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==Resources for high-interest, commonly assigned Core Knowledge areas of study and research. Pathfinder resources will help you navigate the information environment more efficiently and locate topic-specific resources that are credible, relevant, and accurate. ==

**[|Westward Trail]**
==== A free game from the Global Game Network (similar to the game Oregon Trail). The object of the game is to travel across the Oregon Trail to the Willamette Valley. ====

**[|Multicultural West]**
====The Multicultural American West is a resource site for the interactive exchange of ideas, information, and educational tools related to the US West in multicultural and intercultural perspective. We hope to serve high school and college students, teachers, professors and independent scholars with an interest in the multicultural West. ====



====**[|American Civil War] ** ====

From the American Civil War dot com "About" page:
====American Civil War dot com began as a Fifth Grade American History school project in 1996. Information has grown with help from many who have submitted original works and many who have supplied information from Historical Archives. This is why there is an abundance of grade targeted reading material on the site. __Includes flags, maps and timelines, casualties of the civil war, battles and statistics, women in the war, life stories and people search. __ ====  A thousand sites in one! MrNussbaum.com was developed with the idea that crucial concepts, themes, ideas, and fact sets taught in the classroom can be enhanced over the internet through interactivity. Furthermore, for teachers to have a reliable k -8 internet site to use in the computer lab or in the classroom, that likely covers one or many themes currently being taught.

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====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|The American Civil War Photo Gallery] ** ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">All of the images on this website have been released to the public domain since they are government works. Includes flags, maps and time line, casualties of the civil war, battles and statistics, women in the war, life stories and people search. ====

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **[|Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)]**
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States inclcudes telegrams, messages, letters, digital copies of original documents (Emancipation Proclamation, Brady photographs, and songs from the era ("Hang Jeff Davis from the Sour Apple Tree ").====





**<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">[|Middle Ages] **
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sponsored by the [|Annenberg Foundation] this website walks visitors through different aspects of Feudal life including religion, town life, health, home, arts, and clothing. Don't miss the link [|Related Resources]to connect to even more scholarly Middle Ages resources. ====

**[|Bayeux Tapestry]** (animated--YouTube Video)
====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Personalities and Events & Medieval Topics] ** ====

**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|The WWW Virtual Library History Index--Medieval Europe] **
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">This list of on-line references is maintained by [|The Michigan State University Graduate Student Medieval and Renaissance Consortium], under the sponsorship of ORB, for The World Wide Web Virtual Library History Section. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is an incredibly rich website. Categories include architecture, culture, art, law, religion, philosophy, etc. ====

===<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The **Internet Medieval Sourcebook** is located and maintained by the [|Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies]. ===





====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Use the links below, or to the left to open a chapter of our **free online world history textbook**. Brought to you by the KidsKnowIt Network, the Totally Free Children's Learning Network. ====

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====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The KidsKnowIt Network is **your student’s free portal into the many exciting facets that make up our Universe**. From the human heart, to the moons of Jupiter you will find it all on the KidsKnowIt Network. Free Educational Websites. ====

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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ancient Greece for Kids
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">How would you have behaved if you had lived in ancient Sparta? (Lie, cheat, steal, because that is the Sparta way!) Or in ancient Athens? Or in Corinth, Argos or Megara? The ancient Greeks were very proud of their city-state! They were also proud of being Greek. The ancient Greeks were thinkers. They loved to talk. They honored their gods and respected honor. They loved beauty, music, literature, drama, philosophy, politics and art. Come meet the Greeks! We think you'll be impressed!



