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The Free Information Society

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:34:20 GMT

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Clip Source: www.freeinfosociety.com

Hermann Goering Biography
This Nazi leader was a close ally of Hitler and the leader of the German Air Force.

John Pershing Biography
Pershing led the United States' military efforts during World War I

George Custer Biography
Although he was a skilled leader in some parts of the Civil War, Custer allowed his ego to get out of control and was slaughtered at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Physiology
You will be well on your way to becoming a doctor after reading these articles on anatomy, pharmacology, and patient care.

John Steinbeck Biography
Steinbeck penned numerous important novels during the early 20th century.

Physics
The study of how the universe works is fascinating and allows you to predict what will happen in certain situations.

Digital Signal Processing
This series on DSP will teach you everything you need to know about the subject!

Bio of Tim Gunn

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2008 ELECTION OVERVIEW

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:16:00 GMT

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Clip Source: www.opensecrets.org

2008 ELECTION OVERVIEW

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2008 Election Overview | 2006 Congressional Races | 2008 Presidential Election | Big Picture: Historic Data

METHODOLOGY: The numbers on this page are based on contributions from PACs and individuals giving $200 or more to federal candidates and parties as reported to the Federal Election Commission.

All the numbers on this page are for the 2008 election cycle and are based on data released by the FEC on Monday, September 24, 2007. Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the Center for Responsive Politics.

To view data for previous cycles, visit our Big Picture section.

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Learning Posters

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:26:40 GMT

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Clip Source: thinkzone.wlonk.com

Posters/Charts (PDF files)
at thinkzone.wlonk.com and elements.wlonk.com

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Elements, in Pictures

Elements, in Words

Particles

Atomic Orbitals

Tags: educational posters, learning, knowledge, memory, science, math, school

Top 10 Reasons NOT to homeshool

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:04:15 GMT

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Clip Source: www.homeschoolblogger.com

Top 10 Reasons NOT to homeshool

(...and a rational response)

"My kids would drive me crazy."

"We live in a GREAT school district

"I'm terrible in Algebra."

"We can't afford to homeschool."

"My child is too social, he'll be bored at home."

"We would get too much flack from our relatives."

"I wouldn't know where to start."

I'm not patient enough to teach my own children!"

"But I'm not a teacher, how will I know what to do?"

"My child won't learn how to get along in the real world."

Tags: top 10 reasons not to homeshool, top10, education, family, knowledge

My Education Bookmarks folder needs sorted

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:37:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Comments shows my bookmarks - they are all links- If you want one I will give it to you.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Education

Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom. Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the imparting of culture from generation to generation (see socialization). Education means 'to draw out', facilitating realisation of self-potential and latent talents of an individual. It is an application of pedagogy, a body of theoretical and applied research relating to teaching and learning and draws on many disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, sociology and anthropology. ^[1]

Tags: my bookmarks, education, knowledge, resources

Bombing For Peace

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:40:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The chick holding the sign is a dream lover of mine from my late high school days

Clip Source: www.g-fun.com

Tags: funny, humor, woman

100 Top Education Sites

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:19:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.100tophealthsites.com

100 Top Education Sites

Thomson Education Direct
Get the professional training you need
to get ahead in your career.

ecampus.com
Up to half-off college textbooks.

NY Times: Learning Network
The Internet's premier education source for grades 3-12.

Kaplan
The leader in test preperation software.

babymint.com
Save money while building a college savings account for your child.

Harcourt Learning
The world's leader in distance training. Learn job skills at home.

CyberEdit and EssayEdge
Resume, admissions essay, web page, and business editing and advice by Harvard editors.

The Learning Company
Broderbund's online edcational software store.

eLearners.com
The resource center for online learning.

TextbookSource.net
Complete source for textbooks featuring over 600,000 new and used titles.

CollegeRecruiter.com
Free resume book geared towards recent college grads.

Federal Money Retriever
Government grant advice.

FunBrain.com
Online educational games for kids of all ages.

