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This website contains mostly scholarly links for the study of ancient civilizations, including their history, languages, culture, and civilization. The links are organized by type of civilization (e. g., "Egypt," "Etruscan," "Olmec," etc.) making it easy to locate links for the civilization under study. Language links for ancient languages are particularly useful.
http://killeenroos.com/link/anchist.htm
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This site represents selected resources of the history of art. For the most part this consists of links to other sites on the World Wide Web. They are organized by selected civilizations and periods, for simplicity sake, yet still allowing for diversity, including ancient and non-European civilizations.
http://hastings.ci.lexington.ma.us/staff/MZichitella/ArtResources/ArtAgesStu.html
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"The Black Chamber provides a brief history of cryptography from Ancient Rome to today's Information Age, and it is also a mini-tutorial in codes and codebreaking."
http://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_Chamber/home.html
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This website offers a lesson plan for a castle-building project. The purpose of this lesson is to enable students to gain insight into the daily life of Medieval Welsh society. Students will also gain a deep understanding of how the Medieval castle played an integral part in the daily lives of the various classes of Medieval people. This lesson will help the students gain a superficial understanding of Monarchy, Feudalism and serfdom.
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/castle_builder/
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This website is an homage to those times, both medieval and contemporary, when a youngster, lying on a bed with book in hand, was captivated by the heraldry, chivalry, and the romance of another place in mind...
http://www.castlesontheweb.com/index.html
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This website contains classic examples of art from various eras of Western civilization, with many links to other art history sites.
http://www.classical-homeschooling.org/modern.html
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This Website provides the complete U.S. Constitution, broken down by Articles, Sections, and Amendments. Amendments never ratified are also included.
http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/usconst.html
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This webaite is the online presence of the Discovery Channel It includes areas for most if not all of the shows aired on the network. New things are added each week.
http://www.discovery.com
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This website, by the Discovery Channel folks offers a fun, interactive site for kids. They have links to all of their tv shows with listings included. Within each show topic they have interactive games and show clips from the tv shows. They also have a Discovery Channel store that sells educational games and materials.
http://kids.discovery.com/
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This website is the online site of the radio show "The Engines of Our Ingenuity", which looks at the history of technology that makes our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. The program uses the record of history to reveal the way art, technology, and ideas have shaped us. Episode topics range from cable cars to Civil War submarines, from the connection between Romantic poets and Victorian science to the invention of the bar code. Transcripts from previous shows are available on the website as well as some extras.
http://www.uh.edu/engines/
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This website provides visitors with a chance to revisit some of the great speeches delivered by famous people throughout history. The site contains both audio clips and transcripts for most speeches currently posted.
http://www.hpol.org
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This website offers biographies of some famous engineers with connections to Manchester School of Engineering.
http://www.eng.man.ac.uk/historic/
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This online curriculum encourages the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom.
http://my.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html
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This online curriculum is provided for California teachers by the California Department of Education. The information provided would be helpful for other teachers as well as homeschoolers. The website contains model lesson plans for History-Social Science for grades 2-5, with the other grades to be added later. The models include six sections: Focus Questions, Beginning the Topic Activities, Developing the Topic Activities, Culminating the Topic Activities, Assessment of the Topic Activities and Extended and Correlated Activities. They also p...
http://www.history.ctaponline.org/model_lessons/model_lessons.html
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This website contains more than 2,000 files covering 3000 years of world history. It is constantly expanding and anyone can add a resource or a link to it. Hyper History is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps. In addition to that HyperHistory provides several hundred links to the Web.
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
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Located in Atlanta, Georgia, the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum is part of the Presidential Library system administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, a Federal government agency. The Museum of the Jimmy Carter Library includes photographs and historical memorabilia from the Carter presidency (1976 - 1981). An exact replica of the Oval Office and gifts received by the Carters are also featured. A permanent exhibit of significant events occurring during Jimmy Carter's life and political career includes photographs with ...
http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/
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This online curriculum resource includes links to standards in all 50 states as well as lots of other helpful information. Dr. Marty Levine, Professor Emeritus of Secondary Education, California State University, Northridge (CSUN), has gathered lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find useful.
