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Found in:
Weekly Teacher Tip Newsletter Issue 261
Date Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 8:40 AM
http://www.teach-nology.com/

Japan
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/subject_matter/social_studies/japan/
Scroll down for a list of 20 links to resources about Japan.

© 2005 Teachnology, Inc. All rights reserved

Found in:
Don's Patch Issue #2005-06-15 from http://www.don-guitar.com

A mini-feature on windmills:

Windmill World
http://www.windmillworld.com/
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

The Dutch Windmill
http://webserv.nhl.nl/~smits/windmill.htm

Windmills in the Sky
http://www.wired.com/news/planet/0,2782,67121,00.html

Windmills of La Mancha
http://www.bamjam.net/Spain/Mancha.html

The Windmills of Lasithi
http://www.culture.gr/2/21/213/21307n/e213gn11.html

Handbook of Texas Online: Windmills
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/WW/aow1.html
[NOTE: Home page http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/ previously posted. – Phyllis ]

From Windmills to Whirligigs
http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/vollis/index/frontvollis.html

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How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

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World War I – Trenches on the Web
http://www.worldwar1.com/
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

World War I Modeling Page
http://www.wwi-models.org/

The First World War
http://www.firstworldwar.com/
From the site:
“The purpose of this website is to provide an overview of the First World War.”
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Be Car Care Aware
http://www.carcare.org/index.shtml
From the site:
“Taking an active role in maintaining your vehicle is the best way to avoid
costly repairs down the road. This site was developed to help you learn how.”

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PBS Teacher Previews: October 2-8, 2005
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Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers
"Cars That Think"
TV> PBSOL> Middle / High School
Sunday, October 2, 2005
10:30 - 11:00 pm
The fully automatic car may be down the road a ways, but cars
that do your thinking for you are just around the corner --
they watch out for hazards, they listen to you, they read your
lips, they even know when you're distracted. (CC, Stereo, DVI,
1 year)

Log on for accident-free driving tips and more.

http://www.pbs.org/saf/1502/

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NOVA
"Sinking the Supership"
TV> PBSOL> MARC> Middle / High School
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
8 - 9:00 pm
Tune in for the tragic WWII story of the Yamato -- the largest
battleship ever built. (CC, Stereo, DVI, 1 year)

Log on and find out what made this super battleship both
seemingly unsinkable and highly vulnerable to attack.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/supership

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Copyright 2005 PBS Online.

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Found in:
NOVA Bulletin
Date Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 4:06 PM
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Next on NOVA: "Sinking the Supership"

http://www.pbs.org/nova/supership/

Broadcast: October 4, 2005 at 8 p.m. ET/PT
(NOVA airs Tuesdays on PBS at 8 p.m. Check your local listings as
dates and times may vary.)

The final phase of the Pacific war during World War II saw a terrible
new tactic: massed kamikaze attacks on American ships by Japanese
planes. But the biggest kamikaze attack of all was the suicidal
mission of the super battleship Yamato, the largest, most advanced
warship of the day. In this program, NOVA joins an international
team exploring the grave of this magnificent vessel to learn the
secrets of her design, her final mission, and the violent events
that brought her down

Here's what you'll find online:

Article and Interviews

Behind the Scenes
For executive producer Keiko Bang, who is half Japanese, half
American, making this film was deeply cathartic.

Survivor Stories
Fifty years later, two Japanese sailors offer eyewitness
accounts of Yamato's last battle.

Interactive and Slide Show

Anatomy of Yamato
See what made this super battleship both seemingly unsinkable
and highly vulnerable to attack.

Yamato's Final Voyage
Relive the supership's last moments as American warplanes
relentlessly strafed, bombed, and torpedoed it.

Also, a video preview of the program, Links & Books, the Teacher's
Guide, and more.

http://www.pbs.org/nova/supership/

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Site of the Day for Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Volunteering For Victory: The American Red Cross in World War II
http://www.redcross.org/museum/exhibits/ww2.asp
[NOTE: Other exhibits from http://www.redcross.org/museum/exhibits/exhibits.asp
previously posted. – Phyllis ]

Today's site, from the American Red Cross, presents an exhibit of oral
histories, posters, historical artefacts, and memorabilia from it
activities during World War II. Gentle Subscribers will find an interesting
presentation of the organization's work during the period, combined with a
fascinating collection of documents.

"Stories from the Red Cross Oral History Collection ... The American Red
Cross involvement in World War II preceded the entrance of the United
States into the conflict. When hostilities began in Europe in 1939, the Red
Cross became the chief provider of relief supplies for the civilian victims
of conflict distributed by the Geneva-based International Red Cross
Committee." - from the website

The initial section of oral histories includes poignant stories from women
who served overseas, along with the recollections of prisoners of war who
relied on the Red Cross parcels in the prison camps. An annotated selection
of stirring posters beckoning citizens "to do their bit" evokes the spirit
of the times. One of the highlights of the site is the section of overseas
and homefront scrapbooks which has a spiffy interface, allowing the visitor
to "turn" the pages to view these artefacts. Another wonderful inclusion is
the selection of authentic knitting instructions in pdf. of the original
garments made by Red Cross volunteers for service personnel, such as the
U.S. Navy Iceland sweater pattern, which was apparently provided on the
basis of one-size-fits-all. There's even a recipe to recreate the Red Cross
donut, handed out in the millions during the war.

March to the website for a look at the Red Cross spirit of pulling together
in World War II at:

http://www.redcross.org/museum/exhibits/ww2.asp

A.M. Holm
view the List archives on the web at:
http://www.freelists.org/archives/sotd

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

"The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University."

World War II (1942 - 1945)
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/adaccess/war/@Generic__CollectionView
[Shortened URL: http://tinyurl.com/b5khh ]
“World War II advertisements are ads sponsored by the U.S. Government or ads paid for by businesses in support of Government-sponsored campaigns, such as V-mail, or bond drives. Ads from the World War II era may also be found in the other four categories; however, those advertisements are primarily targeted towards promoting a company's product rather than the war effort as reflected in this category. (397 ads)"

Shoah Foundation website
http://www.vhf.org/
Steven Spielberg’s Visual History Foundation
“For Teachers - Access to new lessons, download or stream video for use in your classroom
For Students - Lessons about history, the Holocaust, and how they relate to your own life
Online Exhibits - Surviving Auschwitz; Voices of the Holocaust - Children Speak;
Survivors - Testimonies of the Holocaust; Testimony Viewer.”
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Yad Vashem
http://www.yadvashem.org/
“Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, was established in 1953 by an act of the Israeli Knesset. Since its inception, Yad Vashem has been entrusted with documenting the history of the Jewish people during the Holocaust period, preserving the memory and story of each of the six million victims, and imparting the legacy of the Holocaust for generations to come through its archives, library, school, museums and recognition of the Righteous Among the Nations.” Sites includes a large collection of Online Exhibits such as The Auschwitz Album, On-line Resources for Kristallnacht, Youth Groups in the Lodz Ghetto, Until the Last Jew plus a half a dozen more.
See Also: Education: http://www1.yadvashem.org/education/index_education.html
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

The Holocaust Chronicle
http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/
From the site:
“Whether you browse this Web site, page through it, or search for specific, cross-referenced information, you'll find dramatic information grounded in rock-solid scholarship, complemented by a wealth of images; generous, fact-filled captions; hundreds of sidebar essays focusing on significant people, events, and issues; dozens of useful maps; and an exclusive timeline of Holocaust-related events spanning the years 1000 B.C. through 1999. The Holocaust is hatred carried to the nth degree. Equally, it is a human story, with victims and perpetrators, heroes and villains--and far too many people around the globe who remained indifferent to this terrible crime even as it was being committed. The Holocaust Chronicle Web site makes this titanic event accessible to all who care to listen to the lessons it can teach..”
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Holocaust Resource Center
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/
From the site:
“This Holocaust Teacher Resource Center (TRC) web site, is dedicated to the memory of the six million Jewish people slaughtered during the Holocaust and the millions other people slaughtered during the Nazi era. It strives to combat prejudice and bigotry by transforming the horrors of the Holocaust into positive lessons to help make this a better and safer world for everybody. This site is sponsored by the Holocaust Education Foundation, Inc. Educators, (kindergarten through college) will find at this site materials which can be brought into the classroom and studied. Whenever possible entire documents are included and may be downloaded for direct use in the classroom.”
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust Websites
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/default.htm
From the site:
“An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature.The content of the A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust is presented from three perspectives: Timeline, People, and The Arts. The Teacher's Guide is meant to be used as a resource by teachers. Holocaust study is a very sensitive subject, and the appropriateness of material is dependent upon individuals. All materials should be reviewed before using in class. In order to help teachers with this review process, we offer the following guidelines for Holocaust study in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.”
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Silent Voices Speak
http://www.silentvoicesspeak.org/home.html
From the site:
“Silent Voices Speak is a non-profit organization dedicated to using art as a powerful vehicle for education and community building, and is devoted to arousing compassion, raising consciousness, and educating as many people as possible about the defining event of the twentieth century—the Holocaust—and its relation to social injustice in the present.
It's central exhibition, Silent Voices Speak—Remembering the Holocaust, consists of a collection of powerful mixed-media works by artist Barbara Shilo based on archival photographs of the Holocaust. Shilo's unique approach uses actual photographs, enhancing them through color, texture, relief, collage, and repetition of images. Accompanying the paintings in this exhibition are carefully researched narrative panels.”

Found in:
Teachers@Work
June 2005 Web Site Reviews
http://www.teachers.work.co.nz/www_June_2005.htm
for entire list of web site reviews

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World Artist Directory
http://worldartistdirectory.com/artnet.html
If you're looking for an accomplished artist in almost any genre of art you can imagine then this online search engine will provide you with an excellent gateway. In everything drama, music, dance, body dance, art history, architecture, animation, Digital, fine arts, publishing, tribal arts, typography, video, photography . . . Ideal for year levels 3-12
[NOTE: Some of the directories:
Art History
http://artdeadline.com/cgi-bin/anacondaodp.pl?passurl=/Arts/Humanities/Art_History/
Literature
http://artdeadline.com/cgi-bin/anacondaodp.pl?passurl=/Arts/Literature/
Music
http://artdeadline.com/cgi-bin/anacondaodp.pl?passurl=/Arts/Music/
Theatre
http://artdeadline.com/cgi-bin/anacondaodp.pl?passurl=/Arts/Performing_Arts/Theatre/

See Also: Open Directory Main Page (more than just art):
http://artdeadline.com/cgi-bin/anacondaodp.pl?passurl=/
Kids and Teens
http://artdeadline.com/cgi-bin/anacondaodp.pl?passurl=/Kids_and_Teens/
Reference
http://artdeadline.com/cgi-bin/anacondaodp.pl?passurl=/Reference/
- Phyllis ]

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The Berlin Memorial
http://ww2panorama.org/panoramas/berlin-memorial
On May 12 2005 The New Holocaust Memorial in Berlin was opened. The huge field of “stelae” was designed by Peter Eisenman in remembrance of the Jews murdered by the Hitler fascism. This piece of art work is designed to convey a wide range of different feelings while the same time provide a personal as well as an overwhelming environment. This recent work provides an excellent discussion point for teachers of senior art and opens up the debate further as to what art is. Ideal for year levels 11-12
[NOTE: See Also:
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
http://www.holocaust-mahnmal.de/en?PHPSESSID=1102774a43135895889c62f27b117593
[Shortened URL: http://tinyurl.com/c552m ]

