Citation Style for Research Papers - (Long Island University)
APA, Turabian, MLA, Chicago and AMA styles.

The Citation Machine - MLA and APA styles.
This is an excellent resource because it provides an online form that students can use to cite their sources.  They just choose the type of source, fill in the information and the Citation Machine creates the citation for them! Then they can copy and paste the citation into their research paper.

Biography.com
This database contains 25,000 short biographies of famous people.

Learning Network
Sponsored by the New York Times. This website has a daily lesson plan relating to a topic recently in the news.  There are also archives containing hundreds of lesson plans divided by grade level and subject.  Other features include a word of the day, daily news quiz, test prep question of the day, this day in history and much more!

Outside My Window
What if your classroom had no windows? If you were 9th grade International Relations teacher Mark Gross at Evergreen Valley High School, a public school in San Jose, CA, you would make your own.  Mark and his students asked people from all over the world to email pictures taken outside their windows and are using them to make a "virtual" window in the classroom. Within a few months they were receiving photos from all around the world.  You can send your picture, post to the forum, or build your own window.

PICS4Learning
Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers.  Note that images are not copyright free.  They must be cited, but all images contain the necessary bibliographic information.  You can contribute your own images as well. 

Study Guides and Strategies
The Study Guides and Strategies web site is authored, maintained, and revised on an on-going basis by Joe Landsberger, as an educational public service.  The goal of this site is to help students improve study skills.  However, the reading level can be quite high on some of the topics so it would probably be more helpful if you helped your students go through the study skills instead of letting them read through it alone.

The Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and is also the largest library in the world.  The LOC website contains many primary resources housed at the library and is a great source of information about America.  There are also links to many other useful websites.  It is an evolving site with new collections being added each year.

A&E Classroom
Provided by the A&E Network, this website provides a calendar of educational programming, teacher guides and program descriptions.

Discovery School's Puzzlemaker
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.

Edutopia
Edutopia features new methods of teaching and learning. There are students, teachers and administrators who tell the stories of their successes and how they got there, the mistakes they made, and the lessons they learned.   You’ll also find the tools to make similar changes, and get practical ideas and tips from educators to enrich your life outside the classroom.

Landmarks for Schools
Contains many links to educational resources for many different subject areas.

MarcoPolo
A nonprofit consortium of national and international education organizations and the MCI Foundation.  This site is dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development for teachers and students throughout the United States.

The History Channel Classroom
Check out the Speech Archives and This Day in History.

The Teacher's Hub
This website has many interactive resources for k-12 students and teachers.  Check out the Teacher Resources link for lots more links!

WebTeacher
This is a free, self-paced Internet tutorial offering basic and in-depth information on how to access and use the Internet in your classroom. Created by two teachers from Tennessee and the TECH CORPS webmaster, webTeacher is a teaching and learning tool that is useful for anyone, but specifically designed for teachers. Visit www.techcorps.org/webteacher.

Teaching Tolerance Website
Founded in 1991 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance supports the efforts of K-12 teachers and other educators to promote respect for differences and appreciation of diversity. We develop resources that speak to various academic subject areas and grade levels.

Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15th, the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries-Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico declared its independence on September 16, and Chile on September 18.

The term Hispanic, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, refers to Spanish-speaking people in the United States of any race. On the 2000 Census form, 37 million people of Spanish/Hispanic/Latino origin could identify themselves as Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or "other Spanish/Hispanic/Latino." Hispanics are the fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S.

You’ll find activities for students at http://www.factmonster.com/spot/hhm1.html

Education World offers cross-curricular lesson plans at
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson023.shtml
 
For students and teachers, here is Scholastic Magazine’s feature.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/hispanic/index.htm

Thanks to Tom Destino, Director of the Center for ESL Education at Mars Hill College!

The Cultures of the Olympic Peninsula
As digital technologies expand, there is growing concern that the cultures, languages, and lifestyles of the world's minority populations-especially indigenous peoples-are seriously threatened. Through its grant programs, the Institute of Museum and Library Services promotes awareness, appreciation, and preservation of the diverse cultures found in the states and territories of the United States.

