Welcome To My World
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Kids in Benin
A short interview, photographs and information about children in Beninhttp://www.katw.org/pages/sitepage.cfm?id=4 -
Child Soldiers
Stories and pictures by children in Sierra Leonehttp://www.childsoldiers.org/home/ -
Digging for the Pharaohs
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/pharaohs/digging.html -
Africa for Kids
Music, Crafts and historyhttp://pbskids.org/africa -
Liberian Folk Tales
Read stories and plays from Africahttp://www.phillipmartin.info/liberia/text_folktales_intro.htm -
Kids Africa
Interactive explorationhttp://www.pbs.org/wonders/Kids/kids.htm -
k-12 African Studies
Teacher resourceshttp://www.africa.upenn.edu/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html -
The Living Africa
http://library.thinkquest.org/16645/contents.html -
The Lost Boys of Sudan
Resources to use with film studyhttp://www.lostboysfilm.com/ -
Red Cross in Africa: Lost Boys
Read personal stories of Lost Boys in Sudanhttp://www.redcross.org/news/in/africa/0108lostboyspage.html -
Gorilla
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/mountain-gorilla.html -
UNICEF
Ways to help in Africahttp://www.unicefusa.org/feb07/enews -
PBS Africa
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/ -
All Africa
http://allafrica.com/ -
African Union
http://www.africa-union.org/ -
UN Economic Commission for Africa
http://www.uneca.org/ -
African Studies Center U. of Penn.
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Home_Page/WWW_Links.html -
World Health Organization
http://www.afro.who.int/ -
Human Rights Watch
http://hrw.org/doc/?t=africa -
national geographic africa
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/africa/ -
CNN World Africa
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/archive/ -
Africa Daily
http://www.africadaily.com/ -
NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/africa/ -
Time- Aids in Africa
http://www.time.com/time/2001/aidsinafrica/ -
Wild Madagascar
http://www.wildmadagascar.org/
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Japan for Kids
Games and language activitieshttp://web-jpn.org/kidsweb/index.html -
Climbing Mount Everest
http://www.alanarnette.com/kids/everest10.htm -
Pandas
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/ -
Get a Chinese Name
http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html -
The Land of China
http://library.thinkquest.org/20443/home.html -
Standard Mandarin
Speak Chinesehttp://www.standardmandarin.com/dailywords.html -
How To Write Chinese Characters
http://zhongwen.com/shufa/index.html -
Kids Web Japan
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/index.html -
Japan with Ms. Turner
http://web.mac.com/ketoclub1/iWeb/Ketoclub/Osaka%20Orientation.html -
krakatoa: Island of destruction
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/krakatoa/krakatoa.html -
Wild Indonesia
http://www.pbs.org/wildindonesia/island/7.html
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Black Facts
Daily historical reviewhttp://www.blackfacts.com -
moments in black history
http://www.momentsinblackhistory.com -
African American History Task Force
Great LInks!http://www.afroamfl.com/
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Cyber Bee
Rules for using informationhttp://www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf -
Net Smartz Teens
http://ext.bgcayouthnet.org/outsidesites/nsteens/index.htm
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NBA Star Sells $15 Sneakers
Stephon Marbury makes a statementhttp://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/17962620 -
Pumice in Egypt linked to ancient eruption
Dust carries from ancient volcanohttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17920435/from%20ET/print/1/displaymode/1098 -
Good Deeds
Malaria Projecthttp://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=Malaria_Eradication -
IEARN Good Deeds
http://ismailfayed.netfirms.com/weblog03/blogger2.html
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Alaska and Polar Regions
http://www.uaf.edu/library/oralhistory/index.html -
American Life Histories from Federal Writers Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html -
Veterans History
http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/oralhistory/orlhom.htm -
Oral History Online
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/ -
Civil Rights in Mississippi
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/
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Kids around the world in Europe
Pictures and stories of kids in Bosnia and Romaniahttp://www.katw.org/pages/europe.cfm -
European Union
Official Site of EUhttp://europa.eu/ -
Teach Europe
http://www.teacheurope.org/ -
European Union
For Americanshttp://www.eurunion.org/ -
Robert Schuman- French Think Tank
European Issues- French Perspectivehttp://robert-schuman.eu/derniere_lettre.php -
Kids Europe
http://europa.eu/europago/welcome.jsp
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Geography in Action
Text and interactive activitieshttp://ssil.uoregon.edu/geog610/geography/index.htm -
Google Earth Lessons
A variety of links and teaching optionshttp://www.gelessons.com/links.html
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Speakers Match
Returned Volunteers Visit Classroomshttp://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/speakersmatch/ -
Correspondence Match
Students communicate with vounteers overseashttp://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/correspond/
