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 | | For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights | Social studies | | Visual culture, including television, film, magazines, and photographs, played a central role in the U.S. Civil Rights movement. Photographs called national and international attention to racism and anti-black violence in the United States. Meanwhile, magazines such as Ebony and Jet changed how Americans viewed race, as did films like Carmen Jones and A Raisin in the Sun. For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights is an online resource that accompanies a traveling exhibition that was curated by Dr. Maurice Berger of the Center for Art, Design and Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, co-organized by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African-American History and Culture, and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visitors can check out the exhibition's schedule in the availability section of this website. An online version of this exhibit, which features captioned photographs of exhibition materials, can be found in the online tools section. Teachers may want to visit the lessons for educators section, which features three lesson plans for middle school students. While these lesson plans are designed to accompany an exhibition visit, they may also be used in tandem with the online exhibit. This website also includes a bibliography for further research and a helpful glossary. [MMB] | |      | |
 | | New Jersey Center for Teaching & Learning: Course Materials | Science | | The New Jersey Center for Teaching & Learning is a nonprofit organization dedicated to K-12 STEM education. On the organization's course materials page, educators will find a number of free resources for teaching math and science. These resources, which were designed by a team of STEM educators, include presentations, homework assignments, lab activities, and assessments. This collection includes math and science resources in both English and Spanish, along with a few English-language resources in English language arts and computer science. Materials are organized by subject and grade level for easy browsing. Grade levels range from kindergarten to advanced high school, including resources for advanced placement calculus, physics, biology, and chemistry. [MMB] | | | |
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 | | JAR: Journal for Artistic Research | Arts | | Launched in March 2010, the Journal for Artistic Research describes itself as, "an international, online, open-access and peer-reviewed journal that disseminates artistic research from all disciplines." The journal is edited and reviewed by an international team of art scholars. JAR distinguishes itself from other online journals by offering multimedia articles (called "Expositions") that incorporate images and videos that aren't always linear. In the current issue of the journal, filmmaker Susannah Gent discusses her short, experimental film Unhomely Street and the role of philosophy, neuroscience, and psychoanalysis in the film. Her exposition features a number of images that inspired her film. Meanwhile, in another exposition, Meghan Moe Beitiks describes her project, "Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience," which incorporates interviews with a number of individuals about trauma and recovery. [MMB] | | | |
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 | | NOAA/NASA: SciJinks | Science | | SciJinks is a resource for K-12 science educators created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) dedicated to teaching young scientists about weather and weather-related careers. This resource contains interactive games, educational videos, images, posters, and classroom activities. Educators and students can browse these resources in a number of ways. In the topics section, materials are organized thematically: hurricanes and storms; clouds, water, and ice; tides and oceans; atmosphere, seasons, satellites and technology; and space weather. Visitors can also search materials by type of resource, including games, multimedia, and dispatches (short, illustrated explanations for phenomenon including El Nino and polar vortices.) Additional types of materials, including PDFs of classroom activities, can be browsed in the educators section. The people section contains short profiles of a number of weather professionals, offering young scientists a glimpse into possible future career paths. [MMB] | | | |
 | | Economic Policy Institute: Multimedia | Social studies | | The Economic Policy Institute's Multimedia page offers a wealth of resources that may especially appeal to economics instructors, students, journalists, and grant writers. These resources include video, audio, infographics, interactives, and presentations. In the video section, visitors will find conference presentations along with television appearances by EPI economists. Similarly, the audio section features clips from shows such as NPR's Planet Money. The infographics and interactives sections present a variety of data about economics and labor issues in the United States. Finally, the presentations section includes recorded content from EPI staff, accompanied by a short essay that outlines the presentation. [MMB] | | | |
