Home Education Resources & Services
Library of Congress
Discover the Library of Congress
Search millions of items in many formats and languages. Explore a growing treasury of digitized materials. Consult with staff online or in one of the research centers to find what you’re looking for.
Catalogs & Finding Aids
Use the online catalog to search the Library’s collections by keyword or browse materials by subject, title, author & more.
Who is a scholar? the first reply that must be given is: He is a scholar whose whole inward intellectual and moral being has been symmetrically unfolded, disciplined and strengthened under the influence of truth. The different mental activities will always be exercised rightly when the proper equilibrium is preserved. No one faculty should be drawn out to the neglect of others. The whole inner man should be unfolded harmoniously.
Emanuel Vogel Gerhart, The Proper Vocation of a Scholar: An Address, Delivered at the Opening of the New Diagnothian Hall (July 2, 1847).
.
Forensic Science
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Introduction to Forensic Science COURSERated 4.9 out of five stars. 1457 reviews 4.9(1,457) 87K students
- University of Lausanne Challenging Forensic Science: How Science Should Speak to Court COURSE Rated 4.8 out of five stars. 305 reviews 4.8(305) 9.1K students Beginner
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Genomics for Law COURSE Rated 4.8 out of five stars. 98 reviews 4.8(98) 5K students Beginner
- University of Michigan Anatomy: Musculoskeletal and Integumentary Systems COURSE Rated 4.8 out of five stars. 1475 reviews 4.8(1,475) 60K students Beginner
- West Virginia University Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination COURSE Rated 4.7 out of five stars. 3495 reviews 4.7(3,495) 67K students Mixed
- Universiteit LeidenOsteoarchaeology: The Truth in Our Bones COURSE Rated 4.7 out of five stars. 404 reviews 4.7(404) 27K studentsBeginner
- University of Maryland, College Park Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology) COURSE Rated 4.6 out of five stars. 702 reviews 4.6(702) 51K students Mixed
- University of Alberta Bugs 101: Insect-Human Interactions COURSE Rated 4.9 out of five stars. 915 reviews 4.9(915) 29K students Beginner
- Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Methods of molecular biology COURSE Rated 4.6 out of five stars. 22 reviews 4.6(22) 2.4K students Intermediate
- IBM Penetration Testing, Incident Response and Forensics COURSE Rated 4.6 out of five stars. 667 reviews 4.6(667) 15K students Beginner
- University of Lausanne La science forensique au tribunal: témoin digne de foi ?COURSE Rated 4.8 out of five stars. 33 reviews 4.8(33) Beginner
- Infosec Cyber Incident Response COURSE Rated 4.6 out of five stars. 7 reviews 4.6(7) Beginner
- The University of British Columbia Game Theory COURSE Rated 4.6 out of five stars. 3547 reviews 4.6(3,547) 320K students Beginner
- Royal Holloway, University of London Information Security: Context and Introduction COURSE Rated 4.7 out of five stars. 1629 reviews 4.7(1,629) 53K students Beginner
- IBM IBM Cybersecurity Analyst PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE Rated 4.5 out of five stars. 8831 reviews 4.5(8,831) 170K students Beginner
- University of Michigan Anatomy SPECIALIZATION Rated 4.8 out of five stars. 2405 reviews 4.8(2,405) 81K students Beginner
- Vanderbilt University Hot Topics in Criminal Justice COURSE Rated 4.6 out of five stars. 98 reviews 4.6(98)12K students Beginner
- IBM Cyber Threat Intelligence COURSE Rated 4.7 out of five stars. 419 reviews 4.7(419) 10K students Beginner
- University of Colorado System DDoS Attacks and Defenses COURSE Rated 4.5 out of five stars. 86 reviews 4.5(86) 5.4K students Beginner
- IBM IT Fundamentals for Cybersecurity SPECIALIZATION Rated 4.5 out of five stars. 8437 reviews 4.5(8,437) 160K students Beginner
- IBM Security Analyst Fundamentals SPECIALIZATION Rated 4.6 out of five stars. 891 reviews 4.6(891) 19K students Beginner
- (ISC)²Identifying, Monitoring, and Analyzing Risk and Incident Response and Recovery COURSE Rated 4.9 out of five stars. 154 reviews 4.9(154) 3.1K students Beginner
- OP Jindal Global University M.A. in International Relations, Security, and Strategy DEGREE#1 ranked private university in India (QS World University Rankings, 2021)
- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology FinTech Security and Regulation (RegTech) COURSE Rated 4.6 out of five stars. 171 reviews 4.6(171) 7.2K students Beginner
- The University of Sydney Using clinical health data for better healthcare COURSE Rated 4.6 out of five stars. 65 reviews 4.6(65) 5.2K students Beginner
- Coursera Project Network Interpretable Machine Learning Applications: Part 1 GUIDED PROJECT Beginner
- Fundação Instituto de Administração Master of Business Administration DEGREE#2 Executive MBAs in Latin America (QS Rankings, 2020)
- University of Minnesota Nursing Informatics Leadership Theory and Practice COURSE Rated 4.7 out of five stars. 31 reviews 4.7(31) 1.6K students Beginner
Technology, Engineering and Robotics
Art
is a diverse range of (products of) human activities involving creative imagination to express technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and ideas have changed over time. The three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture. Theatre, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, music, film and other media such as interactive media, are included in a broader definition of the arts. Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences. In modern usage after the 17th century, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, the fine arts are separated and distinguished from acquired skills in general, such as the decorative or applied arts.
