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The Space Race
This topical collection is an overview of the major events and developments of the space race that could supplement a lesson on the Cold War; it includes photos and videos.
Goal: After exploring the collection, students will have a better understanding of the space race, how it was influenced by world politics, and how it influenced world politics.
Tags: Sputnik, Apollo missions, space race, cold war, moon, moon landing
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LGBT Rights and History
This teaching collection contains resources to support a U.S. history lesson. It includes documents, videos, and websites related to the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans-, and other sexual minorities) movement. The four themes of this collection are:
-People
-Pride and Diversity of Experiences (reflecting a range of LGBT identities)
-History, Challenges, and Accomplishments
-Additional Resources
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A Man on the Moon, but a Woman Got Him There: The Story of Margaret Hamilton
This topical collection includes images and links that give a short biography of Margaret Hamilton, the forgotten hero of the moon landing who invented software engineering.
Goal: Students will be able to synthesize the information from different sources and answer the questions at the end cohesively.
Tags: Margaret Hamilton, Apollo VIII, Apollo 8, Apollo XI, Apollo 11, moon landing, computer science, software
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Beauty and Truth
The collection is an activity for students in which they interpret and assess a quote ( "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."-John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn) based on evidence from the pictures (and sometimes relevant information in the text with the resource) in the collection. There is no right answer and it is very much up to interpretation.
Goal: Students will be able to assess a claim and present their argument using evidence from visual media.
Note: Collection contains artistic nudity that may not be appropriate for all students. Teachers may wish to edit or remove certain resources.
Tags: beauty, truth, beautiful, art, culture, lie, elegant, elegance, deception, honesty
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Geometry of Flight
This collection is a short geometry lesson supplement themed with various aspects of flight to provide real world examples; it contains pictures, videos, and practice problems (as well as links to further practice problems). It includes volume and surface area of rectangular and triangular prisms, basic Pythagorean theorem and trigonometry, and the volume and surface area of cones, cylinders, and pyramids.<br />
Goal: Students will better understand how to find the volume and surface area of rectangular and triangular prisms, basic Pythagorean theorem and trigonometry, and how to find the the volume and surface area of cones, cylinders, and pyramids.<br />
Tags: Flight, space, aeronautic, geometry, volume, surface area, rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, prism, cylinder, cone, pyramid, Pythagorean theorem, right triangles, trigonometry, sin, cos, tan
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Astronaut Life
What is life for an astronaut like? How has it changed over the years? What different kinds of challenges do they face?
This topical collection describes certain problems astronauts face and follows with resources that show how people have tried to solve those problems; it includes pictures and videos.
Goal: Students will be able to identify a problem, brain storm solutions, and then compare the actual answers to their solutions.
Tags: space, astronaut, food, exercise, problem solving, space travel, brain storming
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Apollo 11 Crew
This topical collection details the human stories of the Apollo XI mission by giving details on the lives of each crew member; it includes pictures and an external link. There is a list of the resources in each section at the beginning of that section.
Goal: Students will understand the lives of the Apollo XI crew members and be able to assess how their lives as people influenced their accomplishments as astronauts.
Tags: moon, moon landing, Apollo 11, Apollo XI, Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, space, space race, space travel, rocket
Inspired by the Harvard Project Zero thinking strategy unveiling stories
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