CURRENT PROJECTS:

Endangered Species:

• Endangered! Exploring a World at Risk - use the links on the left to find your animal
• Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Info
• World Conservation Monitoring Center - Search for your species for info\
• EE-Link - University of Michigan site for students 

Earthquakes

• List of Significant Earthquakes - Find information on your two earthquakes HERE (don't forget to use the tabs at the top of the article)
• USGS Site on Earthquakes in Northern California - Includes information on recent quakes, preparedness and probibility. 
• Understanding Earthquakes - From UC Santa Barbara
• Earthquakes - From SF Gate (San Francisco Chronicle). Lots of photos, charts and GREAT preparedness information
• California Earthquake Authority - Mostly insurance info, but a good section on preparedness, too. 
• Earthquakes for Kids - Also from the USGS. Great site includes links to other good sites. 
• ABAG Website on Earthquakes - Great stuff on preparedness
• Google News Archives - Use this for eyewitness reports
• SF Gate - Also try this for eyewitness accounts - this archive is free

Chemistry

• Los Alamos National Lab Elements Info - Great elements information from a government lab for students. 
• Chemicool Periodic Table
• Environmental Chemistry Periodic Table
• Periodic Table
• Pictorial Periodic Table
• Web Elements Periodic Table

Ancient Egypt 

• PBS  - Egypt's Golden Empire - Great site from a good source
• British Museum Site - Highly recommended for everything from hieroglyphics to farmers
• BBC Ancient Egypt Site - More great trustworthy information on everything about Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Egypt  - Good site from a Belgian Egyptologist
• Life in Ancient Egypt - From the Carnegie Museums
• Ancient Egyptian Culture Exhibit - Info on daily life, writing, etc. 

Niche Ads

• Animal Diversity Web

Cave Paintings (Sixth Grade):

• The Cave of Lascaux
• The Cave of Chauvet
• Caves in Sicily
• Cave Paintings  in Europe- Russian Site
• ARTKids Prehistoric Art
• Cave Paintings
• Ice Age Art

1930s: 

• America in the 30s - Great timeline, information, etc.  - Great links to film, radio, slang, comics, sports, etc. 
• Surviving the Dust Bowl - From PBS
• Teenage Hoboes in the Great Depression, Riding the Rails
• Library of Congress photos of the Great Depression
• Crash of '29 - A look back from the New York Times
• Dorthea Lange

Also, remember to try SIRS Web Find for more Great Depression sites

Columbian Exchange:

Remember to try SIRS, too!

• Palomar College project - Specific origins of some of your terms
• Cal State LA Report - More general information, but useful
• Metalworking - History with some good info
• Iron Tools - Millersville Educational site
• Columbian Exchange links - a little old, but some useful information 
• Columbian Exchange Powerpoint - Good stuff, though basic about diseases
• Columbian Exchange Effects - College project/list of consequences of exchange

Ancient Greece

• British Museum - Take a test to become a Spartan, learn about Athens, daily life and war, play games to learn about Ancient Greece and compare the lives of Athenian and Spartan men and women. This is a great site!
• Discovery Channel - Great stuff, more games and information
• Ancient Greece: BBC - Tons of different links to topics including the Olympics, democracy in Athens, etc. 
• BBC Kids - Ancient Athens, Corinth (pottery) and Olympia (Olympics) info in a fun, cartoon format

Bill of Rights Hot Links

• Founder's Constitution - From University of Chicago. Great primary sources on each amendment.
• National Archives - Bill of Right info
• First Amendment Handbook - Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press
• California First Amendment Coalition
• Freedom Forum
• Sources on Second Amendement - from and UCLA Law Professor
• Second Amendment Research Center
• Brief History of the Third Amendment
• Understanding Search and Seizure
• ACLU Search and Seizure Press Releases
• Fifth Amendment Rights, Cases, etc. 
• Sixth Amendment  - From FindLaw
• Seventh Amendment - From FindLaw
• Death Penalty - Arguments for and against
• Ninth Amendment Annotations from FindLaw
• Tenth Amendment  - FindLaw

Gods and Myths of Ancient Greece:

• Myth Web - for Ms. Pompanin and Ms. Roen's classes. Come up with a 10-question quiz and answer sheet based on the information you find on the web site. Questions can be true/false, fill in the blank, multiple choice, etc. 
• Myth Web Home - Are the Greek myths relevant today? Find out by clicking on the link and then on "Today." Use the information to complete your worksheet. 

Endangered Species:

• Endangered! Exploring a World at Risk - use the links on the left to find your animal
• Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Info
• World Conservation Monitoring Center - Search for your species for info\
• EE-Link - University of Michigan site for students 

Civil Rights:

• Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Fantastic, interactive site with a lot of good information
• Witness to the Holocaust
• Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
• Japanese Internment Camps - Suffering Under Great Injustice, Ansel Adams photographs
• Civil Rights - Japanese Internment Camps
• Jim Crow Laws - History
• Jim Crow Online Encyclopedia
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Speeches, Papers
• Freedom Rides
• Sit-Ins
• Bus Boycott - From the Civil Rights Museum - a great site for many subjects on Civil Rights
• Music of the Civil Rights Movement
• Civil Rights Legislation - Learn about the laws for Civil Rights

Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia Web Quests:

Ancient Egypt - British Museum Site

Ancient Mesopotamia - British Museum Site

Quotes - From several dictionaries of quotations - just search for the author (such as Rosa Parks) or subject (such as Civil Rights) and see what you find

Poetry Links: 

• Find a Poet - From the Academy of American Poets, includes biographies, some photos, links and poetry from all but a few poets on the list (those not here include Bontemps, Lindsay, Crane, Freneau, de la Mare).
• Biography.com - The Biography channel and magazine's site with about 60 poets to celebrate national poetry month.
• Thompson - Thompson-Gale biographies of poets.
• PoemHunter - Lots of poems from regular folks and famous poets

Triangle Trade:

• Transatlantic Slave Trade - General Info
• Slave Trade About.com  - Useful info and statistics 
• Triangular Trade - National Trust Site - lots of really good information and links about goods, slaves, passage, ports, etc. 
• African Cultural Center - General, but a great map of the trade routes
• Bristol and the Slave Trade - Great links and info about all aspects of trade, life during that time, etc. 
• Liverpool and the Slave Trade - More great links and info on all aspects
• History of Sugar - From the University of Calgary
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Volcano Links:

• Global Volcanism Program - Great information, eruption history, maps, etc. from the Smithsonian Institution
• Canadian Volcano Site - Good details about volcanoes in Canada
• Current Volcano Activity - From the Smithsonian and USGS
• Links by country and/or volcano
• Great volcano listings and information from the University of North Dakota
• Volcanoes of the World - Mostly Stromboli and Mt. Etna, but other links as well
• Volcano Live - from an Australian volcanologist
• Volcano World - also from the University of North Dakota students
• USGS Volcano Listings - by alphabet

Famous Quotations

• Quoteland - search by topic for a quote
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations - search by subject
• Creative Quotations - search by subject, not as comprehensive as the first two

Bibliography:

• World Almanac 1
• World Almanac 2
• World Book 1
• World Book 2
• World Geography 1
• World Geography 2