The Vibe Teacher Edition November 2011

Shore Regional High School

November 2011 William J. Valenti Educational Media Specialist

Teacher Edition

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Valenti’s Information Bulletin Essentials

DOCUMENTARY HEAVEN This is a free site that has organized more than 1,600 documentary films found across the Internet. Through Documentary Heaven you can find documentaries covering all kinds of topics in science, history, politics, business, and many more categories. http://documentaryheaven.com

NOVEMBER READER OF THE MONTH– Vincent Dallicardillo Currently reading these two books: A Safe Place by Lorenzo Carcaterra Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig Vinnie says, "I find reading to be a great way to relax, exercise my mind and just "get away" for a little while. The capability to take an author's words on paper (or Kindle, nowadays) and create a world as the reader interprets it is very powerful and rewarding…. So much better than the movie. Although I don't have nearly as much time as I would like, I have always loved reading (and writing creatively) and I do try to get in a few pages each night.....

When I am not watching Jersey Shore or Dancing with the Stars.”

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TOP DOCUMENTARY FILMS http://topdocumentaryfilms.com

TDF is a catalog of documentaries gathered from across the web. Documentary Films doesn’t actually host the videos, rather it serves as a directory of documentaries. Each documentary includes a screen image, a summary, and either an embedded video or a link to the source where you can watch the video for free.

“ When all else fails, pray for a fire drill.” ~Author Unknown FEDFLIX– FREE FILM FROM THE US GOVERNMENT http://www.archive.org/details/FedFlix

Virtually every agency of the government has been involved in moviemaking for most of the 20th century, and this section of the Internet makes thousands of them available. Among the topics of historical interest “The Roswell Reports”, a 1970’s film on LSD, “Why Vietnam?”, “Duck and Cover,” Apollo 11, “ and lots more.

WEBSITES EMAILED BY WILLIAM J. VALENTI DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION RESOURCES EDUCATIONAL MEDIA SPECIALIST

OCTOBER 2011

Art/Music Post-it Note Art - WebUrbanist http://weburbanist.com/2008/01/24/more-unusual-art-from-everyday-materials-16-post-it-note-pranks-sculptures-andmurals/ My grandchildren already adore post-it notes, and they haven't even begun to explore the artistic possibilities. Here are some of the creative ways people have been using them. ~ from Mary Laine Art Teacher Listserv http://www.getty.edu/education/teacherartexchange/index.html Share lesson ideas, teacher resources, and network with colleagues from across the United States High School Art Lessons http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/high/highlessons.html Interactive Music Theory Lessons http://musictheory.net/

MusicTheory.net still offers music theory lessons covering everything from basic note recognition to difficult chord inversions. The lessons can now be customized to test users on the notes and concepts they need to practice the most. MusicTheory.net also offers calculators and tools handy for composing music. And if you just need some staff paper, MusicTheory.net offers sheets that you can print. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers Name that Famous Painting - Music Video http://www.openculture.com/2011/07/name_that_painting.html

The band Hold Your Horses (yeah, I'd never heard of them either) produced a music video in which they recreated the scenes of 24 famous paintings. Open Culture listed the paintings and their painters. Flavor Wire has images of all of the original paintings along with still images from the video for comparison ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

Jackson Pollock 51 http://www.openculture.com/2011/08/jackson_pollock_lights_camera_paint.html - Free – Short documentary by Hans Namuth features the abstract expressionist painter up close, painting on glass. (1951)

Child Study Team Special Education News

http://www.specialednews.com/ Special education news for educators and families.

English Public Access Poetry - The Poetry Project http://poetryproject.org/history/public-access-poetry 31 of the tapes of the 1977/78 cable TV program of poets reading their work aloud have been digitized and made available on this web site, and another 15 are in the process. Among the poets are Susie Timmons, Eileen Myles, Steve Levine, Ted Berrigan, Harris Schiff, Ron Padgett, and more. ~from Mary Laine Literary Moments

http://www.arts.gov/av/avCMS/indexLM.html Great literature read and discussed by writers, critics, artists, and other passionate readers. (1- 2 min audio segments) Audio Documentary: To Kill A Mockingbird

http://www.arts.gov/av/avCMS/MockingbirdGuide.html

Listen to this radio show on one of American literature's classic stories - Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird (30 min).

