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Third Grade Path Finders |
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This web page is for use by students when doing special projects. |
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Exploring Our Solar System |
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Find information, photos, and games about astronomy, the solar system, and space. |
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This multimedia tour of the solar system includes pictures, text, and movies. "The Nine Planets" is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. |
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Stardate: The Solar System and beyond This site provides pictures and text about each of the planets, the stars, and gallaxies. |
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This site contains lots of NASA images of the planets. Descriptions of the images can be read or listened to. |
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Type your topic in the search engine. Press enter. Look for Fast Facts combined with your topic. |
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This is a good site for easy to read information about astronomy topics. |
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The Solar System from Astronomy Magazine This is a very good site for information about the planets, the sun or moon, comets, or asteroids. |
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Do you have a question about your topic? Check Dr. Universe for an answer. |
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This site has lots of information about our solar system. It is fairly easy to read. |
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Science Monster: The Solar System This is a simple to use site about the solar system. |
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This Enchanted Learning Page contains lots of easy to read information about the solar system. |
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Exploring Downtown San Jose |
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This year is the 25th anniversary of a San Jose tradition. Various local groups set up displays celebrating Christmas. It opened on November 24 and will be there through January 1. |
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This contemporary art museum is located in the center of downtown San Jose. It has a permanent collection of 1,400 twentieth and twenty-first century artworks including paintings, sculpture, installation, new media, photography, drawings, prints, and artist books. It also features thematic exhibitions throughout the year as well as art programs for adults and children. |
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Impressionism |
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This site has a simple description of impressionistic painting. It spotlights the work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas, but also mentions other famous artists. |
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See many paintings of this famous Impressionistic painter. Click on a painting to enlarge it. |
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American Impressionist Painters This site spotlights five American Impressionistic painters – Mary Cassatt, Theodore Robinson, Richard Emil Miller, Theodore Earl Butler, and Frederick Carl Frieseke. Click on one of their paintings to learn more about them. |
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Modern Art |
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Tour the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and see examples of paintings and sculpture created in the modern art style. Listen and examine each of the art works. |
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Realism |
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This sites provides a simple description of realistic painting. It spotlights the works of Edouard Manet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. |
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Update Aug. 19, 2009