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Astronomy, earth science, energy sources, Mars, physical sciences, physics, China and the Silk Roads, Tonto National Monument, and Winslow Homer are among the topics of 11 new resources for FREE, the website that makes teaching resources from federal agencies easier to find: http://www.ed.gov/free

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"Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art" features one of America's treasured 19th century artists. Follow the career and works of this self-taught painter from Civil War battlefields and farmlands to the North Sea fishing village of Cullercoats, the rocky coast of Maine, the Adirondacks, and the Caribbean. See 35 high-resolution images of his paintings. (Zoom in for a close up of brush strokes and details.) See video clips about his life (1836-1910). (NGA) http://www.nga.gov/feature/homer/

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"From Silk to Oil: Cross-Cultural Connections Along the Silk Roads" is a curriculum guide for exploring China's inner Asian frontier and one of the world's oldest and most important trade routes. The 350-page guide features five independent units. Each examines the geography, ethnic relations and political history, exchange of goods and ideas, religions, or art along the Silk Roads (beginning in the second century BCE). Each includes a lesson plan, documents, maps, and board game. (ED) http://www.chinainstitute.org/educators/silkguide.htm

"Tonto National Monument: Saving a National Treasure" tells the story of the Salado people, who thrived in the Arizona valley where Tonto Creek joins the Salt River (1050- 1450 AD). The Salado culture combined customs of several American Indian groups. They channeled the river to create farmland in the desert. They built Pueblo-style buildings. They left no written records. This monument, established in December 1907, was among the first sites protected under the Antiquities Act of 1906. (NPS,TwHP,NRHP) http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/125tonto/

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"Bonneville Power Administration's Resources for Teachers" includes lessons on energy conservation, energy efficiency, geothermal energy, water and electricity, stream environments and stream health, aquatic macroinvertebrates, and the life cycle of salmon. High school students can conduct an energy audit of their school. (DOE) http://www.bpa.gov/Corporate/KR/ed/6-curricula.htm

"ComPADRE: Resources for Physics and Astronomy Education" provides reviewed collections of resources and interactive learning environments for teaching physics and astronomy. Topics include motion, forces, energy, heat, wave energy, electrostatics, circuits, magnetism, particles, asteroids, dark matter, cool stars, big bang theory, robotic exploration of space, and many more. (NSF) http://www.compadre.org/portal/index.cfm

"Earth Science Week" includes lessons on faults, groundwater movement, petroleum exploration, earthquakes, building a weather station, soil, floods, volcanoes, hurricane tracking, thunderstorms, lightning, sinkholes, disaster supplies kits, caves, mud fossils, global change, acid mine drainage, mineral identification, water filtration, water cycle, fresh water and sea water, watersheds, water use at home, wetlands, and ocean currents. (MA) http://www.earthsciweek.org/

"Energy Activities for Teachers and Students" offers activities for learning about electrolysis, electric- powered vehicles, ethanol-fueled cars, solar collectors, levers, energy in hurricanes, energy in light, how a thermometer works, liquefied natural gas, solar cooking a hot dog, natural refrigeration, measuring electricity, wind turbines, the blackout of 2003, and underwater oil recovery. Students can use energy surveys to examine energy use at school and at home. (DOE) http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/classactivities/teachers&students.html

"Mars Exploration" features four learning modules for students in grades 4-12. Topics include investigating Mars and its landforms, how sediment and drainage patterns provide clues to Mars' geologic history, how Mars' 3000-mile valley may have been formed, and whether water could exist on Mars today. (NASA) http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/classroom/resources.html

"National Energy Technology Laboratory's Cool Science" provides lessons and experiments -- created by teachers, scientists, and engineers -- on a range of energy-related topics: acid water from coal mines, biomass size reduction, clean air research, carbon dioxide sequestration, co-burning biomass and coal, fluidized bed combustion, fuel cell technology, gas vortices, landfill management, parallel computing, passive acid mine drainage, and phytoremediation (using plants to clean up the environment). (DOE) http://www.netl.doe.gov/coolscience/teach.html#LESSONPLANS

"Physical Sciences Resource Center" offers hundreds of annotated lessons, simulations, and resources for teaching topics in the physical sciences, including astronomy, classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, fluid mechanics, general physics, modern physics, optics, oscillations and waves, quantum physics, and thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. (NSF) http://psrc.aapt.org/

"Physics of Sports" provides lessons for helping students learn math and science concepts from analyzing activities in track, baseball, basketball, frisbee throwing, golf, skateboarding, and pool. (DOE) http://education.lanl.gov/programs/cif/NonNuclear/sports/main.htm

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Experience interactive math and science activities for middle school students at www.captech.org/vcp.htm

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• Four Basic Process Variables
• Physical and Chemical Properties
• From Fossil Fuels to Products
• A-Head in Math

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