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The Marco Polo: Internet Content for the Classroom Web sites through the Marco Polo Foundation offer activities for the classroom. There are 7 Web sites covering mathematics, science, geography, economics, language arts, visual arts, and humanities.
 * Marco Polo: Internet Content for the Classroom **

o  http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM386&page=teacher o  In this site, teens tap relatives’ knowledge and memories to create autobiographies of their own births or other significant life events. .  o   http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2307/ o. In this lesson, the students will break into groups, each of which will write a working definition of a hero and present it creatively to the class. The teacher will provide various works of art depicting different kinds of heroes, and the students will choose one hero from one of these mediums to research as a topic for an expository essay.
 * **The Year I was Born: An Autobiography Project**
 * What’s A Hero? **

o  http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM463&page=teacher o  Students will use a PACED (Problem, Alternatives, Criteria, Evaluate, Decision) decision making grid to help them decide where they would like to attend college. This lesson is designed to help students determined what they would like to do when they graduate.
 * **College: Where Am I Going To Go?**

o  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/10/g912/smile.html o   This lesson introduces students to many subtle differences that must be appreciated in order to function socially, academically, and professionally in a [|multicultural world]. Differences also exist among different cultures within the United States, but this lesson looks at broader international cultural distinctions.
 * **Is a Smile Always Just a Smile?**

o  http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20020528tuesday.html?pagewanted=all o  In this lesson, students learn about the various factors leading to anger, the health risks involved in anger, and the techniques people can use to cope with it. Through writing and performing scenarios that enact different causes and coping techniques of anger, students learn how to better manage their own frustration in real-life situations.
 * **It’s a Mad World: Exploring the Causes and Effects of Anger and Effective Anger Management Techniques **

The Web-based activity simulates an event. In other words, a theoretical account based on a similarity between the model and the phenomena that are to be explained - a computer (Internet) simulation of problem solving.


 * ** Re-Living The Wright Way **