Maxwell Area Home Educators Online
WEBSITES BY SUBJECT
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.


                             
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