Guide to Grammar and Writing

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ If you need to review what a sentence fragment is or how to write a comparison and contrast essay or find a quiz on abbreviations, you will find help here. Just search the site using the six menu bars and an Index. You’ll find definitions, work sheets, and quizzes. The site offers a lot of useful information and some fun pages, like Notorious Confusables.

Video - The Tell Tale Heart

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/10/video‐tell‐tale‐heart.html Greek Heroes in Popular Culture Through Time

http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/history‐the‐arts/greek‐heroes‐popular‐culture‐ through‐time Greek Heroes in Popular Culture Through Time is a series of short animated videos from The Open University. The videos offer an analysis of how Greek heroes have been portrayed in popular media over the years. The videos are probably a bit too edgy for a lot of high school settings, but I'll leave that decision to you. You can find the videos and transcripts on the course page, on YouTube, and on iTunes. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life - Free – Oscar-winning short film that combines Kafka’s Metamorphosis with Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life. (1993)

http://www.openculture.com/2011/07/franz_kafkas_its_a_wonderful_life.html ~~ From Open Culture The Stranger http://www.archive.org/details/TheStranger_0 – Free – Directed by Orson Welles and starring Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young. This was Orson Welles’ only major box office success. Alternative version in higher def. (1946) ~ From Open Culture The Fall by Albert Camus Animated http://www.amazon.com/dp/0679720227/ref=as_li_tf_til?tag=openculture20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0679720227&adid=1K9ZX9K86NMYQZY79

PMJ Now it’s time for something a little more modern – Mike McCubbins offers an animated adaptation of Albert Camus’ classic, The Fall, published in 1957, the same year that Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work that “illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.” Give McCubbins five minutes and he’ll give you the visual essence of the philosophical novel

~ From Open Culture

20 Popular High School Books Available as Free eBooks & Audio Books http://www.openculture.com/2011/09/ popular_high_school_books_available_as_free_ebooks_audiobooks.html Every year, thousands of American high school students read a common selection of great novels — classics loved by young and old readers alike. Today, we have selected 20 of the most popular books and highlighted ways that you can download versions for free, mostly as free audio books and ebooks, and sometimes as movies ~ From Open Culture

The Great Gatsby and Waiting for Godot: The Video Game Editions http://www.openculture.com/2011/09/ the_great_gatsby_and_waiting_for_godot_the_video_game_editions.html Some geniuses have taken two literary classics and reworked them as retro video games. The Great Gatsby Game, obviously based on the classic by F. Scott Fitzgerald, reworks the game in vintage Nintendo Style. The clip above gives you a little preview, but you can always play the game right here. ~ From Open Culture

Jack Kerouac Reads from On the Road (1959)

http://www.openculture.com/2011/09/jack_kerouac_reads_from_on_the_road.html Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road in three very short weeks in 1951. But then it took six years for the book, famously written on a long scroll, to reach the reading public in 1957. ~ From Open Culture

Aldous Huxley Reads Dramatized Version of Brave New World

http://www.openculture.com/2011/06/huxleyreadsbravenewworld.html We posted this long ago, and we’re doing it again because it’s just too good — too good to collect digital dust.

The CBS Radio Workshop was an “experimental dramatic radio anthology series” that aired between 1956 and 1957. And it premiered with a two-part adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s now classic 1932 novel ~ From Open Culture World Literature in 13 Parts: From Gilgamesh to García Márquez http://www.openculture.com/2011/05/world_literature_in_13_parts.html Love and longing, hope and fear – these threads run throughout all literature, whether we’re talking about the great ancient epics, or contemporary novels written in the East or the West. That’s the main premise of Invitation to World Literature, a multimedia program organized by David Damrosch (Harvard University), and made with the backing of WGBH and Annenberg Media. ~ From Open Culture

Billy Collins Poetry Brought to Animated Life http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/billy_collins_poetry_brought_to_animated_life.html Who doesn’t love Billy Collins, the former US Poet Laureate? The actor Bill Murray reads his poetry at construction sites. Adorable toddlers recite his poetry from memory. And now artists have created animated videos that bring 11 Collins poems to life. ~ From Open Culture Oedipus … Starring Vegetables

http://www.openculture.com/2011/02/oedipus_starring_vegetables.html Sophocles and Aeschylus may be spinning in their graves. Or, who knows, they may be taking some delight in this bizarre twist on the Oedipus myth. Running eight minutes, Jason Wishnow’s 2004 film puts vegetables in the starring roles. One of the first stop-motion films shot with a digital still camera, Oedipus took two years to make with a volunteer staff of 100. But the hard work paid off.

