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| CURRENT EVENTS www.GWNews.com -- God's World News for current events www.Scholastic.com -- Junior Scholastic News GEOGRAPHY www.geomatters.com - Geography trail guides www.NationalGeographic.com -- a good source for blank maps http://earth.google.com - visit anywhere on earth www.google.com/educators/gaw.html - Geography Awareness Week HISTORY www.visionforum.com -- carries tapes and books pertaining to Thanksgiving www.pilgrims.net/plymouth/thanksgiving.htm -- Holiday info http://www.annieshomepage.com features material for holidays and other topics http://www.foodtimeline.org -- Food and history http://www.nmai.si.edu - The National Museum of the American Indian is the 16th museum of the Smithsonian Institution. It's the first national museum dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of native Americans. http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/ - Civil War Timeline SCIENCE http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics.html -- Hear a Humpback Whale! http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/welcome.html NOAA Ocean Explorer Provides direct access to over 200 lesson plans, offers professional development opportunities for educators, and has an ocean career component www.microchemkits.com The microlab chemistry kit meets grade 9-12 chemistry standards. A guide coordinates the labs with the Bob Jones text. There are enough chemicals to do each experiment 5 times. The lab book details all instructions and includes student lab shees. Cost: $119 www.mbayaq.org/lc/ -- Monterey Bay Aquarium http://www.nasa.gov/ -- NASA's website http://www.epa.gov/kids/ -- Environmental Kids Club http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/Fpyr/pyramid.html. Food Pyramid correct portion sizes http://www.orkin.com/learningcenter/kidsandteachers_lessonplans.asp - free insect lesson plans including "Camouflage: A Study of Stealth and Survival" and "The Art of Flying" http://www.livemonarch.org/free-milkweed-seeds.htm free milkweed seeds for monarch butterflies. http://hurricane.accuweather.com/hurricane/index.asp AccuWeather Hurricane page � shows current storms, paths, satellite http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ - Project Feeder Watch and Citizen Science Projects (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) http://www.bsu.edu/eft/home/oofront.htm - Electronic field trips from Ball State University - you can download lesson plans and do experiments along with the live broadcast. MORE WEBSITES |
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