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National History Day is not just a day, but every day! The National History Day program is a year-long education program that culminates in a national contest every June.
For more than twenty-five years the National History Day program has promoted systemic educational reform related to the teaching and learning of history in America's schools. The combination of creativity and scholarship built into the NHD program anticipated current educational reforms, making National History Day a leading model of performance-based learning.
http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/
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"Contest questions are based on topics in American Studies, Geography of the United States, and United States government appropriate to each grade level. Each Contest consists of multiple choice questions, has a time limit of 35 minutes, and may be comfortably administered within one class period."
http://continentalmathleague.hostrack.com/Natsoc.htm
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The National Council for History Education is a non-profit corporation whose Board of Trustees is dedicated to promoting the importance of history in schools and in society. The Council is supported by the contributions of individuals and organizations. NCHE links history in the schools with many activities sponsored by state and local organizations. We provide a communications network for all advocates of history education, whether in schools, colleges, museums, historical councils, or comunity groups.
http://www.nche.net/
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The American Museum of Natural History is located in New York, New York. Permanent exhibitions include halls exhibiting fossils, mammals, birds, and cultures. The Hayden Planetarium is also located at the museum. The Web site for the AMNH is very comprehensive
http://www.amnh.org/
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The Atlanta History center in Atlanta, Georgia offers programs & education as well as tours of the museums, houses, and gardens located at the center. Learn all about the rich history of Atlanta! At the Atlanta History Center, there's so much to see and do, you'll want to come back again and again. Become a member and receive unlimited free admission, experience exclusive sneak previews, engage in the real stories of the south, and enjoy a host of additional privileges.
http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/index.htm
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An old (1901) lumber camp with its steam locomotive have been converted into a state park. The buildings buildings and log flumes have been restored. You board the steam engine at the bottom of the mountain, ride up to the town, and explore at your leisure. It is great for train lovers, history lovers, and nature buffs as well.
http://www.cassrailroad.com/
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"Explore nautical applications of multi-science and technology while living and studying aboard a fleet of historic ships. You and your fellow crew members will gain first hand experience in naval architecture, marine engineering, and nautical science and historic research as you study the design principles of a WWII submarine, a Coast Guard Cutter, a Lightship and the last tall sail warship of the US Navy, the USS Constellation. When the land breeze picks up in the afternoon, put your new understanding of the nautical sciences to the test as...
http://www.msde.state.md.us/summercenters/brochure/17_Maritime_Studies.pdf
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The Fernbank Museum of Natural History is located in Atlanta, Georgia and grew out of a forest and the dream of Emily Harrison, a young girl who loved it. Growing up in the late 1800s, Emily Harrison often played in the forest surrounding her home just east of Atlanta. Emily was a naturalist and thrived on learning about the plants and animals around her. The 160,000 square foot museum, the only natural history museum in the world located in a natural environment, opened in 1992. In 2001 Fernbank became the first museum in the world to ...
http://www.fernbank.edu/museum/
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The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. A magnet for scholars from around the globe, the Folger is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, as well as magnificent collections of other rare Renaissance books and manuscripts on all disciplines—history and politics, theology and exploration, law and the arts. Included in the collections are over 310,000 books and manuscripts; 250,000 playbills; 27,000 paintings, drawings, engravings, and prints; and ...
http://www.folger.edu/Home_02B.html
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"This was the site of the largest Civil War battle ever waged in the Western Hemisphere. The Battle of Gettysburg opened on July 1, 1863 and closed two days later with the climactic "Pickett's charge". Historians have referred to the Battle of Gettysburg as the "High Water Mark of the Confederacy." It was the last major effort by Lee to take the fighting out of Virginia and into northern states. The Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg contains more than 7,000 interments including over 3,500 from the Civil War. It was here that President A...
http://www.nps.gov/gett/
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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 website offers: information about Smithsonian museums; explore and learn options in art & design, history & culture, and science & technology; exhibitions; research; events; outreach; and links for kids and teachers.
http://www.si.edu
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This park has several living history sights, including a 19th century town, 18th century settler's cabin, and a 17th century Native American village. There's also great hiking, fishing, canoeing, kayaking and mountain biking. The Brugh Tavern has take-out lunches available. The living history museum is open Wednesday-Saturday, May through October, and on weekends in April.
http://www.explorepark.org/
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Since 1997, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program (APAP) has provided vision, leadership and support for all Asian Pacific American (APA) activities at the Smithsonian, while also serving as the Smithsonian's liaison to APA communities.