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National History Day
Rules and examples of history fair projects and links to helpful resourceswww.nhd.org -
Library of Congress
Excellent source of primary documentshttp://www.loc.gov/index.html -
National Archives
America's historical documentshttp://www.archives.gov/ -
Veteran's History Project
See and Hear Veteran's Storieshttp://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.html -
citation machine
creates a bibliographyhttp://www.citationmachine.net/
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Schools Demining Schools
History of land mines, technical information and suggestions for removalhttp://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/sds/introduction/index.asp#1 -
CHAMPS
www.marshall-legacy.org
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National Atlas
Review and create mapshttp://www.nationalatlas.gov/index.html -
Demographics Now
For advanced researchhttp://www.demographicsnow.com/ -
GIS and other resources
http://danenet.wicip.org/gisedu/gisreslist.htm -
GIS Data
http://data.geocomm.com/ -
Map Quest
Find directions and mapshttp://www.mapquest.com/ -
Maps on Us
Find directionshttp://www.mapsonus.com/ -
Terra Server
Find monuments and landmarkshttp://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/default.aspx -
USGS
http://mapping.usgs.gov/ -
Maps 101
http://www.maps101.com/Login.aspx -
Satellites
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/satellite/ -
Globalis GIS
http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/ -
Latitude and Longitude games
http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-games/latitude-longitude-map-game.php -
Find your longitude
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/find.html -
Position Finder
http://www.juggling.org/bin/do/map-find -
Globe Projector
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/hall/index.html?node=20
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Global Connections: Middle East
PBS serieshttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/index.html
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MSNBC
The Day's Newshttp://www.msnbc.com/ -
CNN
The Day's Newshttp://www.cnn.com -
The Online News Hour
In Dept News Stories and documentaries from The News Hour with Jim Lehrerhttp://www.pbs.org/newshour/ -
CSPAN
Podcasts and transcripts along with links for current eventshttp://www.c-span.org/ -
New York Times Learning
Not just news but resourceshttp://www.nytimes.com/learning/
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Kids Australia
http://www.gigglepotz.com/caustralia.htm
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Veteran's History Project
See and Hear Veteran's Storieshttp://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.html -
Tell Me Your Stories
An Oral History Curriculumhttp://www.tellmeyourstories.org/
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Lori Weedo's Portaportal
http://guest.portaportal.com/lweedo -
Michelle Bourgeois
http://guest.portaportal.com/milobo
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BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/newspod/ -
CN
http://www.cnn.com/EDUCATION/ -
CSPAN
http://www.c-span.org/podcast/ -
National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/ -
National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/ -
Volunteer Voices
From the Peace Corpshttp://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/podcasts/index.cfm -
Language Lessons
Learn languages from all around the worldhttp://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/language/index.cfm
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Read write think
Activities for FCAT practicehttp://www.readwritethink.org/literacy/index.html -
Florida Online Reading Project
Index to lessons and teaching strategieshttp://forpd.ucf.edu/
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U.S. Census
Maps and graphs with data about the United Stateshttp://www.census.gov/ -
American Factfinder
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en -
Awesome Stories
link to primary sourceshttp://www.awesomestories.com/
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UN Refugees
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home -
Migration Information
http://www.migrationinformation.org/index.cfm -
Immigration
www.energyofanation.org
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21st Century Literacies
Research based article on teaching with technologyhttp://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/ -
The Next Generation of Educational Engagement
Research by Diana Oblingerhttp://www-jime.open.ac.uk/2004/8/oblinger-2004-8-disc-paper.html -
EDUCAUSE- Educating the Net Generation
A variety of articles with research basehttp://www.educause.edu/content.asp?PAGE_ID=5989&bhcp=1 -
The Next Generation Learner
Power Point by Diana Oblingerhttp://www.nwacc.org/archive/conferences/2004_Spring_Board_mtg/oblinger.pdf -
Links
A variety of links to research and websiteshttp://flare.ucf.edu/FLaRE_Presentations/Bedenbaugh%20-%20NECC%20-%20Jul%2006/Bedenbaugh%20-%20Easily%20Integrate%2021st%20Century%20Literacy%20into%20the%20LA%20Classroom%20-%20Handout.pdf -
Nation's Report Card in Geography
National researchhttp://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pubs/main2001/2002485.asp -
Geography Education National Implementation Project
http://genip.tamu.edu/ -
Wilsonweb
online periodicalshttp://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/shared/shared_main.jhtml?_DARGS=/hww/login.jhtml.1 -
