Read a copy of the Democratic Party Platform in the election of 1856. Of note is its equivocation on the issue of slavery.
View President Kennedy's remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress March 13, 1962 given to Latin American diplomats at the White House.
President George W. Bush discusses the new Medicare programs during his speech in November, 2005. Text of his speech is located on this site.
This site from the University of Massachusetts, Boston provides the text of Herbert Hoover's radio address to the US on October 18, 1931, regarding the unemployment situation.
On this site you will find the political party platforms of all parties from 1840 to the current year. A great resource and an interesting way to do comparing and contrasting.
President Truman issued a statement upon his signing of the Housing Act of 1949 supporting the act and explaining its importance to the peacetime economy.
This site contains a PowerPoint presentation on the average value of a function.
This is a group of Mendelian Genetics exercises that are designed to show the evolution of a trait within a population. The site covers instruction in calculating genotypic and allelic frequencies, determining dominance, the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, neutral genetic drift, and natural selection.
This resource covers what primary sources are, where we can find them, and how we can assess them in the classroom.
An interactive tutorial on balancing equations.
This California State University student research paper looks into the reasons that we feel fear and anxiety in our lives. It tackles the biological reasons and different psychological theories.
Here is a 1-5 day unit on electromagnetic radiation that features a teacher guide and student activities with extensions.
A brief description of the four spheres of the Earth, with an activity where students brainstorm interactions among them.
This site from the UCMP Berkeley provides information about the Cretaceous Period, the last portion of the age of the dinosaurs and the continued break up of the continent of Pangaea.
Watch the development of the sine curve and the cosine curve by tracing the unit circle in this fascinating applet.
Learn about the four types of deserts: hot and dry, semiarid, coastal, and cold with this key facts and information. Includes links to other biomes: aquatic, forest, grasslands, and tundra.
The Dinosauria provides the latest information about dinosaurs, including debunking myths, early dinosaur discoveries, characteristics of specific dinosaurs, life history, and discovery of dinosaur fossils.
This site provides a brief overview of the Precambrian Era and provides a clickable chart that breaks down this era into five different time frames. A lot of info is provided on each of the five.
An introduction to Darwin's theory of evolution with hyperlinks to other topics on evolution, including a timeline of evolutionary thought.
Two versions of a 12-question test to see if students can follow directions for simple procedures. Directions for administering the tests and answer keys are provided.