~ From Open Culture iTunes U Introduces Free eBooks: Download Shakespeare’s Complete Works http://www.openculture.com/2010/10/ itunesu_introduces_free_ebooks_start_with_the_complete_shakespeare.html Perhaps you’re accustomed to downloading free lectures and courses on iTunes U. Now, you have a new option.

Last week, Apple began introducing free eBooks to its media collection. And, to kick things off, they’re giving users access to 18 free textbooks sponsored by Connexions (a Rice University project); a series of 100 ebooks ~ From Open Culture 20 Great Authors (and Actors) Read Famous Literature Out Loud http://www.openculture.com/2010/07/ great_authors_and_actors_read_famous_literature_out_loud.html Every now and then, we like to present vintage clips of great authors reading classic literary works – works they have often written themselves. These clips can be fairly revealing. Through them, you can recapture the voices of literary greats, most long since passed ~ From Open Culture

Faculty Listen for Free http://nea.org/home/48171.htm Get audiobooks that can be played on your computer (and in some cases, on your MP3 player or cellphone).

Teaching Channel: Videos That Inspire Teaching http://nea.org/home/46329.htm This site offers a growing library of short videos to inspire teaching.

HowCast http://www.howcast.com/ How-To Videos on just about every project you can imagine, including salsa dancing, crocheting booties, making fried ice cream, how to pull off a surprise marriage proposal, preventing ear infections in children, and so much more. Search or browse through categories like Kids, Teens, Games, First Aid & Safety, Holidays & Celebrations, Cars, House & Garden, etc. ~ from Mary Laine eNotes http://www.enotes.com/ eNotes is a great educational resource for teachers and students. This is an ideal place to find study guides, lesson plans, ebooks, etc.

Also, this is a great learning community for educators to sign up and collaborate and share resources w/ other educators from around the world Global Scholar http://www.globalscholar.com/ Global Scholar is a nice site designed to help all facets of education. For example, teachers can find professional development help here, while students can find online tutors. GS also offers help and solutions for K-12 and College.

Word Search Maker http://www.thewordsearchmaker.com/ Word Search Maker is a great site for parents/teachers who want to make word searches for engaging students. This is a fun site and easy to use and allows users to either create their own custom word list or use a pre-made one.

Teacher Wall - Share Your Stories http://teacherwall.scholastic.com/

Teacher Wall is a place for teachers to share their short stories about why they teach, their challenges, and their successes.

Web 20.11 - web 2.0 and tech tools for teachers - http://web2011.discoveryeducation.com/ Discovery News - daily news and lesson resources – http://news.discovery.com/ Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators - lots of great stuff - http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/ Learner.org http://www.learner.org/students/ Interactive, online exhibits on topics such as Amusement Park Physics, Ancient Civilizations, and the Middle Ages.

What Are Your Favorite Non-Fiction Books? http://www.openculture.com/2011/06/what_are_your_favorite_non-fiction_books.html The Guardian published its list of the 100 Greatest Non-Fiction Books of all time. The collection spans biography, art, philosophy, history and several other hefty categories.

~ From Open Culture

Guidance HowToStudy.org http://howtostudy.org/ Web directory. Howtostudy.org provides students with comprehensive advice for developing successful study habits.

From organizing your time to stopping procrastination and developing good note taking skills, HowToStudy has all the tools you need.

Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-2011 http://www.bls.gov/oco/ A nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook is revised every two years

Home Economics BBC Food http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/ Excellent website for Recipes and information of food Food Dudes website http://www.fooddudes.ie/main.html This website gives nutrition information for parents / students on the Food Dudes program.

Learn to Crochet http://crochet.about.com/library/blbeginners.htm Step by step instructions to learn how to crochet, from chain stitch to triple treble.

Learn to Sew http://www.sewing.org/html/learntosew.html Monthly sewing lessons from Home Sewing Association. Past lessons archived by topic.

Teen Seams http://www.sewing.org/html/teen.html Monthly projects from Home Sewing Association. Past projects archived.

