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Roaring Twenties
Science in the News

Scientists
Simple Machines

Space
Stock Market
Time Person of 1800-1825
Tobacco/Smoking
Washington, D.C.

Weather
WebQuests
World War I
World War II 

Zoos

Ancient Egypt

    The Ancient Egypt Site
    Egypt Pyramids Pharaohs Hieroglyphs - Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt
    NOVA Online-Pyramids -- The Inside Story

Biography            
   
Addams, Jane
        Jane Addams of the Hull House
        Hull-House Museum
    Eastman, George
    Edison, Thomas
        More on Edison's Life
    Roosevelt, Theodore
        More on Roosevelt
    Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)
    Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur)
        Meet the Wright Brothers
        More on Wright Brothers   

Careers
Bureau of Labor Statistics - Career Information
Career Zone - New York State
          Occupational Outlook Handbook
Caves
       
Lascaux Cave virtual tour
 
Civil War

America’s Civil War: Leaders
http://www.fredericksburg.com/CivilWar/Teaching/Education/Leaders_Students

Civil War Leaders: Men and Women of major importance to the war.
http://www.us-civilwar.com/

 
Colonies
        Blacksmiths in Colonial America
         Room 20's Colonial Webpage
        Slave Codes: Virginia
        Social Studies for Kids: 13 colonies
 
   
 Trades       

Countries                 

     
        ***BBC News - Country Profiles  

    ***CountryWatch
        CultureGrams
       Currency Converter
       Metric Conversions
      Europe for Visitors - Tourist Information

        Lonely Planet - Destinations
       World Factbook 2006

Decades
   
American Cultural History: 19th and 20th centuries
      SIRS DECADES (trial) Password: welcome

 

Diseases
   Alzheimer's Disease

     Alzheimer's Association
      
Cancer
   
American Cancer Society
  
   Diabetes
      Diabetes: Basic Information
   

Healthfinder - Health topics and organizations


Kidshealth - Health topics 

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)


World Health Organization (WHO)

Elements

    Chem for Kids
   Visual Interpretation of Table of Elements

    WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements
    Chemical Elements
   
Energy
    Dr. E's Energy Lab
   Energy Resources
  
Energy Story
    Energy Kid's Page
    Planet Power
    Renewable Energy

  
   

Fifties
   
American Cultural History, 1950-1959
 
Government
   
Courts
    House of Representatives
    Library of Congress
    Senate
    White House

Health - Human Body
   
Magic School Bus Human Body Tour
      Kidshealth - Health topics 


Immigration

    Scholastic Immigration: Stories of Yesterday,
       including Interactive Tour of Ellis Island

Industrialization                  
   Captains of Industry

  
Carnegie, Andrew
         And more..
    Eastman, George
    Ford, Henry
    Frick, Henry Clay
         A Businessman
    Mellon, Andrew & Richard
    Rockefeller, John D.
    Vanderbilt, Cornelius 
    Invasive Species
    Invasive Plants
    Invasive Species
    National Invasive Species Center
   
    Inventors
    Baekeland, Leo
    Baldwin, Anna
         Early Cow Milking Machines
    Bell, Alexander
    Bessemer, Henry
    Bissell, Melville
    Duryea, Charles & J. Frank
    Edison, Thomas Alva
    Field, Stephen Dudley
         Field - Today in Science
    Gillette, King C.
         The Great American Company
    Hallide, Andrew
    Lowe, Thaddeus
         Refrigeration
    Matzeliger, Jan
    McCoy, Elijah
    McKay, Gordon
    Otis, Elisha
    Pullman, George
    Ritty, James
    Seely, Henry
    Thomson, Elihu
    Thurman, John
    Waterman, Lewis
        Waterman in his own words
    Westinghouse, George
        Westinghouse Air Brake Company
    Woods, Granville
    "Suspect Sites" - Can you tell why?
        
Bessemer, Henry
         Duryea Brothers
        
Matzeliger, Jan
        
Rockefeller, John D.

