Research Tips
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General Resources:
Animals
or Ancient
Civilizations or Art
or Authors
Animals
- Animals
A-Z, by the Oakland Zoo. Gives Order, Family, Genus, & Species.
- Animal
Printouts, pictures and facts
- Aquarium, at Monterey Bay
, click creatures
- Cyber Zoo ! - animals
- Galapagos
Islands' animals
- Ocean
Animals
- National Geographic search their web site, features &
updates
- National Geographic search for print articles, in FMS copies of
NG World, Traveler, and NG magazine.
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Ancient Civilizations
General-Ancient
Civilizations: or Egypt,
Ancient: or Greece,
Ancient: or India,
Ancient: or Rome,
Ancient:
General - Ancient Civilizations:
- Ancient/Classical History, Search Engine
- Fertile Crescent, Indus, China
- Ancienct Maps: index and time charts
- Fertile Crescent, Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport
- History of
Mesopotamian Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Egypt, Ancient:
- Ancient Egypt, for mummies, pyramids, hieroglyphs, tombs, and
temples
- Ancient
Egypt , explore what life was like in Ancient Egypt, from the British
Museum
- Life in Ancient Egypt, from the Carnegie Museum of Natural
History
- Ancient
Egyptian Virtual Temple ,
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- Ancient
Egypt, British Museum
- Ancient Egypt, for elementary and middle students
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Greece, Ancient:
- Yahoo: Ancient Greece click search "just this category"
- Ancient
Greece.Com; for Art, history, olympics, wars, geography, mythology &
people
- History Link 101's Ancient Greece page; connects you to the
best of Art, Biographies, Daily Life, Maps, Pictures, and Research on Ancient
Greece.
- Who is Who in Mythology
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India, Ancient:
- Ancient
India. com
- Ancient Indus
Valley", searchable
- Hinduism for Schools
Rome, Ancient:
- Ancient History Roman Empire, Yahoo! ArtsHumanitiesHistoryBy
Time Period
- Online
Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors, Salve Regina University
- Rulers
of Ancient Rome
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Art
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Authors
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Best
Books or Biography
or Biology
Best Books
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Biography
- Biography.Com
- Biography Maker, how to write a great biography
- Famous
Hispanics, in the World and History
- Hispanic
Heritage Month
- Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, Scholastic
- Gale
Group's, Celebrating Hispanic Heritage
- Presidents of the
United States, from Internet Public Library
- Presidents of the United States, from the White House.Gov
Mathematicians Biography
- Biographies:
1,485 people
- Computer Museum History Center: People and Popular Culture
- Indexes of Biographies: MacTutor History of Mathematics
archive
- Mathematicians of the African Diaspora
- Profiles of Women in Mathematics :Presented by the Association
for Women in Mathematics
- Women in Math: Univ. of Oregon
- Women
Mathematicians: Biographies of
- Biographies of Women Mathematicians, women mathematicians and
their accomplishments, a project of students in mathematics classes at Agnes
Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia
Biology
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Careers
or Cells
or Census
or Chemistry
or Copyright
or Countries
or Current
Events
Careers
Careers, Advanced help
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Cells
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Census, then and now
- Historical
Census Data of the United States by the University of Virginia. Pick a
year from 1790 through 1970
- State
and County Demographic and Economic Profiles, by U. S. Census Bureau.
Click a state on the map for data.
- Fedstats: One Stop
Shopping for Federal Statistics. Current information provided.
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Chemistry:
Web Elements
Chemicool.Com, find cost
of elements
Hazardous Materials Information:
Material
Safety Data Sheet Searches , use search box
NJ Dept of Health's Environmental and Occupational Health. Use
Control and F key to Find your element on this page.
Hazardous
Chemical Database , Univ. of Akron
Master Chemical Integrator , EPA
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Copyright Facts:
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Countries of the World:
Current Events:
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Dickens
or Dictionaries
Dickens, Charles
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Dictionaries:
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Early
Man or Elections
or Environment
or Encyclopedias
Early Mankind:
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Elections:
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Environment:
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Encyclopedias on the Internet:
Foods
- FACS or Fun
Foods - FACS
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Fun:
Pieces 'n' Creases
Puzzlemaker, at
Discovery's School for word searches and crossword puzzles
India Scavenger Hunt
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Galapagos
or Gardening
or Geology
Galapagos Island
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Gardening
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Geology
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History
or Holidays
or Holocaust
or Hurricanes
or HTML
History:
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Holidays:
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Holocaust:
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Hurricanes:
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HTML lessons: how to make your own web page
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Immigration
or Industrial
Revolution or Inventions
Immigration:
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Inventions:
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Japan
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Maps
or Math
or Medical
or Middle
Ages or Minerals
or MLA
Maps
- Google Maps , for Street, Traffic, Satellite & Terrain maps
- Yahoo Maps , for US
neighborhoods and driving
- MapQuest , for
driving around the US
- U.S. Geological Survey , search by state name, or click map
- Terraserver , see
satelite images of the earth. Click "Advanced Find" then "Address" to find
your home
- National Atlas.Gov,
make a map, or see earth's physical or geological feataures, includes games
- 50 States.Com
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Math - Stock Market
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Medical - for middle school reports only
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Middle Ages
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Minerals
MLA = Citing your sources
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Names
or Nashua
or New
Hampshire or Newspapers
or
Name Origins & Meanings & Birthdays
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Nashua
New Hampshire
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Newspapers:
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Oceans
or Origami
or
Oceans
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Origami:
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Poe,
Edgar Allan or Poetry
or PowerPoint
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
- Edgar
Allan Poe , provides a brief biography and links
- Edgar Allan Poe Society of
Baltimore
- Edgar Allan
Poe: biography, works, links, and more
- Edgar Allan Poe:
National Historic Site
- Brief
Criticisms, Bits & Pieces II, from Baltimore
- Gale Free Resources, Poet's Corner, Biographies
- Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism, Edgar Allan
Poe
- Poe
Museum, is only blocks away from Poe's first Richmond home
- A Poe Webliography: Edgar Allan Poe on the Internet
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Poetry
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PowerPoint
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Quotations
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Reading
or Rivers
or Rockets
Reading
Rivers
- American Rivers,
aims to protect and restore North America's river systems and foster a river
stewardship ethic.
