Learning Objects and Learning Object Collections: Complete List

Art

Learning Objects

Japanese Gardens
http://learn.bowdoin.edu/japanesegardens/index.html?overview

Gift of the Indus: The Arts and Culture of Pakistan
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/pakistan/default.htm

Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/radio/index.html

Louvre Atlanta: The Royal Collection
http://www.louvreatlanta.org/en/exhibition/Year%201

Dream Anatomy Gallery
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/da_gallery.html

African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection
http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/africanvision/

Biology & Physiology

Learning Objects

Interactive Atlas of Thoracic Viscera
http://www9.biostr.washington.edu/cgi-bin/DA/PageMaster?atlas:Thorax+ffpathIndex:Thorax^Splash+2

Introduction to Genetics (from GlaxoSmithKline)
http://genetics.gsk.com/generalpublic_flash.htm

Understanding Race
http://www.understandingrace.org/

National Association of Biology Teachers: Instructional Materials (collection)
http://www.nabt.org/sites/S1/index.php?p=25

Heart Contraction and Blood Flow
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/hhw/hhw_pumping.html

The Skull
http://www.csuchico.edu/anth/Module/skull.html

The Virtual Frog Dissection Kit
http://froggy.lbl.gov/virtual/

Artificial Anatomy Collection
http://americanhistory.si.edu/anatomy/collection/nma03_collection_human.html

Artificial Anatomy Body Parts Game
http://americanhistory.si.edu/anatomy/bodyparts/nma03_bodyparts.html

An Introduction to the Digestive System
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/biology/humananatomy/digestive/index.shtml

An Introduction to the Skeletal System
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/biology/humananatomy/skeletal/skeletalsystem.html

Unmasking Skin
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0211/feature2/index.html

Human Anatomy 'Label Me' Printouts (collection)
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/label/anatomy.shtml

Human Embryology Animations (collection)
http://www.indiana.edu/~anat550/embryo_main/

Cells Alive (collection)
http://www.cellsalive.com/index.htm

Orca Live
http://www.orca-live.net/

Business

Learning Objects

• Biz/Ed Virtual Learning Arcade
  A new offering from Biz/ed (last mentioned in the July 20, 2001 Scout Report), the Virtual Learning Arcade uses simulations and interactive online models to help teach concepts related to economics and business. Along with the simulations are a variety of support materials written to help educators take full advantage of the tools provided. Ten simulations are currently available, but the goal of the project is to have twenty eventually. Interested users can sign up for the Biz/ed newsletter to keep up-to-date on the newest VLA releases.
• Great Ideas for Teaching Marketing
  Provided by South-Western College Publishing, Great Ideas for Teaching Marketing is an extensive metapage of instructional resources written and tested by teachers at the high school and college level. Topics range from promotion, pricing, and selling to product design and consumer behavior. The site features a wide variety of document types such as teaching tips, games, and research.

Childhood Studies

Learning Objects

• Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project

Communication

Learning Objects

The Ad*Access Project
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/

Channel4.com: Four Docs (user created content)
http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/

Frontline: News War (The Future of Journalism)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/

Economics

Learning Objects

A Comparative Chronology of Money
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/amser/chrono.html

FED101: The Federal Reserve Today
http://www.kc.frb.org/fed101/indexflash.cfm

In Plain English: Making Sense of the Federal Reserve
http://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/pleng/

Learning Object Collections

The Mint
A collaborative effort between the National Council on Economic Education and the Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation, this site offers lessons, quizzes, and activities to teach secondary students basic economics and money management. Short lessons are grouped in four categories: Saving & Investing, Spending, Making a Budget, and Learning & Earning. Topics addressed include compounding and investing, credit cards, expenses and budgets, and education and income potential. Additional resources at the site include a Parents and Teachers section with lesson plans and activities, a Dictionary of financial terms, and a section exploring the individual student's role in the economy.
http://www.themint.org/

