History - Student Focused
<visit> National Geographic Kids has a great selection of games, stories, experiments and a surprise section that changes every so often.
<visit>Click the Kids link on the Smithsonian Institute website for great resources relating to American History.
<visit> Want to know what the state flag for Hawaii looks like? Ever been curious about the state flower of Texas, or what about the state bird of Idaho? Find information about any of our 50 states on this website.
<visit>You have to download a free program and then you are able to zoom into anywhere on earth from outer space.
<visit> The University of Kentucky has created this set of interesting facts about bugs that may come in handy for display boards, starting discussions, guessing games, etc.
<visit>Here are the state websites listed alphabetically by state. Find yours!
<visit>Now the bestselling book has a companion Web Site -- The World Almanac For Kids Online. So dive in and explore.
<visit>What is a desert? How many deserts are in North America? Learn about the desert environment and the unique characteristics that define the beautiful arid and semi-arid landscapes of the American Southwest.
<visit> The Arctic remains one of the least explored, studied and understood places on earth.
<visit>Find all sorts of facts about Ancient Egypt on this website by the British Museum.
<visit>"Voyages of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons" follows in the footsteps of some of the world's greatest explorers, reliving their adventurous expeditions into the unknown. Our aim is to take the users on a journey through past centuries looking at these adventurers, the dangers they faced, where they went and their motivation for exploration."
<visit>Interested in ancient Troy? We have pages on the Judgment of Paris, the Trojan War, Achilles, Helen, the Greek gods, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Greek ships, the Myceneans, and the Hittites.
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find out about the REAL Troy from archaeology.
Sites that can be referenced from this web page from NASA offer
photographs, lesson plans and activities, and research in the area
of geography.
<visit>Mission
Geography is curriculum support materials that link the content,
skills, and perspectives of Geography for Life: The National Geography
Standards with the missions, research, and science of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
<visit>Do you need to find out information about a certain region, country or city? Do you want to investigate volcanoes or the rain forest? Wanna see pictures of the earth from space? Find out all these things and more - all right at your fingertips.
<visit> Learn about veterans!
<visit>Veterans’ Day home page.
<visit> Maporama is a commercial site but when teachers put in their address, they will get a map and the longitude and latitude is in the lower left corner.
<visit>Terra Server is also a commercial site. Teachers put in the address of their school and then search- when the map comes up they click on it. The latitude and longitude is displayed in the left column
<visit> This gives folks a LOOK UP TABLE of the biggest cities in their state - (not exact for every community but people could choose one city that is pretty close)
<visit>This page from INFOPLEASE gives you a list of cities and their geographic data. View a location from space: If classes are interested in looking at their school from space (or their house - for that matter) they should try:
<visit>Map Machine from National Geographic
<visit> Google Maps
<visit>Great Remote sensing lesson plans are available at Mission Geography
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NASA and Event Based Science remote sensing activities from NASA
and MD public schools
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