Abraham Lincoln Research Site
This site offers a wide variety of resources on the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. The three main sections of this website are the Abraham Lincoln Research Site, Abraham Lincoln's Assassination, and the Mary Todd Lincoln Research Site. Students will enjoy the graphics (numerous photos, newspaper images, etc) and the simple presentation of content. The Assassination section was fascinating.
Levels 5 to 8
Anne Frank Online
The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the most studied texts in the world.
This site provides invaluable information on her life and times and a
great photo scrapbook.
Levels 5 to 8
Biography Clothesline
Taking a look at famous people in your classroom? Here are some
nice ideas for presenting your students' work.
Levels 1 to 4
The Day I Was Born
This site describes a project in which students use the Internet
to collect data about what was happening in the world on the day they were
born, record their data, and write a summary of their information. Great
beginning of the year project when teachers are looking for new ideas.
Levels 1 to 4
My Hero
The goal at My Hero is to discover real-life heroes from around the world
using the World Wide Web. This is an ongoing project where students around the
world submit their heroes from such diverse fields as the arts and
entertainment, sports and science, lifesavers and peacemakers, actors and
business leaders.
Levels 1 to 8
Nobel e - Museum
The Nobel e-museum is a great place to start for information on all of the Nobel Prize winners. Each winner has a brief biography and the context for winning the Prize. Educational games and material are included.
Levels 4 to 8
Rulers
This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and de
facto leaders not occupying either of those formal positions) of all
countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases.
Levels 1 to 8
Shackleton's Antarctic Odyssey
Check in on our team of adventurers as they retrace Antarctic explorer
Ernest Shackleton's historic 1914 journey to South Georgia Island.
Follow along as the team ventures into the pack ice where
Shackleton's boat got stuck, and then to the remote, uninhabited
Elephant Island, where Shackleton's team was stranded.
Levels 5 to 8
Twentieth Century Vox
An oral history site that provides clear guidelines on conducting oral history interviews. A comprehensive archive of audio files covering topics such as immigration, lifestyles, law and order, and sport is also online.
Levels 1 to 8
Voices of the Holocaust
The Gateway section of the site provides access to transcripts of interviews with Holocaust survivors.
Levels 5 to 8
WhoWhatWhen
WhoWhatWhen is a database of people and events from 1000 A.D. to the
present. Create graphic timelines of periods in history and of the lives
of individuals.
Levels 1 to 8
Women's History Hotlist
This site has biographies of women past and present who contributed to our
culture in different ways. There are writers, educators, scientists, heads
of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and
others.
Levels 1 to 8
This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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