Welcome DTMS Students!
Sunday, February 12th 2012
Ancient Wonders of the World
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0770163.html
Seven Wonders- Get Clued In
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sunken/wonders/
World Book Encyclopedia
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/products?ed=all&gr=Welcome+Tennessee+Electronic+Library%21
CNN Destinations
http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/9705/seven.wonders/
http://www.school.eb.com/
Britannica Encyclopedia
Seven Ancient Wonders of the World
http://www.history.com/topics/seven-ancient-wonders-of-the-world
The Original 7 Wonders of the World
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/history/ancient-wonders/
Seven Wonders of the World
http://www.travelchannel.com/Places_Trips/Travel_Ideas/Art_Music_And_Culture/Seven_Wonders_Of_The_World/Seven_Wonders_Of_The_World_1
Biomes
http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/index.html
http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/index.html
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/Biome/
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/Biome/
Cells
Cell Organelles
http://www.galaxygoo.org/biochem/CellProject/the_cell.html
Cell Puzzle
http://www.cellsalive.com/puzzles/index.htm
Cells
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/2001/cellcycle.html
Civil Rights
National Expansion and Reform
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/expref/slavery/slavery.html
Slavery--The Peculiar Institution
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html
Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3.html
The Civil War
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart4.html
The Civil War
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart4.html
We Shall Overcome
Historic Sites of the Civil RIghts Movement
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/
The Civil Rights Era
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html
USA History: Civil Rights 1860-1980
Biographies
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilrights.htm
Timeline:Civil Rights Era
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/timeline/civil_01.html
The History of Jim Crow
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/history.htm
Montgomery Bus Boycott
http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/frontpage.htm
International Civil Rights Center and Museum
http://www.sitinmovement.org/
Eyes on the Prize
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/04_nonviolence.html
Nashville Sit-Ins
http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/nash.htm
Seminoles and Slaves
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_es_seminole.htm
The Gullah
http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/07.htm
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_kkk.html
The Underground Railroad
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/
Aboard the Underground Railroad
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
http://www.freedomcenter.org/
Underground Railroad
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASunderground.htm
Western Expansion and Reform
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/reform/slaveauc_1
Digital History African American Voices
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=48
The Slave Trade
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASauctions.htm
The Compromise of 1850 and The Fugitive Slave Act
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2951.html
UncleTom's Cabin
http://www.uncletomscabin.org/
John Brown's Raid, 1859
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/johnbrown.htm
People and Events- John Brown
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html
John Brown Took Harpers Ferry Hostage
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/reform/brown_1
The raid on Harpers Ferry
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2940.html
Guide to Harpers Ferry History
http://www.nps.gov/archive/hafe/history.htm#brown
Separate Is Not Equal
http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/separate-but-equal.html
Little Rock Central High
http://www.centralhigh57.org/
Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/nr//travel/civilrights/ak1.htm
The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture
Little Rock Nine
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=723
Eyes on the Prize - America's Civil Rights Movement
Freedom Summer 1964
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/09_summer.html
The Middle Passage
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p277.html
The Middle Passage
http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/discovery/story/middle.passage.html
The African Slave Trade and the Middle Passage
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr4.html
Freedom Riders
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/freedom_riders.html
Fort Mose
http://www.unf.edu/~rthunen/NPS/Mose/mose.html
Fort Mose
http://fortmose.org/
Fort Mose
http://www.floridastateparks.org/fortmose/default.cfm
Slave Codes of the State of GA
http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/slavelaw.htm
Slave Codes
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p268.html
Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/
Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html
Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/emancipa.htm
Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1549.html
Missouri Compromise
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h511.html
Bleeding Kansas
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html
Bleeding Kansas
http://www.nps.gov/archive/fosc/bleeding.htm
Brown V. Board of Education
http://www.lib.umich.edu/exhibits/brownarchive/
Brown V. Board of Education
http://www.nps.gov/brvb/
Brown V. Board of Education
http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/enlight/brown.htm
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
http://www.nps.gov/nr//travel/civilrights/al11.htm
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAC16.htm
SIxteenth Street Baptist Church
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1431932
Remembering Rosewood
http://www.displaysforschools.com/rosewood.html
The Real Rosewood
http://www.rosewoodflorida.com/
The Black Power Movement
http://law.jrank.org/pages/4776/Black-Power-Movement.html
Racial Oppression is Law
Slave Codes
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1705.html
Virginia Slave Law Summary and Record
Slave Codes
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/geography/slave_laws_VA.htm
DeBoard - Energy
http://home.clara.net/darvill/altenerg/index.htm
http://home.clara.net/darvill/altenerg/index.htm
http://www.energy.gov/energysources/geothermal.htm
http://www.energy.gov/energysources/geothermal.htm
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/ask_quester/index.html
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/ask_quester/index.html
Fossil Fuels
http://www.fe.doe.gov/education/energylessons/
Wind
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter16.html
Geothermal
http://www.energy.ca.gov/geothermal/index.html
Geothermal
http://www.geothermal.marin.org/index.html
Nuclear
http://www.abc.net.au/science/expert/realexpert/nuclearpower/
Biodiesel
http://www.abc.net.au/science/expert/realexpert/nuclearpower/
Dichotomous Key Activities
What in the World is a Dichotomous Key?
