Academic Links for Students and Teachers

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World History

The High School Hub - A noncommercial gateway to excellent free online academic resources for high school students. It features a reference desk, college information, and subject guides for English, mathematics, social studies, and science.

KidsClick! - A giant search engine for students where all the sites have been selected by experienced librarians.

ABC World Fact Book - Geography, population, government, economy, transportation, communications and defense pages for all countries of the world with links to flags and maps.

Atlapedia Online contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.

Biography-on line search of over 20,000 lives both past and present. Also includes authors.

Reference Desk is a storehouse of information with many links to pertinent sites. Give it a try.

Flying Inkpot News - This amazing site has links to hundreds of national and international newspapers, which you can search by region, keyword, or category.

Cooperative learning manages interaction by providing a solid group structure under which students work. Learn more about it.

The Awesome Library organizes your exploration of the World Wide Web with 12,000 carefully reviewed resources. It includes a directory, an index, and a search engine.

History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers. The major purpose of this home page is to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom.

Live Text is a "living textbook" for teachers, pointing to the best resources for teaching with technology. Live Text also includes resources developed by the Institute in support of its school-based projects. These resources include the Constructivist Project Design Guide and the American History Archive Project, which provide models and tools for the classroom use the World Wide Web.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily to keep up with the tremendous number of new World Wide Web sites.

The repair guide at Yahoo! Autos helps you diagnose a variety of irksome symptoms, such as "engine makes a clicking noise when idling," "car pulls to one side when moving," or brake pedal feels spongy." Easily understood explanations of the most likely causes mean you can go the mechanic with intelligent opinions.

NEW!! Kelley Blue Book - an online guide to find out retail and trade-in prices.

Homework Heaven - 250,000 handpicked, school-related research links. It is an in-depth, super-fast way for students to do research for school reports.

This is an old project revisited but it provides good motivation for an engineering (or design and technology) class by providing some hands-on experience in design, construction and testing.

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe has links that connect historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries (and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history). The order of documents is chronological wherever possible. Document collections not limited to an identifiable era are found at the end of a national list.

The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world. Each user will be able to find an Ariadne's through the maze of information on the Web. This project not only provides an organizational structure for electronic resources in medieval studies, but also serves as a model for similar, collaborative projects in other fields of study. The Labyrinth project in open-ended and is designed to grow and change with new developments in technology and in medieval studies.

The Historical Text Archive (HTA) provides original material, links to other sites, and electronic reprints of books and is organized by geography/nations and topics. The directories contain subdirectories, so it may be necessary to explore the site to find what one wants.

Eighteenth Century Resources. These pages cover Internet resources that focus on the 18th Century. The collection includes information on literature, history, art, music, religion, economics, philosophy, etc., from around the world.

World War II - World War II began in 1939 and raged until 1945. By the war's end, it engulfed over 35 nations and millions of people. From the North Atlantic and Europe to Asia and the South Pacific, it was a worldwide conflict. Out of the rubble of World War II rose strong leaders and heroes, amazing inventions, and devastating weapons. The activities in this Study Guide are an introduction to some of these people, inventions, and weapons. THIS IS A GREAT SITE.

Artcyclopedia - Fine Arts search engine, The Artcyclopedia's custom search engine is one of the fastest ways to search the Net for information about fine artists. Indexed 1200 arts sites, and offer more than 32,000 links to an estimated 100,000 works by 7,500 renowned artists.

Art History Resources on the Web - Fabulous site categorized by historical periods and regions, includes other research resources.

Welcome to the "new" @rt room - Designed around activity centers encouraging young people to learn, explore new ideas, places and things on their own.

World Wide Art Resources - Welcome to the largest collection of fine art information: artists, museums, galleries, fine art, art history, art education, antiques, dance, theater, as well as the largest collection of original and contemporary art online! Browse or search through over 60,000 works by medium, subject matter, price and theme.

Arts Connected Ed Your connecting point to the permanent collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Also, connect library, archives, curriculum, and other resources.

Arts Net MN - A joint effort of the Walker Art Center, Weisman Art Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts made possible by the Blandin Foundation.