http://www.apa.si.edu/home.html
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Our academic programs extend beyond the classroom to provide the best experiential education, from having one-on-one interviews with admissions counselors to walking Civil War battlefields to conversing with legislators. Students collaborate with a committed and creative faculty and enjoy a wide range of special events and social opportunities. During the day, immerse yourself in your chosen program of study. During the evenings, nights and weekends, enjoy spending time with the entire camp and exploring all that campus offers.
http://www.gettysburg.edu/homepage/academiccamps/index.html
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Program for gifted children, designed for elementary students who enjoy archeology, history and science. Children work with practicing archeologists examining the remains of an 18th/19th century site and possibly a prehistoric, Native American site. Activities include: test pitting farmyard and/or stone age sites; mapping squares, cleaning, identifying and cataloguing artifacts; learning historic and prehistoric crafts such as blacksmithing, carpentry and native cooking; taking ethnobotany walks, and visiting other historic sites. Children work...
http://www.nassauboces.org/ipas/programs/smep.htm
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Camp Invention is a nationally recognized summer day camp that integrates science, math, history, and the arts. This one-week program fosters creativity, teamwork, inventive thinking skills, and science literacy.
Camp Invention enables children to learn through fun hands-on experiences, subject immersion, and discovery. The enrichment program consists of five activity-oriented thematic modules designed to enhance the students' overall learning and understanding. The program is designed to be age appropriate for rising second throug...
http://www.invent.org/camp_invention/
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Instructors will use archaeology sites, surviving period structures, historic landscapes, battlefields, and a series of museums to guide students in a search for the American past. "From the Founding of Jamestown through the American Revolution" begins where the old world societies of Europe and Africa collided with the new world society of Native Americans on the banks of the nearby James River early in the seventeenth century and follows the American saga for nearly two hundred years through the Revolutionary Era at the end of the eighteenth ...
http://www.wm.edu/niahd/precollegiate.php
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This is a 5-day program that teaches about the French explorers and traders. They present oral history by play actors, play games and make period crafts.
http://www.lcfpd.org/
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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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Books in the series include: If You Grew Up with Abraham Lincoln, If You Grew Up with George Washington, If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King, If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War, If You Lived in Colonial Times, If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620, and If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad. The books are written in question and answer format and provide information about what life was like at that time in history.
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The Molly series follows Molly and her family through World War II, with Molly's father (an Army doctor) away at war. It shows what life was like for Americans at home during the war. For example, the family must cope with wartime shortages, they plant a victory garden, and take in a girl from England.
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In this book the reader travels back in time to visit a castle in the days of the Crusades, visits a band of Viking raiders in Norway, explores Rome at the height of the Roman Empire, and takes a trip down the Nile during the time when the pharaohs ruled Egypt. In each time, the reader follows a fictional character over a few days, and each section is follwed by a brief synopsis of the 'real' history of that time.
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All Through the Ages by Christine Miller is a guide for teaching and learning history using literature rather than textbooks.
http://www.nothingnewpress.com/atta.shtml
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This book is an excellent guide to the basics of American history. I would not recommend it as a stand-alone textbook, but as a supplementary resource or prep for AP exams or SAT IIs.
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In this story Mr. Henty traces the adventures and brave deeds of an English boy in the household of the ablest man of his age --- William the Silent. Edward Martin, the son of an English sea-captain, enters the service of the Prince as a volunteer, and is employed by him in many dangerous and responsible missions, in the discharge of which he passes through the great sieges of the time. He ultimately settles down as Sir Edward Martin
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As part of the Horrible History series, this is about the British Royals throughout time. It provides an easy and fun way to remember who was who and who did what, and to whom.
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A visual chronology of world history, spanning more than 20,000 years-from the first humans to the dawn of the new millenium.
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This cultural atlas focuses on the near east, or Mesopotamia, Anatolia, most of the land in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It talks about the transition of hunter-gatherers. The great history of the Near East...Fertile Crescent and areas around it.
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Dean Keith Simonton examines uncommon people: those creators and leaders whose impact on their own and later times has been so great that they deserve the label "genius." A simultaneous look at creativity and leadership is itself uncommon, and the comparison shows that when creators and leaders act at genius levels they have many similarities. What it is that causes them to stand out above others? Simonton believes that if we subject the lives of the eminent to scientific analysis we may be able to discover general laws of history and social be...