Tags: 100 top education sites, education, knowledge, learning

ClipXploration - From Stargazers to Starships 5

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:19:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Of special interest to teachers: back to top

'Stargazers' in the Classroom
"Stargazers" and National Science Education Standards
Inventory of concepts, calculations and stories, by section.
A list of problems related to the material.
Additional Problems
"Using Space to Teach Physics" (draft of article in The Physics Teacher, Feb.'99)
"Kepler's 3 Laws of Planetary Motion," a one-hour overview lecture to teachers presented 23 March 2005.
Afterthoughts on what this site has become.
Author and Curator: Dr. David P. Stern
Greenbelt, Maryland Mail to Dr.Stern: stargaze("at" symbol)phy6.org .

Clip Source: www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov

From Stargazers to Starships

A Math Refresher

Elements of algebra

(M-1) Basic ideas
(M-1A) Algebra Proficiency Drill
(M-2) How it all started
(M-3) Formulas
(M-4) Identities
(M-5) Deriving Approximate Results

(M-6) The Theorem of Pythagoras

Elements of trigonometry

(M-7) What is it good for?
(M-8) How to tell sines from cosines
(M-9) Deriving sines and cosines
(M-10) Going past 90 degrees
(M-11) Deriving sin(α+β), cos(α+β).
(M-11A) Trigonometry Proficiency Drill
(M-12) The Tangent

Helpful Material back to top

Questions and Answers -- Listed by subject (and oh, do we get questions!)
Questions and Answers -- Listed in the order they were received.
Hints to users.
A Glossary of Terms (Cross-linked, keyed to the text)
Annotated Timeline (Chronology with links and added dates from history).

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ClipXploration - From Stargazers to Starships 4

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:16:56 GMT

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Clip Source: www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov

From Stargazers to Starships

Spaceflight and Spacecraft

25. The Principle of the Rocket
26. Robert Goddard and his Rockets
27. The Evolution of the Rocket
28. Spaceflight
29. Spacecraft
29a.  Satellites observing the Sun, solar system and the universe
29b.   Satellites observing Earth from above
29c.   Satellites which observe the local space environment
29d.   Satellites for commercial benefits
29e.   Missions to planets and distant space
30. Far-out Pathways to Space: Great Guns?
30a.    Project HARP and the Martlet
31. Far-out Pathways to Space: Nuclear Power
32. Far-out pathways to Space: Solar Sails
32a.    Early Warning of Interplanetary Disturbances
33. Ion Rockets

34. Orbits in Space
34a.    The Distance to the L1 Point
34b.    The L4 and L5 Lagrangian Points
34c.    The L4 and L5 Points--Another Derivation
35. Starships
35a.     Planetary Swing-by and the Pelton Turbine

Afterword: "Do Frogs Exist there Too ?"

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ClipXploration - From Stargazers to Starships 3

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:15:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Peripheral Subjects related to section S-7 above:

LS-7A The Discovery of Atoms and Nuclei
(A very quick overview of the relevant history.)
S-7A The Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy
S-8. Nuclear Power
S-9. Nuclear Weapons

Clip Source: www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov

From Stargazers to Starships

The Sun and related Physics

The Sun--Introduction

How the Sun produces weather and climate
S-1. Sunlight and the Earth
S-1A. Weather and the Atmosphere
S-1B. Global Climate, Global Wind flow

S-2. Our View of the Sun
S-3. The Magnetic Sun
S-3A. Interplanetary Magnetic Field Lines
S-4. The Many Colors of Sunlight

S-4A. Experimenting with Colors

Optional: The Doppler Effect

The Velocity of Light

Frequency Shifts and the Expanding Universe

Rotating Galaxies and Dark Matter

S-5. Waves and Photons

Optional

Q-1. Quantum Physics
Q-2. The Atomic Structure of Matter
Q-3. Atomic Energy Levels
Q-4. Planck's Constant: Radiation from Hot Objects
Q-5. The Atomic Nucleus and Bohr's Early Model of the Atom
Q-6. Expansion of the Bohr Model
Q-7. Wave Mechanics
Q-8. Quantum Tunneling

S-6. Seeing the Sun in a New Light
S-7. The Energy of the Sun

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ClipXploration - From Stargazers to Starships 2

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:12:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov

From Stargazers to Starships

Newtonian mechanics

13. The Way Things Fall
14. Vectors

15. Energy

16. Newton and his Laws
17. Mass
17a.    Mass Measurements aboard Space Station Skylab
17b.    Comparing Masses without the Use of Gravity
18. Newton's Second Law
18a.     Newton's Third Law
18b.    Momentum
18c.    Work