====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The National Archives and Records Administration and Footnote.com have created the Internet’s largest Interactive Holocaust Collection. For the first time ever, over one million Holocaust-related records – including millions of names and 26,000 photos from the National Archives ====



====**<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">[|CIA World Factbook (Statistics on World Religions)] **==== ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span class="category_data">The core characteristics and beliefs of the world's major religions are described as well as stats on each countries religious distribution (by percentage) ====



====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Atheism, Christianity, Shinto, Mormon, Rastafari, Buddhism, Santeria, etc. Nearly all the major world religions are here. Link to in depth pages on each religion. Excellent resource to investigate major beliefs and the history behind these concepts. ====

[|Internet Islamic History Source Book]** ==== The **Internet History Sourcebooks Project** [IHSP] is a world wide web project designed to provide easy access to primary sources and other teaching materials in a non-commercial environment. It was developed and is edited by Paul Halsall. The IHSP is located at the History Department of Fordham University, New York. ====
 * [|Internet Jewish History Source Book]



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====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Explore the heart. Discover the complexities of its [|development] and [|structure]. Follow the [|blood] through the blood [|vessels]. Wander through the weblike [|body systems]. Learn how to have a [|healthy heart] and how to [|monitor] your heart's health. Look back at the [|history] of heart science. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Franklin Institute Resources for Science Learning website, [|www.fi.edu/learn], is an effort of the Educational Technology Programs team. The team is part of The Franklin Institute's [|Center for Innovation in Science Learning (CISL)]. ====

Begin by choosing your system....Endocrine, Skeletal, Lymphatic, Cardiovascular, etc. Mouse over the system you want to explore and go to an interactive view of the body system you want to explore. Mouse over specific views and parts to get definitions. Very interactive and well designed. Systems include human reproductive views as well. This site should be used by 5th grade and up. InnerBody is maintained by IntelliMed Corporation.



====**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grades 4 and up ** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Visually Learn About the Human Body Using Our Interactive "//Flash//" Animations ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">According to the site creator, "Get Body Smart is an interactive eBook about human anatomy and physiology. The contents and design of this long-term project are based on my 21 years of teaching this material at the university level." Topic areas include overview of human body systems, skeletal, muscle tissue physiology, muscular system, nervous system, circulatory/cardiovascular, respiratory, histology, and urinary systems. Don't miss the interactive quizzes. ====

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|"Please help me, I have lost all my organs"]**, a fun interactive game that requires students to load body systems/organs in to the "Arnold" character (//who happens to sound like a certain actor turned California governor//). Very amusing and lots of fun!

====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you're looking for information you can trust about kids and teens that's free of "doctor speak," you've come to the right place. KidsHealth is the most-visited site on the Web for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">On a typical weekday, more than 500,000 people visit KidsHealth. One of the things that makes KidsHealth special is that it's really three sites in one: with sections for [|parents], for [|kids], and for [|teens]. Activities, handouts, movies,and diagrams. ====



====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">CELLS //alive!// represents 30 years of capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research. The site has been available continuously and updated annually since May of 1994 and now hosts over 4 million visitors a year. Includes interactives on Cell Models, Mitosis, and Meiosis. ====



<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The //Atlas// database covers all the works exhibited in the museum - some 30,000 items.
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Internet users, like museum visitors, will find the usual explanatory texts that accompany museum exhibits, compiled under the authority of the museum curators. New images are currently being added to the database, which is constantly updated. ====

====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Smarthistory.org is a free multimedia web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook. Search collection by time, style, theme, or artist. This is a work in progress but very much worth watching grow. ====

====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">An amazing collection of art and design categorized by topics and special collections and projects including the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, Archives of American Art, Art and Design Galaxy, etc. ====

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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Atlapedia Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world. ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The [|Resources]section contains additional school or homework resources for Teachers & Students. ====

**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Library of Congress Maps Collection/American Memory] **
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress holds more than 4.5 million items, of which //Map Collections// represents only a small fraction, those that have been converted to digital form. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The focus of //Map Collections// is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not covered by copyright protection. ====

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ARKive is a unique collection of thousands of wildlife videos, images and fact-files, with a special focus on the world's threatened species. You can **explore** and **search** ARKive's continually expanding multi-media collection via the navigation bar at the top of every page. A truly remarkable website filled with some of the most remarkable mulit-media images of endangered animals by some of the world's most famous wildlife photographers and movie makers.

