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New Resources at the FREE Website
(Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)
April 24 - May 24, 2001
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Arts
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"Stand Up & Sing: Music & Our Reform History" is a lesson in which
students (Grades 7-12) analyze lyrics & images of popular sheet
music as part of their studies of the political, social, & economic
conditions existing during industrialization & reform in the U.S.
(LOC)
     http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/sing/intro.html

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Kids
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"Fact Sheets for Kids at White Sands National Monument" answers
questions about the sand dunes in a mountain ringed valley (near
Alamogordo, NM) called the Tularosa Basin:  Where does all the
sand come from?  How do the sand dunes move?  What plants & animals
live in the dunes & the surrounding Chihuahuan Desert?  (NPS, White
Sands National Monument)
     http://www.nps.gov/whsa/factsheets.htm

"For Kids at Aleutian World War II National Historic Area" provides
a story, coloring pages, & a quiz to help students learn about Fort
Schwatka, one of four coastal defense posts built during World War
II to protect Dutch Harbor (the back door to the U.S.).  The fort
is located on Amaknak Island in the Aleutian Island Chain of
Alaska. (NPS, Aleutian World War II National Historic Area)
     http://www.nps.gov/aleu/ForKids.htm

"Kid's Corner at Cape Lookout National Seashore" offers photos &
descriptions of birds, plants, sea turtles, & shells of animals
that inhabit a 56-mile stretch of the Outer Banks of North
Carolina. (NPS, Cape Lookout National Seashore)
     http://www.nps.gov/calo/kids.htm

"NCES's Fun Facts" highlights selected statistics from the National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the main federal
organization responsible for collecting & analyzing data on
education in the U.S. & other nations.  Fun facts appear in six
areas:  early childhood, elementary & secondary, postsecondary,
international education, libraries, & assessment. (NCES/ED)
     http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/topics.html

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Science
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"Bridging the Watershed" presents online activities to assist
teachers in helping students develop skills needed for field trips
to Potomac Area National Parks.  Activities include plant
identification, macroinvertebrate identification, & Go Fish, a game
that simulates the journey of fish to their spawning ground. (NPS)
     http://www.bridgingthewatershed.org/

"Classroom: Educational Resources & Programs for the Field &
Classroom" offers activities for elementary students & families
visiting Lake Mead National Recreation Area to learn about desert
plants, animals, food chains, & "communities" in the Mojave Desert
(AZ & NV). (NPS, Lake Mead National Recreation Area)
     http://www.nps.gov/lame/classroom

"Multiwavelength Astronomy" shows images of our own galaxy & sun,
other galaxies & stars, & other heavenly bodies as viewed from
different portions (or frequencies) of the electromagnetic
spectrum. (NASA)
     http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/Outreach/Multiwave/

"NASAexplores" features new lessons each week on topics related to
space.  Articles, learning activities, & background information are
offered with each lesson.  Airport efficiency, motion sickness,
housekeeping in space, the international space station, prevention
of human error, seeing what can't be seen, asteroids, & use of
light to speed recovery from illnesses are among the more than 30
topics.  Lessons & materials support national education standards.
(NASA)
     http://www.nasaexplores.com

"Park Geology: Teacher Feature" provides teacher guides & students
activities for learning about topics in geology, paleontology, &
more. (NPS)
     http://www2.nature.nps.gov/grd/edu/index.htm

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Social Studies
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"Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers'
Project, 1936-1938" contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts
of slavery & 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal
Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) &
assembled & microfilmed in 1941 as the 17-volume "Slave Narratives:
A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with
Former Slaves." (LOC)
     http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

"The Capital & the Bay" consists of 139 books -- first-person
narratives, early histories, historical biographies, promotional
brochures, & photograph collections that capture this distinctive
region as it developed between the onset of European settlement &
the first quarter of the 20th Century. (LOC)
     http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhcbhtml/lhcbhome.html

"Emergence of Advertising in America" presents over 9,000 images
related to the early history of advertising in the U.S.  Materials
include cookbooks, photographs of billboards, print advertisements,
trade cards, calendars, almanacs, & leaflets for various products.
Together, these images illuminate the early evolution of this
ubiquitous feature of modern American business & culture. (LOC)
     http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ncdhtml/eaahome.html

"Women, Their Rights & Nothing Less" is a lesson that uses primary
documents to help students (Grades 9-12) learn about the women's
suffrage movement that began in the 1840s & led to women's right to
vote nationwide in 1920 (LOC)
 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/suffrage/intro.html

  Acronyms
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LOC  -- Library of Congress
NASA -- National Aeronautics & Space Administration
NPS  -- National Park Service
NCES/ED -- National Center for Education Statistics, Department of
           Education
WHC/NMR -- White House Commission on the National Moment of
           Remembrance

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