History of Home Economics http://www.exnet.iastate.edu/polk/history/homeec.html Notes on early home economics extension work in Iowa including a statement concerning the development of home economics teaching at Iowa State College. http://www.exnet.iastate.edu/polk/history/homeec.html Aunt Edna's Kitchen http://www.auntedna.com/ ...a site with cooking measurements and information Consumer Education for Teens http://www.atg.wa.gov/teenconsumer/ ...some interesting essays on current topics of interest written for the 12-18 age group Family and Consumer http://coekate.murraystate.edu/kate/links/10/ ...hundreds of family and consumer science links, arranged by grade level Family and Consumer Sciences http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/ ...a well-done university-produced page with links of interest to family and consumer science teachers and students Family and Consumer Science Resources Online http://members.tripod.com/~kburge/fcs.html ...a list of links to support the teaching of consumer science and home economics Life Skills for Vocational Success http://www.workshopsinc.com/manual/ ...over 60 lesson plans dealing with basic life skills like balancing a checkbook, etc.

Stain Detective http://www.tide.com/ ...find out how to get those stubborn stains out through this interactive, commercial site

Librarianship

Math Mathematics in Movies http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/index.html

Mathematics in Movies is a website developed by Oliver Knill, a Harvard Mathematics professor. Mathematics in Movies is a collection of video clips from popular movies and television shows in which references to mathematics are made Applications for Education The video clips from Mathematics in Movies could be a fun way to introduce a mathematics lesson. The clips might also be useful as a break from a traditional lesson plan for a day. Students can enjoy the clips while reviewing mathematics concepts.

WebMath - math resources and help – http://webmath.com/ National Library of Virtual Manipulatives http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

Algebra Links http://teachone.tripod.com/math/index.html#algebra Calculus http://teachone.tripod.com/math/index.html#calculus Math Humor Links http://teachone.tripod.com/math/index.html#mathhumor Math in Daily Life "When you buy a car, follow a recipe, or decorate your home, you're using math principles," from the Annenberg/CPB Project. They have a great page of related links. http://www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath/ S.O.S Algebra On-line lessons. http://www.sosmath.com/algebra/algebra.html Mathematics Archives Calculus Resources On-Line http://archives.math.utk.edu/calculus/crol.html

Nurse Calorie King.com - Food awareness and weight loss information http://www.calorieking.com/ CDC MRSA questions and answers - Answers to commonly asked questions about preventing the spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin infections. http://www.cdc.gov/mrsa/index.html Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Information on Disease prevention, vaccines, pandemic flu, and health promotion. http://www.cdc.gov/ Emergency Food Network - By zip code where you can find food banks http://www.efoodnet.org/ Mayo Clinic - Tools for Healthier Lives - Symptom checker, disease and condition information, diet and healthy living. http://www.mayoclinic.com/ National Institute of Drug Abuse - Has a plethora of information on a variety of drugs and information on addiction. http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDAHome.html

Excellent resource for questions regarding Eating Disorders http://www.feast-ed.org EPA Healthy School Environment http://www.epa.gov/schools/ A great resource for school nurses and parents, this site from the Environmental Protection Agency offers tips on maintaining a healthy school environment.

Overweight-Teen-Solutions.com http://www.overweight-teen-solutions.com/ Whether it is better health, self-esteem or successful goal achievement, we help teenagers make smarter, healthier choices. We are an independent information gathering and research firm specializing in Teen Nutrition & Fitness, linking visitors to a wide variety of effective products, treatments and technologies known to be of Exceptional Quality and Value!

Stop Cough Medicine Abuse http://www.stopmedicineabuse.org/learn/dextromethorphan-abuse/side-effects/

Preventing Teen Cough Medicine Abuse: A Parent’s Guide http://otcsafety.org/uploads/files/publications/parentsguide.pdf (also available in Spanish) — Educational brochures for parents developed by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and CHPA; brochures can be ordered online.

NotinMyHouse.com http://www.notinmyhouse.com/ — A web site to help parents protect their kids from prescription drug abuse. The site is maintained by the Parternship for a DrugFree America and Abbott.