http://www.amaisd.org/sites/nheights/dichotomous_key.htm
Acitivity
http://www.lnhs.org/hayhurst/ips/dichot/
Dunne- Zoo Project
Grassmere Zoo
http://www.nashvillezoo.org/animals.asp
Grolier Database
Be sure to check out the "Amazing Animals" database.
http://go.grolier.com
Evaluating Websites
Burmese Mountain Dog
http://descy.50megs.com/akcj3/bmd.html
Wolf
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/wolf/
Geography- Countries
CIA World Fact Book
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Britannica Online
http://www.school.eb.com/
ProQuest
http://portal.bigchalk.com/portalweb/login.do
Medieval Life
Feudal Life
http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/feudal.html
The Middle Ages
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/middleages/contents.html
The Middle Ages.net
http://www.themiddleages.net/
CDC Plague
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/index.htm
Life in the Middle Ages
http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/ma/mahome.htm
Grolier Online
http://go.grolier.com
Menzies -Endangered Species
WWF
http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/
Sea World
http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/endangered/species-profiles.htm
Fact Sheets
http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
http://ecos.fws.gov/tess_public/SpeciesReport.do?groups=A&listingType=L&mapstatus=1
Menzies- Novel Research
Battlefield: Vietnam War
http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/
Resources on PBS- Vietnam War
http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/resources/index.html
Vietnam War
http://go.grolier.com
Circus Side Shows
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/118480/circus/254861/Sideshows
Freak Show
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freak_show
It's My Life- Bullying
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/friends/bullies/
What is Bullying?
http://www.olweus.org/public/bullying.page
What is Bullying?
http://stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/kids/what-is-bullying.aspx
Ryman Auditorium
http://www.ryman.com/
Grand Ole Opry
Links to famous country music singers, too!
http://www.opry.com/MeetTheOpry/MeetTheOpry.aspx
Baptisms
You will need to use the search box to access your topic.
http://go.grolier.com
Child Abandonment
Scroll to the find the state of Texas.
http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/ncpca_statute_child_neglect_abandonment_3_07.pdf
Divorce
Use the New Book of Knowledge
http://go.grolier.com
Norman's Geography Class- Country Research
Grolier Online
Use the "Lands and Peoples" database to research your topic.
http://go.grolier.com
Proquest- Culture Grams
Use the "World Edition" or "Kids Edition" databases to find information.
