisfy their needs for food, water, and air.
 * //Ecosystems//

http://sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=492 In this Science NetLinks lesson, students find that some insects depend on dead plant material for food and that they interact with other organisms in various ways. This lesson includes an E-sheet and three student sheets.
 * Cycle of Life 2: Food Webs**

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/08/g35/AboutBioBlitz.pdf In this Xpeditions activity, students learn that BioBlitz events are held to conduct a species inventory of a specific area and that this work is valuable to understanding an area's biodiversity. They read about a boy who discovers a butterfly and how his discovery is added to a tally card.
 * What is a BioBlitz?**

Leonardo's Mysterious Machinery** http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeosMysteriousMachinery.html On this page from Boston's Museum of Science, students can select one of the 'mysterious machines' and then guess its function from a list of choices. Each answer in the quiz contains an explanation of the machine and how its parts work. This site is featured in the Science NetLinks lesson, Systems.
 * //Simple Machines//

http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/GadgetAnatomy.html  At this site, students can visit Gadget Anatomy at the Museum of Science to take a quiz on the elements of several hand-powered tools. Students are asked to think about how each part moves and makes the other parts move as the tool does its job. This site is featured in the Science NetLinks lesson, Systems.
 * Gadget Anatomy**

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=1 The purpose of this lesson, from Science NetLinks, is to use Internet resources to explore the parts of a system and develop students' understanding of the interactions between those parts, as well as engage in troubleshooting and design related to systems. In this investigation, students take a closer look at a variety of simple hardware devices. They observe the interactions between the elements of the devices, through both hands-on and Internet exploration.
 * Simple Machines**

Paul Revere House Model** This resource, from Chula Vista Elementary School District, features a printable model of Paul Revere's house. Students can cut out the pieces and construct the model according to the instructions included. This resource is referenced in the ReadWriteThink lesson titled "Paul Revere: American Patriot."**
 * //American Revolution//
 * http://www.kidsandhistory.com/paulvm/h3_model.html**

[|**http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/road.html**]
 * The Road to Revolution Game**
 * In this online game, from the PBS series, Liberty! The American Revolution, students assess their knowledge about the Revolutionary War. This interactive game quizzes students on the war, provides feedback, and includes quicktime video, audio clips, photos, and illustrations.

Boston Tea Party** http://www.readwritethink.org/calendar/calendar_day.asp?id=371 This ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the Boston Tea Party, which occurred in 1773 when a group of activist colonists disguised themselves as Native Americans and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor. A classroom activity is featured in which students create political cartoons of the Boston Tea Party. Links to related lesson plans and Web resources, along with a list of related texts, are also found here.

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=282 In this unit of eight lessons, from EDSITEment, the propensity to complain is used to increase student awareness of the precedents behind the Declaration of Independence. After completing this unit, students will be able to describe and list the sections of the Declaration of Independence and explain the basic purpose of each. They will also be able to give an example of a document that served as a precedent for the Declaration, list and explain one or more of the colonists' complaints included in the Declaration, and demonstrate an awareness of the Declaration of Independence as a historical process developed in protest of unfair conditions.
 * Declare the Causes: The Declaration of Independence**

Eco-Cycle** http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/hall/index.html This Xpedition Hall interactive surveys how different plants and animals survive in an Alpine Desert, Lava Field, Grassland, Open Forest, and Rain Forest. Click on the bottom circle in Room III to view this interactive, which explores some of the ways life forms have adapted to fit into the local ecology.
 * //Ecology//

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/08/g35/AboutBioBlitz.pdf In this Xpeditions activity, students learn that BioBlitz events are held to conduct a species inventory of a specific area and that this work is valuable to understanding an area's biodiversity. They read about a boy who discovers a butterfly and how his discovery is added to a tally card.
 * What is BioBlitz?**

Edgar Allen Poe Author Study** http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson411/AuthorStudy.pdf =    This student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, guides students in a study of author Edgar Allan Poe, in which they learn about his life, his writings, the historical events of the time and his influence on modern-day authors. Also included is an assessment rubric. = =          = =**Edgar Allen Poe Scavenger Hunt** http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson411/ScavengerHunt.pdf This student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, guides students as they research Edgar Allan Poe's life in order to draw conclusions about how his life influenced his writings. Click "Display Full Record" and see the Relation field for a link to the lesson this reproducible supports.= =**Poe Museum of Richmond**= =http://www.poemuseum.org/ This is the home page for the Poe Museum Web site. This museum is located in Richmond, Virginia, and celebrates the life and career of Edgar Allan Poe by documenting his accomplishments with pictures, relics, and verse, focusing on his many years in Richmond. The Web site includes information about Poe's life, examples of his work, as well as educational resources. This resource is referenced in the EDSITEment lesson titled "Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers."= =**//Functions//** **What's a Functions?**= =[U180|**http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=U180**] This lesson allows students to look for functions within a given set of data. After analyzing the data, students should be able to determine what type of function best represents the data. Then, students use regression on a calculator to determine the function that provides the best fit.** http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=U132 In this two-lesson unit, from Illuminations, students drag a slider on an interactive graph to modify a rate of change (cost per minute for phone use) and learn how modifications in that rate affect the linear graph displaying accumulation (the total cost of calls). Understanding the relationship between change and accumulation is a precursor to understanding calculus.
 * //Edgar Allen Poe//
 * Learing About Rate of Changein Linear Functions Using Interactives Graphs

//Matter// A State of Matter [|**http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=160**] The purpose of this Science NetLinks lesson is to help students understand that particle movement changes as a substance changes from one phase to another. Before this lesson, students should have been introduced to the notion that matter may go through different phase changes. They should understand that temperature plays an important role in what state a particular type of matter is found. Students should be familiar with solids, liquids, and gases. They should also understand that heating and cooling a system can impact the phase of that matter.**


 * Atoms Family**
 * http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/phases/index.html Explore a variety of topics in physical science on this page from the Miami Museum of Science. Find activities about energy, light, electricity, atoms and matter, fuel conservation, and more. This Web page is referenced in the Science NetLinks lesson, "Converting Energy."=**

=HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE LINKS= =Break It Down= =http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/breakitdown.html Use ramps, switches and gears to move a marble toward the lever that ultimately raises the flagpole, and learn a lot about systems and systems design along the way.*= = = =Artifical Anatomy http://americanhistory.si.edu/anatomy/history/nma03_history_main.html= In this online exhibition, from Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, students will explore the history of papier-mâché, comparative anatomy, and methods of learning anatomy in the 20th century.

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=299 In this Science NetLinks lesson, students use the Internet to learn about the workings and anatomy of the heart and the medical techniques that help people live longer, healthier lives. Students then use their knowledge to discuss controversial issues surrounding heart transplants. Students also perform an online simulation of a heart transplant to get a more realistic idea of what is involved.
 * Transplant**

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.cfm?DocID=45 In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, you'll hear about the origins and chemistry of soap. Science Updates are audio interviews with scientists and are accompanied by a set of questions as well as links to related Science NetLinks lessons and other related resources.
 * Soap**

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=167 The primary purpose of this Science NetLinks lesson is to introduce students to the concept that temperature causes molecules and atoms to move faster and farther apart, which in turn causes the change from solid to liquid, and liquid to gas. Students need to come to this lesson with the knowledge that some solids turn into liquids when heated. They also need to understand the observable differences between a solid and a liquid.
 * Temperature Changes Everything**

[|**http://sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=488**] In this Science NetLinks lesson, students investigate how electrical energy can be produced from a variety of energy sources and then transformed to almost any other form of energy.
 * Transforming Energy**