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/index.html
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This website contains a variety of recordings from history, which can be listened to with RealPlayer.
http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/
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This online curriculum offers links to hundreds, if not thousands, of complete units, lesson plans, simulations, primary sources, and other materials for teaching world and U. S. History.
http://members.aol.com/MrDonnHistory/World.html
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This website and digital library, located in the classics department at Tufts University, is the leading comprehensive scholarly site on the internet for those whose profession is in the academic arena, and those studying ancient history and classical civilizations in high school and college. The site has gathered and posted many primary source materials and a very complete selection of ancient literature, as well as art and archaeology of the ancient world.. Also included is an entire section on ancient languages, with an emphasis on Greek and...
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
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This website features a lively soundtrack andAmerican presidents. All the presidents are presented in order and they are dancing. Short verses give factoids about each president.
http://www.send4fun.com/presidentdance.htm
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This online curriculum resource offers professionals and homeschool parents the opportunities to improve their skills. Through a variety of professional development programs and resources, educators can learn how to effectively use Library of Congress resources in the classroom. Programs include teleconferencing workshops, online and downloadable materials, live workshops and a fellowship program. All of this is made to support and take advantage of the online resources of the Library of Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/educators/index.html
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The Sainsbury Virtual Museum entertains and informs children why they explore the various rooms and floors of the museum. Children may submit their own work to be included in one of the rooms.
http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/museum/museum.htm
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This online curriculum for professional development was created and is used by the Library of Congress. These lessons are now available online for YOUR use in local professional development activities. Topics covered include Classroom Applications; Search Skills; Technology; and Working with Primary Sources. Each workshop includes all the material and support needed to either guide oneself or a group of professionals through the course.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/educators/workshop/ssindex.html
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This website has information for educators, families and students on a large variety of topics. The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies provides leadership in education at the Smithsonian and produces a variety of programs, services, and resources for the education and museum communities. The Center studies education at the Institution and builds consensus on standards for strengthening its educational programs, publications, and websites.
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org
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An online encyclopedia primarily covering the history of England and the United States. Also includes information about Russia, Germany, and France; timelines for World Wars I and II and the Spanish Civil War; and the weekly Teaching History Online newsletter. Searchable, and browsable by topic. Produced by Spartacus, a publishing company formed by a group of teachers.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/
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This website is the home of the North American Sundial Society, which has information about sundials and their use in modern times. This site is a good resource for anyone interested in learning more about sundials, with a list of resources, suggestions, and instruction for buying, installing, building, etc.
http://www.sundials.org/
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This web site came about after both Eichling and Kolfinna were asked to teach about women fighters in the SCA. This web site portrays our feelings, knowledge and insight into this subject. We have enlisted the opinions, comments and stories of other people in the SCA to help expand our understanding of women in this field.
This web site is mostly geared towards Female Heavy Weapon Tournament fighters (though we do have a separate rapier section), but there are areas that would cross over to any of the other areas of fighting in th...
http://www.swordmaiden.com/
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This online curriculum supplement offers learning guides to dozens of popular movies. Lessons cover: major events of history; great achievements of civilization; extraordinary men and women who have shaped our world; works of music, dance, drama, literature and the visual arts; and ethical, social, and cultural issues facing children as they mature. Learning Guides to each recommended film describe the benefits of the movie, possible problems, and helpful background. Discussion questions, bridges to reading, projects and links to the inter...
http://www.teachwithmovies.org/index.html
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"American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning."
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
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This website is designed to provide information for students, educators, institutions, and any others interested in National History Day in Washington State. It includes pages and links which will provide the necessary information for getting involved in the History Day program in Washington state and all that it has to offer Washington students and teachers.
National History Day is a nationwide competition for students in grades 6-12 who are interested in improving their historical knowledge in a fun and challenging environment. An...
http://www.cwu.edu/~history/hstryday/
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"Were there women knights in the Middle Ages? Initially I thought not, but further research yielded surprising answers. There were two ways anyone could be a knight: by holding land under a knight's fee, or by being made a knight or inducted into an order of knighthood. There are examples of both cases for women" in this article.
http://www.heraldica.org/topics/orders/wom-kn.htm
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If your after knowledge and know-how, we offer pioneer aviation history, hands on aviation adventures, virtual expeditions, and timely information. If you want to go straight for the airplanes, we have six operational Wright aircraft in our virtual hangar. On this Website is also a complete engineering drawing of the 1902 Wright Glider which is available for free and a plethora of links to other informational sites related to aviation and the Wright Brothers.
http://www.wright-brothers.org/
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