Navigator Activity: This is a review of the right triangle in the coordinate plane. Given two lines (2 really nice ones) the students write the equation of the 3rd line to create a right triangle. They find the vertices of the triangle and use the distance formula to find the length of each side. Using these lengths they find the measures of the two acute angles using the trig functions.

At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can download and read Lord Rayleigh's Nobel Lecture, "The density of gases in the air and the discovery o argon" (in pdf format).

Louisa May Alcott's 1875 novel Eight Cousins is about a girl, Rose, and her seven boisterous boy cousins and various other repugnant relatives.

Read the full text of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" that follows the lives of the the March sisters: Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth.

A series of primary source documents all related to the Louisiana Purchase. Includes the text of the final agreement, speeches by Jefferson and others. Great stuff!

This resource gives a capsule biography of Fra Luca Pacioli. It includes portraits and has links to related topics.

This University of St. Andrews page offers a good biography on Luca Valerio, an Italian mathematician and teacher of rhetoric.

Text of Robert Herrick's "Delight in Disorder."Provides source of the poem, but does not offer any commentary or notes about the poet or the poem. The best part is a link to a comprehensive collection of Herrick's work. Plus, they are presented in a logical manner.

A clickable list to selected full-text works by John Donne, including songs, sonnets, elegies, epigrams, and satires.

A complete guide to the works of Robert Herrick. Contains the text to a number of works by Herrick.

Text of the book of poems, "Lyrical Ballads" presented in a straightforward way, easily navigated.

The resource is a lesson guide that discusses linear equations. Topics include solving simultaneous equations using graphing and algebra, and economic applications.

The resource is a lesson guide that teaches the basic mathematical concepts needed for teaching economics and financial economics. Topics include matrix transposition, matrix inversion, and operations with matrices. Applications of Excel can be used as a tool for teaching this topic.

This educational resource from the Metropolitan Museum of Art contains 24 pages describing the David Plates which tell the story of David and Goliath. Images and lesson plans are included.

From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, here is a glimpse into the artistic world of Alfred Stieglitz, the New York City art dealer and pioneering photographer.

A beautiful presentation of needlework from 1700s America, accompanied by an explanation of the type of education girls and young women received during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how fabric arts were a prominent part of this education. Click on thumbnail images to see detailed embroidered samplers and other embroidered items, including a coat of arms, an easy chair, and a bed rug.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides this informative page on American portrait miniature paintings of the eighteenth century.

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, these are examples of "American Rococo" decorative furniture from the permanent collection. This overly ornate style originated in France and flourished in America in the 1750's.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides this informative page on the earky twentieth century art movement Art Nouveau. With information and pictures this in a nice resource for study.

Consider the English identity of American colonists by examining the sorts of imported goods and decorative arts Americans chose to purchase and display.