====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here at **Animal Fact Guide** you can learn all sorts of [|interesting facts] about the [|animals] roaming our planet on our [|**Animal Facts**] page. You can also download [|free coloring pages, word searches, mazes, and desktop wallpapers] on our [|**Fun Stuff**] page or check out [|cool animal videos, photos, and news] on our [|**Wildlife Blog**]. Click the links below to get started! ====

====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**[|Animal Diversity Web (ADW)]** is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the <span class="wiki_link_ext">University of Michigan Thousands of <span class="taxon_reference">species accounts about individual animal species. These may include text, pictures of living animals, photographs and movies of specimens, and/or recordings of sounds. Students write the text of these accounts and we cannot guarantee their accuracy. ==== ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially <span class="wiki_link_ext">phyla, <span class="wiki_link_ext">classes , and in some cases, <span class="wiki_link_ext">orders and <span class="wiki_link_ext">families. Hundreds of hyperlinked pages and images illustrate the traits and general biology of these groups. Professional biologists prepare this part. ====



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====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Explore and take your interest in mammals further. Watch [|video clips], discover fascinating facts, and play the [|interactive challenges] to find out why mammals are so spectacularly successful. Extremely rich site. ====

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **[|Welcome to the SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Bytes!]**
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Each byte is a one-page fact sheet specifically designed to help you quickly find information about some of the interesting creatures found in the animal kingdom. Most species files include coverage regarding scientific classification, basic physical traits, fun facts, and conservation/ecological value. Where available, links to more in-depth species coverage via our online infobooks are provided. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Species lists are viewable [|Alphabetically]by animal name or by [|Taxonomic] name. ====

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Find out more about your favourite animals, where and how they live, the latest news about them and who's filming them right now. Marvel at the stealth of a snow leopard, the tenderness of a mother tiger and the awesome spectacle of a golden eagle in flight. Listen to the thrilling sound of lions roaring across the savannah and to birds that mimic machinery.

**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|The Animal Kingdom] **
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kidport is an Internet-based educational service designed to help K-8 students excel in school. It provides a unique, multi-step program to create empowered learners, not simply good students. ====

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">No website attribution could be located but the quiz is credible and could be easily customized for Core Knowledge classes.




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====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Please enter the award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion. Here you will find everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya, with plenty in between. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The mythology section is divided to six geographical regions: [|Africa], [|Americas], [|Asia], [|Europe], [|Middle East], and [|Oceania]. Each region has many clearly defined subdivisions that will ease your search. The Folklore section contains [|general folklore], [|Arthurian legends], and fascinating [|folktales] from many lands. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> In addition, we feature special interest areas to enhance and refine your research. A [|Bestiary], [|legendary heroes], an [|image gallery], and [|genealogical tables] of various pantheons and prominent houses. ====

====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Welcome to Myth Mania, home of the Myth Man, where you'll have a blast as you learn about mythology! Students, I want you to click on the HOMEWORK HELP button below. You will find all that you're seeking for your school report or project. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mythman is an amazingly rich website full of information about the Greek God and Goddesses, minor gods and goddesses, complete myths, images, and great interactive quizzes...EXPLORE! ====



<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Welcome to Mythweb. This site is devoted to the heroes, gods and monsters of Greek mythology.
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">A highly informative and entertaining website that covers the Olympians, Heroes, and the relevance of mythology today. Animated characters are interspursed with content to hold the reader's attention. Loads of links to other mythology resources are listed. ====



====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">One to one comparisons of Roman and Greek mythology and Gods and Goddesses. The tabs at the top of the page are Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced, each one giving the appropriate amount of information for that level of research. ====

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">__//Images and icons on these pages are classic works of art from the masters including Bottecelli, Poussin, and Boucher.//__
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The source of this material is //Windows to the Universe//, at [] at the [|University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)]. ====



====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Mythography** | explore mythology and art by looking at information about the classic stories of heroes and gods...from the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, to the legends of the Celts, Mythography presents resources and reference materials about mythology - including recommended books, and lexicons that explain Greek, Roman, and Celtic terms and words. Share your views about mythology on the message forum! ====



====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Welcome to NMAI Collections Search, which includes a representative sample of NMAI's object and historic photo collections. Each item is accompanied by basic, standardized information. To become familiar with the site, start with one of the Collection Highlight tours or search the website using this page or the tabs at the top. ====