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| Date Added | Title | Description | Category |
| Wednesday, December 20, 2000 | |||
| Averaging Ages | Involve your students with averages. | Interesting Numbers | |
| Monday, December 18, 2000 | |||
| Greenland in Perspective | Which is larger, Greenland or Africa? | Interesting Numbers | |
| Tuesday, December 12, 2000 | |||
| The World in a Room | You and your students can truly be the world. | Lesson Ideas | |
| Tuesday, November 14, 2000 | |||
| Double, Double, Toil and Trouble | Let your students explore the power of 2. | Lesson Ideas | |
| Wednesday, October 25, 2000 | |||
| An Uncritical Inference Test | Show your students how to identify and evaluate inferences we make. | Lesson Ideas | |
| Friday, October 20, 2000 | |||
| Notable Presidential Elections | Britannica Online explores the issues and tactics in notable U.S. Presidential elections | History | |
| Tuesday, October 10, 2000 | |||
| The Straight Dope | Cecil Adams' long-running column | Web sites that deal with "fact" | |
| Friday, October 6, 2000 | |||
| Election links | Use these to study U.S. elections | Government | |
| Tuesday, October 3, 2000 | |||
| The Living Room Candidate | The American Museum of the Moving Image presents a magnificent collection of television ads from the Presidential Campaigns of 1952-1996. | Government | |
| Wednesday, September 6, 2000 | |||
| The FBI reports on identifying killer kids | Can psychological profiling ID potential killers? | How safe are schools? | |
| Saturday, September 2, 2000 | |||
| Hyper History Online | an invaluable tool for world history teachers | History | |
| Saturday, August 26, 2000 | |||
| Capture the Moment | a collection of Pulitzer Prize winning photos | History | |
| Friday, August 25, 2000 | |||
| Dear Abby | turn your students into historical advice columnists | Textbook Ideas | |
| Thursday, August 24, 2000 | |||
| The Change Game | a tool for exploring the effects of innovation | Warm-up activities | |
| Sunday, August 6, 2000 | |||
| Is that a word? | Play with words - old and new | Words in the Spotlight | |
| Government for kids | Information, activities and web sites for kids | Government | |
| Friday, August 4, 2000 | |||
| The New Deal Network | This is a collection of primary source material (photos, cartoons, speeches, letters, etc.) and lesson ideas for teaching about The New Deal and the Great Depression. | History | |
| RefDesk's Fact of the Day | Is it verifiable? | Web sites that deal with "fact" | |
| Did you know that ... ? | Math facts to ponder and explore. | Web sites that deal with "fact" | |
| Tuesday, July 25, 2000 | |||
| Thursday's Classroom | NASA lesson plans that bring the U.S. space program into classrooms. | Lesson Ideas on External Sites | |
| Saturday, July 22, 2000 | |||
| Misconceptions perpetuated by science textbooks | You might be surprised. | Web sites that deal with "fact" | |
| Tuesday, July 18, 2000 | |||
| Current Health Hoaxes and Rumors | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presents the latest evidence. | Web sites that deal with "fact" | |
| Wednesday, July 12, 2000 | |||
| How Much Do They Make? | Have your students begin to explore the world of income and work. | Lesson Ideas | |
| Tuesday, July 4, 2000 | |||
| Scientific Illiteracy | Learn what Americans don't know about science. | Is That A Fact? | |
| Wednesday, June 21, 2000 | |||
| Civics Standards | What should your government students know and be able to do when they leave your class. | Government | |
| History Standards | What should your history students know and be able to do when they leave your class. | History | |
| Thursday, June 15, 2000 | |||
| Ethics links | Explore the world of ethical dilemmas. | Tough Choices | |
| Wednesday, May 31, 2000 | |||
| Tough Choices | Let your students grapple with real problems that faced real people working together in small groups. | Lesson Ideas | |
| Numbers that illustrate social inequality | Inequality.org looks at wealth and poverty in various ways. These are the numbers. | Web sites that deal with "fact" | |
| Sunday, May 28, 2000 | |||
| Search the site | Find pages that contain text you want to see. | ||
| Thursday, May 18, 2000 | |||
| Online news for kids | Definitely news you can use. | News sites to look at every day | |
| Teachers' activities keyed to U.S. News Online | Lesson Ideas on External Sites | ||
| UniSci - Daily Science News in One Place | Science News Sites | ||
| Let's Find Out | an encyclopedia for kids | Online reference works | |
| Tuesday, May 16, 2000 | |||
| How much does it cost to raise a child? | links to the annual US Department of Agriculture reports | Internet Sites with Interesting Numbers | |
| Monday, May 15, 2000 | |||
| The Math Wars | the Christian Science Monitor series on the fight over the old math, the new math, and the new new math | Internet Sites with Interesting Numbers | |
| Saturday, May 6, 2000 | |||
| R.J. Riggins' essays on science, evolution and truth | Each of these gems models reason in action. | Web sites that deal with "fact" | |
| Thursday, April 20, 2000 | |||
