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History:
Ancient Civilizations
Explorers and Exploration || Native Americans
American History || Colonial Period

Geography:
A Trip Around the World || Geography of the United States
United States Information || General Geography Sites

History

Ancient Civilizations

Ancient Egypt

A site from the British Museum with information for students about ancient Egypt. There is also a "staff room" with infomation for teachers.
URL: http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

Pyramids

"Have you ever dreamed of exploring the pyramids of Egypt? If so, enter here, wander through the chambers and passageways of the Great Pyramid, and learn about the pharaohs for whom these monumental tombs were built. You can also follow the 1997 field season of a team of archaeologists as they excavated the bakery that fed the pyramid builders." A Nova Online Adventure.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/

Ancient Egypt Online at the ROM

The Royal Ontario Museum presents this look at Ancient Egypt. You can use an interactive time line, find information on Egyptian gods and goddesses, learn how to read hieroglyphics, and much more.
URL: http://www.rom.on.ca/egypt/

Explorers and Exploration

Discoverers Web: Alphabetical List

An alphabetical listing of explorers, which you will find very handy for doing explorer reports! To go to a website for a particular explorer, just find his or her name on the list and click.
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/alpha.html

Explorers of the Millenium

Visit the Explorers Hall of Fame, look at an explorers' timeline, or take a quiz to test your knowledge. You may also want to check out the list of links to other web sites about explorers. This site was a ThinkQuest Junior Contest winner.
URL: http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4034/

Explorers

From the Kid Info web site, this is a long list of links to sites about explorers and exploring.
URL: http://www.kidinfo.com/american_history/explorers.html

ECB Surf Report: Explorers

A long list of exploration links compiled by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. Their Surf Report focuses on a different topic each month. Check out the drop-box menus for lots of other cool and helpful links!
URL: http://explore.ecb.org/surf/surf_report?subject=60

Zoom Explorers

Brief entries on lots of explorers. You can look them up alphabetically, by the part of the world they explored, or by the century in which the explorations took place. Some entries have links to longer articles, some show maps of routes taken.
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/

Native Americans

American Indians and the Natural World

Describes one tribe from each of four regions of North America.
URL: http://www.carnegiemnh.org/exhibitions/north-south-east-west/

Yahoo! Kids - Around the World: Countries: United States: Cultures and Traditions: Native American

A list of lots of links to sites about Native Americans.
URL: http://kids.yahoo.com/directory/Around-the-World/Countries/United-States/Cultures-and-Traditions/Native-American

American History

The World of Early America

Use the media of the time to learn about early America. Read documents such as the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, or look at maps and newpapers.
URL: http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/

Boundaries of the Contiguous United States

See how the boundaries of the United States changed throughout its history, as territory was acquired and divided up. The changes between 1650 and 1907 are shown on an animated map. Very cool!
URL: http://www.edstephan.org/48states.html

White House 101 : Facts and Fun for All Ages

Visit the White House website to learn about the White House, the Presidents, presidential pets, and fun facts from U.S. history.
URL: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/white_house_101/

Colonial Life

KidInfo's page of links on The American Colonies and Colonial Life, broken down into topics such as: Colonial Food, Colonial Tools, Maps of Early America, and many more.
URL: http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_Colonial_Life.html

13 Colonies

A brief history of each of the original 13 colonies, with related links and maps. There's also a 13 Colonies Timeline.
URL: http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html

Colonial Times in America

Find internet resources about colonial times on this site.
URL: http://socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/colonialtimes.htm

Colonial Kids

A thinkQuest site that will help you learn about the lives of kids in the 1700's.
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/

Plimoth Plantation

Visit the Plimoth Plantation web site for historical information or an interactive game: The First Thanksgiving: You are the Historian. The Kids menu has craft instructions, recipes, historical information (click "Homework Help") and more.
URL: http://www.plimoth.org/

The teacher's Corner - Teacher Resources - Lesson Plans

Good stuff for teachers whose students are learning about Colonial America.
URL: http://www.theteacherscorner.net/thematicunits/colonial.htm

Topics for 5th grade Colonial projects

A page with links for the topics Mrs. B's students have selected for their colonial research projects.

Geography

Go to the NES Library site's A Trip Around the World page.

United States Sites

The US50: A guide to the 50 states

Get facts and history about each state, quizzes and puzzles, lists of fast facts -- like how the states rank by size or population -- and more.
URL: http://www.theus50.com

50 States.com

Each state's page has lots of facts, from A (Admission to statehood & Area) to Z -- well, Y (yellow pages, for locating businesses in the state) -- and everything in between. There are also lists of famous people from the state, words to state songs, and a "tool box" page that can get you to other helpful information and study tools, including maps, quizzes & games.
URL: http://www.50states.com

U.S. States

InfoPlease is an on-line Almanac, Encyclopedia, Dictionary, and Atlas, and it has lots of information on the states. Test your knowledge with one of the quizzes at the botom of the page!
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/states.html

NetState.com

State symbols, flags, seals, geography, and people. Looking for a picture of Vermont's official warm water fish? Or maybe you need to learn the history of Alaska's state sport. This is the place to find that kind of information!
URL: http://www.netstate.com/states/index.html

Zoom School: USA

Get facts about individual states, maps of the United States and regions of the country, information about U.S. presidents, and other useful and interesting stuff.
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/school/USA/

Vermont Secretary of State Kids' Pages

You can find out more about our state's Symbols, Emblems, History, Geography, Places to Visit, VT Firsts, and even Sea Monsters in Vermont!
URL: http://www.sec.state.vt.us/Kids/

Go to the NES Library site's Geography of the United States page.

General Geography Sites

National Geographic GeoBee Challenge

Try answering these questions in the GeoBee Challenge to see how much you know about geography. There is a new quiz every day with 10 questions for you to answer. It's good practice if you are competing in the GeoBee. Or maybe you'd like to challenge someone to see who gets the highest score: you, your parents, your friends... There is an apprentice mode (you get two tries to answer the question) and an expert mode (better get it right on the first try!)
URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/geobee/

Geo-Globe: Interactive Geography

Explore the world with Geo - Globe's selection of interactive games, and find out about strange and familiar features of the planet! Ever wondered which continent has the most countries? Do you know how deep the ocean gets? How plants survive in the tundra? Which waterfall is the highest in the world? If you're curious about world geography, you've come to the right place!
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/10157/

National Park Guide

From this page you can link to the National Parks in the US from an alphabetical listing of all the National Parks or a map showing where they are located. From the National Park Service.
URL: http://www.nps.gov/parks.html

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