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In this path-breaking work, Dean Keith Simonton examines a range of important personalities and events that have influenced the course of history. He discusses how people who go down in history might be different from the rest of us, and explores which personality traits predispose certain people to become world leaders, movie stars, scientific geniuses, and star athletes. In exploring the psychology of greatness, this fascinating work also sheds light on the characteristics that any of us may share with history-making people.
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There are three books: Ancient Egypt, The Romans, and Ancient Greece. Each book starts out with describing the particular culture and then the rest of the book is the mystery that includes clues based on the history of the culture. The reader can earn points for each clue they figure out without looking back in the book.
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This is an 11-volume overview of American History that goes into much greater depth than the typical history book. Joy Hakim does an excellent job of telling both sides of issues and placing people in the context of their times. The text itself is very readable, aimed at middle school levels, with many interesting sidebars. Each book has a comprehensive bibliography of other readings, both fiction and non-fiction, that reinforces the material.
The Second Edition has updated information incorporating the most recent discoveries in h...
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This chart covers 600 years of world history, at a glance, and over 25 feet of history with over 400 illustrations. Based on specially reproduced material from the very rare Victorian wallchart, published in 1890 and currently in the British Library. This chart has been "extended" up to present day. It is a truly amazing timeline, unbelievably detailed, and very colorful.
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This book contains simple information about aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman life, with numerous hands-on projects for costumes, shoes, food, Greek/Roman crafts, art projects, Greek letters, clay tablets, Greek/Roman math and science projects.
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This is an excellent reference manual that summarizes major world history events and topics from 4000 B.C. - 1996. The text provides "facts, charts, definitions, and explanations, complete with examples and illustrations."
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Jackdaws are a series of curriculum guides for eras in American and world history, accompanied by facsimiles of primary historical documents and materials. For students (and homeschooling families) who prefer to work from primary sources, like the accurate "look" of history, and find a curriculum guide helpful, the Jackdaws will lend a "you are there" perspective to the study of history.
http://www.jackdaw.com/
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Geared toward readers ages nine to fourteen, CALLIOPE is a passport to world history. Each issue centers on an exciting and colorful theme which will enhance your students' understanding of their world.
Topics featured in CALLIOPE cover framework-mandated subjects in a way no textbook can. Each 52-page, full-color issue offers articles that broaden the young reader's understanding of a particular theme. Maps, time lines, meaningful illustrations, and art from major museums enrich each issue.
http://www.cobblestonepub.com/pages/callmain.htm
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CLICK's mission is to engage young children's natural curiosity in the world around them in ways that are challenging, humorous, and fun. CLICK is a unique combination of stories, articles, poems, games, activities, beautiful illustrations, and exciting photographs - all designed to encourage a lifelong love of discovery in the sciences, nature, history, technology, and the arts. CLICK makes reading an adventure!
http://www.cobblestonepub.com/pages/clickmain.html
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COBBLESTONE is geared toward readers ages nine to fourteen. Each 52-page themed issue is packed with lively and compelling articles and sidebars. Historic photographs, original illustrations, primary documents, maps, activities, and contests complement the text and appeal to young readers.
http://www.cobblestonepub.com/pages/cobbmain.htm
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Each Kid's Discover Magazine is focused on a specific topic like major historical time periods, science topics, and interest areas for children. The resources section points kids to more information about specific subjects. Back issues are available too!
http://www.kidsdiscover.com
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MUSE is a nonfiction magazine for children ages 8 to 14 sponsored by Smithsonian magazine and featuring much of the Smithsonian's research and vast collections. MUSE has exciting articles on topics ranging from art to zoology, with just about everything in between. Written and designed to get children to ask questions and think for themselves, MUSE poses problems that don't always have clear answers:
- Can you "fix" nature?
- Do animals think?
- What is art?
- What really happened to the dinosaurs?
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http://www.cricketmag.com/ProductDetail.asp?pid=12
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This magazine is put out by the Smithsonian Institution. Its subject matter is eclectic, though mostly centered around history of cultures, art, language, geography, and sciences. Though targeted at adults, many articles are suitable for intelligent children as well.
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/
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The Concord Review recognizes and publishes exemplary history essays by high school students in the English-speaking world. The Concord Review remains the only quarterly journal in the world to publish the academic work of secondary students.
