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Jacques Edouard Berger Foundation: World Art Treasures
Berger's slide library is overflowing with information about art from around the world and from every period in history.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Bobby Fischer: 1943 2008
NPR presents a slide show on the life of chess sensation Bobby Fischer who "became a cold war hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion" Boris Spassky in 1972. Fischer was the first U.S. born world chess champion.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Greenland: Ice on the Move
NPR offers a photographic slide show on the status of Greenland's ice glaciers as they start to melt and the consequences of the melting for the future.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Divided Quotation Punctuation
An eight-slide presentation explaining how to properly punctuate a divided quote.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Sentence Structure
A ten-slide presentation demonstrating how to edit writing for sentence variety and how to identify and correct sentence errors such as fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
PBS
Pbs Orchid Hunter: Orchid Gallery
NOVA presents a slide show of orchids with brief descriptions of each of the 15 pictures. See the beauty of each orchid, who it was named for and where it lives.
TES Global
Tes: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens: The Plot
[Free Registration/Login Required] This 8-slide PowerPoint gives a brief synopsis of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Other
Voice Thread: Baby Farm Animals
Narrated slideshow introduces viewers to a variety of baby animals and answers such questions as, what are baby goats called? what are baby cows called? what are baby swans called? [Registered users can comment on each slide, via text,...
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Scale Box With Scales
This box is for keeping a scale and weights. It contains a sliding rule of two levels, carved and divided to contain balances.
Curated OER
Using a Compound Microscope (Photo by Paul Billiet)
This site is a step by step instructions on how to use a microscope. Begins with the proper way to get the microscope and ends with putting the microscope. The correct way to look at slides and care for you microscope are also discussed....
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Compound Microscope Showing the Stage and Spring Clips
This site is a step by step instructions on how to use a microscope. Begins with the proper way to get the microscope and ends with putting the microscope. The correct way to look at slides and care for you microscope are also discussed....
Curated OER
A Compound Microscope
Learn how to calculate the total magnification of a microscope on this concise site. Links to making a slide, questions on the use of the microscope, and other related microscope topics are included on this site.
Curated OER
Oronhyatekha
Oronhyatekha, also called Peter Martin, is profiled in this comprehensive and fascinating web site! He was one of the first native people to earn a medical degree,held positions in government, but most importantly did not forsake his...
Curated OER
The First Mechcanical Calculator:
Blaise Pascal, the seventeenth-century French mathematician, thinker, and scientist, built the first mechanical adding machine in 1642 based on a design described by Hero of Alexandria (2 CE) to add up the distance a carriage traveled.