Art Net - Research Library offers informative references to understand more about the world of art and artists, with thousands of articles from the Grove Dictionary of Art on Artist's Biographies, Materials and Techniques, and Styles and Movements.

Wide World of Art Original art and photography where thousands of new and original works by artists from around the world. Explore the subject, artists and galleries.

Atomic Learning is an on-line software training internet site that offers training and support on popular computer software applications.

CHEMystery - a virtual chemistry textbook, to provide an interactive guide for high school chemistry students. In addition, CHEMystery allows you to further expand your chemistry knowledge by letting you interact with other Internet resources on the World Wide Web.

Connections+ consists of Internet resources--lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources--linked with corresponding subject-area content standards (From Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education). Also included in these resource packages are other links to assist teachers, such as a direct link to the Lycos search engine. Each month we'll post a few more of these packages, which will help to organize the supplemental online information available to teachers. The web sites and other resources chosen have been created, maintained, and/or recommended by educators.

The AskEric website has a variety of information available for use in the classroom. There are lesson plans available for many different disciplines and subjects within each discipline.

EconomicsAmerica is the comprehensive program of the National Council on Economic Education and its network of state councils and local centers on economic education. Through these councils and centers, EconomicsAmerica offers curriculum materials, teacher training and assessment, providing teachers with a wide range of programs and methods that make economics come alive for students in grades K-12.

The Mint is a Web site developed which provides information and tools to incorporate economics and personal finance into their curriculum.

Strongkids.com - We put the fun in funds. Learn how to save additional money to invest as well as learn the ways you can get started in investing. You will also find links to various financial calculators that can help you and your parents plan for college and other events.

Mostar Gallery - Before the bombs started to fall on Bosnia and Herzegovina, the city of Mostar was full of architectural gems from the Ottoman Empire. Through the Web you can explore the cobblestoned streets of this ancient city, keeping in mind that it only survives on the Web and in the minds of it's citizens.

Stonehenge - Stunning displays of this mysterious site along with rock-solid history.

Bravo in the Classroom Online - Bring excitement, color and creativity of the arts to your students. Our online resource guide features up-to-the minute program schedules, comprehensive program descriptions, though-provoking questions for students, easy-to-implement lesson plans and links to related topics. Look for online lesson plans.

Noodle Tools is a site of interactive tools designed to aid students and professionals with their on-line research - selecting a search engine - citing sources in MLA or APA styles.

Berkeley University - The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important, in their opinion, literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.

The Moonlit Road - The Moonlit Road is a storytelling journey down the dark and mysterious back roads of the American South. Each month, we feature ghost stories and strange folk tales from throughout the South, told by the region's most celebrated storytellers. By selecting a story, you embark on a journey to a storyteller's home in the land where the story born.

Short Stories - This Web site is dedicated to the short story and to those who love reading light prose. I will try to add a few short stories each month.

Virtual Earthquake - This program is designed to introduce students to the basics of earthquake science by teaching them how to locate an earthquake epicenter and how to use the Richter Scale to determine the magnitude of an earthquake.

KidsHealth - Circulatory System - Jump on board the Web site devoted to the health of children and teens and you will find information about growth, childhood infections, immunizations, body systems, and more.

The Heart: An Online Exploration - explore the heart through a series of text entries, covering the heart's structure and development, blood, health, and history of heart science.

Women of Nasa - The Women of NASA resource was developed to encourage more young women to pursue careers in math, science and technology. Throughout history, women have made valuable contributions to these fields. Although these disciplines are still dominated by men, and these women are seen as exceptions, there is a growing appreciation of cultural and gender diversity in the workplace. The Women of NASA interactive project showcases outstanding women who are enjoying successful careers and how these women balance personal and professional responsibilities. The main components of the project are the profiles and the weekly web chats. Participants have the opportunity to dialogue with the featured mentor during the chats and will also find the profiles and archived chats a rich source of information on the NASA women and their work.

EPA: Global Warming. What is the greenhouse effect, how will it affect you, and what can you do to stop it? The Environmental Protection Agency answers these questions and more.

Archiving Early America is a commercial site with scans of original source material of historic documents from 18th century America.

Cultural Maps is a set of maps that illustrate America's historical geography; also includes links to other map sites.