One such program is the Community Museum Project of the University of Washington and its tribal, cultural, and educational partners in the Northwest Olympic Peninsula. Funded by an IMLS National Leadership Grant for Museum-Library collaboration, the project is bringing together community members to create an online museum and archives to increase cultural understanding, expand access to unique public and private cultural collections, and promote communication among the many diverse groups living in the area. http://content.lib.washington.edu/communitymuseum/

From Primary Source,  the Institute of Museum and Library Services newsletter.
http://www.imls.gov/closer/hlt_m0904.htm

Classics for Kids
This website is dedicated to educating students about classical music.  It includes a musical dictionary and lesson plans.  It also contains several links to other music websites.

Bartleby.com
This website provides copies of books online and free-of-charge.  Books can be searched by Reference, Fiction, Non-fiction and Verse.  Books are indexed by Author, Subject and Title. Links are provided to a/an encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, quotations and english usage.

The Harvard Classics and The Harvard Shelf of Fiction
This website contains links to Harvard Classics.

The Oxford Shakespeare
The 1914 Oxford edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare.  This page contains links to 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse.

Ancient Greek Civilizations
Provides information on ancient Greek civilizations.

Ancient History Links
More links on ancient civilizations.

Best of History Websites
An award-winning portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Here you'll find sites, rated for usefulness and accuracy, that will help you study or teach a wide variety of topics and periods in History.

Civil War Maps, 1861 -1865
Among the reconnaissance, sketch, and theater-of-war maps are the detailed battle maps made by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss for Generals Lee and Jackson, General Sherman’s Southern military campaigns, and maps taken from diaries, scrapbooks, and manuscripts—all available for the first time in one place.

Discover's Web
This web site holds a wealth of information about explorers and discovers of human history. Some of the catagories include: Prehistory, Egypt, Phoenicia, Irish Monks, The Vikings, Marco Polo, Voyages to America, etc.


EconEdLink
Developed by the National Council for Economic Education, EconEdLink provides teachers and students with lessons and classroom learning activities based on economics topics in the news and real-time economics data.  EconEdLink content is designed to help integrate economic concepts across the curriculum as outlined in the Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics.

Eternal Egypt
A project created by the Egyptian government and IBM.  Eternal Egypt, which brings to light over five thousand years of Egyptian civilization. Eternal Egypt is a living record of a land rich in art and history, people and places, myths and religions. The stories of Eternal Egypt are told using the latest interactive technologies, high-resolution imagery, animations, virtual environments, remote cameras, three-dimensional models and more.

Growth of a Nation
This animated Atlas features a free, ten-minute movie that depicts the geographic history of the United States from the beginning of the nation to fifty states. Geographic elements are interactive, as is the timeline.  A great overview for US History classes, you can watch the movie or click on the timeline to see what was happening at certain time periods.

Lewis and Clark Exhibit
In 1804, Lewis and Clark set out on an extraordinary journey of exploration. Theirs was not merely a physical trek to the Pacific and back, but a journey of the mind set in motion by a president impatient to learn as much as he could about the North American continent. Two hundred years later, their expedition inspires new journeys of the mind. The resources present a multi-disciplinary curriculum designed for grades four through twelve, and is divided into units that follow the major thematic sections of the exhibition.

Lincoln Institute Resources
Here are five websites on Abraham Lincoln and the people with whom he lived and worked. Wherever possible, the Lincoln Institute sites uses primary sources and provides "wide" quotes so that students can excerpt pieces of original material in preparing their own reports. You will find lesson plans and both internal and external links at each of these sites.

LOC Veterans History Project "Lessons of War" 
A new collection of 18 fully digitized collections of materials submitted by veterans and civilians available on the Library of Congress Website. These individual stories are comprised of interviews, letters, photographs and written memoirs and is titled "Experiencing War: Stories from the Veterans History Project." 