Zero To Six Study
Kaiser foundation study of children's use of technologyhttp://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/Zero-to-Six-Electronic-Media-in-the-Lives-of-Infants-Toddlers-and-Preschoolers-PDF.pdf -
Social Networking Websites and teens
Pew Internet and American Life Projecthttp://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_SNS_Data_Memo_Jan_2007.pdf
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Top 100 Speeches
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html -
American Slave Narratives
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html -
Historical Music
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/audio/music.cfm -
History Channel Speech Archives
http://www.history.com/media.do -
History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ -
Llibrary of Congress American Memory Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?format=Sound+Recording
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World War 2 Daily
Gives students a chance to view daily news briefs as if it were the news during World War 2. Also includes links to media and prhttp://www.ww2daily.com/ -
Child Soldiers
A classroom-created resource with original art, creative writing and information about child soldiers in Sierra Leonehttp://www.childsoldiers.org/home/ -
Kids around the World
Photographs and stories about children in countries around the worldhttp://www.katw.org/ -
Peace Corps
Peace Corps volunteer stories in audio and written format touching countries around the worldhttp://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/ -
Schools Demining Schools
Provides historical and technical information about land mines as well as action planshttp://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/sds/introduction/index.asp#1 -
Lewis and Clark
Satellite images retracing the journey of Lewis and Clarkhttp://eros.usgs.gov/imagegallery/collection.php?col=The+Journey+of+Lewis+and+Clark -
Earth as Art 2
Spectacular images of earth from spacehttp://eros.usgs.gov/imagegallery/collection.php?col=Earth+As+Art+2 -
United Nations
Cyberschoolbus provides links to information about countries around the world, actions of the United Nations and international chttp://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/ -
ISS Earthkam
Satellite images from spacehttp://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/ -
U.S. State Department
U.S. policy, questions for ambassadors and information about countries around the worldhttp://www.state.gov/ -
My Wonderful World
National Geographic Website with games and informationhttp://www.mywonderfulworld.org/ -
The Lost Boys of Sudan
Information about the film and about the crisis in Sudanhttp://www.lostboysfilm.com/ -
iEarn
communication tool for linking with other students around the worldhttp://www.iearn.org/ -
Earth as Art
Satellite imageshttp://eros.usgs.gov/imagegallery/collection.php?col=Earth+As+Art -
Digging for the Pharaohs
Interactive on ancient Egypthttp://www.pbs.org/wnet/pharaohs/digging.html -
Answers.Com
ask a question and find a nifty answerhttp://www.answers.com/ -
Our World Today
Accompanies Nystrom Mapshttp://www.ourworldtoday.com/owt/login.html -
History Net
A vareity of articles, interviews and links for history topicshttp://www.historynet.com/ -
Warrington Middle School Web Site
School site with links to many other locationshttp://www.escambia.k12.fl.us/schscnts/wartm/home.html -
Marco Polo Research
Search Enginehttp://www.marcopolosearch.org/mpsearch/basic_search.asp -
About.Com
Links to maps, activities and news briefshttp://geography.about.com/ -
Awesome Library
Search enginehttp://www.awesomelibrary.org/ -
TOPICS: An Online Magazine for Learners of English
Photos and stories from around the worldhttp://www.topics-mag.com/ -
Google Earth
http://earth.google.com/ -
CIA World Factbook
Facts of countries around the worldhttps://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ -
50 states.com
information about the 50 stateshttp://www.50states.com/ -
Weather Underground
weather forecasts and morehttp://www.weatherunderground.com/ -
NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/ -
Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/ -
United Nations
http://www.un.org/english/ -
Podcasting links
A geography gamehttp://www.intelligenic.com/where -
The KIDZ Page
Games and activitieshttp://www.thekidzpage.com/index.html -
kind news
http://www.kindnews.org/ -
Panwapa
Sesame Street site with interactiveshttp://panwapa.com -
EU for Kids
http://europa.eu/europago/welcome.jsp
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World History Matters
Lesson plans and ideas on teaching with primary sources and a variety of topicshttp://worldhistorymatters.org/ -
Sun Link
Network with other libraries across the state.http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/ -
Outreach World
Links for teachershttp://www.outreachworld.org/ -
C-SPAN Classroom
Lesson plans and clips for classroom discussion on government and political topicshttp://www.c-spanclassroom.org/ -
National Council for the Social Studies
Lesson Plans for teachable moments are among the resources available to professionalshttp://www.socialstudies.org/resources/moments/ -
The National Archives
Digital Classroomhttp://www.archives.gov/education/index.html -
A to Z Teacher Stuff
lessons, printables, tipshttp://atozteacherstuff.com/ -
Teacher's Corner for Pre-AP
Information and teaching tipshttp://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/preap/index.html -
Kathy Schrock Guide