- EPA.Gov/Rivers, information regarding program to select
stretches of America's rivers to be American Heritage Rivers.
- International Rivers
Network, supports local communities working to protect their rivers and
watersheds.
- National
Rivers.Org, Includes conservation issues, magazine info, and more
- National Wild and
Scenic Rivers System: National Park Service. Gov, includes a list of
national wild and scenic rivers by state as well as general information on
rivers.
- River.Net,
provides European river-basin-related worldwide information on ecological
projects, problems and organisations on rivers
- River Systems
of the World, Here are statistics on river systems of the world.
Individual rivers are listed only as tributaries.
- Water
Science for Schools; by US Geological Service.Gov
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Rockets
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Science
Articles or Shakespeare
or Sports
Science or Space
and Planets
Sports Science
Science Articles
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Shakespeare, William: Life, times & history
Space: Planets & more!
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Textiles
or Twain
or Tsunami
Textiles
- American Textile
History Museum - Textiles
- Chinese
Minority Textiles: Miao from Guizhou Province
- Chinese Textiles Collection; with history
- Chinese: Heaven’s Embroidered Cloths; One thousand years of
Chinese Textiles on AsianArt.com
- Indian
Embroideries and Brocades
- Indian
Textiles - This Gallery of Indian Textiles offers classic and traditional
garments from India, showcasing Indian Saris, Salwar Kameez, Pashmina Shawls
and Jamawar Shawls
- Indonesian
Textiles, Ikats, Embroideries, Brocades & Batiks
- Latin
Arts, Peruvian Textiles
- Lowell National Historical Park; making textiles
- Macedonian Folk Embroidery
- Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
- National Gallery of Art: Tour: Textiles from the Index of
American Design
- National Gallery of Australia , holds one of the richest public
collections of Indonesian textiles in the world
- Textile Museum of
Canada
- Textile Museum, Washington, D.C
- Middle School Art lessons, from Princeton Online.Com
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Twain, Mark / Samuel Clemens
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Tsunami
- Savage
Earth: Waves of Destruction , PBS with animation and video
- USC Tsunami
Research Group , features maps and animations, information about current
research, from University of Southern California
- Tsunami Research
, with animations from the USGS
- Tsunami: The Big Wave from NASA's Observatorium is for students
and includes historical and scientific information about tsunamis, a tsunami
quiz and links to additional resources.
- West Coast/Alaska
Tsunami Warning Center , by NOAA You will find lots of information about
tsunamis here including tsunami travel time charts, safety rules, pictures,
and a coloring book for kids.
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Travel
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United States
Biographies
or American
Revolution or Constitution
& Supreme Court or Memorials,
D.C. or Lewis
& Clark: 1803-1807: or Trail
of Tears: or Oregon
Trail: or Westward
Expansion & Alamo: or Transportation:
or Women
Sufrage: or Civil
War: or Industrial
Revolution: or Twentieth
Century: or Social
Studies Fun
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Memorials, D.C.