SCORE History-Social Science Home Page - Resources on the SCORE pages were evaluated by history-social science leaders in California. Going beyond these links allows student access to unknown material. Each school site is responsible for evaluating resources for appropriateness in the local school community.

Teachers' guide to the Holocaust is a selection of articles from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database, images with a selection of Holocaust photographs, drawings, and paintings and a bibliography of Holocaust works for students and teachers. Also includes descriptions of holocaust museums and resource centers in Florida and elsewhere. Primary source materials related to the Holocaust and an annotated list of educational plays with a Holocaust theme are presented. Announcements of upcoming conferences and institutes for Holocaust educators and a glossary of terms related to the Holocaust are provided. Included is an annotated list of educational software appropriate to the study of the Holocaust.

Academic Info: US History Home Page and Index is a well-chosen list of links to support the teaching of American history; arranged by time period.

Remembrance is a collection of "galleries" containing imagery, stories, poems, songs, maps, and narratives from or about the Vietnam War era. This section also contains a glossary of terms and slang used in this era and found in the writings throughout this site.

American Memory from the Library of Congress is a site which includes primary source material relating to American culture and history; includes educator's section on how to use the resources.

Smithsonian Museums contains information and exhibits from each of the Smithsonian Institution's museums.

U.S. History is an extensive list to North American history on the Net including books.

U.S. History Research Topics and Other U.S. History Link Sites includes documents, documents of Democracy, people, U.S. newspapers, science and technology, American explorers, wars, counter culture, CTC Student Center, resources to American history, American studies, Library of Congress, and electronic exhibits.

American Studies Web is an extensive listing of sites in many areas of American studies; appropriate for teachers and high school students.

Biography.com is a database that puts 20,000 of the greatest lives, past and present at your fingertips. Enter a name in the box to discover who they were, what they did and why.

The Civil War as Muse offer samples of verse and song written by soldiers, civilians and politicians on both sides.

NEW The History Place - a must-see site. There is a range of featured exhibits from Abraham Lincoln to the Irish Potato Famine.

Learn more about Iva Toguri, also known as Orphan Ann or better known as Tokyo Rose. The "Rose myth is unraveled.

Solar System Simulator - Ever wonder what Mars looks like - from Pluto? Find out with this simulator, part of NASA's Space Library, which lets you explore the solar system from different angles and planets.

The following is a list of internet sites that can be used as resources for multicultural education and diversity instruction.

http://www.disabilityhistory.org - Site represents an attempt by people with disabilities to reclaim their own history and to highlight the contributions of disabled people in the history of the world.

http://eduweb.com/adventure.html - Has developed a series of online learning adventures to support their idea that active learning is based on adventure and discovery.

http://www.inform.umd.edu/ Diversity Database that is a compendium of resources organized by identity dimensions including age, class, race, gender, ability status, & religion.

http://www.enoreo.on.ca/flatstanley - Connects teachers and students in an international, interactive activity by facilitating the exchange of writing and cultural learning.

http://www.globe.gov - Program consists to a worldwide network of students and teachers from more than 8,000 schools in more than 85 countries who work with scientists to learn more about environmental issues.

http://spanishone.com/culture.html - Use to enrich Spanish curriculum. Topics on art, celebrations, dance, music, literature, Hispanic Heritage, and statistics on Hispanic population in the USA.

http://www.iearn.org - Connects young people around the world to work collaboratively on social and global issues.

http://www.iecc.org - Mailing list provided by St. Olaf College to help teachers and classes link with partners in other countries and cultures.

http://www.lanic.utexas.edu For economics, education, government, humanities, media, recreation, society and culture of any Latino American country go to this web site.

http://mhhe.com/socscience/education/multi - Bridges multicultural education theory and practice by offering a variety of resources including original articles, a discussion forum, & intercultural classroom activities.

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov - Interact with a variety of folks under a variety of different programs including "Space Team Online", "Women of NASA" and "Space Scientists".

http://remember.org - Multimedia library of resources pertaining to the Holocaust.

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus - United Nations hosts this colorful multimedia virtual tour page. Includes lessons and materials on global issues, human rights and poverty.

