Feet are wonderful things. Look at all the things they can do! Includes audio narration in 22 additional languages with text in English.
This superb site has detailed information about the composition of the atmosphere, how it is always changing, how it protects life on earth, and the destructive impact human activity has on it. There is an atmosphere design lab, as well as sections on atmospheric researchers and teacher resources.
This media-rich essay from NOVA Online describes the challenges of forecasting volcanic eruptions and includes information about specific cases.
This interdisciplinary site explores the relationships between Dickinson and her editor Higginson, and that between Whitman and Ralph W. Emerson. Includes ideas for investigations, a bibliography and many primary sources.
This video segment from NOVA: "The Killer's Trail" investigates the potential for DNA evidence to solve murder cases, even those from the distant past.
The University of Chicago provides thousands of primary source documents concerning the diverse contents of the Constitution. Documents underlying the proposed Constitution, as well as documents of the time debating the proposed Constitution are available and sorted by the major themes of the Constitution. Links to each part of the text of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are also available.
A list of links to texts of original documents written by participants in the Constitutional Conventions, relating to their attempts to create an acceptable national constitution. Organized in chronological order.
Primary source documents (letters) concerning the need for a central government written by Madison, Hamilton, Jay, and others.
The original text of a 1787 article in which James Madison discusses the failures of the Articles of Confederation. An interesting look at the problems with the states and with foreign countries.
The original text of a letter from Alexander Hamilton to Governor George Clinton of New York in 1778 complaining of inadequate material for the U.S. armed forces and perception of weakness by foreign powers.
This chapter introduction describes the historical context in which the issue of federalism was discussed by our nation's Founders. Discusses the Federalist and Anti-Federalist points-of-view.
The original text of The Virginia Plan presented at the Constitutional Convention. Discusses federal versus consolidated government.
The original text of a letter from James Madison to George Washington discussing his ideas for a new national government that were to soon be presented to the Constitutional Convention as the Virginia Plan.
This page is a series of writings by Joseph Story on the jurisdiction, both original and appellate, assigned to the Supreme Court by the Founding Fathers. Published in 1833.
This letter from George Mason shows his Anti-Federalist opinions and opposition to a planned centralized government.
The complete, original text of the Massachusetts State Constitution as adopted in March, 1780.
Excerpts from John Locke's famous 1689 work "Two Treatises of Government" where he discusses his political ideas that came to influence the U.S. Revolutionaries.
This speech, "The Address and Reasons of Dissent of the Minority of the Convention of Pennsylvania to Their Constituents," contains some of the arguments for opposing the Constitution.
Read the words of John Adams at the Constitutional Convention where he is debating the meaning of "the people" in the Constitution.
The original text of official Resolutions by members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 during the debate creating a new national U.S. Constitution.