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Gateway to America - The Immigrant
Experience on Ellis Island |
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Ellis Island |
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Joan of Arc |
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Joan of Arc |
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Holocaust |
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Holocaust |
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Anne Frank |
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Europe |
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Austria |
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England |
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France |
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Germany |
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Hungary |
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Russia |
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Asia |
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Vietnam |
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Latin America |
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Cuba |
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Mexico |
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Middle East |
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Israel |
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Saudi Arabia |
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Experiencing Japan |
http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/index.html
Japan for Kids - great resource.
http://www.jinjapan.org/kidsweb/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Japanese/
This site gives a valuable resource for students to see pictures
of objects with the English work and Japanese word. Each letter of
the alphabet has many pictures. Students will be fascinated with
this site.
http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/folk/suzume/suzume04.html
Folktale - “The Tongue-Cut Sparrow
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2061.html
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/school/Japan/
This site is full of information. Lots of activities and
information about Japan.
Haiku
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/artists/hokusai/
Famous Japanese artists - Hokusai
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hokusai/
Museum of pictures by Hokusai
http://www.book-navi.com/hokusai/hokusai-e.html
Another great site for the artist, Hokusai. |
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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand
Words |
This site gives all internationally
recognized sites of outstanding value.
http://www.unesco.org/whc/sites (go to pulldown catergories),
click on Rock-Art Sites
Fresco glossary and information
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/nincheri/en-fresco.html |
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Internet Sites for United States Government |
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http://www.congresslink.org |
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http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html |
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Powers of the President |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/outusgov/ch3.htm |
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Executive Office of the President |
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/eop-agencies.html |
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The President's Cabinet |
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http://www.politics1.com/cabinet.htm |
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Our American Government: The Executive Branch |
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House Document 102-192, U.S. GPO:1993 |
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http://www.unclefed.com/TaxMatters/OurAmGovt.html |
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http://www.searchemail.com/rd/results/rdg_us_government_information/usinfo.st |
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Interactive Cultural Baskets |
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The Division of Public Education (DPE)
of the Office of International Affairs at Texas Tech University
provides the following list of websites to help enhance the
experience the students had at the International Cultural Center.
The sites relate to the three regions of the world – deserts,
rainforests, and mountains – explored in the DPE Signature
Program, “Interactive Culture Baskets.” |
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Summary of Desert Related Web Sites – main site |
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http://schools.pinellas.k12.fl.us/educators/tec/DAVIS/websites.html |
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Summary of Desert Related Web Sites – list and description of
contents |
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1.
http://www.desertusa.com/life.html |
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This site features desert plants and animals, minerals, geology,
people and cultures of the Sonoran Desert. Students can see desert
creatures up close. Students can find out how the desert looks
before and after it rains. Students can see photos of wildflowers
in bloom. There is also weather information available. |
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http://desert.net/museum |
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This is the museum that features the Sonoran Desert. It is a
natural history museum and botanical garden. It has school
programs, tortoise adoption program, and photos of the desert in
bloom. |
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3.http://www.ontheline.org.uk/explore/nature/deserts/deserts.htm |
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This site features plant and animal life, climate, landscape, and
geography that make deserts distinctive. This sites addresses
conservation issues also. |
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4.
http://www.mrdowling.com/611-deserts.html |
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This site is an education based site. There are lesson plans,
experiments available on the African deserts such as the Kalahari,
Namib, and the Sahara. |
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5.
http://members.aol.com/QuestSite/1/ |
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This is an interactive web site for elementary and middle school
teachers. Ecoquest was structured to introduce students to
internet research and multimedia design. |
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6.
http://horizon.nmsu.edu/ddl/wqdesertworlds_k.html |
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This site has deserts of the world, lesson plans, compares desert
regions of the world, discusses cultures, desert people, animals,
plants, and compares desert peoples of the worlds deserts. |
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7.
http://livingdesert.org/home.html |
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This site is a conservation related site, dedicated to preserving
desert ecosystems from around the world. There is an online tour
of 400 desert animals, and10 different plant ecosystems. |
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http://drylands.nasm.edu:1995/ |
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This is an electronic exhibit of the world’s dry lands and shows
the environments people live in and threats they may face. |
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Deserts – additional sites |
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http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/deserts/form/ |
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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/desert/desert.shtml |
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Rainforests |
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http://www.pbs.org/journeytoamazonia/ |
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http://fga.freac.fsu.edu/misc/rain.htm |
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Florida Geographic Alliance |
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http://print.factmonster.com/ipka/A0769052.html |
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Major Biomes of the World |
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http://www.chariho.k12.ri.us/faculty/riordan/rainforest/rainfrst.html |
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http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html |
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http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/kapok/kapoktg.htm |
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Supplemental unit for the book, The
Great Kapok Tree, by Lynne cherry |
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http://www.ran.org/kids_action/index.html |
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Excellent site for students.