Panoramas of World War II Landmarks 1945-2005
http://ww2panorama.org/ - Phyllis ]

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Hans Christian Andersen
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/andersen/homepage.html
Hans Christian Andersen was born and 1805 and his theories to stories at Internet into the last but he was an unusual themselves obsessed man in this online exhibition mains look briefly at the underlying means Andersen inspections. The web site users clues provided by some of his best-known characters to explore the dark side of Andersen's life. An excellent timeline, competitions and much more. Ideal for year levels 4-10

War of the Worlds: HG Wells 1938
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0617_050617_warworlds.html
When the War of the Worlds was first broadcast in 1938 listeners were convinced that the world had been invaded by aliens from Mars. An excellent background document. Ideal for year levels 6-12

Library Technology Now
http://www.librarytechnologynow.org/
News and reviews of technology applications for librarians. As libraries increasingly become information management centres as well as housing a repository of books it is imperative that librarians keep up-to-date with the transition and provide relevant resources for students. Ideal for librarians

Sports Media: Physical Education & Sports For Everyone:
http://www.sports-media.org
Whether you are looking for particular sporting communities, physical educational journals, physical educational themes, interactive learning all links to additional sporting based web sites, you will find what you're looking for and this web site. Ideal for year levels 4-12 [NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

The WinDi Translation Service
http://www.windi7.com/dacc1.htm
This free linguistic translation service is functional across 7 different languages. You can access translation and spelling dictionaries with 21 language pairs and 42 possible directions. Conjugation, grammar, voice, multilingual e-mail and many other functions are available from this free service. Ideal for year levels 6-12

Public Broadcasting Service: Mathematics Resources
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm
Teachers can view hundreds of lesson plans and interactive activities which are available from this site. The site is fully searchable and contains an excellent collection of resources for teachers looking to create their own online content as well as printed material. Ideal for teachers.
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Mega-math Resources
http://members.aol.com/MrHLakeRiviera/megamath.html
Students and teachers will find here a repository of questions covering pre-algebra, algebra and geometry. Your also find here an excellent glossary of terms. Ideal for year levels 7-11

The Teachers Guide to Puppets
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/mentor/ssf/puguieng.html
Open your classroom nor for the interactive and expressive world of puppets. The role of puppets through history has been significant and they have been used in everything from ritual to education, myths, social criticism, comedy, abstract poetry, historical epics and urban tales. This web site provides an excellent guide the teachers wishing to use puppets within the classroom. Ideal for year levels 0-8

English Banana: English & Drama Resources
http://www.englishbanana.com/
Teachers are drama and interactive English language will find here an excellent collection of gains, quizzes, Resources, worksheets, photographs, drama scripts . . . . . Ideal for teachers
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Children's Creative Theatre
http://library.thinkquest.org/5291/
An excellent collection of resources for teachers wishing to use drama within their classroom. The site includes an excellent history of the Theatre, some common terms, a good collection of games and resources as well as a selection of skits which you can use. Ideal for year levels 4-10 [NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Welcome to the Ballet
http://www.the-ballet.com/
Welcome to the ballet. Here you will find information on ballet, its history, great dancers, and the ballets themselves. The strength of this web site is an excellent collection of step by step articles on ballet including its history, life as a ballet dancer, performing and ballet techniques as well as a comprehensive encyclopaedia on ballet. Ideal for all year levels

Energy in the Air: Sounds from the Orchestra
http://library.thinkquest.org/5116/
On this site you will find a lot of information about how sound is made and what looks like when it is recorded. There is also information on the instrument is that play in an Orchestra and sound clips of the orchestral music playing. There is also a range of activities where you can see how instrument is made. Ideal for year levels 5-9

Music Graphics Galore
http://www.cottagesoft.com/~songbird/graphics-1a.html
Teachers and students of music will find here a fantastic collection of music icons, clip art, graphics and backgrounds. There are hundreds to choose from, dealing with every aspect of music you can imagine. Ideal for year levels 6-10

Life on the Rocky Shore
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001418/
This student produced web site deals with ocean tidepools. There are a number of fun activities which students can explore as well as interactive activities, were searchers, crossword puzzles and quizzes about each individual animal. Ideal for year levels 2-7

The Elephants of Cameroon
http://www.fieldtripearth.org/div_index.xml?id=3
In the African nation of Cameroon, the elephant is threatened by the expansion of human populations into its historical habitat areas. This web site details the conflict between humans and the elephants at each competes for food sources. This virtual field trip provides an excellent insight into not just the elephants of Cameroon but the general issue of what happens when humans and animals compete for the same food stocks. Ideal for year levels 5-10

The French Revolution Collection
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/frenchrev.html
This fantastic collection of primary documents dealing with the French Revolution includes 18,000 pamphlets, 16,000 manuscripts, 135 newspaper titles and 2400 prints and maps. An excellent resource for senior students to carry primary research on the Revolution. Ideal for year levels 10-12
[NOTE: More collections at http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/rmccollections.html ]
Some of them are:
American History & Culture
American Indian History & Culture
Architecture & Planning
East Asian History & Culture
European History & Culture
Food, Wine & Culinary History
Icelandic History & Culture
Latin American History & Culture
Literature & Theater
Popular Culture
Science & Technology
Southeast Asian History & Culture
- Phyllis]

Darfur Drawn: Through Children's Eyes
http://hrw.org/photos/2005/darfur/drawings/introduction.htm
The government of Sudan is responsible for “ethnic cleansing” and crimes against humanity in the context of an internal conflict in Darfur, one of the world’s poorest and most inaccessible regions, on Sudan’s western border with Chad. The United Nations estimates that more than 2 million people have been left homeless in the fighting. There are almost a quarter of a million refugees in neighbouring Chad, one of the poorest countries in Africa. Abandoned villages have been destroyed. This very contemporary issue is unfortunately quite common within the African nation. This web site presents a series of drawings by the children reflecting the ordeals they have been through. Ideal for year levels 10-12

Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen & the Ancient Incense Trade
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/yemen.htm
For over a thousand years, from around 800 B.C.E. to 600 C.E., the kingdoms of Qataban, Saba (biblical Sheba), and Himyar grew fabulously wealthy from their control over the caravan routes of the southern Arabian peninsula and, in particular, from the international trade in frankincense and myrrh. This is an excellent example of a civilization recognizing an opportunity and capitalizing on an opportunity. Ideal for year levels 8-12 The government of Sudan is responsible for “ethnic cleansing” and crimes against humanity in the context of an internal conflict in Darfur, one of the world’s poorest and most inaccessible regions, on Sudan’s western border with Chad. The United Nations estimates that more than 2 million people have been left homeless in the fighting. There are almost a quarter of a million refugees in neighboring Chad, one of the poorest countries in Africa. Abandoned villages have been destroyed. This very contemporary issue is unfortunately quite common within the African nation. This web site presents a series of drawings by the children reflecting the ordeals they have been through. Ideal for year levels 10-12


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Found in:
ResearchBuzz #339 -- June 9 2005
http://www.researchbuzz.com/

** A Search Engine for Acronyms
<http://www.researchbuzz.org/a_search_engine_for_acronyms.shtml>

“Esus has announced the release of Acronyma, a search engine with an index of over 450,000 acronyms and abbreviations. It's available at http://www.acronyma.com/ .

You may search in several different languages, and you may search by word or by acronym. I searched for the acronym Yahoo and got one result (Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle). I searched for Perl and got four results, then searched for Pine and got three results (including the expected "Pine is Not Elm".) Results are listed by relevance/importance or alphabetically as you prefer.

I searched for words next, searching for "time". I got over 300 results in English (there were pointers to results in other languages at the top of the results page) though 300 is apparently the limit for search results. I searched for Full Time and got 8 results, but when I searched for Time Full I got no results. Be sure you search for things in the correct word order.

The site also has a place you may submit acronyms and a stat page of how many acronyms are available in what languages. Interesting.”

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ResearchBuzz is copyright 2005 Tara Calishain. All rights reserved.

Reproduced with permission of ResearchBuzz ( http://www.researchbuzz.com/ ).

ODLIS —
Online Dictionary for
Library and Information Science
http://lu.com/odlis/

A Lexicon of Learning
http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.4247f922ca8c9ecc8c2a9410d3108a0c/
[Shortened URL: http://tinyurl.com/5pv8x ]
From the site:
“What Educators Mean When They Say. . .”

“Education, like all professions, has a specialized vocabulary that parents and others may have a difficult time understanding. This online dictionary, A Lexicon of Learning, provides clear definitions of educational terms in everyday language.”

1st-dictionary.com
http://www.1st-dictionary.com/
Free online dictionary

Found in:
======== The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences ===
======== June 10, 2005 ====
======= Volume 4, Number 12 ======

Global Paleogeographic Views of Earth History--Late Precambrian to
Recent [jpeg]
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/globaltext2.html
Dr. Ron Blakey at Northern Arizona University offers a series of global
views illustrating how the Earth may have looked during the past 600 million
years. The globes are colored to demonstrate the climate and vegetation for
locations at a given time. Students and educators can inspect the images in
four different views: global time slices in mollewide projection, global
time slices at high resolution, global time slices at low resolution, and
global time slices in rectangular format. This website offers a great way
for individuals to observe how many scientists hypothesize the landforms of
the Earth evolved from the Late Precambrian to the present. [RME]*****

EPA: Environmental Kids Club [pdf, gif, Macromedia Shockwave Player]
http://www.epa.gov/kids/index.htm
At this EPA website, kids can explore the environment and learn how they can
help protect it. The website offers fun interactive stories, hands-on
experiments, quizzes, and much more. To explore the activities, users can
either select areas of the Clubhouse or pick an environmental subject. The
topics covered include air, water, garbage and recycling, plants and
animals, you and your environment, and science. Artists can find
opportunities to create their own pictures about the environment and submit
them to the EPA. Teachers can locate curriculum resources, educational
materials about environmental subjects, and information on scholarships,
awards, and grants. [RME]
[NOTE: Other pages from http://www.epa.gov/previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Yes I Can! Science [jpeg]
http://www.yesican-science.ca/
York University's YES I Can! website was developed "to encourage interest
and understanding of Science in the formal education system, and to foster a
culture of scientifically literate, life-long learners." Teachers and
students can search for lesson plans, labs, activities, background
information and much more through the website's easy to use DataEngine. The
innumerable materials cover a variety of science subjects including geology,
chemistry, meteorology, and space science for kindergarten through twelfth
grade. Users can also view the featured resource and can learn about real-
time events. [RME] [NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

>From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright InternetScout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/

Congressional Research Service Reports
National Library for the Environment (NLE).
http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/
From the site:
“The NLE currently posts 1496 CRS Reports on environmental and related topics.”

