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Anna Wharton
Anna Wharton is a teacher-librarian at Clarkson Secondary School in Mississauga
Email: anna.wharton@peelsb.com
Anna Wharton est professeur bibliothécaire à l'école secondaire Clarkson à Mississauga
Courriel: anna.wharton@peelsb.com
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Links by Subject
Philosophy GZB3O HZT4U
http://www.iep.utm.edu/
Dowden, Bradley, and James Fieser, editors. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. This is an excellent online compendium of philosophers' lives and thought.
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Zalta, Edward N., editor. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, 2006.
Citation suggestions provided, rss feed, alphabetical hyperlinks to philosophers. Advance search tools, bookmarking features, searching tips.
GZB30 HZT4U
Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org
Hosts original full version text of writings of scientists from Aristotle to Darwin, (The Descent of Man, On the Origin of Species, The Voyage of the Beagle) Rene Descartes' Discourse, Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population.
Check out the top 100 authors list and recently added, books in other languages. [suggest for ELL as parallel texts sources.]
History CHW3M Ancient History
Halsall, Paul, editor. Internet History of Science Sourcebook. Fordham University, 1998-2001. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/science/sciencesbook.html
An excellent chronology of scientific discovery throughout the world with Mathematics, from the ancients to moral issues in modern science. Some overlap to History and Philosophy and Science. SNC4M
CGW4U/CGU4U
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/peace/nuclear_weapons/index.html
Nuclear proliferation game.
English ENG4E
Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Available online at http://www.bartleby.com/196/
A comparative study of myth and religion from all over the world. Frazer connects myths thematically, especially myths related to spring and rebirth.
ENG2D
See below the games sites affiliated with the nobel home pages.
http://nobelprize.org
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/literature/golding/index.html
Above site has the game for Lord of the Flies.
Economics CIE3M / CIA4U
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/economics/trade/index.html
Above is the international trade game.
Physics SPH4U
Michielsen, Kristel, and Hans De Raedt. Quantum Mechanics. University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 2006. Includes historical background to the evolution of Newtonian mechanics, includes video animations of particle and wave theory. http://msc.phys.rug.nl/quantummechanics/intro.htm
Science SBI4U
Museum of Paleontology. University of California, Berkeley.
Resources by authorities for understanding evolution made simple, includes glossary of terms. A paleontology portal with a timeline for species, world's biomes, k-12 resources and rss feed.
SNC3E
Paustian, Timothy, editor. Microbiology and Bacteriology: The World of Microbes. University of Wisconsin, 1999-2006. http://www.bact.wisc.edu/Microtextbook/index.php
Online textbook with virtual links to chapters on pathogens, classification of living organisms, metabolism. Visuals, polls and searchable features.
SNC2D/SNC2P
The Tree of Life Web Project explains in visual format where a species belongs in relation to others. [Ecosystems unit] Includes extensive hyperlinked glossary, explanation of relationships in hierarchy, downloadable xml version of tree of life for offline use. Access to forums. List of references for contributors at the bottom of most pages.
http://www.tolweb.org/tree/
SNC1D/SNC1P
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/chemistry/conductive_polymers/index.html
Conductive polymers game.
Mathematics MPM2D MFM2P
O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. The MacTutor History of Mathematics. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland, 2006. http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/index.html
A-Z of ephemera on famous mathematicians, Mathematical discoveries by country, overview of the history of Mathematics, Algebra, additional materials including java applications like the link below for interactive geometry which is useful for visual learners.
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/java/
for virtual manipulatives.
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