National Park
Service, Washington, D.C. List of Sites
National Park
Service , see History in the Parks
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History - Lewis & Clark: 1803-1807
- Lewis-Clark.Org, Map of the trail
- Lewis & Clark, at PBS, Circa 1803
- Lewis &
Clark, at PBS
- Lewis & Clark,
National Historic Trail
- Lewis & Clark, at Great Outdoor Recreation Pages:
- Lewis
& Clark, Trail Heritage Foundation, Incorporated
- Lewis &
Clark, In North Dakota
- Discovering Lewis
& Clark, with interactive map
- Lewis &
Clark, in Idaho,Echoes of a Bitter Crossing
- Lewis & Clark, at National Geographic - Base Camp
- Lewis & Clark,
Historic Trail
- Lewis, William, a biography from PBS
- Meriwether Lewis , a biography from PBS
- Monticello: Home of Thomas Jefferson
- Lewis
& Clark Game: interactive game
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History - Trail of Tears
- Cherokee Nation, History Page
- Samuel's Memory
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History - Oregon Trail
- Utah History Encyclopedia, , consisting of 575 articles and
over 200 historic photographs
- Build A Prairie, interactive game, build your own prairie
- Oregon
Trail, Historic Sites by the creators of The Oregon Trail, video on
PBS
- Oregon-California Trails
Association, Independence, Missouri
- Oregon Trail Map, National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive
Center
- In Search of
The Oregon Trail, at PBS
- National
Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, for teachers and students
- Prairie Schooners , with diagram and facts
- Trail Map, with clickable links to historic places, primary
sources and maps
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Westward Expansion & Alamo
- Defenders of
the Alamo , list of names with place of origin
- Search for Defenders of the Alamo Handbook of Texas Online
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Transportation
- Inland Navigation: railroads, canals ,rivers by Univ. of
Virginia
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Woman's Suffrage
- Woman's Suffrage , Library of Congress.Gov
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Slavery
- Flight to Freedom , a WebQuest
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History - Civil War
- African-American Mosaic, A Library of Congress Resource Guide
for the Study of Black History & Culture
- American Civil War : by Dakota State University Index
- American Civil
War Homepage, information and photographs about the Civil War
- Battles & Campaigns, American Civil War Homepage
- Biography.Com,
people of the Civil War
- Battles of the Civil War
- Civil War at a Glance : with timeline and color maps of
battles
- Civil War in Children's Literature
- Illustrated timeline of the events in the Civil War
- Library of Congress, archives over 1000 photographs of the war
- Lincolns'
Time: from PBS, includes their history, maps and tours
- National
Park Service: Civil War Related Sites
- United States Civil
War: battles, time line, leaders, music, food and more
- Photos of the Civil War, from the Library of Congress
- Women Soldiers of the Civil War, from National Archives
- Women - Hearts at Homes, war work from Virginia.Edu
- Yahooligans - Civil War, links
WebQuests:
- Causes of the American Civil WarTeacher Guide
- Women During the Civil War
- Civil War Gazette, write as team of newspaper reporters living
in the civil war era.
- Ken Kantor's Links to History Webquests , for US & World
history
- Civil War Personal Journal, choose a role
- Create an Abolitionist Poster , Learn more about the
abolitionists and their fight to end slavery.
- Civil War Quest, by Stony Creek School
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Industrial Revolution
- Samuel Slater
, made first textile mill in 1793, Rhode Island
- Engines of Change: American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860 at
the Smithsonian Institution
- Lowel National Historical
Park
- Work, Lyddie! Work!, includes resources on the life of a mill
girl
- Patent for Cotton Gin , 1794
- Engineering and Industry -from the Smithsonian Institution
- History of Technology, Invention & Inventors , links
- Erie Canal , from
http://www.eriecanal.org/index.html
- McCormick Reaper's cost & bushel of grain
- McCormick's Revolutionary Reaper, Making Illinois the Hub of
Agriculture
- A History of American Agriculture 1776-1990
- Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair
1866
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History - Twentieth Century
- World
War I, 1914-1918
- World
War II, 1939-1945
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Social Studies Fun
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Virus Hoaxes
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Volcanoes
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Weather
or World
War I or World
War II
White House
Weather - Storms
National Hurricane
Center www.nhc.noaa.gov/
National Severe Storms
Laboratory , www.nssl.noaa.gov
NSSL's Weather Room
, for What, Where, Whys, and Hows on weather
Storm
Encyclopedia , also En Español & Em Português
Tropical Storms, Worldwide , from University of Hawai`i
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World War I, 1914-1918
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook, World War I
- EyeWitness
History, through the eyes of those who lived it
- PBS' The Great
War, and the shaping of the 20th century
- PBS
Lusitania, Lost Liners
- Sinking of the Lusitania 1915, at North Park Univ.
- Weapons,
Armory
- World War I , African American Odyssey
- World War I,
Document Archive
- World War I,
Trenches on the Web by the History Channel
- Yahoo: World War I, click "search just this category"
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World War II, 1939-1945
- Yahoo World War II , search "just this category" Be Selective
for edu & gov sites!
- Codes and
Ciphers , in the Second World War
- Daring to
Resist , PBS
- Holocaust Memorial
Museum , of the United States
- Museum of
Tolerance , Simon Wiesenthal Center
- Politcal Cartoons by Dr. Seuss, Univ. of California
- Schindler's List, PBS
- Stories of
Holocaust Rescue , Humboldt State Univ.
- Yad Vashem The
Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' , Remembrance Authority
- Chemicool.Com, find cost
of elements
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Zillions Magazine
Revised Feb 4, 2008
©Created by Jean Newcomb, Media Specialist, Fairgrounds Middle School,
Nashua,
NH