IRIS Education & Outreach
http://www.iris.edu/about/ENO/
“The IRIS Education & Outreach (E&O) program, in collaboration with the seismological and educational communities, develops and implements programs designed to enhance seismology and Earth Science education in K-12 schools, colleges and universities, and in adult education.”
[NOTE: Another page from this site previously posted. – Phyllis ]

Education Resources
http://www.iris.edu/edu/resources.htm

Educational Links
http://www.iris.edu/edu/edulinks.htm

Links to other sites with Educational Resources
http://www.iris.edu/edu/links.htm

Found in:
EduHound Weekly for May 19, 2005

NOVA Online Lost on Everest
The site is an intensive look at the personalities, dangers, history, culture, and lore surrounding the world's highest mountain. Features information about the 1999 expedition to find George Mallory as well as details on surviving Everest.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Everest History
2249 Summits of Everest (and counting) details here, as well as: Time Line Details, Routes, Climbers Pages, K2 summit to date, History of K2 summits and more.
http://www.everesthistory.com

Mount Everest @ National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/everest/
Get information about the 50th anniversary of Hillary & Norgay's first ascent of Mount Everest: maps, pictures, wallpapers, kids games, lesson plans, news and more.
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]



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Just a brief note to let you know that I returned to NJ today after surviving the evacuation of Houston. (Did you see me on national television? I was in a grey van and waved as the news helicopter flew over us. Just one of the million vehicles in that 250-mile traffic jam from Houston to Dallas. Thursday I managed to travel 50 miles in 18 hours.)

Found in:
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The Scout Report
June 10, 2005
Volume 11, Number 23

Art Explorer [pdf, RealPlayer]
http://www.artic.edu/artexplorer/

An early innovator in the digitization of artwork (its CD of art images
"With Open Eyes" was published in 1995), the Art Institute of Chicago
presents Art Explorer, an interactive website where visitors can search for
art, save selections into scrapbooks with notes, and share the scrapbooks
with friends and students. Art Explorer focuses on the Art Institute's
Impressionist and Postimpressionist collections, and includes original
artworks, as well as additional resources, including texts, video clips,
artist biographies, activities, and games.
[NOTE: Other pages from http://www.artic.edu/ previously posted. – Phyllis ]


>From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005.
http://scout.wisc.edu/

John Lovett’s Painting Lessons and Elements of Design
http://www.johnlovett.com/class.htm
From the site:
“The painting instructions, lesson plans, watercolour techniques and
notes on design and colour listed below are based on the notes used
in my art classes and workshops.”

The HLLA Reference Library
http://www.hlla.com/reference/index.html
From the site:
“This section of our site contains excerpted material from our books, and information about their subject matter, for the dual purposes of scholarly reference and product sampling. We are still adding to this section regularly. Check back soon. (Last updated August 9, 2005.)”

Categories include: Art, People & History (immigration), Military, Nature & Photography, Lifestyle and Crafts, Judaica, and the full text of some Children’s Classics.

Constitution Day at the NY Times The Learning Network
http://www.nytimes.com//learning/issues_in_depth/20050916.html

“The Learning Network provides a wealth of resources - lesson plans,
crosswords, special Q&A opportunities with Times reporters, and more - to
help you bring the Constitution into your classroom in meaningful and
exciting ways. The page will be updated as Constitution Day draws closer, so
be sure to bookmark it and visit often!”

All About History & Travel: Historical Cheat Sheets
http://www.likesbooks.com/history.html

All About Romance
http://www.likesbooks.com/home.html

The Spice Trade
http://www.theepicentre.com/Spices/spicetrd.html
From the site:
“The history of spices is the history of trade.”

from:
The Encyclopedia of Spices at:
http://www.theepicentre.com/Spices/spiceref.html

Select The Spice Trade for more on the history of spices and related articles.
Also contains a glossary.

World History Compass
The immediate goal of World History Compass “is to provide links to history sites anywhere in the world. While it's probably impossible to link to every site, I believe WHC offers enough links to at least get you going on the right trail. Hopefully, WHC is making a small contribution to the study of history.”

http://www.worldhistorycompass.com/
http://www.worldhistorycompass.com/whlindex.htm

Found on:
Date Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:54 AM
Subject: FreePint Newsletter
http://www.freepint.com/

ISSN 1460-7239 28th April 2005 No.181


UMDL Texts
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx/
This exceptionally clumsy site is quite simply one of the best history
resources on the internet. Thousands of historical documents -- none
of which show up in search engine results -- are full-text
searchable, and can be viewed in either text or original page image
format.

[NOTE: Part of the Digital Library Federation - Consortium of libraries
and related agencies that are pioneering in the use of electronic-information
technologies. Offers descriptions and links to over 616 public access collections
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=dlfcoll – previously posted. – Phyllis ]

(c) Free Pint Limited 1997-2005

Capture the Moment
http://www.newseum.org/pulitzer/shock/shock.htm
Pulitzer Prize photographs narrated by the photographers.

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Hi! It's Wednesday, June 1, 2005 and time for Language Arts at
ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
ComputerLab.Kids - Parts of Speech
http://www.computerlab.kids.new.net/parts_of_speech_sites.htm

Bookmark today's website now. You can refer to it over and over again to
find fun, interactive online games that teach parts of speech such as nouns,
verb tense, idioms, homonyms, prepositions, adverbs, adjectives, synonyms,
and much, much more.

When you get to the site you will see a directory/menu of 28 different links
to websites where you will find grammar and other language arts games. (Some
of the sites in the directory have been previously featured on
ClickSchooling!) Simply click on one that interests you, and a new page
opens with information and instructions on how to play the game.

Beginners will have fun learning new skills and more advanced students will
enjoy the opportunity to practice and review their grammar "smarts" in a fun
and challenging way.

Diane Flynn Keith
for ClickSchooling
Copyright 2005, All Rights Reserved
http://www.Homefires.com
http://www.Carschooling.com
http://www.UniversalPreschool.com

Note: We make every effort to recommend websites that have content that is appropriate for general audiences. Parents should also preview the sites for suitable content, and then review the sites together with their children.

Click Schooling (Clickschooling) is a Registered Trademark and may not be used without written permission of Diane Flynn Keith.

Planning a family road trip? For FREE educational car games visit:
http://www.Carschooling.com

Found on:
USA Today Web Guide Hot Sites 5/31/05
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/hotsites/2005/2005-05-31-hotsites.htm

TextArc
http://www.textarc.org/

TextArc is a multimedia experience that combines graphics with education. Describing itself as an "experimental alternate view of text", stories like Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" are displayed as links that move around the screen and clicking on them prompts a definition, giving users a new way of reading text. The library contains thousands of works that can be displayed in TextArc. — JT

Copyright 2005 USA TODAY

Found in:
Teachers@Work
May 2005 Web Site Reviews
http://www.teachers.work.co.nz/www_May_2005.htm
for entire list of web site reviews

Art-Rageous
http://www.art-rageous.net/
As well as a multitude of other interests, this web site presents an excellent collection of art lessons which are particularly aimed at the middle school but would be suitable for a much wider range of students. Fresh ideas and well presented. Ideal for year levels 5-9.

Principles of Graphic Design
http://www.mundidesign.com/presentation/index2F.html
You can download this presentation or use it directly from the Internet. The presentation deals with an introductory investigation of design, then moves onto colour theory, composition and layout, perspective and finally typography. All done in flash and an excellent resource for teachers all students looking for additional background information in these areas. Ideal for year levels 7-10

Free English Teaching Resources
http://www.teachit.co.uk/index.asp
Teach-It provides a fantastic collection of resources for English teachers and students which they make available from this web site as PDF files, which you can download at no charge. The resources here deal with a wide range of year levels and provide a wide range of reference sources, background notes and ideas for the classroom. Ideal for year levels 0-10
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Drama Studies
http://www.teachit.co.uk/index.asp?M=6&A=15&S=93&Z=1
Teach-It provides a fantastic collection of resources for drama teachers and students which they make available from this web site as PDF files, which you can download at no charge. The resources here deal with a wide range of year levels and provide a wide range of reference sources, background notes and ideas for the classroom. Ideal for year levels 0-10

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy [H2G2]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/
While not a conventional historical text "the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" provides a fascinating view of the universe and this web site provides all the background information you would need just in case you do find yourself sucked up into an alien spaceship, and make sure you take your PDA with you as all the information you need to succeed in conquering the universe can now fit in the palm of your hand. Ideal for year levels 3-12 +any life form that can read

Christopher Marlowe: The Creation of Dr Faustus
http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/marl-1.htm
Dr Faustus provides an excellent vehicle reducing the basics of Renaissance scholarship. It is an appropriate text to use to introduce the rudiments of literary criticism to novice scholars. It is also a springboard for initiating a discussion of current and topical issues which can lead students to examine and explore significant issues in their own lives. An excellent ready to print classroom unit on this theme. Ideal for year levels 9-12

The Highwayman: An Interactive Study Resource
http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/highwayman/
The Highwaymen by Alfred Noyes is a classic favourite poem that tells a good story with powerful imagery and rhythmic cave-ins reminiscent of horses hooves. The web site highlights important features of this including alliteration, the use of metaphor and personification, simile and highlights some of the words the students may not be familiar with. Ideal for year levels 7-12

Sports Coach Page
http://www.brianmac.demon.co.uk/
This page contains an alphabetically sorted list of the pages on the sports coach web site. This site is an extensive collection of resources for coaches, sports science students and anyone interested in skill development in almost any sporting area. Material here deals with a wide range of sports science themes such as energy pathways, endurance, lactic acid, mobility, nutrition, oxygen debt, training principles as well as a wide range of coaching tips and resources. Ideal for year levels 5-12

Flashcan Animator
http://www.flashcan.com/animator
If you are looking to introduce the concept of animation into the classroom then this free software would be an excellent place to start. The site makes use of flash technology to introduce students to the concepts behind animation and also allows them to create their own animations. Very cool.
Ideal for year levels 7-12

2001 Waka for Japan 2001
http://www.shef.ac.uk/japan2001/
Welcome to the Japan 2001 Waka Website - a site devoted to the many types of classical Japanese poetry. During the course of the Japan 2001 Festival a collection of 2001 poems was archived here, covering approximately the first thousand years of poetry in Japan. The poems appear in the original Japanese, transcribed into the Roman alphabet (Romanised) and translated into English. They are accompanied by commentary and background material to fill in the blanks on the world the Old Japanese poets lived in, their beliefs and society (in English). Ideal for year levels 7-12

Accord: Exercices autocorréctifs
http://www.didieraccord.com/
An excellent collection of self-correcting exercises for beginning students. The contexts that are used are excellent and draw heavily on imagery and particular photographs of everyday scenes in France. An excellent set of exercises which can be sent as a homework task. Ideal for year levels 5-9

Tessellate
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/tessellate/
Using this interactive Java applet students can tessellate different shaped objects with different numbers of edges in a range of different colours to produce a wide range of geometric patterns.
Ideal for year levels 4-8

