Latest online curriculum resources from Dept. of Ed
J Cravens
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:38:05 -0500
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NINETEEN NEW RESOURCES in the arts, science, & social studies
have been added to the Federal Resources for Educational
Excellence (FREE) website. They're described below.
FREE makes it easy for teachers, parents, students, & others
to find teaching & learning resources from more than 40
federal organizations.
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Arts
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"Stella's 'Jarama II'" presents clues that help students discover
what this colorful piece of art represents. (NGA)
http://www.nga.gov/kids/stella/stella1.htm
"Teacher Institute 2002: Art & Technology" announces summer
seminars in which teams of teachers will work with education &
technology specialists to develop web projects around the visual
arts resources of the National Gallery of Art. Three-person
teacher teams are invited to apply for the 6-day seminars in July &
August 2002. Applications are due March 15. (NGA)
http://www.nga.gov/education/cyberworkshop.htm
"Winslow Homer's 'Right & Left'" is a streaming slideshow of the
artist's last great painting, completed the year before his death
in 1910. Its title refers to a feat in hunting of shooting two
ducks in rapid succession with a double-barreled shotgun -- one
with the right barrel, followed by one with the left. (NGA)
http://www.nga.gov/collection/rightandleft.htm
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Science
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"Inquiring Minds" features an introduction to elementary particles
& forces in our universe, physics questions answered by Fermilab
scientists, an interactive timeline illustrating the history of
high-energy physics, links to other high energy physics sites, &
more. It is maintained by Fermilab, the high-energy physics lab
devoted to studying the universe. (DOE)
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/index.html
"Interactive Plasma Physics Education Experience" offers web
modules that help students distinguish atoms, ions, elements, &
molecules; understand basic concepts involved with electricity &
magnetism; & see how energy flows through different states. (DOE)
http://ippex.pppl.gov/
"Searching for the Building Blocks of Matter" looks at Fermilab's
search for the smallest building blocks of matter. It also
describes the accelerator & detectors needed for the discovery of
these building blocks (quarks, leptons & bosons), spin-offs along
the way, & continuing efforts to reveal the basic particles &
forces of nature. (Fermilab is a high-energy physics laboratory
that houses the Tevatron, the world's most powerful particle
accelerator.) (DOE,NSF,ED)
http://www-ed.fnal.gov/projects/exhibits/searching/exhibit_home.html
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Social studies
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"All History is Local: Students as Archivists" tells how students
at the Arkansas School for Mathematics & Sciences analyzed archival
materials, developed digital collections, & made their projects
available online in the Arkansas Memory Project. This learning
activity, modeled after the Library of Congress's American Memory
project, is designed so that teachers & students from other states
& communities may adapt it to create their own local history Memory
Projects. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/98/local/intro.html
"Around the World in 1896" is a lesson in which students take a
trip around the world in 1896 using an online collection of 900
images. The collection includes photos of railroads, elephants,
camels, horses, sleds & sleighs, sedan chairs, rickshaws, & other
types of transportation, as well as city views, street & harbor
scenes, landscapes, & people in North Africa, Asia, Australia, &
Oceania. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/97/world/home.html
"Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair,
1886-1887," showcases more than 3,800 images of original
manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints, & artifacts relating
to the violent 1886 confrontation between Chicago police & labor
protesters that was a pivotal setback in the struggle for American
workers' rights. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ichihtml/hayhome.html
"The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925," traces how
African-Americans in the South experienced Protestant Christianity
& transformed it into the central institution of community life.
Coverage begins with white churches' conversion efforts & depicts
the contradictions between the egalitarian potential of evangelical
Christianity & the realities of slavery. It focuses, through slave
narratives & observations by African American authors, on how the
black community adapted evangelical Christianity, making it a
metaphor for freedom, community, & personal survival. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/ncuhtml/csbchome.html
"Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society" offers
images of recruiting posters for New York City regiments of
volunteers, stereographic views documenting the mustering of
soldiers & of popular support for the Union in New York City,
photography showing the war's impact, & drawings & writings by
soldiers on both sides. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html
"The Constitution: Counter Revolution or National Salvation?" casts
students in the role of politically active citizens in 1787, when
the Federal Convention in Philadelphia presented the nation with a
new model of government. Students, using primary documents from
American Memory, produce a broadside in which they argue for or
against replacing the Articles of Confederation with the new model
-- the Constitution. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/broad/intro.html
"Copyright on the Web" answers 11 questions students, teachers, &
parents may have about using web images, sound recordings, & text
in papers, presentations, & web projects. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/activity/index.html
"Creating Hypertext Dialogues Drawn from Narrative History
Collections" invites students to use documents from "California As
I Saw It: First Person Narratives, 1849-1900," to create
hyperscripts depicting the motivations, expectations, fears, &
realizations of immigrants who settled California between 1849 &
1900. Students' hyperscripts are online written dialogues that
include links to illustrative written materials, images, & sound
files from American Memory collections. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/links/intro.html
"Figuring Somepin 'Bout the Great Depression" is a lesson in which
students examine songs, interviews, & photos of migrant farm
workers in California during the Great Depression & then create a
scrapbook from the point of view of a migrant worker. Students use
photos & recordings of migrant workers to create captions, letters,
& songs. This lesson may be particularly useful when students are
learning about the Great Depression or reading "The Grapes of
Wrath." (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/migrant/intro.html
"The Frederick Douglass Papers" presents the papers of the 19th-
century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery &
then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery
lecturer, writer, & publisher. The first release of the Douglass
Papers contains 2,000 items (16,000 images) that span the years
1841 to 1964 & relate to Douglass's life as an escaped slave,
abolitionist, editor, orator, & public servant. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html
"Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1793-1919,"
presents 6,500 items that document Morse's invention of the
electromagnetic telegraph, his participation in the development of
telegraph systems in the U.S. & abroad, his career as a painter,
his family life, his travels, & more. Included in this collection
are correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, scrapbooks, printed
matter, maps, & drawings. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sfbmhtml/sfbmhome.html
"Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-
Century America" presents 170 Sunday school books published in
America between 1815 & 1865. They document the culture of
religious instruction of youth during the Antebellum era &
illustrate thematic divisions that preoccupied 19th-century
America, including sacred & secular, natural & divine, civilized &
savage, rural & industrial, adult & child. Among the topics
featured are history, holidays, slavery, African Americans, Native
Americans, travel & missionary accounts, death & dying, poverty,
temperance, immigrants, & advice. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/miemhtml/svyhome.html
"Woody Guthrie & the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence,
1940-1950," highlights letters Guthrie wrote in the early 1940s
after moving to New York City, where he pursued broadcasting &
recording careers, met artists & social activists, & gained a
reputation as a songwriter & performer. The site includes a
biographical essay, a timeline of Guthrie's life, & an encoded
finding aid of Guthrie materials at the Library of Congress. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwghtml/wwghome.html
Acronyms
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DOE -- Department of Energy
ED -- Department of Education
LOC -- Library of Congress
NGA -- National Gallery of Art
NSF -- National Science Foundation
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