This video channel Because of Them We Can, includes profiles of African-American luminaries like Mae Jemison, W.E.B. DuBois, and Maya Angelou. Check out all the videos!
If you want to extend your learning from last week's presentations, look up different landmark cases in the Supreme Court.
Or, you can listen to live radio stations from around the world.
This link leads you to poetry collected for children from the Academy of American Poets. Find a poem you like and memorize it!
In honor of Black History Month, look at photographs of unpublished Black History and learn about some of the residents from the Rondo neighborhood, near where GRS is today, with the Rondo Oral History Project. If you would like to add quotes to our quote archive, please do.
Want to know what microbes affect your body? Explore the Microbiome simulator (only works on Safari and Firefox):
In the coming weeks, we will be learning about microbes in the context of the evolution of life on earth. Test your knowledge with the NOVA Evolution Lab game.
This website can help you further your knowledge of climate change and what you can do about it. If you are interested in figuring out how much carbon dioxide your lifestyle emits, use a carbon footprint calculator like one of these:
- Carbon Calculator: http://www.ei.lehigh.edu/learners/cc/carboncalc.html
- International Student Carbon Footprint Challenge: http://web.stanford.edu/group/inquiry2insight/cgi-bin/i2sea-r3a/i2s.php?page=calculate
The EPA website's topics on climate change are not functioning reliably, but this website used to be very helpful if it is working.
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