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Well styled.com: Webdesigner Tools: Color Scheme Generator

For Students 9th - 10th
A totally cool concept! Choose your base color, your scheme (monochromatic, etc.) and the computer will show you what other colors go with it! There are even settings for various levels of color-blindness. A really cool art tool!!
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Website
Other

Vic Firth: Educator's Resource Library

For Students 9th - 10th
This website is a cornucopia of resources for percussion instruction. There are videos, audiocasts, podcasts, interviews with talented percussionists. Please check out this website is you are interested in any aspect of percussion.
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Other

Fed Stats: Mapstats for Kids Color Scheme

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Mapstats is a unique cross-curricular site that uses maps to teach about monochromatic color.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Ferromagnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Wikipedia provides a wonderful in-depth explanation of ferromagnetism, covering the atomic behavior which is responsible for ferromagnetic properties. Also introduces the concepts of magnetic domains and the Curie...
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Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Diamagnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Georgia State University provides a brief introduction to diamagnetism, explaining how Lenz's law accounts for diamagnetic behavior in all materials.
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Michelson Morley Experiment

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the Georgia State University is where the proof all starts. One must understand this experiment to have any confidence in relativity. Here's the experimental setup and a summary of the data.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Capital (Economics)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Wikipedia gives a comprehensive overview of capital. Includes many economic terms with links for further clarification. A good analysis of multiple aspects of capital.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Paramagnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wikipedia site is an introduction to paramagnetism and paramagnetic materials.
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Other

Ndt Resource Center: Magnetic Domains

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is an introduction to magnetic domains, including a picture showing distinct domains taken through a process called "Magnetic force microscopy."
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Security, Confidence, and Courage: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand how feelings of security, confidence, and courage can reduce the likelihood and intensity of a fight/flight reaction. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Security, confidence, and...
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Curated OER

Prehistory of the Andean Peoples (1998)

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive coverage of South America prehistory. Site and links include enormous photo gallery, essays, and bibliographies for topics such as Chavin, Moche, and Inca cultures, cultural monuments, and migration theories.
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Curated OER

Prehistory of the Andean Peoples (1998)

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive coverage of South America prehistory. Site and links include enormous photo gallery, essays, and bibliographies for topics such as Chavin, Moche, and Inca cultures, cultural monuments, and migration theories.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Benjamin Franklin

For Students 9th - 10th
Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist,...
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Curated OER

University of St Andrews: Marie Sophie Germain

For Students 9th - 10th
At a difficult time to be a woman mathematician, Germain was able to submit her works on number theory and receive some acknowledgement.
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Curated OER

University of St Andrews: Mathematics Archive: John Venn

For Students 9th - 10th
Good introduction to Venn's life and work. Explains especially his lifelong relationship to Cambridge. Includes links to further information on Venn's "probability theory."
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Handout
Other

Sir Joseph John Thomson

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever wondered who discovered the electron? The answer is Nobel Prize winning physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson.
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Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Paramagnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Georgia State University provides a brief introduction to paramagnetism, explaining how paramagnetic materials exhibit magnetization proportional to an applied magnetic field according to Curie's law.
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eBook
Mathigon

Mathigon: Graphs and Networks: Parties and Dating

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson uses handshakes at a party to explain complete graphs, when every vertex is connected to every other vertex. It shows how a formula was created to calculate the number of edges.