This article offers a detailed history of early 19th century westward migration and the social diversity of the pioneers moving west.

This site from the University of St. Andrews has information on any mathematician you can think of and who may be found through a chronological index approach or alphabetically.

Open this page for links to the full text of Henry George's "Progress and Poverty", which became popular during the American Progressive Era.

This Bibliomania website contains the full text to Anthony Trollope's classic first novel, Barchester Towers. A link is provided to Bibliomania's Anthony Trollope main page, which has links to other Trollope works.

This site from Bibliomania contains the full text to Herman Melville's Billy Budd written in 1891. A brief but factual introduction is given along with a table of contents that has each chapter of the book accessible by link.

This Bibliomania website features the full text to Robert Louis Stevenson's crime novel "The Dynamiter."

Contains a brief historical description of how the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra evolved.

Contestants are challenged to use materials from a garbage dump to build a boat that floats, can be steered, and is propelled by something other than oars.

At this website, read the full text of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment." Includes a brief paragraph introducing the novel's main character and its major events.

Informational site provides illustrated tutorial of light reflection. Also discusses the law of reflection.

Information about the life of Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752 CE), 18th century mathematician credited with "Cramer's Rule," though "Cramer was certainly not the first to give this rule."

This page on French mathematician Emilie de Chatelet offers details of her life and work. Quotes from Voltaire, du Chatelet herself, and others mark how extraordinary it was for a woman of her day to study and write of mathematics and philosophy.

This video segment adapted from NOVA shows how Galileo, using his newly developed refracting telescope, observed four of Jupiter's moons, the first astronomical bodies to be discovered since ancient times.

In the early 1600s, most people believed that the Sun revolved around a stationary Earth. This video segment adapted from NOVA tells how Galileo proved that the Sun, not Earth, is at the center of our universe.

This video segment adapted from NOVA shows how Galileo used his telescope to carefully observe and study sunspots.

This illustrated timeline from the NOVA Web site turns back the clock to the late 1500's to relive the dramatic life of one of the world's most renowned scientists.

Gapminder collects hundreds of statistics related to global economic, health, and social development and analyzes the relationships between them across different countries and time (a few indicators go back to 1800).

This video segment from Between the Lions features the Knights of Blending Fields demonstrating an important element of phonemic awareness: blending word parts to make a word.

Read eleven of Roethke's poems. Read a list of his books, a biography, and a list of links to other sites.

In this video, created by GenYES students at Mentor High School, GenYES Facilitator Lisa Ford and her students share how GenYES students are making an impact in their school and in their community.