Essays should be in the 4,000-6,000 word range, with endnotes, on any historical topic, and must be typed, printed from a word processor, or sent on a Macintosh disk.
http://www.tcr.org/
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A fascinating record of human achievement, this collection is a one-stop source of detailed information on the men and women who earned the Nobel Prize during the 20th century.
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Cobblestone Publishing, publishes several magazine titles for children; "Calliope"(world history), "Odyssey" (science), "Faces" (world cultures), "Appleseeds" (different themed issues, for younger students), "Cobblestone" (American history), "Footsteps" (African-American heritage) and "California Chronicles". Cobblestone also publishes teaching materials on various subjects, mostly historical.
http://www.cobblestonepub.com
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This is a wonderful source for books to use for History, Literature, Art, Music, and Nature Study. It is a great resource for anyone using a Classic Curriculum, but those who are not will also find materials here. Full of historical non-fiction and fiction, study guides, activity books, reference books, biographies, etc.
http://www.greenleafpress.com/
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BOOMERANG! is a monthly 70-minute audiocassette in the format of a "magazine." Designed for ages 6-12, BOOMERANG! introduces kids to the world of big ideas -- science, current events, economics, history, poetry, geography. Jokes, mysteries, music, and interviews combine to make this monthly cassette a child's own personal window to the world at large.
Thoroughly researched, written and produced by a staff of professionals, the material is presented from a child's perspective, in a child's metaphor, and in children's voices. A group...
http://www.boomkids.com/parent_index.html
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Very fun and educational computer simulation game of historical strategy and conquest. Well produced with rich content.
http://www.microsoft.com/Games/Empires/links.htm
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This is an open-ended city-building game that blends Roman history, architecture and culture. As you progress, your city will blossom and grow!
http://www.vugames.com/file_list.do?gamePlatformId=289
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This game take kids through history teaching them all about great places and events including from the Egyption time to present. The object of the game is to travel through time answering question to capture Carmen Sandiego.
http://www.broderbund.com/jump.jsp?itemID=121&mainPID=121&itemType=PRODUCT&RS=1&keyword=carmen+sandiego
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Embark on a thrilling adventure in Egypt! The ClueFinders, led by an eccentric but lovable professor, are on an archaeological dig in Egypt. There they uncover a wicked archaeologist's evil plot to unleash chaos upon the world. You can help ClueFinders prevent disaster!
Learn Essential Subjects:
Math; Reading; Geography; Vocabulary; Science; Math; Word Problems; Spelling
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This program combines science and history in a very interesting way. As the program begins, the Science and History Museum is closed for repairs, but something is very wrong. The user's job is to fix problems with the exhibits in the 25 different galleries, such as the solar system, rockets and computers, Ellis Island, machines, etc. Along the way, the user will learn about the science and history behind the exhibits.
http://www.bonus.com/etc/Appaloosa/games/app_museum.html
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Build real-life decision-making and problem-solving skills as the leader of a wagon party. Choose your team and supplies, read maps, plan your route, and guide your team through the unknown wilderness. Tough choices lie ahead, but with the help of your wagon party and people you meet along the way, you'll conquer this challenging journey and arrive in a new land.
This program is designed for ages 10+.
http://www.softwareforresellers.com/ortrail3rded.html
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Colonization is a computer game that simulates the challenges that the colonists faced in North America. The game begins with the discovery of the New World by the Europeans and continues until the approximate time of the American Revolution. The user can assume the role of one of four European powers (Spanish, English, French or Dutch) that each have unique attributes that give the player specific advantages and disadvantages when playing the game.
The object of the game is to create and expand colonies while managing various res...
http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue21/greviews/col2.html
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This distance learning program offers students the opportunity to earn high school credit through its Discovery for Credit -- The idea is simple. Once a school or class has decided to experience one of the innovative educational travel programs listed, registered participants may apply for this program. This online course gives students the opportunity to apply what they have learned on an WorldStrides Discovery Course and earn high school credit. This Web-based course requires a high degree of learning independence on your part. You will selec...
http://worldstrides.com/
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This game is a race to get the most states by answering trivia questions. The question categories include Symbols of Freedom, The Best and the Brightest, Birth of a Nation, America the Beautiful, and States of the Union.