Project InterActivate
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/
The goal of Project InterActivate is to collect evaluate and disseminate interactive Java based courseware for teachers of science and mathematics. What they have ended creating here is an excellent repository of lessons, activities, tools and a wonderful collection of Java applets which can be used within your mathematics curriculum or, if you are a student, to help you understand mathematical concepts and ideas. Ideal for year levels 0-12
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Ricci Adams’ Music Theory
http://www.musictheory.net
This is possibly one of the most useful music web sites we have ever come across. Not only does it contain a wide range of tools, interactive lessons and very useful utilities it is also been produced under the Creative Commons © system which allows teachers far greater "rights of the use" than traditional copyright law allows. You'll find their lessons dealing with the major and minus scales, dots and tyres, noted duration, diatonic triads (!), voicing chords . . . Interval trainers including no training, interval ear trainer, chord ear trainer, keyboard trainer, triads trainer, brass trainer, guitar trainer . . . . As well as three very useful utilities including a chord calculator, staff paper generator and a matrix generator. Ideal for year levels 6-12
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Raptor Recovery Project
http://www.raptorresource.org/
The focus here is on the Falcon recovery operation and the reintroduction of these birds back into the wild. You can access live "bird cams” as well as video clips and photographic collections. An excellent web site for those looking at strategies for conserving wildlife. Ideal for year levels 4-10 [NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Digital Library Service: US Fish & Wildlife
http://images.fws.gov/
The United States fish and wildlife service presents this excellent online digital media library. Teachers and students will find this collection of public domain photographs a fantastic resource when creating units of work, online presentations, working on assignments, all when you require an image of almost any animal imaginable. Ideal for all year levels
[Other pages from http://www.fws.gov/ previously posted. – Phyllis ]

Marine Education Resources
http://www.pacificwhale.org/marine/resources.html
This web site provides a directory of key educational resources and materials dealing with marine animals. Ideal for year levels 3-10

Conservation Central: Online Curriculum
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Education/ConservationCentral/teacher/default.cfm
There are six modules which make up this entire Online Curriculum which help students make informed decisions regarding the conservation of temperate forests in the United States and Central China. This is an excellent integrated unit of work looking at the big picture. Ideal for year levels 6-10
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Visions of Science: Photographic Awards 2005
http://www.visions-of-science.co.uk/
To the judges of these Awards, a Vision of Science is an attention-grabbing photographic image that gives new insight into the world of science and the workings of nature. It may show something never seen before, it may explain a scientific phenomenon, it may illustrate scientific data or it may simply be an image that shows the beauty of science. Ideal for all year levels

General Physics Java Applets
http://www.surendranath.org/applets.html
Physics teachers will find here a good collection of Physics applets which they can use in their classroom to demonstrate principles and applications of physical laws that govern our universe. Remember to use the applet menu in top left of page. Ideal for year levels 9-12

Who Did It: Forensics Science
http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/forensics/index.html
This unit has been developed in order to provide students with a fundamental understanding of forensic science. With the success of numerous television shows based on this theme, it is not hard to motivate students to become a forensic scientist. This unit looks at comparison of tool marks and casting, examination of fibres, fingerprinting, genetics, soil analysis, ink analysis density of glass fragments . . . All the tools that the average forensic scientist requires on an everyday basis.
Ideal for year levels 7-10

Biomes of the World
http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/biomes/index.html
This online unit of work provides a research project the students investigating the concept of biomes. The site introduces the major biomes along with Web resources for further research and also provides teachers with questions for further classroom discussion along with reproducible handouts for students. Ideal for year levels 7-11

Blue Zone
http://www.bluzone.com/
The world that lives beneath the ocean waves is one that is really ever explored by human beings that the beautiful and the unusual, the frightening and the engaging all inhabit this amazing zone which takes up two-thirds of the earth surface. You will find here a wonderful collection of photographs that show off the beauty and the complexity of this zone. Ideal for year levels 0-9

Animated Engines
http://www.keveney.com/Engines.html
The trouble with engines is that they are all greasy and you can't see inside of them . . . . up until now. These excellent animations allow you to see inside a range of different motors and observe what actually is happening inside of them. You will find here two stroke motors four stroke motors, stirling motors, steam engines, Wankel engines, Rotary engines and jet engines. Fascinating stuff. Ideal for year levels 5-10 [NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

CalPhotos: People & Culture
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/people/
The calPhotos site provides access to almost 1500 images of people and their culture. Check the usage guidelines associated with each image but in general these are very generous and provide both teachers and students with a wonderful collection of images which can be used in building classroom resources that can be used in presentations in the classroom. Ideal for all year levels

Cycles of Life in a Bengali Town
http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/bishnapur/
The Life Cycle comprises rituals and social relations attending birth, death, and marriage. Culture and Society contain segments called Legend and History, Locality and Kinship, Markets and Economy, Administration and Politics, Temples, Music, Arts and Crafts. Ideal for year levels 11-12

Nanotechnology
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna/nano/index.asp
Nanotechnology is about making, manipulating and measuring extremely small things. These things are so small we measure them in nanometres (millionths of a metre). After visiting this online exhibition you'll be amazed just how much impact nanotechnology is already happening on your life in everything from the sports you play through to medical treatments and the gadgets and gizmos we take for granted.

Tech it Out UK
http://www.techitoutuk.com/
If you are teaching design and technology at any level you will find the resources, projects and units of work provided here an excellent support to your teaching program. You will find information here dealing with electronics, mechanisms, materials, processors, quality, systems, structures and food. You also find projects here with good examples of students work, animations interactive quizzes and planning tools. An excellent resource for technology teachers. Ideal for teachers

Found in:
Virtual Teacher Newsletter No. 109 June 11th 2005
http://www.virtualteacher.com.au/directory.html

Hands-On-Physics
http://hop.concord.org/
From the site:
“Hands-On-Physics represents a novel approach to learning science that responds to the standards by providing a rich, inquiry-based approach. HOP provides a refreshing alternative to any standard physics course at the high school or college level. Hands-On-Physics is heavily experimental, project-oriented, technological, low-cost, practical to implement, and effective for all students.”

Chord House
http://www.looknohands.com/Shows all the scales and chords for piano and guitar.
The KryssTal Web Site
http://www.krysstal.com/index.html
A variety of pages including:

Astronomy
http://www.krysstal.com/astro.html

Mathematics
http://www.krysstal.com/maths.html

Physics
http://www.krysstal.com/physics.html

Chemistry
http://www.krysstal.com/chem.html

The History and Geography of Inventions
When and Where was it Invented
http://www.krysstal.com/inventions.html

A Brief Introduction to the Major Religions of the World
http://www.krysstal.com/wgods.html

Physics Simulations
http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/
Sections include: Measurements ; Math ; Mechanics ; Waves ; Electricity and Magnetism ; Thermodynamics ; Light and Optics ; Modern Physics ; Astronomy.

Found in:
The Busy Educator's Newsletter
http://www.glavac.com/

Date Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 6:13 AM

Hello and welcome to the June 2005 issue of The Busy Educator's Newsletter
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BJ'S SCIENCE (TEACHERS GR. 6-8)
http://www.mysciencesite.com/

Teacher Barb Jackson and subscriber to the Busy Educator's Newsletter sent the following description of her website:

This site contains useful information for teachers as background knowledge or for lesson preparation. Students can use it in class for research, to do Webquests, to review for tests, to play games, for tutorial or reinforcement of science skills. It contains excellent resources for content and learning aids. There is a teachers' download page full of activities.

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DR. E'S SCIENCE PAGE (GR. 9-12)
http://www.lcusd.net/lchs/mewoldsen/
“Great resources and links to AP Environmental Science, Biology and Physics.
Also contains resources for parents.”

Found in:
The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter # 351 5/19/05
A complete archive of previous Cool Tricks can be viewed at
http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com/archives.htm

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Quantum Physics Made Relatively Simple
http://bethe.cornell.edu/

Get a simple introduction to Quantum Physics, which is considered by many
to be science's most fascinating area of study. Just a few years ago at
the ripe old age of 93, top physicist Hans Bethe delivered three lectures
on the principles of Quantum Physics to a group of senior citizens at a
local retirement home.

Visitors to this site can watch these legendary lectures, which provide a
scientific perspective meant for 'non-experts' to understand. In addition
to the QuickTime videos, the site also contains a biography of Mr. Bethe,
who left Germany in the mid-1930's to escape from the Nazi regime and
became one of the most influential physicists of the 20th Century.


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The Under the Pier Show
http://www.underthepier.com/

The Under the Pier Show is a constantly evolving arcade of coin-operated
games that mix artistic ingenuity with good old-fashioned
amusement. Located underneath the Southwold Pier in Suffolk, England, the
machines are a modern version of the arcade and amusement culture that was
so popular at the turn of the century.

For those of us who can't make it all the way to Suffolk to play the actual
games, this website is the next best thing. Read about the history of this
fun project, then browse through the gallery of machines to discover such
modern wonders as "The Booth of Truth", "Instant Eclipse", and
"Crankenstein". Most of these machines have been invented and built by Tim
Hunkin, the founder of The Under the Pier Show project.

[NOTE: A SHORT HISTORY OF AMUSEMENT ARCADES
http://www.underthepier.com/15_history_intro.htm – Phyllis ]

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Appalachian Resources On the Web
http://www.shepherd.edu/passweb/links.htm
From the site:
“a list of links sorted into broad topic areas”

Found on:
NEAT NEW STUFF, JUNE 3, 2005

Abbreviations and Acronyms of the US Government
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/subjectareas/gov/docs_abbrev.html
Enlightening the always mysterious world of federal prose.
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

[NOTE: Home Pages:
Online Government Publications
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/subjectareas/gov/online.html

Research Help by Subject: Resource Guides
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/subjectareas/subjects.html
“Subject Resource Guides help you find library information in specific subject areas. Included in each Subject Guide are links to general and subject-specific databases for finding articles, suggested print resources, and links to carefully-selected Internet sites.” Some online resources are limited to authorized access. – Phyllis ]

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Government Reports, Legislation, Federal Court Decisions, Statistics and Regulations Mentioned in the News [New Mexico State Library]
http://www.stlib.state.nm.us/services_more.php?id=361_0_13_0_M64While some of these are primarily of interest to people in the southwest, most of us can use the more general headline-related documents linked here (which seem to be updated daily). A good example of librarians using their specialized knowledge and resources to inform their patrons about important community issues.

Music from TV Commercials
http://www.songtitle.info/
What WAS that song in that commercial? Check it out here, For each season, the list includes the name of the product, the song, the performer, and a link to a song sample.

Roughstock's History of Country Music
http://www.roughstock.com/history/
Covers country music from the 1920's through the present, with history, biography, images, sound clips, and digital movies.

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Neat New Stuff I Found This Week
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2005.

Found on:
Don's Patch Issue #2005-06-01 from http://www.don-guitar.com/

Charles Templeton's Ragtime music collection.
http://library.msstate.edu/ragtime/
From the site: “For some forty years, Starkville, Mississippi, businessman Charles Templeton collected a wide range of music memorabilia. Included among his treasures is a collection of some 22,000 pieces of sheet music from late nineteenth and early twentieth century America. The sheet music illustrates a broad spectra of music genres, from the ragtime of Scott Joplin to the dixieland of W. C. Handy to the smooth ballads of Irving Berlin to the stirring patriotic anthems of John Phillips Sousa and George M. Cohan to the early roots of big band sounds. In addition to detailing the evolution of American music, these songs bring to life the times, trials, tribulations, and triumphs of a still young nation emerging from the shadows of Civil War and soaring with optimism. The music also reflects the fabric of a society struggling to come to terms with an increasingly multi-cultural heritage, its role as an emerging world power, and its vulnerability to erratic economic and political forces. The music is, in fact, a snapshot of a dynamic generation.”

