Johnston's Archive Other Information Resources (including student resources)

Assorted data

• Countries of the world
• Territories of the world

• National park areas of the United States:
  • National Park Service Areas and Related Areas (counts and total areas)
  • List of National Parks
  • List of National Monuments
  • Largest National Park Areas
  • First Protected Park Areas
  • World Heritage Sites in the NPS

• National parks of Russia

• Cost of a first-class U.S. postage stamp, 1900-2006

Assorted student resources

• Science, general
  • What is the scientific method?

• Physics
  • Some relativistic physics
  • Teaching about the solar system and solar energy (background presentation for instruction on the solar system and the FOSS solar energy kit)
    • The planets and the Sun/The planet-sized moons (simplified table of information)
  • Diagram of seasonal isolation variation

• Geology
  • Number of earthquakes by year
  • Depiction of Earth at maximum glaciation during the last Ice Age, about 16,000 B.C.

• Mathematics
  • Illustration of a 7-color toroidal map (two views)

• Bird pictures
  • Pictures of tropical birds in Brownsville, Texas

General science links

• Bad Science.

Student resource links

• National Security Research on the Internet--by William M. Arkin (Center for Strategic Education, Johns Hopkins University, 2000)--the suggestions regarding research on the internet apply to topics beyond national security
• www.Free Speaker.org--ideas on liberty for speech and debate

Misc. links

• Plane Crash Info.
• The Rennaisance Man--David Johnston's web site #1
• IdeaSpot.net--David Johnston's web site #2

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