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This game is a variation on the city-building genre that blends Greek history, architecture and mythology. As you progress, your city will blossom and grow!
http://www.sierra.com/games/zeus/
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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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"eTAP is a non-profit education corp., whose purpose is to provide K-12 curriculum for the core subjects of Mathematics, English, Science, and History on the world wide Internet. Our instructional material is designed to assist students, teachers and parents. The Lessons can be used for students’ instruction and for parents and teachers as an aid to help their children and students."
http://etap.org/
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This mixed media line of learning tools uses printed books and electronic gadgetry to help along young kids who have academic interest but are still early readers. There are programs that are focused on Science, Social Studies, or even books on tape. The programs have a read aloud feature for children who are still developing reading vocabulary. They have 5 levels of "Leaps" for varying abilities and interests.
http://www.leapfrog.com/do/findpage?pageID=leappad_systems
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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 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 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 online curriculum resource offers professionals and homeschoolers many 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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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 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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This online curriculum resource offers teachers (or homeschoolers) everything they need to take full advantage of the Library of Congress's more than 7 million online resources. The Learning Page is designed to help educators use the American Memory Collections to teach history and culture. It offers tips and tricks, definitions and rationale for using primary sources, activities, discussions, lesson plans and suggestions for using the collections in classroom curriculum. Investigate curricular themes using primary sources from across the Ameri...
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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 video series explores the origins of mythical creatures and how they mean different things to the world's cultures. It Titles include: Apocolypse; Birds & Things with Wings; Creature of the Deep; Creatures of the Night; Dragons; Man Beasts; Mythical Cats, Spirits of the Forest; The Underworld; Tricky Tricksters; and Werewolf.
http://www.kiddomusic.com/CreaturesFantasticVideoSeries.html
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This video/DVD accompanies the Scholastic books showing history from the perspective of fictional girls living at different time periods: TITLES (In order by historical chronology): A JOURNEY TO THE NEW WORLD: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 by Kathryn Lasky STANDING IN THE LIGHT: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763 by Mary Pope Osborne THE WINTER OF RED SNOW: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777 by Kristiana Gregory ...
http://www.scholastic.com/dearamerica/
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This video/DVD is the MGM production of Henry V. The world of Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt brought alive by none other than Kenneth Branagh in his directorial debut. Branagh in the lead role is astounding, as usual. Agincourt is vividly recreated and the supporting cast includes familiar faces such as Sir Derek Jacobi and the elite of British theater and film. Henry's multi-dimensonal personality emerges as Branagh shows us the mud and blood of war. Rated PG-13 but profoundly gifted children would gain a lot.
http://www.mgm.com/title_title.do?title_star=HENRYVO
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This video/DVD compilation of an hilarious 60s-era act performed by the incomparable comedy team of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner. The premise is that Brooks is a 2000-year-old sage being interviewed by Reiner upon his amazing arrival in the United States for the first time. This guy knows the low-down on 2000 years of history, from Jesus to Robin Hood (who "stole from everybody and kept everything" -- but had a great press agent) to Rembrandt, the first painter to use a roller ("only for backgrounds"). He was there when men discovered women, has ...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/artist/glance/-/73622/ref=m_art_dp/002-8797373-5122455
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This video set includes a four-volume PBS series on dinosaurs. It is filmed on location with scientists and explains the latest discoveries. Vol. 1 "The Monsters Emerge" is about the discovery of dinosaurs; Vol. 2 is "Flesh on the Bones"; Vol. 3 is "The Nature of the Beast"; and Vol. 4 is "The Death of the Dinosaur" They are 60 minutes each. They are offered as a set or individually through the PBS online store.
http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=1405660&cp=1377983.1377985&parentPage=family
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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 home to Castles Unlimited -- an organization formed in recognition of the necessity to preserve these relics of history. We are dedicated to the promotion and study of British Castles. Our goals are educating and stimulating people to explore the castles for themselves. We hope you will become involved in the preservation of these wonderful structures. We offer several services and information which may be of interest to you.
http://www.castles-of-britain.com
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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 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 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, designed by the Great Books program at Mercer University, provides links to academic sites with background information about the historical eras represented by the Great Books. This timeline and accompanying websites provides useful background information to accompany the reading of the Great Books.
http://www.mercer.edu/gbk/gbk/gbktimln.html
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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 website offers the most complete source for Terry-Deary's books. Do not be fooled by thinking that the Terry-Dreary House of books contains only Horrible Histories. In fact it contains fiction, non-fiction, science books, ghost stories, thrillers and funny books.
http://www.terry-deary.com/shop/pages/index.html
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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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