[NOTE: Includes Links to Sheet Music Collections
http://library.msstate.edu/ragtime/main.html - Phyllis ]

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Ramesses I: The Search for the Lost Pharaoh.http://carlos.emory.edu/RAMESSES/

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This site is dedicated to the heroic explorers of our polar regions
and the surrounding islands.
http://www.south-pole.com/
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

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The Susan B. Anthony House
http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Found on:
Date Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 9:52 AM
Subject: Cable in the Classroom e-News

http://www.ciconline.org/

July/August Access Learning
http://www.ciconline.org/AboutCIC/Publications/Archives/AL_julaug05.htm

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Teachopera.net
http://www.teachopera.net
From the site: “Teachopera.net is a national collaboration between Opera America members dedicated to providing education materials which support K-12 teachers and teaching artists using opera in their classroom curricula.”

Artszone: A Sampler of Opera Links
http://www.ovationtv.com/artszone/programs/opera/links.html
Artszone: Teacher Zone
http://www.ovationtv.com/artszone/teachers/
[NOTE: Other pages from http://www.ovationtv.com/artszone/ previously posted. – Phyllis ]

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Niagara: A History of the Falls Web Site
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/niagara

World War II
http://www.historychannel.com/worldwartwo/

[NOTE: Other pages from http://www.historychannel.com/ previously posted. – Phyllis ]


Disney Latino
http://disneylatino.com
Spanish-language Disney Web site offers
information useful for K–12 students of Spanish
about upcoming programming and movies,
including interactives and photos.

Egipto
http://www.tudiscovery.com/egipto
Students can test their Spanish skills while
learning about Egypt on this interactive site.
Features an ancient kings photo gallery, photos

© 2005 Cable in the Classroom

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Found on:
Date Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 2:11 AM
From: "Robert Kennedy - About.com Private Schools Guide"

Teen Suicide
It's an educator's worst nightmare. It scatters guilt just about everywhere. Most of the time it could have been prevented if only the warning signs had been heeded. Learn more about teen suicide.
http://privateschool.about.com/b/a/037860.htm

Suicide Awareness Voices of Education: Youth Depression
http://www.save.org/prevention/youth_depression.html
[NOTE: Home Page: http://www.save.org/ - Phyllis ]

Stopping Gay Teen Suicide
http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Gender/gayisok/stopping_suicide.html

Teen Suicide Facts
http://depression.about.com/cs/suicideprevent/a/teensuicide.htm

© 2005 About, Inc.

Found on:
ResourceShelf Newsletter
http://www.resourceshelf.com

June 3-9, 2005
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Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)--Photo Archive
Source: FEMA
FEMA Photo Library
http://www.photolibrary.fema.gov/photolibrary/index.jsp
"Editors, researchers, and the general public can now access an online collection of more than 9,200 images in the FEMA photo library. The photo library contains thumbnail and high-resolution images of natural disasters and terrorist events taken by FEMA's staff of disaster field photographers. The library also consists of images of FEMA's disaster response and recovery mission."

According to a press release, the archive contains 2,900+ hurricane-related images, 1,440+ flood-related images, 600+ earthquake-related images and "more than 1,700 images related to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon."

As with most government works, the vast majority of these images are in the public domain, which means you can use them "for educational and informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits and Internet web pages." But you should be aware that some of the photos are copyrighted -- marked with a copyright symbol and color-coded -- and you'll need to obtain permission if you want to use any of these.

To read the entire review, go to: Direct LINK to This ResourceShelf Post
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2005/06/new-and-improved-fema-photo-library.html
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History--United States
History--Spain
Source: Library of Congress and National Library of Spain
Redesigned Site, Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/eshtml/
"The Library of Congress has redesigned and expanded its bilingual, multi-format English-Spanish digital library site devoted to Spanish exploration and settlement in North America from the 15th to the early 19th centuries. This cooperative effort between the National Library of Spain and the Library of Congress has added materials from the collections of the National Library. The project is part of the Library of Congress Global Gateway initiative to build digital library partnerships with national libraries around the world."

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Digitization Projects
Source: First Monday
Using digitized primary source materials in the classroom: A Colorado case study
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_6/bloom/index.html
"Using digitized primary source materials with K-12 students makes learning content more engaging and relevant, and helps students develop a wide range of skills. This paper highlights the use of primary source materials in Colorado classrooms and provides a brief overview of what educators' needs are in order to use digitized primary source materials more efficiently and effectively with students."


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Rape--Pathfinders
Source: Ibiblio.org/UNC Library School Student
New, Rape Crisis Information Pathfinder
http://www.ibiblio.org/rcip/
"The rape crisis information pathfinder is for rape victims and their loved ones who are trying to heal and seeking resources to do so. Find hotlines, crisis centers and support groups. This pathfinder was created by the researcher as a graduate student in the MLS program (Library Science) at UNC Chapel Hill. Scope: This site covers international rape crisis resources and research with a focus on the United States. This includes crisis information pages on North Carolina and Louisiana. Subjects dealt with are rape and sexual assault research and rape crisis resources. The research section includes: journal articles, statistics, reference resources, victim blame research, films, bibliographies and online research tools and databases. The crisis resources include international rape crisis center directories, information on health and the psychological effects of rape, date rape drugs, LGBT sexual assault, male sexual assault victims, victim assistance / legal resources, war and rape and online support groups."

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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month @
The National Register of Historic Places
As part of the celebration, this site highlights various publications, properties listed in the National Register, and National Parks that deal directly with the ingenuity, creativity, cultural and political experiences of Hispanic Americans.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/feature/hispanic/
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Hispanic Heritage Month @ infoplease
This resource includes lots of features, fun stuff, population statistics and economic statistics relating to Hispanic Heritage month.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hhm1.html

Hispanic Heritage Month Activities from Thomson Gale
Features biographies of significant present-day and historical Hispanic individuals, Hispanics in the arts, and a quiz on Hispanic culture.
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/chh/index.htm
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Hispanic Heritage Teaching Resources
Includes thematically arranged teaching resources from across the Smithsonian. The resources have been selected for their relevance to classroom curriculum and national education standards.
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/resource_library/hispanic_resources.html

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage!
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/hispanic/index.htm
Scholastic's Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Online Activity provides your students with an opportunity to discover the contributions and rich cultures of Hispanics in the United States. Hispanic Heritage Month — celebrated September 15 to October 15 each year — honors the diverse peoples of Spanish-speaking backgrounds who have come to the United States from more than 20 countries. Celebrate Hispanic Heritage is designed to coincide with this special month or be used throughout the year.

Found on:
Date Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 9:18 AM
Subject: Cable in the Classroom e-News
http://www.ciconline.org/

Access Learning, September 2005
http://www.ciconline.org/AboutCIC/Publications/accesslearning.htm

ESPN: Hispanic Heritage
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/feature/featureStory?page=2004hispanicheritage/index
Articles in English and Spanish about Hispanic athletes.

Hardy’s World: Thomas Hardy
http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/english/hardy/

California’s Untold Stories: Gold Rush!
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Biography: Ponce de Leon
http://www.aetv.com/class/bioproject/ponce_bio.html
Site features a cross-referenced description of the Spanish explorer’s
background and accomplishments, a “Who Am I” Bio Quiz, teacher’s
guide, glossary of key terms, and links to Related People & Events
for more contextual information.
http://www.aetv.com/class/bioproject/ponce_resources.html

Hispanic Heritage Month
http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/hhm/
Teaching Materials (Links)
http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/hhm/teaching.html
Recommended Links
http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/hhm/links.html

MarineBio.org: Biology
http://www.marinebio.com
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Alien Planet - Intro
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/alienplanet/alienplanet.html
Streaming video of expert commentary on extraterrestrial life forms
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/alienplanet/video/video.html
Site provides streaming video of expert
commentary on extraterrestrial life forms,
artist projections of what alien creatures
may potentially look like, and biographies
of various scientists who investigate
these issues.

Blue Planet: Seas of Life
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/blueplanet/blueplanet.html
Site features news reports, research findings,
audio clips of animal sounds, a sea quiz,
interactive games, and more on ocean related topics.
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Changing Earth
http://www.cnn.com/specials/2005/changing.earth
Site offers information and interactive features
on environmental issues, such as a map with
facts and photos. Also features information
about areas in danger from global warming,
a timeline of ecological milestones since 1896,
and a photo gallery.

Ice World
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/iceworld/iceworld.html
Site related to the Discovery Channel
documentary features an interactive survival
game, an animated Ice Age map, an ask-the expert
section, and links to additional resources.

Land of Lost Monsters
http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/lostmonsters/lostmonsters.html
Through computer-animated video clips, site
explores what happened when early humans
made their first forays into exploration,
journeying out of Africa and encountering
animals larger than any seen today.

Science & Space: Mars Making Closest
Approach to Earth in 60,000 Years
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/08/13/mars.close.up.ap
Interactive site includes features about the Mars
rovers and their planned landing sites, an
animated virtual simulation of the rovers, and
an interactive look at the probes and satellites
sent to orbit the planet.

Choices & Consequences:
Al Roker Investigates: The Horrors of Hazing
http://www.courttv.com/choices/al_roker_hazing
Site addresses the growing problem of hazing,
with sections relevant to both parents and
children, including video clips from the
documentary, discussion questions, resource
guides, and tips for prevention.
Resource Links
http://www.courttv.com/choices/teachers/links.html

Intervention
http://www.aetv.com/intervention
Streaming video clips of this documentary series
that addresses addiction and its effect on
families. Site provides information about
interventions and a list of treatments.
Resource Links
http://www.courttv.com/choices/teachers/links.html

Searching for the Roots of 9/11
http://dsc.discovery.com/anthology/spotlight/911/spotlightnow.html
Explores how the Muslim world views the
with a timeline of pre-9/11 terrorism, a
discussion of the Koran, and a Q&A with
expert on U.S.-Arab relations.

© 2005 Cable in the Classroom

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Sent : Tuesday, May 31, 2005 5:14 PM
Subject : [LIFE of Florida] SAT Preparation - vocabulary

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This week I launched a new educational website that will help high
school students prepare for the vocabulary section of the new SAT
exam. The site is also useful to anyone that would like to improve
their English vocabulary.

The site is called: SAT Preparation

The address is:
http://www.sat-preparation.co.il

There are over 3,000 multiple choice questions divided into
21 groups. There is also a database browser to review and print the
questions and the correct answers.

Please forward this message to other teachers, parents and students
so they may benefit from this new educational site.

Have a good day,
Jacob Richman
jrichman@sat-preparation.co.il


LIFE of Florida homepage & Forums: http://www.LIFEofflorida.org

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Site of the Day for Thursday, September 8, 2005

Remembering the Blitz
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/MOLsite/exhibits/blitz/
[NOTE: Other Web Exhibitions are available at
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/MOLsite/exhibits/
(select: Web Exhibitions) – Phyllis ]

Today's site marks the anniversary of the onset of the London Blitz of
World War II, which began on September 7, 1940. In this exhibit of
remembrance of those dark days, presented by the UK's London Museum, Gentle
Subscribers will find a stirring collection of artifacts and reminiscences
of those perilous times.