Food Guide Pyramid - find the daily servings for each of the food groups. Learn about balancing food with physical activity. Read about different diets. The USDA supplies a wealth of information through an interactive food pyramid guide and an online booklet, Dietary Guidelines.

Nutrition Cafe - In this series of interactive games, students will be challenged in their knowledge of nutritional facts.

Russia: How Has Change Affected the Former USSR? This is an ideal place to do your homework about what is happening in Russia. This hyper-interlinked sections are clear, balanced, and focused.

The official National Geographic site for resources. This site includes educational, interactive games based on world geography. Topics covered include the locations of countries, interesting landmarks, habitats and biomes, features of oceans and Earth's structure. Integrated links to many other sites provide immediate access to further information. Can be used for a few minutes, or for hours. Sections provided as downloadable files, for off-line use with a web browser.

Free activities for schools and communities created by Montana Center for International Visitors Thinking Globally, Acting Locally since 1987. It provides a social studies curriculum that focuses on the changing nature of global conflict. More than thirty international disputes are listed on the web site, and students are encouraged to file Conflict Reports about each one. In addition to developing an interactive curriculum and web site, THINK GLOBAL provides links to schools around the world so that students can share their ideas for thinking globally and acting locally.

Choices for the 21st Century - Classroom Publications: Choices units bring to life decisive public policy issues - both from today's headlines and critical junctures in history - for high school students. Public Programs: Choices Public Programs engage general audiences in deliberation about our nation's future and how we will relate to the world around us in the years to come. The project provides materials and organizational support to community groups wishing to host discussion series.

At this Peace Corp site there is a variety of information about Peace Corps, countries that the Peace Corps serves, and a section devoted to the Peace Corps global education program. There are lesson plans designed to help teachers integrate global education into daily activities that are sorted by grade level and curricular areas.

K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet. The aim of this guide is to assist K-12 teachers, librarians, and students in locating on-line resources on Africa that can be used in the classroom, for research and studies. This guide summarizes some relevant materials for K-12 uses available on the African Studies WWW. The African Studies Web also contains information that is not listed in this guide.

Global Policy appears to be a United Nations web page with teaching and researching information. It provides a social studies curriculum that focuses on the changing nature of global conflict. More than thirty international disputes are listed on the web site, and students are encouraged to file Conflict Reports about each one. In addition to developing an interactive curriculum and web site, THINK GLOBAL provides links to schools around the world so that students can share their ideas for thinking globally and acting locally.

Remembrance of Things Passing - Yannis Psilakis's Moments of Extinction photo gallery depicts the remaining traces of the world's most remote peoples and regions. It's a superb collection of images, compiled to remind us just how valuable our diversity is.

Afro-Caribbean Musics - Describes and samples 65 styles--everything from Afro Funk to Zouk.

Flamenco World - an introduction to flamenco, traditional recordings and modern interpretations in both English and Spanish.

Mega Math - Mathematics is more than something that you learn, mathematics is something that you do. If you have never liked math before, chances are the real problem is that you just haven't found the kind of math that you do like. Try out some of these things and see what you think. If you are a math-lover, here is a chance for you to branch out and try some new things.

The official site of NFL players, created by CBS Sportsline, focuses on the players' charity. Bios of most players are also available.

"The Masters" link is where the history of the tournament and statistics dating back to 1934 are kept. There is also an essay explaining whey this tournament is so special.

This site, which brings together NBC Sports and Golf Digest, is updated several times per day and covers all aspects of golf from the pros to regional information.

Everything you always wanted to know about baseball; including physics of hitting, why a curveball curves, and how Earned Run Averages are calculated; can be found at a site called Baseball: the Game and Beyond.

San Francisco's Exploratorium provides a look at the physics (and secrets) of baseball with interactive activities and interviews with star players. A Baseball Time Machine shows how player stats stack up in different eras, an interactive calculator shows how far home runs would go in varying weather conditions, and hands-on activities using ordinary baseball equipment and common household items show the way to the sweet spot on any bat or the secret of throwing an amazing curve ball.

Here is a site for runners, from joggers to marathoners. This site has useful information for both novices and professionals.