LOUIS: The Digital Library of Louisiana 
Established in 1992, LOUIS combines the resources of Louisiana's public and private academic libraries to bring you a remarkable collection of resources that includes the Louisiana Purchase, African-American History resources, photographs from the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, coastal ecology, Huey P. Long and lots more.  You will also find teaching resources contributed through the work of a Teaching American History grant.  All collections are searchable.

Nobel Peace Prize Conflice Map
In the course of the 20th century, mankind experienced some of the most devastating wars of all times. Where did these wars take place? Have some regions experienced more wars than others? Who were the main protagonists in these conflicts? The Nobel Peace Prize organization has an interactive map that shows conflict areas in the world from 1900 to 2001 that gives you the opportunity to answer these questions. It displays wars with at least 1,000 military battle deaths. Slide the bar on the timeline to see different decades.

Terra Server
This website, sponsored by Microsoft, lets you view satellite images of the United States.  You can zoom in to view up-close images. You may be surprised at what you can find here!

The Columbia Gazetteer of North America 
With 50,000 entries, this encyclopedia of geographical places covers every incorporated place and county in the United States, along with several thousand unincorporated places, special-purpose sites, and physical features, as well as Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.

The World Factbook 2001
The U.S. government’s complete geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps and flags of all nations and geographical entities. Each country profile tracks such demographics as population, ethnicity and literacy rates, as well as political, geographical and economic data.

Thomas Jefferson Papers 
This collection of Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress, when finished, will total more than 27,000 documents consisting of correspondence, memoranda, notes, commonplace books, financial account books, and manuscript volumes. This collection is the most important collection of Jefferson manuscripts in the world. The bulk of the correspondence and writings falls within the period 1775-1826 and encompasses the major events of the founding and growth of the United States in that era.

Voices from the Days of Slavery
Former slaves tell their stories. The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. It is important to note that all of the interviewees spoke sixty or more years after the end of their enslavement, and it is their full lives that are reflected in these recordings. The individuals documented in this presentation have much to say about living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s, and beyond.

World War I Rotogravures
The images in this collection track American sentiment about the war in Europe, week by week, before and after the United States became involved. Events of the war are detailed alongside society news and advertisements touting products of the day, creating a pictorial record of both the war effort and life at home. The collection includes an illustrated history of World War I selected from newspaper rotogravure sections that graphically documents the people, places, and events important to the war.

XPeditions
Developed by the National Geographic Society.  This site provides materials for K-12 teachers and students.  It has lesson plans, an interactive atlas with over 1,600 printable maps and much more!

Science Hill JROTC

Illuminations
Provided by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.  This site provides Internet-based lessons and teacher resources for grades K-12.

Travel Agent - Geometry Style
An Internet Treasure Hunt on Travel thru Geometry.

The Math Forum
Sponsored by Drexel University

The Math Forum is a center for mathematics and mathematics education on the Internet.  Serving teachers, students, researchers, parents, and regular people at all levels, their mission is to provide resources, materials, activities, person-to-person interactions, and educational products and services that enrich and support teaching and learning in an increasingly technological world in many ways.

They offer interactive projects, web-based discussion, accessible math resources and tools and a ‘Problem of the Week’ in math fundamentals, pre-algebra, algebra, geometry and more.

Click here for resources organized by subject.

ActionBioscience.org
This resource is provided by the American Institute of Biological Sciences.  The website offers articles and class lessons for educators.  It also explores the "Seven Bioscience Challenges".

Chasing Venus - Observing the Transits of Venus, 1631 - 2004
Periodically the planet Venus passes directly between Earth and the Sun, appearing as a small black dot on the Sun's disk. Since astronomers first became aware of them in 1631, these "transits of Venus" have fascinated astronomers because of their rarity and their potential to help scientists measure the solar system. The expeditions that set out to observe transits from remote locations paved the way for a new era of scientific exploration - yet never managed to unlock the transits' secrets.

"Chasing Venus" tells the story of astronomers' pursuit of this phenomenon, through rare books and articles written on the subject over the last four centuries. The exhibit also marks the sixth observed transit of Venus, in June 2004.