Favorite links and tech tipshttp://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/ -
The Best of History Websites
INDEXhttp://www.besthistorysites.net/ -
Teachnology
Lessons, tipshttp://www.teachnology.com/ -
From Now On
Educational Technology for Engaged Learninghttp://fno.org/ -
Wide World at Harvard
Research and online instructionhttp://learnweb.harvard.edu/wide/ -
Reading Quest
Research and Activities to improve reading in social studieshttp://www.readingquest.org/ -
FCAT STAR
https://fcat.escambia.k12.fl.us/index.cfm?CFID=11924&CFTOKEN=1c1e7f67e7781caa-0F477B38-65BF-CC91-AA08176D69CD2F0D -
FCAT Explorer
http://www.fcatexplorer.com/ -
National Geographic Expeditions
Lesson planshttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/expeditions/lessons/ -
National Council for Geographic Education
http://www.ncge.org/ -
Association of Ameican Geographers
http://www.aag.org/ -
Federal Resources for Teachers
http://www.free.ed.gov/ -
National Geographic
Reference for science and geographyhttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/ -
Teachers.net
Lesson planshttp://teachers.net/lessons/browse.html -
Florida Accomplished Practices
http://www.firn.edu/doe/dpe/publications/professional4-99.pdf -
Web Quests
Inventory of web questshttp://webquest.org/ -
Rubi Star
rubrics for gradinghttp://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php -
4 teachers
Online resourceshttp://4teachers.org/ -
Curriculum Mapping
http://www.curriculumdesigners.com/ -
CHina: from silk to oil
http://www.chinainstitute.org/educators/silkguide.html -
The Center on Congress
http://www.centeroncongress.org/ -
Arizona Geographic Alliance
Great ideas!http://alliance.la.asu.edu/azga/ -
Art Ideas and Resources
http://www.artjunction.org/ -
Stossel in the Classroom
John Stossel movieshttp://www.stossellintheclassroom.org -
The Film Connection
Great movieswww.thefilmconnection.org -
Presidental Academy
www.presidentialacademy.org -
Olympics
Web site for resources about the Olympicshttp://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson201.shtml -
Educational Simulations
http://educationalsimulations.com/products.html -
The Center for Teaching History With Technology
http://www.thwt.org
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African American History Task Force
http://www.afroamfl.com/
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Create a Graph
Students can create colorful pie graphs, bar graphs and other visual representations of datahttp://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/ -
Internet for Classrooms
Links to a variety of internet siteshttp://www.internet4classrooms.com/ -
The Center for Teaching History with Technology
Links and Lessonshttp://thwt.org/ -
Mighty Coach
On line traininghttp://www.mightycoach.com/index.html -
Atomic Learning
On Line Tutorialhttp://www.atomiclearning.com/home -
Education Word Technology Tips
Tips, strategies and lessonshttp://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/ -
Laptops for Literacy
http://l4l.escambia.k12.fl.us/ -
Virtual Tours
museum virual tourshttp://www.virtualfreesites.com/museums.museums.html -
Pics for Learning
downloadable pictureshttp://www.pics4learning.com/
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The World and Its People
http://www.mhln.com/UnregisterController?ACTION=COMPOST&POSTMANAGER=LOGON&POSTOPERATION=LOGON&ERRORJSP=index.html&MANAGER=ENTRANCE&OPERATION=GETUNREGSTUDENT&JSP=unreg_student_home.jsp
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Democracy Kids
http://www.democracykids.org -
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ -
Smithsonian collections
http://www.museumonmainstreet.org/index.htm -
JFK Library
www.jfklibrary.org -
Abraham Lincoln
Great site for Lincoln 200!http://www.abrahamlincoln200.org/
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World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org/ -
World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/en/ -
Human Rights Watch
http://hrw.org/ -
Global Issues
http://www.globalissues.org/ -
NET AID
Youth movement to end povertyhttp://www.netaid.org -
H2O for Life
Clean Waterhttp://www.H2Ofor lifeschooltoschool.org -
Local and Global Transitional Justice
www.mnadvocates.org -
US Institute of Peace
www.usip.org -
European Union
Web Site for Americans about the EUhttp://www.eurunion.org/ -
European Union
Official Site of the EUhttp://europa.eu/ -
Teach Europe
http://www.teacheurope.org/ -
World Newspapers
Links and translations of newspapers around the worldhttp://www.thebigproject.co.uk/news/ -
Foreign Policy Magazine
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/ -
Robert Schuman Think Tank
French perspective on EUhttp://robert-schuman.eu/derniere_lettre.php -
UConn Model UN
http://www.globaled.uconn.edu/ -
Global Security
http://www.globalsecurity.org/ -
Global Issues
http://www.globalissues.org/ -
Yale Model Un
Links for a variety of topics for researchhttp://www.yale.edu/yira/ymun/GIC/The%20GIC.html
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The Great War
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/ -
Trench Warfare
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761585472/Trench_Warfare.html -
First World War
http://www.firstworldwar.com/ -
Causes of World War I
http://sdsd.essortment.com/worldwaricaus_nbk.htm -
America at War
http://www.america-at-war.net/wwi.htm -
streamed audio
http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/
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Celebrate Pensacola
http://www.celebratepensacola.com/