EconEdLink Lessons on Economics
The EconEdLink site was created by the National Council on Economic Education in partnership with MCI. The aim of the site is to create "a portfolio of web sites offering rich academic content" that can be integrated into classroom activities. There are three sections at the site. The CyberTeach section provides links to useful educational web sites and also includes a guide to constructing economics lessons using the Internet. Net Newsline features analyses of current economic issues from economists, and interactive lessons and forums. The Economics Minute section helps students interpret the economics behind the news of the week by linking to news sources, providing classroom discussion questions and suggested classroom activities.
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm

Canadian Economy Online
It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's Captain Economy! That's right, at this very comprehensive site devoted to Canada's economy, visitors can ask the little green guy with the cape and dollar sign on his chest for help. In fact, his first feat is to address just what an economy is anyway. The site offers all sorts of statistics about all of the great economic indicators like inflation rate, unemployment rate, exchange rate, etc. Visitors to the site can click on one of the subpages devoted to explaining economic topics such as Key Indicators, Economic Concepts, and Key Economic Events.
http://www.canadianeconomy.gc.ca/english/economy/index.cfm

English

Learning Objects

Scribbling Women: Online Resources for Teaching American Women Literature Using Dramatizations Produced by The Public Media Foundation
This fine resource uses radio dramatizations produced by the Public Media Foundation to teach prominent texts by American women writers -- the same writers Nathaniel Hawthorne, fearing for his livelihood, cursed as a "damned mob of scribbling women." Currently, the Website offers dramatizations of three texts: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman, A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather, and A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell. In addition to the full audio (offered in RealPlayer) of the radio dramatizations, each dramatization is accompanied by an essay offering a literary interpretation and another discussing the work's literary and historical context. Further reading, a biography, and sample lesson plans are also posted. Seven other works are also covered on-site, containing all of the above materials with the exception of the audio dramatization. These works are The Schoolmaster's Progress by Caroline Kirkland, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis, A Whisper in the Dark by Louisa May Alcott, Louisa by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Hate is Nothing by Marita Bonner, and The Bones of Louella Brown by Ann Petry.
http://www.scribblingwomen.org/

Bartleby Verse: American and English Poetry, 1250-1920
The New Bartleby Library has added the texts of five additional poetry anthologies covering American and English poetry, 1250-1920, to its Verse page, which previously hosted The Oxford Book of English Verse (see the August 23, 1996 Scout Report). The new additions include the Yale Book of American Verse (1912), Modern British Poetry (1920), Modern American Poetry (1919), Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the 17th Century (1921), and the Golden Treasury (1875). All six anthologies are searchable by keyword or browsable by author (chronological or alphabetical), title, or first line. The anthologies are, of course, highly selective and reflect the period in which they were originally published, representing the canon as it stood in the first quarter of this century.
http://www.bartleby.com/verse/

Poet's Corner
This recent site from Gale Research is part of a series of sites that offers biographies, timelines, interactive elements, links, activities, and pertinent Gale publishing titles on selected topics. The interactive elements include quizzes and contests, while the activities sections draw on published Gale materials useful for structuring lessons in the classroom or for self-edification. Poet's corner features encyclopedia-length biographical entries for 20 English and American poets ranging from John Milton to Rita Dove.
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/poets/index.htm

American Verse Project
The American Verse Project, a part of the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. Full texts are being made available in both HTML and SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). Authors include William Cullen Bryant, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and George Sylvester Viereck, among others. HTML versions include scanned images of title pages, verso pages, and tables of contents. Volumes can be viewed in their entirety or by table of contents entries. There is an option for revealing line groupings and line identifications. The entire collection is searchable, with Boolean and proximity searching available.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/

Environmental

Learning Objects

Water in Africa
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/enrichment/africa/index.html

Air Junk: Specks, Flecks and Particles in the Air
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/airjunk/index.html

Math

Learning Objects

Math Resources from The University of Illinois (collection)
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/resources.php

Powers of Ten
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

Interactive Abacus Tutor
http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/java/AbacusApp.html

Statistics Simulations from Rice University
http://onlinestatbook.com/stat_sim/index.html