The Science of Hockey - is a new Web site that explores the game of hockey, from the molecular make-up of the ice to the shape of the skater's blade. With clear photos and cool graphics you can learn about the laws of mass, velocity, and energy, and determine how much force is generated in a hockey collision. This Web site also explains the role that lactate acid plays in tiring out a player's muscles during a game. Users can view video clips of players from the San Jose Sharks explaining how science factors into their game. This site is for sports lovers who want to see science in action. The Science of Hockey is the first of a series of sites about science in sports developed by Exploratorium, San Francisco's museum of science, art, and human perception.

Alleyoop offers stats (offering team rankings in such obscure categories as Defensive Efficiency) and a daily update of team rosters.

Welcome to WeatherNet, the Internet's premier source of weather information. Providing access to thousands of forecasts, images, and the Net's largest collection of weather links, WeatherNet is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of weather data on the Web. Thanks for stopping by! WeatherNet is a non-profit service sponsored by The Weather Underground at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

The Literary Menagerie - Your resources for links to the best of the best author-based sites on the net.

Civic Practices Network. Born of the movement for a "new citizenship" and "civic revitalization," CPN is a collaborative and nonpartisan project dedicated to bringing practical tools for public problem solving into community and institutional settings across America.

Learn about Inauguration 2001. This is presented by PBS which includes lesson plans, with over 15 separate lessons on site, with links to other sites. Other items found in the table of contents: The Inaugural Poet, Alexandra Goes to Washington, Test Your Inaugural Knowledge and Letters to the President.

Welcome to the United Nations CyberSchoolBus! The UN CyberSchoolBus is designed for students and teachers everywhere and carries projects and resources about the United Nations and the world we all share.

Close Up Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan civic education organization that teaches responsible participation in the democratic process through civic education programs and publications on government and citizenship. The site includes special topics, civics documents, additional sites for civics education and sources from Close-Up.

The American Promise, a web site devoted to helping teachers use the program to bring democracy to life in their classrooms. The American Promise® brings the American democratic system to life, letting students experience firsthand what it's like to govern and make the decisions that bind us together as a country. Since its premiere on PBS, the series has been used in more than 20,000 classrooms nationwide to provide lessons in government, civics and history, with ideas that intrigue and inspire students. Themes explored include: The Touchstone of Our Society, Exploring Freedom, responsibility and participation, The Challenges we Face, the hard choices and deliberations that bring us together and the information we use to make those decisions.

Center for Civic Education has included information about the programs that they offer, publications about civic education, curricular materials which include sample lesson plans, research and evaluations, articles and papers on civic education and other Internet sources that would be very helpful for teachers of civics. I liked many of the lesson plans that are available. They have categories according to grade levels and cover a wide variety of levels and types of activities.

McRel has a website that offers educator resources, lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources which are linked with corresponding subject-area content standards. Also included in these resource packages are other links to assist teachers. The websites and other resources chosen have been created, maintained, and/or recommended by educators.

A list of US presidents and biographical data put together by 5th graders at Arlington Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia.

Michigan State University's ASL Browser web site, an online American Sign Language (ASL) browser where you can look up video of thousands of ASL signs and learn interesting things about them.

Possibly the single best starting point for getting German information is at the Federal Republic's official government website - Die Bundesregierung or in English.

Among the various links compiled by the German Information Center is a page that links to many of Germany's key magazines and newspapers.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a great Internet gateway to the country. This site is hosted by the French Embassy in Washington, D.C.

The France.Com website has a Gastronomy section with some good short tutorials on the different types of French cooking, various sample menus of mealtime traditions for everything from petite dejuner to dinner; and has a top-ten list of the Parisian restaurants.

Afro-Caribbean Musics - Describes and samples 65 styles--everything from Afro Funk to Zouk.

Flamenco World - Offers a three-channel audio jukebox: an introduction to flamenco, traditional recordings and modern interpretations in both English and Spanish.

Piano on the Net - Clinton Shirley Clarke, a composer and musician, has created this free Internet piano tutorial. Lessons are at three levels: Starter, Intermediate and Advanced.

PC Webopaedia is a useful dictionary program that makes quick sense of confusing Net jargon.

Atomic Learning is an on-line software training internet site that offers training and support on popular computer software applications.

Academic Links for Students and Teachers

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