(Rainforests) |
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http://www.rainforestweb.org/ |
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http://www.rainforestweb.org/Rainforest_Regions/ |
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http://www.rainforestweb.org/Rainforest_Information/Biodiversity/ |
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Older students - grades 5-12 |
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Mountain Regions Around the World |
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http://www.mountainvoices.org/ |
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Some categories need to be viewed by
the teacher before students view this site. This site offers
interviews or stories from people who live in the mountain regions
of the world. |
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http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/mtbarrier/ |
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Lesson plans and activities about
mountains are offered at this site. |
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http://www.chariho.k12.ri.us/faculty/riordan/Mountains/MountainsoftheWorld.html |
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Good site to learn about the
formation of mountains, types of mountains, and general
information about mountains of the world. Excellent site
containing a lot of information with additional links. |
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http://www.americasroof.com/world.html |
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Great location for maps, charts
listing highest elevation, etc. This website would best serve
intermediate, middle school, and high school. |
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Africa, Latin America, and Asia |
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http://www.your-nation.com/ |
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Compare, rank, and a summary of
countries can be done on this site. Settings can be changed to
offer a wide range of categories. |
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Communities Around the World – activity |
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http://www.marshall-es.marshall.k12.tn.us/jobe/community/ |
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This site is a lesson plan for a
project for students to learn more about their community as well
as correspond with students from other countries. Excellent
resource list and lesson plans. |
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http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/cquest/ |
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A great site
for students to take a tour of various places around the world.
Each region of the world offers a choice of countries with topics
- holidays, games, crafts, museums, and recipes – to explore. |
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“From Stones to Euro” Websites |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/on2/money/history.html |
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This site is
about the history of money. It has links to sites about coins,
making of money and the euro. There is a timeline of money as
well as other interesting information. |
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http://www.europa.eu.int/euro/html/rubrique-cadre5.html?pag=rubrique-defaut5.html|lang=5|rubrique=196|chap=13 |
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This site
allows the student to use the conversion rates for various
countries to the euro. |
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http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/tmoffatt/flower/symbols.html |
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Wonderful site for history of
symbolism with plants on paper money.
Each category has pictures of actual paper money. |
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http://webdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa070400b.htm |
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GREAT SITE TO GET COLOR SYMBOLISM |
“From Stones to Euro” Websites
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/on2/money/history.html
This site is about the history of money. It has links to sites
about coins, making of money and the euro. There is a timeline of
money as well as other interesting information.
http://www.europa.eu.int/euro/html/rubrique-cadre5.html?pag=rubrique-defaut5.html|lang=5|rubrique=196|chap=13
This site allows the student to use the conversion rates for
various countries to the euro.
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/tmoffatt/flower/symbols.html
Wonderful site for history of symbolism with plants on paper
money. Each category has pictures of actual paper money.
http://webdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa070400b.htm
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Severe Weather Around the World
Hurricanes
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
National Hurricane Center
This site has a wide range of information about hurricanes.
Teachers or students will find this site very helpful in the study
of hurricanes.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/slideshow/hurricane_990913/slideshow.asp
10 Major U.S. Hurricanes (Pictures and statistics)
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/hurtrack/index.html
DAS Tropical Cyclone Tracker
Students will be able to pull down names and years of big
hurricanes or storms and see the track of each one.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/home.rxml
Introduction to hurricanes, including details on how they are
named and where and under what conditions they develop. Great
links to topics relating to hurricanes.
Tornadoes
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/torn.htm
National Weather Service site about tornadoes. This site has
tornado safety precautions.
http://whyfiles.org/013tornado/index.html
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/skywarn/spotterguide.html
http://www.noaa.gov/tornadoes.html
This site has links to a variety of topics relating to severe
weather and climatology. |
Bank of American Foundation Scholastic Assistance for Global
Education
http://sage.tamu.edu |