Graphing Tutorial for Algebra
http://www.wtamu.edu/academic/anns/mps/math/mathlab/beg_algebra/beg_alg_tut21_graph.htm

Linear Algebra Toolkit
http://www.math.odu.edu/~bogacki/cgi-bin/lat.cgi

Ms. Lindquist: Algebra Word Problems
http://www.algebratutor.org/cgi-bin/testIPMsL2.pl

GeoGebra
http://www.geogebra.org/cms/

Math Learning Object Collections

• QuickMath: Automatic Math Solutions
  QuickMath is one of the most useful sites for common but tedious mathematical calculations. It is a free "online calculator that solves equations and does all sorts of algebra and calculus problems." Separated into many different functional sections, this handy tool can simplify expressions, evaluate symbolic integrals, plot equations, and much more. When inputting a problem into QuickMath for it to solve, users have an option to use basic or advanced controls depending on the problem's intricacies. Each section has an associated help feature, which allows users to see examples demonstrating how to use the interface.
  http://www.quickmath.com
  
• The Abacus
  Parents often scoff at the powerful calculators their children use for math classes, noting that they had to learn with slide rules. A device that predates both tools, however, is the focus of this unique site. The abacus has roots in the fifth century B.C., and still sees limited use in various parts of the world. A very thorough overview is provided online, with interactive applets that teach the user how to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with an abacus. Several excerpts from a textbook demonstrate square and cube root extraction. Historical perspectives are given that trace the use of the abacus through time and different civilizations.
  http://werwolf.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/abacus

Nursing & Health

Learning Objects

Women Physicians, 1850's - 1970's (collection)
http://archives.drexelmed.edu/womanmd/

The Disease Triangle
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/%7Etriangle/

The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's
http://www.pbs.org/theforgetting/

AID's Today (lesson plan)
www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/health/aids/index.html

Cancer and the Cell Cycle
http://science-education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/cancer/activities/activity2_videos.htm

Cancer as a Multistep Process
http://science-education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/cancer/activities/activity3.htm

Acting on Information About Cancer
http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/Cancer/guide/pdfs/ACT5NOCD.pdf

Learning Object Collections

CancerNursing.org
CancerNursing.org offers "free, professional online cancer care courses that aim to enhance the knowledge and skills of health professionals and anyone concerned with the care of cancer patients." The first (and so far, only) course available on CancerNursing.org covers esophageal cancer, including diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy, and more. Users complete the course online at their own pace, using a range of tests to check their understanding of the material. Users may also email health experts about course content, or follow Web links for more information. The site also provides the latest cancer-related news.
http://www.cancernursing.org/

NIH Curriculum Supplement Series
Includes multimedia lessons on:
- Cell Biology and Cancer
- Emerging and RE-emerging Infectious Diseases
- Human Genetic Variation
- The Brain:
    Understanding Neurobiology through the Study of Addiction
- Sleep, Sleep Disorders, and Biological Rhythms
http://science-education.nih.gov/customers.nsf/highschool.htm

Psychology

Learning Objects

Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development
http://tc3.edu/itlr/flashobjects/Kohlberg3.swf

Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning
http://www.lc.capellauniversity.edu/~180140/ED7503/BloomsFlash/BloomsPage.shtml

Make Up Your Mind
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1302/index.html

Science

Learning Objects

Phasor Representation of Sinusoidal Functions
http://tc3.edu/itlr/flashobjects/Waves.swf

Kepler's 3 Laws of Planetary Motion
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Kep3laws.htm

What Lived with Sue?
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/sue/interactive1/sue-whatlivedV3_content.html

Organic Chemistry Electronic Flash Cards
http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/organic/flashcards/

Physics Applets from the University of Oregon
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/

Titan: Saturn's Moon Explorer
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/flash/Titan/index.html

Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics
http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/bga.html

The Sailing Simulator
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/volvooceanrace/interactives/sailing/index.html

Air Travelers Introduction to the Basic Principles of Buoyancy
http://www.omsi.edu/visit/physics/air/home.html