| One year after Columbine | links to thoughtful and important pieces prompted by the Columbine shootings | How safe are schools? | |
| Tuesday, April 18, 2000 | |||
| The Jefferson Center Muzzle Awards | the Jefferson Center's annual lists of the U.S.'s most egregious censors | If you like lists | |
| Encarta World English Dictionary | Microsoft's latest entry in the reference world | Online reference works | |
| World Almanac and Book of Facts | Online reference works | ||
| Monday, April 10, 2000 | |||
| Project Censored | the top 25 stories "censored" by the major news media | If you like lists | |
| Saturday, April 8, 2000 | |||
| Famous Hoaxes | Things that seemed true, but aren't. | Web sites that deal with "fact" | |
| Dumb Laws | Can these really be on the books? | Government | |
| The Atomic Archive | an online look at the history of the A-bomb | History | |
| Sunday, April 2, 2000 | |||
| Funk and Wagnalls | a very useful reference suite built around the Funk and Wagnalls encyclopedia disappeared from the web in 2001 | Online reference works | |
| Wednesday, March 22, 2000 | |||
| Without Sanctuary: Lynching photography in America | links to sites that present an emotionally powerful look at lynching in American history | History | |
| the New York Times' Campaign Ad Index | What's up in the electoral ad wars? (requires a free registration for access to articles) | Government | |
| Examples to show that processes are as important as answers | Here are a couple of examples to think about as you ponder answers v. process. | Good Lesson Secrets | |
| Monday, March 20, 2000 | |||
| the AFI's 100 Greatest American movies | See if you agree with the American Film Institute's choices | If you like lists | |
| Wednesday, March 15, 2000 | |||
| "Dorky" is born | When did English first see "dorky"? | Is That A Fact? | |
| Sunday, March 12, 2000 | |||
| Presidential Elections 1896-1996 | The New York Times Learning Network presents a history of U.S. Presidential elections. | History | |
| Stately Knowledge | facts about every state in the U.S. (including Washington D.C.) | Web sites that deal with "fact" | |
| Wednesday, March 8, 2000 | |||
| Campaign 2000 | Solid, unbiased information on this year's U.S. campaigns | Government | |
| Clarifying Issues 2000 | "Clarify your views and weigh your values concerning some of America's most challenging problems." | Government | |
| Kid's Voting USA | Help secure "democracy for the future by involving youth in the election process today." | Government | |
| NPR polls | Polls prepared and conducted in conjunction with the Kennedy School at Harvard and the Kaiser Family Foundation | Government | |
| Tuesday, March 7, 2000 | |||
| Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century | The National Academy of Engineering wonders how many items on this list you'll use today? | If you like lists | |
| Saturday, February 26, 2000 | |||
| Betsy Ross and the flag | Did Betsy Ross really create the U.S. flag? | Is That A Fact? | |
| Thursday, February 24, 2000 | |||
| 20 questions to ask about polls. | What you need to ask of the polls you read. From Public Agenda | Government | |
| Web sites that deal with "fact" | Is That A Fact? | ||
| Tuesday, February 22, 2000 | |||
| Washington's birth date | Was Washington really born on Feb. 22? | Is That A Fact? | |
| Thursday, February 17, 2000 | |||
| thisnation.com | explore information on the executive, the Congressional and the judicial branches among many useful sections | Government | |
| Atlas of U.S. Presidential elections | results of presidential elections since 1860 | Government | |
| the program in Presidential rhetoric | transcripts of famous Presidential speeches | Government | |
| Electoral College home page | the National Archives and Records Administration's Electoral College records | Government | |
| Tuesday, February 15, 2000 | |||
| Freedom Forum | a daily look at 1st amendment issues | Government | |
| Monday, February 14, 2000 | |||
| Smart Voter | the League of Women Voters' portal to information about what's on your ballot | Government | |
| State and Federal Government links | Government | ||
| Saturday, February 12, 2000 | |||
| The Killer at Thurston High | a riveting look into the mind of one of the school shooters; not for the feint of heart | How safe are schools? | |
| the Watergate tapes | if you have the Real Player browser plug-in installed, you can listen to a piece of American history | History | |
| Wednesday, February 9, 2000 | |||
| Investigative journalist Robert Parry presents stories that look at the U.S. and the world from a progressive perspective. | Worth a daily look | ||
| Monday, January 31, 2000 | |||
| The Century in Science | Discover Magazine's list of the 20th century's greatest scientific achievements | If you like lists | |
| Hindsight into the future | An NPR interview with Anders Henriksson, professor of history at Shepherd College, regarding his compilation of student bloopers that present an overview of history. (Published in The Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2000, pages 26-30.) | Ain't This Write? |
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