Physical Education Exercise and Physical Fitness: MedlinePlus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/exerciseandphysicalfitness.html Web resources carefully chosen by the National Library of Medicine, including overviews, nutrition, exercises for specific conditions, tools, tutorials, and more. ~ from Mary Laine Energy Balance 101 - get and keep students healthy - http://energybalance101.com/ Toyota Teen Driver - driver safety and simulation - http://toyotateendriver.discoveryeducation.com/ A Great Physical Education Site http://educ.ubc.ca/dept/cust/pe PHYS: IN FITNESS AND IN HEALTH http://www.phys.com/ FitnessLink: All The News That's Fit. http://www.fitnesslink.com/ NetSweat.com - The Internet's Fitness Resource http://www.netsweat.com/ Fitness Partner Connection Jumpsite! http://primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/ The Tufts University Nutrition Navigator has links to many other sites with ratings. http://navigator.tufts.edu/

Ad Decoder http://www.bam.gov/sub_yourlife/yourlife_addecoder.html

The Ad Decoder is produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The game appears on the B.A.M. (body and mind) section of their website. BAM is full of great resources for health and physical education teachers. The Ad Decoder provides students with two virtual magazines which they flip through to see examples and explanations of advertising tactics used to grab the attention of tweens and teens. After flipping through the magazines students can test their new knowledge. ~From Free Technology for Teachers Secrets of Sleep quiz http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/05/sleep/quiz/sleep#sleep

National Geographic has a quiz to help us answer that question. The Secrets of Sleep quiz asks ten questions related to your sleeping habits. The quiz uses your responses to tell you if you're getting enough sleep and, if necessary, what you can do to improve your sleeping habits. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers The Family Meal http://learning.snagfilms.com/film/the-family-meal The Family Meal is a twenty minute film about obesity in America, its causes, its effects, and the disappearance of the family meal in American homes. The film focuses on how developing the habit of eating "family meals" at home can reduce the rate of obesity in American children. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers Health Hut http://onlinemha.com/blog/ The Health Hut has a list of forty infographics health and wellness infographics worth exploring. Here are a couple of the infographics in the list grabbed my attention as being useful for health teachers and science teachers: Eating Out: From Bad to Worse gives a run down of worst items to order at popular chain restaurants including Chili's, Applebee's, McDonald's, and Wendy's. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

Science The Front Page - Blog of the American Meteorological Society http://blog.ametsoc.org/ In a year marked by multiple expensive extreme weather events, you might be interested to see what meteorologists are currently thinking about and researching. ~ from Mary Laine Free Science Seminars for Teachers (Elementary-College)

http://learningcenter.nsta.org/ The National Science Teachers Association offers free online seminars on a variety of science and education topics. You can participate in the live sessions (see schedule) or view previous sessions from their library of recordings that covers four years of sessions.

60 Second Science Lessons

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/ There are other series of podcasts created by Scientific American that might interest you as

well; 60 Second Science, 60 Second Mind, 60 Second Earth, and a longer set of podcasts called Science Talk.

BioDigital Human - 3D Platform for Understanding Anatomy and Physiology

http://www.biodigitalhuman.com/default.html BioDigital Human offers interactive 3D models of human anatomy. You can turn on and off different views according to which body systems you want to view. The models can be rotated 360 degrees and the labels have an audio play-back option. The video below offers an overview of BioDigital Human.

Seimans Science Day - science activities, lessons, resources - http://siemensscienceday.discoveryeducation.com/ Turfmutt - environmental lessons and resources - http://turfmutt.discoveryeducation.com/homepage.cfm Seimens STEM Academy - STEM Resources and lessons – http://goo.gl/9B9aJ Head Rush - science resources, video clips and show – http://goo.gl/C3joV Science of Everyday Life - http://www.scienceofeverydaylife.com/ The Biology Project http://www.biology.arizona.edu/ Problem sets and tutorials Biointeractive from HHMI http://biointeractive.org/ High school libs such as transgenic fly lab..

Physics Classroom http://www.physicsclassroom.com/ Tutorials related to physics.