The nature of art and related concepts, such as creativity and interpretation, are explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics. The resulting artworks are studied in the professional fields of art criticism and the history of art.
The arts
refers to the theory, human application and physical expression of creativity found in human cultures and societies through skills and imagination in order to produce objects, environments and experiences. Major constituents of the arts include visual arts (including architecture, ceramics, drawing, filmmaking, painting, photography, and sculpting), literary arts (including fiction, drama, poetry, and prose), performing arts (including dance, music, and theatre), and culinary arts (including cooking, chocolate making and winemaking).
Some art forms combine a visual element with performance (e.g. cinematography), or artwork with the written word (e.g. comics). From prehistoric cave paintings to modern-day films, art serves as a vessel for storytelling and conveying humankind’s relationship with the environment.
Math
(from Greek: μάθημα, máthēma, ‘knowledge, study, learning’) includes the study of such topics as quantity (number theory), structure (algebra), space (geometry), and change (analysis). It has no generally accepted definition.
Mathematicians seek and use patterns to formulate new conjectures; they resolve the truth or falsity of such by mathematical proof. When mathematical structures are good models of real phenomena, mathematical reasoning can be used to provide insight or predictions about nature. Through the use of abstraction and logic, mathematics developed from counting, calculation, measurement, and the systematic study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. Practical mathematics has been a human activity from as far back as written records exist. The research required to solve mathematical problems can take years or even centuries of sustained inquiry.
Rigorous arguments first appeared in Greek mathematics, most notably in Euclid‘s Elements. Since the pioneering work of Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), David Hilbert (1862–1943), and others on axiomatic systems in the late 19th century, it has become customary to view mathematical research as establishing truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions. Mathematics developed at a relatively slow pace until the Renaissance, when mathematical innovations interacting with new scientific discoveries led to a rapid increase in the rate of mathematical discovery that has continued to the present day.
Mathematics is essential in many fields, including natural science, engineering, medicine, finance, and the social sciences. Applied mathematics has led to entirely new mathematical disciplines, such as statistics and game theory. Mathematicians engage in pure mathematics (mathematics for its own sake) without having any application in mind, but practical applications for what began as pure mathematics are often discovered later.
Evidence for more complex mathematics does not appear until around 3000 BC, when the Babylonians and Egyptians began using arithmetic, algebra and geometry for taxation and other financial calculations, for building and construction, and for astronomy. The oldest mathematical texts from Mesopotamia and Egypt are from 2000 to 1800 BC. Many early texts mention Pythagorean triples and so, by inference, the Pythagorean theorem seems to be the most ancient and widespread mathematical development after basic arithmetic and geometry. It is in Babylonian mathematics that elementary arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) first appear in the archaeological record. The Babylonians also possessed a place-value system and used a sexagesimal numeral system which is still in use today for measuring angles and time. Wikipedia
Social Studies
2 to 4 hours (or more) per day
Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include teaching, training, storytelling, discussion and directed research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of educators, however learners can also educate themselves. Education can take place in formal or informal settings and any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational. The methodology of teaching is called pedagogy.
Progressive education
Progressive education, movement that took form in Europe and the United States during the late 19th century as a reaction to the alleged narrowness and formalism of traditional education. One of its main objectives was to educate the “whole child”—that is, to attend to physical and emotional, as well as intellectual, growth. The school was conceived of as a laboratory in which the child was to take an active part—learning through doing. The theory was that a child learns best by actually performing tasks associated with learning. Creative and manual arts gained importance in the curriculum, and children were encouraged.
Special education
Special education, also called special needs education, the education of children who differ socially, mentally, or physically from the average to such an extent that they require modifications of usual school practices. Special education serves children with emotional, behavioral, or cognitive impairments or with intellectual, hearing, vision, speech, or learning disabilities; gifted children with advanced academic abilities; and children with orthopedic or neurological impairments. See also deafness; blindness; speech disorder; mental disorder; gifted child; childhood disease and disorder; learning disabilities.
Pre-K/K Reading
Elementary School Reading
Middle School Reading
High School Reading
VIDEOS | NASA
What’s Up –
You can catch up on all of NASA’s current and future missions at nasa.gov.
I’m Preston Dyches from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and that’s What’s Up for this month.View all Videos
Hey parents and kids, share your thoughts and ideas (comments are open at the end of the page) ⬇
- 24/7/365
- About Us
- Activity Station
- Contact
- Donate
- Entrepreneurship
- Events
- Farm & Urban Year-round Greenhouses
- Housing
- Impact
- Jobs
- Laboratory
- Leadership
- Learning & Training Division
- Literacy Program
- Locations
- Manufacturing
- Our Services
- Partners
- Programs
- Pre-K thru 12 Mental Health Balance
- Publishings
- Research
- Retreat
- Social Media
- Speak Easy Blog
- Sponsors
- Store
- Young Adult Mental Health Balance (18-25)