     

Inventions

Inventors Museum
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Technology in 1900

 
Literary Research
   
    InfoTrac Junior Edition
         MasterFILE Select
         Twayne's Author Series

Middle Ages
       
Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
       
The Middle Ages from Annenberg Learner

            NetSERF Internet Connection for Medieval Resources

            Be wary of sites published by students ---- such as
               Life in the Middle Ages by Mrs. Sunda's 4th and 5th grade G.R. students
                 

Monerans Trial
   
Mr. Pray's Website: Mr. T's Science Scene

Mythology Sites
    Encyclopedia Mythica: Image gallery
    Gods, Heroes, and Myths(families)
    Greek Mythology
    Interpedia: Mythology
   
Message Net: Myths
    Mythweb (photos and bios)

Oceans
   
Ecosystems - marine, freshwater, biomes
     OceanLink

  
 
Sea World
      Ocean Animals

  Poetry
   
Poetry.com
  
   Poetry4Kids
   
Yahooligans.com (type in poetry)

Presidents

http://ap.grolier.com/browse?type=profiles#pres
        Information on presidents from 4 Grolier encyclopedias, at different reading levels.

 http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/index.html
        Information on presidents from the official White House site.

 http://www.presidentsusa.net/jefferson.html
        Information on presidents from a variety of sources.

Quotations
   
Biography.com - brief identification
     ipl - POTUS - Presidents of the United States
     Online Literature (Authors)

Roaring Twenties
   
      American Cultural History 1920-1929

Science in the News
   
abc News: SCI/TECH
    Discover Magazine
    Science@NASA
    Science Daily: Latest Research News
    Scientific American
    The Why? Files: Science Behind the News

Scientists
       Outline Form
 

    Outline Maker

   

    Notes 
    Template

   
   
Eric Weisstein's World of Biography
    4000 Years of Women in Science
    A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries

Simple Machines
   
Dr. D's Lab "Puzzling Pyramids" - NASA Science Files
   
Inventor's Toolbox: The Elements of Machines
     Simple Machines from the "inQuiry Almanack"
     Simple Machines Learning Site
     Simple Machines from The Rats of NIMH
     

      

Space
   
Amazing Space - Trading Cards
     NASA KIDS
    Space Science Hotlist

     Windows to the Universe
      World Almanac Space

 

Stock Market

    Hoover's Online - The Business Network

Time Person of 1800-1825

    Lewis and Clark - maps, timelines, discoveries, games, etc.
   
Sacajawea, from captive to Indian interpreter
    Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president
    Thomas Jefferson Papers

Tobacco/Smoking

    CDC's TIPS Tobacco Information & Prevention
    National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids
    Welcome to the American Cancer Society
    What Smoking Does to Your Body (for station #3 of Tobacco Use packet

  Washington, D.C.
      Monuments Research

      Notes         Notes       Website          PowerPoint    PowerPoint
   
Template   Example   Evaluation     Planning Page     Example
    

                                         
Washington, D.C. Monuments and other sites of interest:

National Park Service
   
Many historic sites around the capital
       
Smithsonian Institute 
    The world's largest museum complex, including the popular Air and Space Museum
 
Virtual Tour of Washington, D.C.
    An interactive field trip to our nation's capital


 Enjoy Your Virtual Tour of Washington, D.C. - take a tour with a guide and friends


 Designing a Tour of Washington, D.C. - webquest gives overview of historic or 
            significant sites. Bypass the introduction, standards, and process to get to the 
            wonderful links to many monuments and interesting places

Weather

    CLOUDS
    Weather Experiments

WebQuests

Baseball and Technology
The Mystery Letter of 1928

World War I

    World War I Links
    World War I - Trenches on the Web
    World War I (1914-1918)
    World War I Lesson 4 - Food Will Win the War
 
World War II

American Memory
The History Place
Jewish Virtual Library
Museum of Tolerance
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

        Questionable sites for class lesson on Internet:
            Hitler Historical Museum
            Is the Holocaust a Hoax?

Zoos
   
San Diego Zoo, with live cams
    Seneca Park Zoo, Rochester, NY
    Toledo Zoo, with live cams

 

 

 

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