"The Blitz took place between 7 September 1940 and 11 May 1941. This online
exhibition looks at what it was like to live through the Blitz in London
and at how we remember it now. ... Most Londoners and many others
'remember' the Blitz - whether through experience or through family
stories, school lessons, photographs, movies, TV, books, art, memorials and
museums. Between 7 September 2000 and 11 May 2001 - exactly 60 years after
the event - visitors to this online exhibition were invited to contribute
their own memories. Those memories now form part of the exhibition itself."
- from the website

The site presents an evocative collection of personal accounts of the Blitz
contributed by visitors, along with the homely items which were used during
the period, from Ministry leaflets to pipe flame covers, and letters
written to family members by those serving as Air Raid Wardens, in the
"Personal Story" section. In "The Big Story" section are the facts and
figures of the blitz -- the 1,400,000 people made homeless, the casualty
figures of more than 20,000 over the course of the Blitz and the London
Underground stations which sheltered 177,000 people on one night.

Journey to the site for accounts of the way it was during London's darkest
hours at:

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/MOLsite/exhibits/blitz/

A.M. Holm
view the List archives on the web at:
http://www.freelists.org/archives/sotd

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PBS Teacher Previews: September 11-17, 2005
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American Experience
"Fatal Flood"
TV> PBSOL> Middle / High School
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
8 - 9:00 pm
In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the
Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois to New
Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a
thousand people and leaving a million homeless. In Greenville,
Mississippi, efforts to contain the river pitted the majority
black population against an aristocratic plantation family, the
Percys -- and the Percys against themselves. A story of greed,
power and race during one of America's greatest natural
disasters. (CC, Stereo, 1 year)

Watch online video footage from the 1927 flood at the companion
Web site.

http://www.pbs.org/amex/flood
[NOTE: See teaching guide from AMEX pasted at end of this posting. – Phyllis ]
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Louisiana Public Broadcasting -- LPB
"Louisiana: A History"
Station> Middle / High School

Log on to this Web site, produced by PBS member station LPB, to
learn about the colorful history of Louisiana. Explore the
online timeline to learn about the major events and
personalities that have shaped Louisiana.

http://www.louisianahistory.org

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BLYTHE BENNETT'S RECOMMENDED SITE OF THE WEEKHer Lab in Your Life: Women in ChemistryWWW>Middle / High SchoolWhy take chemistry in high school? What can you do with it?Women scientists are profiled on this site, presenting ideasabout how chemistry is a part of our daily lives.http://www.chemheritage.org/women_chemistry/[NOTE: Home page previously posted. – Phyllis ]******************************************
Copyright 2005 PBS Online.


Found in:
Date Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 4:16 PM
Subject: News from American Experience:
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE reprises FATAL FLOOD
Wednesday, September 14 on PBS (check local listings)

Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent floodwaters have had
catastrophic consequences for America's Gulf region. The loss of
life and financial damage will likely top those of any storm in
US history. Sadly, this isn't the first time that the people of
New Orleans have been under water, and not the first time a
natural disaster has revealed the stark contrast between haves
and have-nots. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents the story of a 1927
disaster, FATAL FLOOD, on Wednesday, September 14 (check local
listings).

In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the
Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois to New
Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a
thousand people and leaving a million homeless. In Greenville,
Mississippi, efforts to contain the river pitted the majority
black population against an aristocratic plantation family, the
Percys -- and the Percys against themselves. Fatal Flood is a
dramatic story of greed, power and race during one of America's
greatest natural disasters.

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FATAL FLOOD ONLINE
http://www.pbs.org/amex/flood
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Learn more about the flood of 1927 online:

- Compare the "fatal flood" of 1927 to a more recent Mississippi
River flood.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flood/maps/index.html

- Learn how the levees gave way in 1927 in much the same way they
did in recent weeks.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flood/peopleevents/e_levee.html

- Read accounts of the 1927 flood from eyewitnesses to the
disaster.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flood/sfeature/sf_flood.html

- Explore how Delta blues musicians responded to the natural
disaster.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flood/sfeature/sf_blues.html

Constitution Day Resources
http://www.uscourts.gov/outreach/constitutionday.html

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National Constitution Day – September 2005
http://cqpress.com/incontext/constitution/default.htm
http://cqpress.com/incontext/constitution/docs/Constitution Day Teaching Unit2.pdf
From the web site:
“This Web site provides a lesson plan and material from a variety of electronic CQ Press sources to help instructors and students observe Constitution Day.”

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Back to School for Constitution Day
http://www.llrx.com/columns/govdomain8.htm#teaching
From the web site:
“The following guide to relevant web resources is intended to help those teachers, students, and federal employees—as well as an army of web site designers, reference librarians, non-profit organizations, and program planners—get ready for the day.”

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In Congress Assembled:
Continuity and Change in the Governing of the United States
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/constitu/conintro.html
From the web site:
“This unit includes four lessons using primary sources to examine continuity and change in the governing of the United States. Lessons one and two are focused on a study of the Constitution and Bill of Rights and provide access to primary source documents from the Library of Congress. Lesson three investigates important issues which confronted the first Congress and has students examine current congressional debate over similar issues. Lesson four features broadsides from the Continental Congress calling for special days of thanksgiving and remembrance.

The first three lessons are intended for middle and high school students. Lesson four provides a historical context for elementary school lessons that focus on celebrating national holidays.”

Last updated 08/30/2005
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Constitution Rights Foundation – Free Lessons
http://www.crf-usa.org/Foundation_docs/Foundation_home.html
From the web site:
“CRF's Online Lessons: Foundations of Our Constitution. These lessons are
designed to help students explore documents that serve as the foundation for
American democracy. Each lesson in Foundations of Our Constitution
consists of three components: (1) a reading with discussion questions,
(2) an interactive activity, and (3) the complete text of the document
that the lesson explores.”
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

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Unearthing Tse-whit-zen
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/local/klallam/index.html
A Seattle Times special report · May 22 - May 25, 2005
A Village of the Klallam people
“Tse-whit-zen is the largest ancient Indian village ever unearthed in Washington”
Report contents: Part 1: A Culture Emerges ; Part 2: Spirit of Pestilence ; Part 3: A Costly Mistake ; Part 4: Rebirth of a Culture. Sections include: Introduction ; Epilogue ; Study Guide ; Resources ; Multimedia.

Native Americans
Alphabetical List of Links by Subject
http://www.accd.edu/pac/lrc/nativeam.htm
[NOTE: Sites not checked. – Phyllis ]

Native American Sites
http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/indians.html

Information on Individual Native Nations
http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/nations.html

Other Native Library and Literature Organizations and Resources
http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/aila.html#links

Center for Civic Education: Lessons on Constitution Day and Citizenship Day
http://www.civiced.org/byrd/
September 17, 2005
“free, ready-to-use lessons designed to help you fulfill a new federal
mandate are now posted at the Center's website at http://www.civiced.org/byrd/ .
This federal mandate requires that every school-from elementary and secondary schools to colleges and universities-provide instruction on the U.S. Constitution on Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, September 17, the anniversary of the document's signing. September 17 falls on a Saturday this year: Constitution Day may be observed the day before or at any time around that date. Lessons are available for kindergarten through twelfth grade.”

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CONSTITUTION DAY PROGRAMMING MADE EASY
SEPTEMBER 16, 2005

Justice Talking
http://www.justicelearning.org/

To help schools comply with a new federal requirement to offer an educational program on Constitution Day, a prestigious group of educators and media organizations has joined together to create a unique initiative.
Justice Talking, NPR's award-winning radio series - in cooperation with the National Archives and Records Administration, The New York Times Knowledge Network, and other partners- will broadcast two programs online and via satellite. Any school or group may show the programs - and build their own educational events around them - without charge.
SAVE THE DATE, SEPTEMBER 16, 2005 Conversations with Supreme Court Justices will broadcast at noon and 3 p.m. EDT. The Justice Talking debate will broadcast from 1:30-2:30 p.m. EDT.

CONVERSATIONS WITH SUPREME COURT JUSTICES United States Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer will talk about the Constitution with high school students at the Supreme Court. The classroom-ready video will feature the Justices taking questions from students and discussing why we have and need a Constitution, what federalism is, how implicit and explicit rights are defined, and how separation of powers ensures that no one branch of government obtains too much power.

NPR's JUSTICE TALKING LIVE ON VIDEO NPR's Margot Adler will host an hour-long special broadcast from the William G. McGowan Theater at the National Archives. The debate, "Free Speech in the Digital Age," will look at censorship in libraries, of textbooks, and on the Internet. The program will examine the reasons for both safeguarding and limiting speech, including the protection of minors and community safety, ensuring a free marketplace of ideas, and guaranteeing democratic institutions - an excellent way to jump start classroom discussion of First Amendment freedoms.

TO REGISTER FOR THE PROGRAM Visit http://www.justicelearning.org/ or
contact Eli Lesser, Educational Development Coordinator, Civics@Annenberg,
215-898-5081, elesser@asc.upenn.edu.


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From National Geographic: Inside 9/11
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/inside911/
Web site includes photos, a video archive, interviews, biographies, a timeline and related links.
Program will re-air on the National Geographic Channel on September 8, 2005
and on September 11, 2005.

Related Links
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/inside911/resources.html

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Date Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 1:15 PM
Subject: [LII New This Week] Part 2, Special Hurricane Katrina Edition

Since last Friday, we at Librarians' Index to the Internet have added thirty
more websites to LII related to Hurricane Katrina, and have developed a new
featured collection. See:

http://lii.org/search/file/hurricanekatrina

This collection is also linked from our main page, at http://lii.org/ .

We will continue to develop this featured collection, which has over twenty
categories addressing topics such as volunteer opportunities, displaced
students, charitable giving, animal rescue, missing persons, temporary
housing, flood control, levee management, gas prices, environmental factors,
news sites, maps and images, and much more. Send suggestions for websites to
lii@lii.org .

Karen G. Schneider
http://lii.org kgs@lii.org
Librarians' Index to the Internet
Websites you can trust!

[NOTE: Includes link to: nola.com: Hurricane Center
The Times-Picayune newspaper will be providing continuous updates
http://www.nola.com/t-p/
Coverage of the effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans in 2005, with news from The Times-Picayune newspaper, photographs of the damage, maps and satellite images, and weather and flooding alerts. The "Get in touch" section provides forums for exchanging and requesting information about weather, missing people, and local conditions. Includes information about relief, volunteering, and charitable giving.

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After a Disaster: A Guide for Parents and Teachers
http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/KEN-01-0093/
From the site:
“Whether a child has personally experienced trauma or has merely seen the event on television or heard it discussed by adults, it is important for parents and teachers to be informed and ready to help if reactions to stress begin to occur.”

After Disaster: What Teens Can Do
http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/KEN-01-0092/
From the site: “provides information for teens to help understand some of their reactions as well as others, to a crisis. Suggestions are also provided to help ease the unfamiliar feelings related to the event.”

Both of the above sites are from:
Managing Anxiety in Times of Crisis
http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/managinganxiety/


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Site of the Day for Tuesday, September 6, 2005

Managing Anxiety in Times of Crisis
http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/managinganxiety/

In light of the tragic situation which has befallen our American
subscribers, today's site, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, offers brief guides for dealing with stress during periods of
great upheaval. Gentle Subscribers seeking ways to help others cope with an
ongoing crisis may find these resources provide a practical reference,
focusing on specific members of the community.

