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| Date Added | Title | Description | Category |
| Monday, December 24, 2001 | |||
| Non Campus Mentis | This is an unbelievably hilarious look at student bloopers on history tests. You might also want to see the Washington Post review. | Ain't That Write? | |
| Tuesday, December 18, 2001 | |||
| Why teens begin to smoke | Scientific research points to movies as a factor. | Why People Smoke | |
| Word of the Year candidates, 2001 | Geoff Nunberg reports for Fresh Air. | If you like lists | |
| Friday, December 7, 2001 | |||
| Pearl Harbor: 60th anniversary commemoration | National Geographic brings the attack on Pearl Harbor to life. | History | |
| Saturday, December 1, 2001 | |||
| What is the most common crime committed in the U.S.? | statistics updated | Interesting Numbers | |
| Wednesday, November 28, 2001 | |||
| Spinsanity.com | Help show your students how to evaluate the truth of assertions they read. | Reason in action | |
| Tuesday, November 20, 2001 | |||
| HS seniors' science knowledge declines | The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reported this data. | Scientific Illiteracy | |
| Thursday, November 15, 2001 | |||
| Propaganda Analysis Sheet | A structured process for examining propaganda | Propaganda in the Classroom | |
| Tuesday, November 13, 2001 | |||
| Words as Weapons | Read about the role language plays in war. | Propaganda in the Classroom | |
| Thursday, November 8, 2001 | |||
| Media Use Poll | Have your students compare their perceived use of media with that from a national survey. | Propaganda in the Classroom | |
| Ad Effectiveness Quiz | Demonstrate the power advertising exerts in our lives. | Propaganda in the Classroom | |
| Sunday, November 4, 2001 | |||
| Faces of the Enemy | War propaganda from many sides | Propaganda in the Classroom | |
| Tuesday, October 30, 2001 | |||
| Dueling Posters | another lesson in visual literacy | Propaganda in the Classroom | |
| Wednesday, October 24, 2001 | |||
| A Propaganda Bibliography | Books you must not miss! | Propaganda in the Classroom | |
| Monday, October 22, 2001 | |||
| Crazy English | Explore ways to use Richard Lederer's "ultimate joyride through our language". | Lesson Ideas | |
| How Much Is An Education Worth? | statistics updated for 2000 | Interesting Numbers | |
| Wednesday, October 10, 2001 | |||
| Online Propaganda Resources | Propaganda techniques and logical fallacies explained; and PR firms watched | Propaganda in the Classroom | |
| Tuesday, October 9, 2001 | |||
| Why People Smoke | Give your students a lesson in visual literacy. | Propaganda in the Classroom |
| Saturday, September 29, 2001 | |||
| World Audit | a fascinating collection of information on nations and global issues | The World in a Room | |
| Wednesday, September 19, 2001 | |||
| Rock of Ages, Sands of Time | 500 million years of the earth's history depicted in 544 contiguously painted panels | Putting Time In Perspective | |
| Monday, September 17, 2001 | |||
| Terror Attack Cartoons | See how the nation's cartoonists responded | Cartoonist for a Day | |
| The attack in perspective | Voices of reason in an emotional time | Reason in action | |
| Friday, September 14, 2001 | |||
| Researching Moral Choice | Scientists scan our brains | Tough Choices | |
| Q&A: Terrorism's Ethical Components | Rushworth Kidder's perspective on the World Trade Center attack and the U.S. response | Tough Choices | |
| Sunday, September 9, 2001 | |||
| What's New | A physicist looks at science as it is reported in the news and used/abused by politicians and others. | Web sites that deal with "fact" and Science News | |
| Saturday, July 28, 2001 | |||
| Your Day in History assignments | Internet research assignments | Today in History | |
| Historical Atlas of the 20th Century | a bonanza of 20th century statistics | Online Reference works | |
| Thursday, July 5, 2001 | |||
| The right to bear arms | Does the 2nd amendment give U.S. citizens a right to own any and all firearms? | Is That A Fact? | |
| History Close to Home | Involve your students in the past, their families and web page production. | Lesson Ideas | |
| Sunday, June 10, 2001 | |||
| Silver Blaze | Replacing Sherlock Holmes, can your students locate Silver Blaze and identify the killer of John Straker? | Logic to the Rescue | |
| Monday, June 4, 2001 | |||
| Logic to the Rescue | If a person says, "I am lying at this moment", is he lying or telling the truth? | Lesson Ideas | |
| Tuesday, May 22, 2001 | |||
| Middle school physical science textbooks skewered | "None of the books - not a single one - was deemed adequate by nine primary reviewers and a host of other experts who offered comments." | Scientific Illiteracy | |
| Saturday, May 12, 2001 | |||
| Astronomy Picture of the Day | NASA images show the cosmos in all its glory. | Worth a daily look | |
| Thursday, May 10, 2001 | |||
| Becoming Human | a rich, elegant, understandable introduction to the scientific evidence for human evolution | Scientific Illiteracy | |
| Wednesday, May 2, 2001 | |||
| Damned Lies and Statistics | True or False? Every year since 1950, the number of children gunned down has doubled. | Is That A Fact? | |
| Execution Documentaries | links to web sites for two NPR documentaries | Tough Choices | |
| Monday, April 30, 2001 | |||
| Kids and Guns | Mike Males reports on the mass media's distortions. | How safe are schools? | |
| Saturday, April 28, 2001 | |||
| Ellis Island Records | primary source materials via the web | History | |
| Friday, April 27, 2001 | |||
| The Rosetta Project | preserving humanity's linguistic heritage | A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia | |
| Tuesday, April 24, 2001 | |||
| Wide as the Waters | The fascinating story of the efforts to translate the Bible into English. | The Lord's Prayer and the evolution of the English language | |
| Tuesday, April 10, 2001 | |||
| The Jungle and its successors | Read about food processing in the U.S. | What's That?! | |
| Wednesday, March 28, 2001 | |||
| The Real Computer Virus - Misinformation | a reporter looks at "false facts" on the Internet | Is That A Fact? | |
| Tuesday, March 27, 2001 | |||
| Cartoonist for a Day | Teach your students to ferret out messages in editorial cartoons. | Lesson Ideas | |
| Monday, March 26, 2001 | |||
| Dodging the Bullet | Solid advice on what should be done to make schools better and safer. | How safe are schools? | |
| Thursday, March 22, 2001 | |||
| Moon landings faked! | So claimed FOX TV in an infamous documentary. | Is That A Fact? | |
| Saturday, March 10, 2001 | |||
| Escaping Mind Traps | Challenge your students to identify and move beyond their assumptions. | Warm-up activities | |
| Sunday, March 4, 2001 | |||
| The Great Idea Finder | Invention facts and history | The Change Game | |
| Monday, February 19, 2001 | |||
| Powerful Days | Civil Rights Movement Photographs | History | |
| Wednesday, February 8, 2001 | |||
| What's That?! | show students food from a different perspective | Warm-up activities | |
| Journalism Ethics Cases Online | explore ethical issues in journalism | Tough Choices | |
| Monday, February 5, 2001 | |||
| History Buff | see how the media covered historical events | History | |
| WorldNews.com | What's happening outside the U.S.? | News sites to look at every day | |
| Innumeracy's Revenge | a report on some of the social costs | Internet Sites with Interesting Numbers | |
| Thursday, January 4, 2001 | |||
| Theoni Pappas | If you are unfamiliar with Theoni Pappas' work, prepare yourself for a treat. | Books that deal with Interesting Numbers |
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