MoMA: Tall Building
http://moma.org/exhibitions/2004/tallbuildings/index_f.html

Auroras: Paintings in the Sky
http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/auroras/selfguide1.html

Air Columns
http://www.students.tc3.edu/bdy/AirColumns/AirColumns.html

Hadley Cells
http://www.students.tc3.edu/bdy/HadleyCells/HadleyCells.html

The Bergeron Process
http://www.students.tc3.edu/bdy/BergeronProcess/IMP-Version/NewBergeron.html

Science Learning Object Collections

NOVA: Origins
At NOVA's Origins website, users can "journey back to the beginning of everything: the universe, Earth, and life itself." The website offers a series of interactive modules where visitors can decide if life exists on other planets in the Milky Way, view where scientists are making large discoveries of life's origins, and much more. Users can find fascinating articles addressing life on Mars, the necessity of water for life, and the role galaxies play in our existence. Educators should soon be able to find a Teacher's Guide for the PBS television program airing in September.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/origins/

Engineers Edge: Strength and Mechanics of Materials
The mission of Engineers Edge is "to be the preferred online destination for designers, engineers and manufacturing professionals" by offering training, seminars, and online technical information and products. This section of their website on Strength and Mechanics of Materials offers an overview of topics in Materials Science, including sections on stress, strain, Hookes Law, malleability, fatigue and vibration. The short explanations are accompanied by related figures and equations. The section also provides a link to their free Technical / Engineering Publications, which cover a variety of topics including: Machine Design, Electronic Design, and Processing Magazine.
http://www.engineersedge.com/mechanics_material_menu.shtml

Chemistry Tutorials
The California State University Stanislaus developed these interactive chemistry web tutorials to assist college students in mass spectrometry, proton NMR chemical shifts, and more. With the many animations and figures, visitors will find assistance with the subtraction and absorption of light and with infrared absorption frequencies for numerous compounds. The titration tutorials simulate laboratory experiments without the hazards of dealing with chemicals. Students will also find a very informative lesson describing how to use Excel to record and analyze their chemistry data.
http://science.csustan.edu/tutorial/

ChemLab
Dartmouth College's introductory chemistry course program has a website that is worth a look by students and professors of chemistry at other institutions. Visitors to the site can ignore the exam and grading sections and head straight to the Java applets. With these nine, nifty mini-tutorials, students can create a custom periodic table, play fill-in-the-blank periodic table puzzles, run virtual labs on anions and cations, construct a visible spectrum, practice least-squares regressions, and much more. Visitors to the site will also find the "Chemistry and Background" portions of the online laboratory manuals (filed under Chem 3/5 and Chem 6) useful and also should review the section on how and why to keep a chemistry lab notebook.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chemlab/

Organic Chemistry Help
The Ohio State University's chemistry department provides this help page for students of organic chemistry. Highlights of the site include tutorials, organic chemistry FAQs, organic reaction mechanisms, and practice tests with explanations for incorrect answers. The interactive tutorials provide concise review information on topics in organic chemistry (e.g., alkanes and alkenes), molecular drawings, and practice questions. Organic Chemistry Help is a welcome relief for students tackling this very difficult discipline.
http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/organic/flashcards/

The Coffee Science Information Center
Celebrating the drink that Bach referred to as "lovelier than a thousand kisses," the website of the Coffee Science Information Centre has a variety of sections relating different material on the work of the Centre and general information about this occasionally maligned beverage. The prime goal of the Coffee Science Information Centre is "to provide accurate, balanced and consistent information to all audiences across Europe who have an interest in coffee, caffeine and health." Specifically, different sections of the site deal with coffee and health, world coffee events, and a brief essay on coffee throughout history. The site also contains links to different scientific reports that refute certain commonly misconceptions about coffee, including the idea that prolonged coffee ingestion will lead to extreme dehydration. This site will be of great interest to those with a strong affinity for coffee and also for those interested in current scientific
research on caffeine.
http://www.cosic.org/

World & U.S. Studies

Learning Objects

Anatomy of a Refugee Camp
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/refugeecamp/