Chemistry.org
This website is sponsored by the American Chemical Society.  There are links for educators and students.  There are also interesting articles about chemistry as applied to everyday situations.

eNature Online Field Guides
Detailed species descriptions of over 4,800 plants and animals.

Michigan Technological University Volcanoes Page
Sponsored by the Keweenaw Volcano Observatory.  This site has some really good links to other sites such as the Smithsonian Institute's Weekly Vocanic Activity Report and a NASA-supported site detailing how volcanoes work.

NASA's Earth Observatory
Provides new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth's climate and environmental change. Any and all materials published on the Earth Observatory are freely available for re-publication or re-use, except where copyright is indicated. You are asked to give credit to NASA's Earth Observatory for its original materials.

National Earthquake Information Center
Shows a map of the world.  Students can click on regions of the map to view recent earthquakes.  They can click on individual earthquakes to view information specific to that quake.

Paleomap Project
Provides maps describing and illustrating plate tectonics.

Periodic Table of the Elements
Interactive periodic table, click on the elements to view more information.

SpacePix
This website contains spectacular pictures of planets, the International Space Station, MIR, etc.

Views of the Solar System
A vivid multimedia adventure unfolding the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more. Discover the latest scientific information, or study the history of space exploration, rocketry, early astronauts, space missions, spacecraft through a vast archive of photographs, scientific facts, text, graphics and videos. Views of the Solar System offers enhanced exploration and educational enjoyment of the solar system and beyond.

LearnNC Election Resources
LearnNC has updated and expanded their education coverage of the 2004 elections. to include information and links on state and local elections, lesson plans, activities, and Web resources for civics education.  New features will be added through September and October with polls to let students have their say on the issues.

The American Presidency
Based on articles in Grolier Encyclopedia, Scholastic Magazines, presidential speeches, multimedia clips and a number of photos, this site has lots of information about the current challenge as well as past presidents.

Election 2004
Help your students countdown to the next election with scholastic online with a little help from MSNBC.com.  Follow young reporters as they cover the election beat.

Campaign 2004
The New York Times covers the presidential race with news, analysis, and features - even an archive of photographs from the campaign trail.

Where do the candidates stand on education issues?
After a brief summary, David Byer, president of the nonpartisan National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training gives us his analysis on the candidates.

It’s Official!
Here are the official web sites of the presidential candidates.
Bush-Cheney http://www.georgewbush.com/
Kerry-Edwards http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html

Vocational (Back To Top)

Architecture & Interior Design for 20th Century America
Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955.  This collection is comprised of  over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures.

To view the photographs, click on Browse by Subject.  Choose the subject you wish to view.  Then click on Gallery to see thumbnails of the photographs.  Click on the pictures to view a larger version of the image.

Building Big
Explore large structures and what it takes to build them with BUILDING BIG™, a five-part PBS television series and Web site from WGBH Boston. Here are the main features of the site: Bridges, Domes, Skyscrapers, Dams, and Tunnels.

Built in America
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present

This collection documents achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies including examples as diverse as the Pueblo of Acoma, houses, windmills, one-room schools, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.


Intel:  The Journey Inside
The Journey Inside^SM is a series of online lessons for learning about technology, computers, and society. This interactive resource uses Web-delivered video, audio, and other activities to guide students to an increased understanding of the world of technology.

Intel:  Innovation in Education

Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 Edition
This website is provided by the US Department of Labor.  Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

Try Tools
Associated Builders and Contractors has launched its redesigned Try Tools web site.  This site highlights career opportunities in the construction industry and offers educational resources for elementary and high school students, as well as for parents and teachers. It includes a section for high school students detailing the opportunities and earning potential in the industry and construction-related activities and educational materials for teachers.

Grants.gov
This site allows you to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Navigate by using the colored tabs and/or links at the top of the screen to access primary sections of the site or the links to the left and below to access information on specific topics. To browse by category, click here:

Department of Education
Current grant opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education.

Samsung's Hope for Education
Submit a 100 word essay about how the latest technology can make a difference in your school. You could win $100,000 in technology for the school and an LCD computer monitor with built-in TV tuner for yourself.