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BELOW are 9 new resources at FREE, the website that makes
finding teaching resources across federal agencies easy.
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Arts
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"Band Music from the Civil War Era"
provides examples of brass band music that flourished in the
U.S. during the 1850s & remained popular through the 19th
century. It includes 700 musical compositions, 8 full-score
modern editions, & 19 recorded examples. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html
"When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood"
offers a glimpse of childhood across time, cultures, &
socioeconomic circumstances. 65 photos show children working
in a factory, pretend sword fighting, dancing at ballet
school, playing in a street, swimming, watching a parade, &
taking shelter in a ditch during an air raid. Photos include
Tad Lincoln in a Union uniform, a boy soldier during the Civil
War, & Teddy Roosevelt with children. (LOC)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/young/
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Science
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"Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center"
provides information on careers, training, & professional
development; environmental programs in high schools &
colleges; curricula for high school & associate degree
programs; & instructional units on 5 topics: water quality, a
hazardous materials accident, environmental risk assessment,
infectious diseases, & environmental justice. (NSF)
http://www.ateec.org/
"MarsQuest Online"
invites students to launch a spacecraft to Mars, pilot a
"flyover," explore the Red Planet's canyons & volcanoes, drive
a Mars Rover, & see the latest photos. (NASA)
http://www.marsquestonline.org/index.html
"The Water Cycle"
examines the movement of water across earth. Among the
topics: condensation, evaporation, freshwater storage,
ground-water storage & discharge, infiltration, precipitation,
snowmelt runoff to streams, springs, stream flow, surface
runoff, transpiration, water in the atmosphere, ice & snow, &
oceans. A diagram & text are available in more than 30
languages. (USGS)
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle.html
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Social studies
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"After the Day of Infamy"
offers 12 hours of interviews recorded in the days & months
following the bombing of Pearl Harbor from more than 200
individuals in cities & towns across the U.S. Audio &
transcripts of the interviews are provided. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml/afcphhome.html
"American Women: A Reference Guide"
is a "first stop" for using Library of Congress resources to
do research in the field of American women's history. It
presents some digital items; however, it serves primarily as a
comprehensive guide to the entirety of the Library's holdings
on women's history. It includes exhibits that feature women &
how to find women within exhibits where they're not featured.
Essays examine women as a symbol 1590-1800, the women's
suffrage parade of 1913, & the equal rights amendment. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/index.html
"The Dream of Flight"
presents photos, letters, & diary excerpts from the
experiments & efforts that led to the Wright brothers'
December 17, 1903, achievement of the first sustained,
powered, & controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying
machine. The site includes a flight timeline & examines the
notion of flight as a universal aspiration -- a desire
expressed in civilizations from classical times to the 20th
century. (LOC)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wb-home.html
"The Legacy of French Canadian Immigrants in New England"
draws on life histories & 19th century periodicals to help
students develop their own answers to these questions: Why
did French Canadian immigrants settle in New England in such
large numbers in the late 19th & early 20th centuries? What
was life like for them? What impact did they have? (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/lessons/01/french/index.html
Acronyms
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LOC -- Library of Congress
NASA -- National Aeronautics & Space Administration
NSF -- National Science Foundation
USGS -- U.S. Geological Survey
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