American Women through Time
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-timeline.html

London: A Life in Maps
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/londoninmaps/exhibition.html

Oral History Project in Labor History
http://www2.roosevelt.edu/library/oralhistory/oralhistory.htm

Identity by Design: Tradition, Change and Celebration in Native Women's Dress
http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/identity_by_design/

The Circus in America: 1793-1940
http://www.circusinamerica.org/public/welcome

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Flight and Rescue
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/flight_rescue/

Learning Object Collections

ECAI Iraq
The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) Iraq website offers users "a temporal-spatial portal into existing digital resources about history, cultural sites, archaeological excavations and heritage preservation initiatives." Utilizing unique interactive and thematic maps, visitors to the site will find an incredible array of information including topics such as the Akkadian Empire, the Hittites, the Roman Empire, and much more. By selecting one of the topic areas, users are taken to a page with lists related books, artifacts, maps, and timelines pertaining to that area. The maps are especially helpful in picturing how the world was divided between groups in 700 B.C., for instance. This site will definitely be a great resource for the researchers and students who are interested in the historical cultural trends of this area of the world.
http://ecai.org/iraq/

UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
It is widely accepted that global biodiversity is at risk. While humans are often encouraged to think globally yet act locally, who's watching out for the bigger picture. The answer is in the form of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), which is a function of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It is now noted as "the world’s foremost intergovernmental environmental organisation." This site offers up-to-date news and publications about world biodiversity issues as well as providing an incredible array of information on the several projects in which the centre is involved, ranging from habitat to species to protected area issues. The site also offers great Interactive Map Services, which take the visitor through in-depth presentations of topics ranging from Coral Disease to Marine Turtles.
http://www.unep-wcmc.org/

Ancient China
This excellent interactive site, produced by the British Museum, contains a wealth of information about ancient China. Explorers can follow any of five links that cover major sections of the website, including Crafts and Artisans, Geography, and Tombs and Ancestors. Each section contains historical information in the topical area and Story, Explore and Challenge links. The Challenge links are especially useful for classroom activities.
http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/menu.html

Historical Maps Online
Digitized map collections abound online these days, and the Historical Maps Online collection from the University of Illinois Library is one of the better ones available for researchers and the inquisitive public. Part of a collaborative effort between the University of Illinois Library and the University of Illinois Press, the online material includes hundreds of digitized maps, which may be examined in minute detail with an effective zoom feature. Visitors may browse the maps by preset topics (such as Wisconsin, Indians of North America, Kansas), or browse through the special section containing topographic maps of Illinois. While the general intent of the project was to electronically present images of maps that chart the past 400 years of historical development in Illinois, there are also a few real unusual gems here. One such map is the little-known caricature map of Chicago from 1931 titled "A Map of Chicago's gangland from authentic sources: designed to inculcate the most important principles of piety and virtue in young persons, and graphically portray the evils and sin of large cities."
http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/maps/index.html

NationMaster
If you have ever wanted to look up any number of national statistics, the NationMaster website is an excellent resource for finding out any number of current details about just about any country in the world. Currently, NationMaster has 335 statistical data sets, ranging from library books, forested land, Internet users, and airports. For easy reference, the main Web page features the most frequently requested stats, such as televisions and military expenditures per capita. NationMaster also allows visitors the option of creating their own graphs in order to effectively compare different nations. The site also has links to national profiles, which include the available statistics for each country, and images of the country's flag and a political map. Additionally, the site has a search engine, and a place where visitors can read short facts on the different countries. Apart from being interesting to browse through, the site will be helpful for students looking for basic statistics on the world's different countries.
http://www.nationmaster.com/

Varied Subjects

Learning Object Collections

Smithosonian Institute
http://www.si.edu/

Smithosonian Institute Exhibitions
http://www.si.edu/exhibitions/

Library of Congress Exhibitions
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/

UTOPIA: University of Texas at Austin
http://utopia.utexas.edu/

National Research Channel (collection of over 3,000 educational videos)
http://www.researchchannel.org/