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Crystals, Minerals, & Gems

Crystals and Gems
Physical and Metaphysical Properties of Minerals

Educational

Bringing Live Animals into the Classroom
Buying a Telescope
Chemical Safety in the Classroom Lab
Classroom Lab Safety: Protecting Yourself from Liability
Collecting Insects
How to Buy a Microscope. (So, You're Going to Buy a Microscope...)
How To… Lab Safety Techniques Insert Glass Tube, Use Filter Paper, Lamps & Burners, Heat Liquids, Evaporate Flammable & Non-flammable Liquids, Test for Odors, Ignite a Crucible, Use Pipets, Read a Graduated Cylinder, Use a Buret, Use a Centrifuge.
How To Panic-proof Your School's Science Fair
The Importance of Classroom Lab Safety
An Organizational Approach to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act —By Dominique L. Galloway (April 2004)
The pH Scale & Standard Indicators
Types of Lab Glassware
    Care of Lab Glassware
Types of Lab Plasticware

Folk Lore, Folk Tales, & Folk Music

Fiddlers 3
How the Leopard Became a Panther
How Some Well-known Customs & Sayings Started
Ivan, the Gypsy Frog
Johnny Appleseed
The Lullaby Preservation League
Sarah Wilfong - Fiddle Soup
Types of Folk Music
Willies I have Known

Foods & Culture

Cooking & Culture
Cooking & Culture: Recipes
Dedicated to Jell-o
Ethnobotany
Genetically Modified Foods

Typewriters & Other Mechanical Marvels

Donating old cell phones
A Brief History of Typewriters
Classic Typewriter Classifieds
The Classic Typewriter Page
Typewriter Repairs In Illinois
Typewriter Tales

Mythology, Cosmology, & Astronomy

Astronomy Picture of the Day
Whence came this Universe?
Legends of the Sky

Mother Nature

Bears, Lovable and Not!
Frogs
Moon Lore
Snakes

Books and Music

Authors and Copyrights
Visitor's Guide to the Orchestra