The List wishes to extend its deepest sympathy to all its American members
in the wake of the tragic event which has struck their country.

"Resources in Times of Uncertainty ... How Families Can Help Children Cope
with Fear and Anxiety ... What Teens Can Do . ... A Guide for Parents and
Teachers ... How to Deal With Grief ..." - from the website

The site features specific suggestions for parents in recognizing
indications of distress in children and how they may help alleviate it. The
"Teens" section contains information to help them understand their own and
others, responses to tragic situations, while the Parent and Teacher module
explains the differing the ways specific childhood age groups may respond
to an overwhelming situation and how to respond to them.

Journey to the site for information on coping with the trauma of disaster
conditions at:

http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/managinganxiety/


A.M. Holm
View the List archives on the web at:
http://www.freelists.org/archives/sotd

Advice on Talking to Children about Disasters: American Academy of Pediatrics http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/disastercomm.htm
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) offers advice on how to communicate with children and adolescents during times of crisis.

Dealing with Children and Catastrophic Events
http://www.shambles.net/appendix/tsunami/DealingwithCatastrophicEvents.pdf
Free leaflet/advice to download for teachers and parents (pdf file 180KB)

Children, Stress, and Natural Disasters
http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~disaster/teacher/teacher.html
“a set of resources for teachers”

Found on:
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NEW THIS WEEK for May 26, 2005
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Education Center ---------------------------
"This site is for students, teachers, librarians and other
educators to access" the many educational resources from the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers. The site features information about Army
Corps activities such as disaster response and water resource
management, lesson plans about navigation, the "Young Engineer's
Club" with games and a searchable database of science experiments,
and links to numerous related sites.

http://education.wes.army.mil/
http://lii.org?recs=026131
Subjects:
* United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
* Civil engineering
Created by: mrm

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Wildlife --------------------------------------------
Issues facing wildlife, such as circuses, exotic pets, and animals
in zoos. The section on the Urban Wildlife Program discusses
"nonlethal means for resolving conflicts between wildlife and
humans," including model guidelines for nuisance wildlife control,
backyard bird feeding, and what to do if you see a turtle in the
road. Also find instructional videos. One of the "Animal
Information Centers" maintained by the Humane Society of the
United States (HSUS).

http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/
http://lii.org?recs=019223
Subjects:
* Wildlife conservation
* Animal welfare
* LII classic content
Created by: kgs

[NOTE: Another page from http://www.hsus.org/ previously posted. – Phyllis ]

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Thank you for using Librarians' Index to the Internet!

Karen G. Schneider, kgs@lii.org
New This Week Listowner, and Director, Librarians' Index to the Internet
Websites you can trust! http://lii.org/

Cats: Plans for Perfection (anatomy)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/cats/
From the site:
"The cat is one animal nature pretty much got right the first time around ...
the story of cats is ultimately a story about design."

Resources: Select “Links” or scroll down the page
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/cats/resource.html
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Cats! Wild to Mild
http://www.nhm.org/cats/

"Cats! Wild to Mild," was a traveling exhibit from the Natural History
Museum of Los Angeles County. and they now bring you the
"Cats! Wild to Mild" web site.

“Much of the content from the exhibit is presented in these pages,
as well as the complete Teacher's Study Guide that accompanied
the exhibition. “

[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

Found in:
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The Scout Report
May 6, 2005
Volume 11, Number 18

Whatever Happened to Polio?
http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/
[NOTE: Other pages from http://americanhistory.si.edu/ previously posted. – Phyllis ]

This Smithsonian National Museum of American History exhibit celebrates the
50th anniversary of effective vaccines to prevent polio. On April 12, 1955,
Dr. Jonas Salk, a virologist working at the University of Pittsburgh with
funding from the March of Dimes, announced his vaccine against the disease.
In 1957, trials of Dr. Albert Sabin's vaccine began. Between 1955 and 1957,
the incidence of polio in the U.S dropped by 85 to 90 percent. Since it
draws upon the vast collections of the Smithsonian, the exhibit is lavishly
illustrated with historical photographs, and all kinds of ephemera, such as
an advertisement for Drinker-Collins respirators, "Polio Pioneer" buttons
given to children who participated in Salk vaccine clinical trials, and a
March of Dimes bank. The exhibit provides background information on polio-
related topics including the March of Dimes, established by Franklin D.
Roosevelt in 1938, an organization that took in millions of small donations
to support the care of people who contracted polio and research into
prevention and treatment; the history of vaccines; and the differences
between Salk's killed-virus vaccine, and Sabin's live-virus vaccine. [DS]


The Jane Goodall Institute [pdf, QuickTime]
http://www.janegoodall.com/default.asp

Founded in 1977 by the noted primatologist Jane Goodall and Genevieve,
Princess di San Faustino, the Jane Goodall Institute's primary mission is to
"advance the power of individuals to take informed and compassionate action
to improve the environment of all living things." Of course, many of its
activities center around the importance of increasing overall awareness of
primate habitat conservation and this is definitely the focus of this timely
website. A fist stop for any visitor to the site should be the "Chimpanzee
Central" section, where they may learn about the behavior of these primates,
their use of tools, and the various issues surrounding the conservation of
their habitats. Another compelling area of the site is the "Roots & Shoots"
section, which provides educational information about these service-learning
projects that "promote care and concern for animals, the environment, and
the human community". [KMG]
[See also: ChimpanZoo http://www.chimpanzoo.org/ - Phyllis ]

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The single phrase below is the copyright notice to be used when
reproducing any portion of this report, in any format.

>From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005.
http://scout.wisc.edu/

Found on:
The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC)
ENC.org

Digital Dozen September 2005 – Final Edition
http://www.enc.org/features/dd/archive/0,1577,9-2005,00.shtm

End of polio
URL: http://www.endofpolio.org/
ENC#: ENC-033088
Publisher: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Date: 2002
Grade(s): 9 - 12 ENC#: 033088

Synopsis: Franklin Delano Roosevelt is historically famous for both his presidential accomplishments and his heroic battle with the effects of polio. At this web site, learn about the virus that causes polio and the global efforts to eradicate it, particularly in countries such as India, Somalia, and Sudan. The site also describes epidemics in the United States during the 1930s and explains the Salk and Sabin vaccines.

Abstract:
This web site describes efforts to eliminate the polio virus through the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. One section provides a photograph gallery of the paralyzing effects of the virus in countries such as India, Somalia, and Sudan. Also, a map accompanies each of the affected countries and includes statistics of annual infections for the years 1988, 1999, and 2001. Another section provides a perspective of what polio is, how it has been studied, and how the statistics of mortality and morbidity have changed in recent years. The site also describes epidemics in the Unite States during the 1930's and explains the Salk and Sabin vaccines. The section on the history of polio includes a time line of milestones and goals in the eradication of the polio virus, which will hopefully end in 2005 with the certification of its eradication. Another section informs students about how they can get involved in the polio eradication effort. Abstracted 5/05. (Author/JS)

Found on:
ENC Monthly Update for Math and Science Teachers (06/2005)
The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC)
ENC.org

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Bicycles and Gears (Grades 1-8)
http://www.enc.org/features/calendar/unit/0,1819,59,00.shtm?ls=eu

Web Resources
The Science of Cycling
http://www.exploratorium.edu/cycling/index.html
Just about everything you ever wanted you know about bikes is presented on this web site. It will serve as a wonderful reference for teachers or older students.
[NOTE: Other pages from http://www.exploratorium.edu/ previously posted. – Phyllis ]

Bicycle Museum of America
http://www.bicyclemuseum.com/html/bike1.html
Timeline with photos and the history of bicycles
from 1810-1998.

A Quick History of Bicycles
Pedaling History Bicycle Museum
http://www.pedalinghistory.com/PHhistory.html
Easy-to-read stories and pictures offer students a brief history of the bicycle.
[NOTE: Home page http://www.pedalinghistory.com/ previously posted. – Phyllis ]

How Bicycles Work
http://www.howstuffworks.com/bicycle1.htm
This description of how bikes work includes details about the use of bicycle bearings and bicycle gears.

The Bicycle Corps: America's Black Army on Wheels
http://www.stuhrmuseum.org/research/BicycleCorp.htm
This site offers a very brief description of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps and an interesting photograph of the soldiers on their bikes.

OSU Gear Lab: Geared Mechanism Collection
http://gearlab.org/Pages/Gear_Collection/gear_collection.htm
The various gears in this collection are pretty amazing and great fun to look at. They are bound to serve as an inspiration to would-be inventors in your class.

Found on:
More New This Week
http://lii.org/mntw/
Sept. 1-7, 2005

Bikes: The Wheel Story
This small exhibit "traces the development of cycling technology from its commercial beginnings in the early 1800s to the present." Topics include the pedestrian hobby-horse, the velocipede, the high-wheel bicycle, and the safety bicycle. From the Canada Science and Technology Museum.
http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/collection/bikes.cfm
http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/collection/bikes1.cfm
Subjects: Bicycles -- History Bicycles Cycling
[NOTE: I could not connect – Here is a cached copy from Google:
http://tinyurl.com/dkt7l - Phyllis ]

Elevations and Distances in the United States
"The information in this booklet was compiled to answer inquiries received by the U.S. Geological Survey [USGS] from students, teachers, writers," and others, about elevations and distances between points in the United States. Includes elevations of the 50 largest cities, data on the highest and lowest elevations for each state, elevations of specific peaks, distances from extreme points to geographic centers, lengths of U.S. boundaries, and related topics.
http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/booklets/elvadist/elvadist.html
Subjects: United States -- Geography United States -- Altitudes United States -- Boundaries United States -- Distances
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

The History of the Bicycle Pedal, Time Line & Gallery
Illustrated timeline of the history of the bicycle pedal from 1855 to 2000. Includes historical notes and images of pedals with toe clips and clipless pedals. The image gallery features photos of platform pedals, clipless pedals for road and mountain bikes, and toe clips, toe straps, and shoe cleats. From a manufacturer of bicycle pedals.
http://www.speedplay.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.history
Subjects: Bicycles Bicycles -- History Bicycles -- Parts

Rites of Passage in America
Companion to a 1992-1995 traveling exhibition organized by the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies on ways that Americans mark life transitions. Includes general essays, and case studies on rites of passage such as the Latin American quinceañera and Day of the Dead, edin toa (Akan baby-naming ceremony), the African American unyago, Chinese birth traditions, and more. Includes images and a brief bibliography. From the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
http://www2.hsp.org/exhibits/Balch%20exhibits/rites/rites.html
Subjects: Rites and ceremonies -- United States United States -- Social life and customs

Science Friday: Taste Buds/Bike Science
This companion to a Science Friday radio program includes segments on the physiology of bicycling (topics such as lung capacity, muscular endurance, and high-tech bicycling designs) and on taste buds. "New findings suggest that one taste bud may be able to sense both sweet and bitter tastes -- while sour and salty tastes are reported by a completely different mechanism." Includes audio clips and podcasts, and links to related websites, books, and articles.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2005/Jul/hour2_072205.html
Subjects: Bicycles Cycling -- Physiological aspects Taste buds Senses and sensation
[NOTE: Other pages from http://www.sciencefriday.com/ previously posted. – Phyllis ]

The Wheelmen
The website for this organization "dedicated to keeping alive the heritage of American cycling" features images of vintage bicycles, a database of bicycle brands, a feature on bicycle travel during the late 19th century ("American Journeys"), and information about regional events and groups interested in early bicycles and bicycle history. "Memorabilia" includes images of bicycle ribbons and bicycle-themed sheet music covers.
http://www.thewheelmen.org
Subjects: Bicycles Bicycles -- History Cyclists Cycling

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Hybrid Center
http://www.hybridcenter.org/hybridcenterindex.cfm
"the Union of Concerned Scientists' Hybridcenter.org, your one-stop shopping for the consumer and technological information you need to understand how this new technology fits into your personal and environmental priorities." Includes news, reviews, a buyer's guide, and more.