Biology and biology education links. http://teachone.tripod.com/biology/index.html

General science and science education links http://teachone.tripod.com/general_science/index.html

The Catalyst: Chemistry Resources for the Secondary Education Teacher on the WWW http://www.thecatalyst.org/ Awesome Chemistry Teacher Resources http://www.nclark.net/ This site by Nancy Clark shares materials collected during her 37 years of teaching. Categories include Management Tips; Games, Puzzles, Songs, and Labs; Links; Science in the News; and National Standards

High School Chemistry – findingDulcinea http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Education/High-School-Chemistry.xa_1.html Chemistry Resources http://www.chem1.com/chemed/ BioDigital Human - 3D Platform for Understanding Anatomy and Physiology http://www.biodigitalhuman.com/default.html

BioDigital Human offers interactive 3D models of human anatomy. You can turn on and off different views according to which body systems you want to view. The models can be rotated 360 degrees and the labels have an audio play-back option. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

Social Studies U.S. History - Education Resources

http://nea.org/home/46309.htm Teachinghistory.org provides innovative ways to teach K-12 students about the past.

United States Holocaust Museum

http://nea.org/home/united‐states‐holocaust‐museum.html Online Holocaust workshop and teaching resources.

Geosense http://www.geosense.net/ Test your knowledge of world geography alone or against other online players. You're given a place and you have to locate it on the map.

History Animated http://historyanimated.com/newhistoryanimated/

History Animated provides animations of the American Revolution, the US Civil War, and the US Pacific Campaign in WWII. In each of the three series of animations you will see the animated movement of armies displayed on a map. Each animation is accompanied by captions describing the strategies of the armies as well as the results and consequences of each battle. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

Who Am I? A History Mystery

http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/resources/whoami/whoami.html

Who Am I? A History Mystery is a fun and challenging activity from the Smithsonian's The Price of Freedom online exhibit. Who Am I? presents players with six historical characters that they have to identify using the text and image clues provided. To solve the mystery players have to match the visual artifacts to each character. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

Churchill’s Island http://www.nfb.ca/film/Churchills_Island - Free – WWII propaganda film chronicling the defense of Great Britain. Won the very first Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. (1941) ~ From Open Culture The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDBU-43db-s – Free – 1950′s television documentary that includes interviews with Hitler’s sister Paula Wolf and footage from Eva Braun’s rare home movies. ~ From Open Culture

Trustworthy Sites for Social Studies

The Library of Congress is a great source to find historical documents, photos, art, maps, audio and video, artifacts and other items. The American Memory section organizes items based on topics, time periods and places of American history. The World Digital Library, a cooperative project with UNESCO, includes rare documents from around the world.

The National Archives and Records Administration has a massive collection of material on U.S. history that can sometimes be overwhelming to search through. The Resources for National History Day Research page guides students on where to find material in the archives. In the Teaching With Documents section, assorted events are explained through primary documents in the archive’s collections.

George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media has created a range of Web sites designed for the needs of students and teachers. It includes basic surveys of U.S. and world history, sites that teach students to use primary sources, and sites that provide lesson plans and ideas for teachers. It also features

several Web sites of archives and exhibits.

PBS has a wide range of resources for students from its various programs. The most useful is likely the companion Web sites for the American Experience documentary series examining important events and people in American history. Each site includes resources such as descriptions of the events, biographies of key figures, primary source documents, interactive maps and transcripts of the film. Also visit the American Masters series for biographies of historical figures.

Digital History is an online textbook that provides a chronological overview of American history. It also includes primary sources and detailed features on topics such as ethnic America, Abraham Lincoln, Reconstruction and controversial topics of today.

Yale Law School’s Avalon Project provides a database of documents such as laws, treaties, declarations, constitutions, speeches and statements from ancient history to the 21st century. Documents are organized by time period and by topic.

HistoryNet is home to more than 5,000 articles published in Weider History Group magazines, which include American History, Military History, Wild West and World War II. The Country Studies/Area Handbook Series is a compilation of books written between 1986 and 1998 that details the history of more than 110 countries, dating back to the earliest settlements. It was created by U.S. Department of the Army and printed by the Library of Congress.

EyeWitness to History features first-person accounts of prominent events in U.S. and world history, along with a simple explanation of the event’s importance.

University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law professor Douglas Linder has compiled research pages for more than 50 of the most famous trials in history, dating back to the trial of Socrates 399 B.C. ~ From Finding Dulcinea

Student

World Language Web Resources for High School Latin Teachers http://chss2.montclair.edu/classics/webresources/forlatteacher.html Best Spanish Websites http://www.uni.edu/becker/Spanish3.html