18d. Work against an Electric Force: The Van de Graaff Generator

19. Motion in a Circle
20. Newton's theory of "Universal Gravitation"
21. Kepler's Third Law
21a. Applying Kepler's Third Law

21b.     Flight to Mars: How Long? Along what Path?
21c.     Flight to Mars: Calculations
21d.     Flight to Mars: the Return Trip

22. Frames of Reference: The Basics
22a     The Aberration of Starlight
22b     The Theory of Relativity
22c     Airplane Flight
22d     Airplane Flight: How high? How fast? (optional)
23. Accelerated Frames of Reference: Inertial Forces
23a     Frames of Reference: The Centrifugal Force
23b     Loop-the-Loop (optional)
24a. The Rotating Earth
24b. Rotating Frames of Reference in Space and on Earth
.

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ClipXploration - From Stargazers to Starships 1

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:10:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Kepler's 3 Laws of Planetary Motion," a one-hour overview lecture to teachers presented 23 March 2005.
Guide to the sections on Kepler's Laws which follow below.

10. Kepler and his Laws
10a. The Scale of the Solar System
11. Graphs and Ellipses
11a. Ellipses and Kepler's First Law
12. Kepler's Second Law
12a. More on Kepler's Second Law
12b. How Orbital Motion is Calculated

Optional: The 2004 Transit of Venus
12c. Halley's Method of Deriving the AU
12d. The displacement D of the track of Venus
12e. Deriving the Astronomical Unit

Clip Source: www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov

From Stargazers to Starships

Astronomy of the Earth's motion in space:

Introduction to this part

1. Stargazers and Skywatchers
1a.    The Celestial Sphere
1b.    Finding the Pole Star
2. The Path of the Sun, the Ecliptic
2a.    Building a Sundial
3. Seasons of the Year
3a. The Angle of the Sun's Rays
4.   The Moon: the Distant View
4a.    The Moon: A Closer Look
4b.   Optional: Libration of the Moon
5. Latitude and Longitude
5a.   Navigation
5b.   The Cross-Staff
5c.    Coordinates
6. The Calendar
6a.    The Jewish Calendar (optional)
7. Precession
8. The Round Earth and Christopher Columbus
8a.    Distance to the Horizon
8b.    Parallax
8c.    How Distant is the Moon?--1
8d.    How Distant is the Moon?--2
    The central role of the Sun
9a.    Aristarchus: Is Earth Revolving around the Sun?
9b.    The Earth's Shadow
9c.    Copernicus, Galileo, and the Discovery of the Solar System

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Math Games and puzzles

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:20:58 GMT

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Clip Source: education.guardian.co.uk

Games and Puzzles

Berries at Blueberry Hill
Multiply your blueberries and defeat the computer in this strategic online game. It's rather like Othello, and would be a good introduction to chess for younger children.

The Grey Labyrinth
An award winning site of mathematical puzzles both solved and unsolved! A forum is also provided where you can discuss the problems with other visitors.

Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
Great site with a number of interactive puzzles. Many of these are challenging although secondary students should be able to approach these given some assistance, ideal for developing understanding.

Logic Mazes
An enthralling collection of interactive mazes, at least one of which was too much for the editor of this site. Theseus and the Minotaur is particularly compelling.

Tags: math, games, puzzles, learning, education, homeschool, resources

Clipmarks | skwirlinator's Education collection

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The Free Information Society

2008 ELECTION OVERVIEW

Learning Posters

Posters/Charts (PDF files)at thinkzone.wlonk.com and elements.wlonk.com

Top 10 Reasons NOT to homeshool

My Education Bookmarks folder needs sorted

Education

Bombing For Peace

100 Top Education Sites

ClipXploration - From Stargazers to Starships 5

A Math Refresher

Elements of algebra

Elements of trigonometry

ClipXploration - From Stargazers to Starships 4

Spaceflight and Spacecraft

ClipXploration - From Stargazers to Starships 3

The Sun and related Physics

ClipXploration - From Stargazers to Starships 2

Newtonian mechanics

ClipXploration - From Stargazers to Starships 1

Math Games and puzzles

Posters/Charts (PDF files)
at thinkzone.wlonk.com and elements.wlonk.com