U.S. Courts Journalist's Guide
http://www.uscourts.gov/journalistguide/welcome.html
This walks journalists (and the rest of us) through the processes of district, appellate and bankruptcy courts, and explains the role of the key court personnel.

You're welcome to copy and distribute this listing for non-commercial purposes as long as you credit me and provide the link to NeatNew.

Neat New Stuff I Found This Week
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2005

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Site of the Day for Monday, May 2, 2005

Hybrid Car Information and Resources
http://www.hybrid-car.org/

Today's site, from the Hybrid Car Organization, provides extensive material
on hybrid vehicles. Gentle Subscribers, viewing current prices at the pump
with a jaundiced eye, might care to explore the information on these
interesting alternatives.

"This site is a resource center for consumers searching for information on
hybrid and electric vehicles. It has been designed and published to inform
the public on the development and use of hybrid cars and related
technologies. ... Current hybrid cars can get up to 60 miles to the gallon
on the highway. In addition to fuel economy, they boast lower emissions and
depreciation than gasoline powered cars." - from the website

The site offers sections dealing with topics such as how hybrid vehicles
work, data on emissions and pollution, and brief and sometimes surprising
hybrid car facts. Information on specific, currently manufactured hybrid
vehicles, from Toyota's Primus to Ford's SUV Escape Hybrid, along with
photos of some of these dramatic looking cars, is also included. As well as
a hybrid news archive, a helpful "Hybrid Car Rebate" section is available
for U.S. consumers.

Wheel over to the site for up-to-date facts on hybrid vehicles and
technology at:

http://www.hybrid-car.org/

A.M. Holm

view the List archives on the web at:
http://www.freelists.org/archives/sotd

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Sent : Thursday, May 19, 2005 8:48 PM
Subject : [LIFE of Florida] Marine Science: NOAA Ocean Literacy Site

Online Resource Examines Marine Sanctuaries
http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education/

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has launched a new Web site to support ocean literacy in the classroom. The site, http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education, includes curriculum, lesson plans, and activities on America's 13 national marine sanctuaries and the Northwest Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve. Visitors to the Web site will find a wide variety of activities and lessons, such as piloting the submersible Deep Worker in Monterey Bay's kelp forests or taking a virtual sanctuary tour, with opportunities for watching underwater video clips and exploring image galleries with stunning photographs. The site also provides access to NOAA's Dive into Education marine science program, designed to provide K-12 teachers with professional development using hands-on, standards-based, ocean science activities.

Educators can sign up to join a free email network about marine science education, which will provide ongoing information about field studies, partnerships, and professional-development and grant-funding opportunities, collaborations, and support.

[NOTE: See Also: Encyclopedia of the National Marine Sanctuaries
http://marinelife.noaa.gov/
Other pages from http://www.noaa.gov/ previously posted. - Phyllis ]

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Learning is For Everyone, Inc.
http://www.LIFEofFlorida.org/

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Science & Technology Focus
http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/
[NOTE: The Oceanography page ( http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/ )
previously posted. – Phyllis ]

In addition to Oceanography, there are pages on Space Sciences
http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/spacesciences/default.htm
and Submarine Science, including submarine history.
http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/blowballast/default.htm

Teacher's Corner: Internet Links
http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/teachers/listLinks.asp?related=All&category=All&Submit=Go
[Shortened URL: http://tinyurl.com/cbfh3 ]

Teacher’s Corner: Animation Gallery
http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/teachers/gallery/ocean.htm
Select animations for Oceanography, Space Sciences or Submarine Science

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Site of the Day for Thursday, May 12, 2005

Blood and Sawdust
http://www.his.com/~tom/

Today's site, from medieval woodworking enthusiast Tom Rettie, offers an
enjoyable and practical view of Middle Ages joinery. Gentle Subscribers
involved in woodworking, or simply interested in the historical aspects of
medieval furniture making, will find many features of note.

"Containing Articles and Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Woodworking,
Furniture, Material Culture, and Reenactment" - from the website

The site's Frequently Asked Questions section covers a useful range of
inquires dealing with topics such as the type of woods used for furniture
in the Middle Ages, the use of nails and glue, and "green" wood, with well
referenced responses. Numerous photos illustrate medieval woodworking
projects completed by the author, along with instructions for building a
chair, triangle stool and other furniture. Informative PDF files are
included on medieval carpenter's tools and tusk tenons.

Travel to the site for an informative exposition on medieval woodworking
at:

http://www.his.com/~tom/

A.M. Holm
view the List archives on the web at:
http://www.freelists.org/archives/sotd

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MORE New This Week
Aug. 4-10, 2005
http://lii.org/mntw/

Aquatic Biodiversity
"Aquatic biodiversity encompasses freshwater ecosystems, including lakes, ponds, and reservoirs, rivers and streams, groundwater, and wetlands. ... It also consists of marine ecosystems, including oceans, estuaries, salt marshes, seagrass beds, coral reefs, kelp beds, and mangrove forests." The site features introductory information about these water-based ecosystems, and addresses special topics such as threats and conservation. Also includes a glossary and links to related sites. From the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
http://www.epa.gov/bioiweb1/aquatic/
Subjects: Aquatic habitats Biological diversity Biological diversity conservation
[NOTE: Other pages from epa.gov previously posted. - Phyllis ]


The Great Awakening & Revivalism in America
“Brief essay on the Great Awakening, "the name given to the evangelical religious movement which swept America in the 18th and 19th centuries," and the poetry and music associated with the movement. Includes links to biographies of two composers influenced by the movement. Part of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) program "I Hear America Singing." “
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/revivalism.html
Subjects: Evangelicalism Revivals -- United States United States -- History
[NOTE: Home page: I Hear America Singing - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/
- previously posted. – Phyllis ]


Tools Used in Colonial Williamsburg
“Illustrated descriptions of tools used in Williamsburg, Virginia, "the restored 18th-century capital of Britain's largest, wealthiest, and most populous outpost of empire in the New World." Describes tools such as augers, chisels, calipers, compasses, hammers, planes, saws, squares, and bevels. From the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.”
http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/tools/tlhdr.cfm
Subjects: Tools Tools -- History Williamsburg (Va.) -- History
[NOTE: Home page http://www.history.org/ - previously posted - Phyllis

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USA Today Web Guide Hot Sites 6/1/05
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/hotsites/2005/2005-06-01-hotsites.htm

U.K. Archives: Exhibitions
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/exhibitions/
As you might expect, the Archives' site houses a vast store of historic data. The easiest way to access it is through several online packages with such themes as "The British Empire," "Secrets and Spies" and "The First World War." Each is visually enhanced and a very rewarding read. — HSS
[NOTE: Home page previously posted. – Phyllis ]

Copyright 2005 USA TODAY

Found on:
Techlearning.com/ Site of the Day May 27, 2005
Technology & Learning magazine
http://www.techlearning.com/webpicks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=162100764

Dear Home: Letters from WWI
http://www.historychannel.com/letters/wwiletters.html

“Preserved letters are wonderful primary source documents that students can use to glimpse life in a bygone era. The History Channel began the Legacy Project to share the letters written by men and women in World War I. Students can read first-hand accounts of battles and wartime conditions. Perhaps more important is the insight into the lives of normal people caught up in a catastrophic event. A creative teacher can draw many activities out of this site, such as having the students write their own letters home as though they were in the War.”
Author/Publisher:
The History Channel
Website Contents:
• Pictures and/or Illustrations
Grade Appropriate:
• High School Middle School

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Butterfly Gardening
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/DG6711.html
Provides information on butterfly behavior, and on how to create a colorful butterfly habitat as pleasing to human eyes as to theirs.

Carnegie Reporter
http://www.carnegie.org/reporter/
This semi-annual publication continues to carry on the Carnegie interest in libraries. See especially the article in this current issue, "Do Libraries Still Matter?"

Cool Uses of Google Maps [Cyberjournalist]
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/002626.php
Includes using the tool to map local gas prices, traffic data, housing info, crime, and more. Reformatting information to suit our users' needs (and our own) is a valuable service librarians can provide; here's a tool that would allow us to do it geographically.

Plogress.com
http://www.plogress.com/
a new project to provide current information on what Senators and Representatives are currently doing in Congress. Maintains separate blogs for each senator and representative covering what they've done in Congress -- what bills and amendments they've sponsored, and what action has been taken on that legislation

The Value of Libraries: Impact, Normative Data, & Influencing Funders http://www.imakenews.com/sirsi/e_article000396335.cfm?x=b4TcM1g,b2rpmkgK,w
A great article, with a very comprehensive webliography of research studies on the economic impact of all kinds of libraries. Show this to your bosses -- city leaders, university presidents, principals and school boards, and corporation CEOs.

Writing, Poetry & Books: All about authors, learning to write and literary fun and games http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/bookcase/
Some wonderful games, chatrooms, digital stories, and other challenges to inspire kids to write.
[NOTE: Previously posted. - Phyllis ]

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Neat New Stuff I Found This Week
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2005.

Lost Poets of the Great War
http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/index.html

Newsreel: End of the War
http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/0011.QT

A Pathfinder for Constructing Pathfinders (Guides to Information Resources)
http://home.wsd.wednet.edu/pathfinders/path.htm

Internet links to a variety of pathfinders (K-12)
http://home.wsd.wednet.edu/pathfinders/path.htm#internet

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Designing Pathfinders for Children and Young Adults
http://www.eduscapes.com/earth/path3.html
Includes examples of pathfinders.
[NOTE: Other pages from Eduscapes previously posted. - Phyllis ]

NY Times Student Connections
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/

Some sections:

News Summaries
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/pop/index.html

SAT Test Prep Question of the Day
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/satofday/index.html

Science Q&A
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/scienceqa/index.html

Student Navigator: Subject areas and Homework Help
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/navigator/students.html

Web Explorer
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/explorer/index.html
“Welcome to The Learning Network's Web Explorer, your ticket to guided Web tours of sites related to the most important and relevant topics of the day! New Explorations are added each month.”

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50 Coolest Websites 2005
http://www.time.com/time/2005/websites/

This year's finalists are a mix of newcomers, new discoveries and veterans that have learned some new tricks.
The Complete List: Arts & Entertainment; Blogs; Lifestyle, Health & Hobbies;
News & Information; Shopping

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Sent : Tuesday, April 5, 2005 4:19 PM
Subject : [LIFE of Florida] Forbes.com Best of The Web Spring 2005

Forbes: Best of the Web
http://www.forbes.com/bow/
Forbes: Best of The Web Directory
http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/main.jhtml

[NOTE: Wait for adv. to clear. – Phyllis ]

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