http://portal.bigchalk.com/portalweb/login.do
CIA World Factbook
Use the drop down box to select the country.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Pride- Ancient Egypt
Egypt: Secrets of an Ancient World
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pyramids/
Ancient History
http://ancienthistory.mrdonn.org/Egyptlife.html
Mummies of Ancient Egypt
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/mummy/
Ancient Egypt
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html
The Ancient Egyptian Culture Exhibit
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/
The Journey into Eternity: Egypt
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/RR/EM/em.htm
A Kid in Ancient Egypt
http://www.touregypt.net/magazine/mag11012000/magf1.htm
Egypt: Daily Life
http://www2.sptimes.com/Egypt/EgyptCredit.4.2.html
Life in Ancient Egypt
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002046F/ancient_egyptian_life.htm
Roberts - Environmental Conservation
Energy Conservation
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=kids.kids_index
Energy Conservation
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/saving_energy/index.html
Energy Conservation
http://www.tvakids.com/electricity/conservation.htm
Water Conservation
http://www.watereducation.utah.gov/conservation/default.asp
Water Conservation
http://www.epa.gov/watersense/kids/
Wildlife Conservation
http://www.nwf.org/Wildlife/Wildlife-Conservation/Understanding-Wildlife-Conservation.aspx
Wildlife Conservation
http://www.bagheera.com/
Soil Conservation
http://www.clarkswcd.org/Kids/KidsHome.htm
All Subjects- Encyclopaedia Britannica
http://www.school.eb.com/
Roberts- Figurative Language
Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits?vrsn=127&locID=tel_k_depted&failover=0&sgcmd=MAIN&srchtp=basic&c=6&sub=%2522Metaphor%2522&ste=35&tbst=tbasic&tab=2&txb=Metaphor&docNum=A145472105&bConts=7
Metaphors and Similes
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits?vrsn=127&locID=tel_k_depted&failover=0&sgcmd=MAIN&srchtp=basic&c=4&sub=%2522Metaphor%2522&ste=35&tbst=tbasic&tab=2&txb=Metaphor&docNum=A160873976&bConts=7
Idioms
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits?vrsn=127&locID=tel_k_depted&failover=6&srchtp=basic&c=1&ste=35&tbst=tbasic&tab=2&txb=idiom&docNum=A197596548&bConts=6
Idioms
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits?vrsn=127&locID=tel_k_depted&failover=6&srchtp=basic&c=7&ste=35&tbst=tbasic&tab=2&txb=idiom&docNum=A141294066&bConts=6
hyperbole
http://volweb.utk.edu/school/bedford/harrisms/hyperbole.htm
Hyperbole
http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/area/literature/Terms/hyperbole.html
Personification
http://www.imschools.org/cms/Units/Poetry/personif.htm
Personification
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/personificationpractice.html
Personification
http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/lesson7.htm
Figurative Language Definitions
http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/yorba/figurative_language.htm
Scientists
World Book Encyclopedia
Select databases then World Book Encyclopedia
http://www.library.nashville.org/schools/
Archimedes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/archimedes.shtml
Sir Isaac Newton
http://www.biography.com/people/isaac-newton-9422656
Galileo
http://www.biography.com/people/galileo-9305220
Technology
Stop Watch
Timer
http://www.online-stopwatch.com
Back Channel
Chat Site
http://todaysmeet.com/
Question Site
Chat Site
http://moourl.com/
Online Books
You must have a gmail account.
http://books.google.com
MNPS Tech Wikispace
http://www.mnpstechresource.wikispaces.com
Thanksgiving Research
Plimoth Plantation
Click on
http://www.plimoth.org/discover
Scholastic
Great site- Created with Grolier!
http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/researchstarters/plymouth/
Kid Info
http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_Plymouth.html
Kid Info
http://www.Kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_Colonial_Life.html
American Colonial Life Resources
http://www.lodi.k12.wi.us/schools/es/lmc/gr5Colonial.htm
Colonial America 1600 -1775 K12 Resources
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm
The Smithsonian
This is a short website, but has information about the first thanksgiving celebrations and includes important dates.
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmah/thanks.htm
The Pilgrim Hall Museum
This site combines images of items from the museum with well-documented historical information to illuminate the Plymouth Colony
http://www.pilgrimhall.org/museum.htm
Caleb Johnson's MayflowerHistory.com
Includes William Bradford’s biography. There is also information about the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, and early Plymouth Colony.
http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/index.php
The Mayflower Society
This website includes a copy of the Mayflower Compact.
http://www.themayflowersociety.com/
Simple Machines
Simple Machines
http://www.beth.k12.pa.us/schools/wwwclass/mcosgrove/simple.htm
Simple Machines Game
http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/index.shtml
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