Library of Congress
Loc: Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture
This page chronicles an exhibit hosted by the Library of Congress of manuscripts and documents from the Vatican Library. Includes manuscripts of both a secular and religious nature as well as a detailed history of the Vatican Library....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Get to Know Your Library Media Center
This lesson will provide students with an orientation to the Library Media Center and the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The students will access the Alabama Virtual Library and will participate in a library scavenger hunt as a...
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Challenges
This site provides three research-oriented tasks about William Shakespeare. Students will click on provided links to search for answers to the questions.
Princeton University
Princeton University Library: Exhibition: Of Maps and Men: Samuel Hearne
Entry about eighteenth-century explorer Samuel Hearne, from a larger exhibition about the search for a passage to the Orient through Canada. Hearne is credited with surveying the Coppermine River and with being the first European to view...
British Library
British Library: Coleridge's Kubla Khan: Composition
This activity, which aims to develop students' understanding of 'Kubla Khan' after completing an initial study of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, will encourage students to make links between the poem and a number of historical sources.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Magnetic Multipole Field Model
A simulation which shows the field of a magnetic dipole or quadrupole using compass needles indicating direction and relative field strength. Change the angular orientation of the dipole, and a movable compass shows the magnetic field...
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Falling Loop Model
Change the size and orientation of a conducting loop falling out of a region of uniform magnetic field. Then, the data is plotted on an interactive graph.
Library of Congress
Loc: Human Nature and the Power of Culture
An exhibition from the Library of Congress about cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead with interesting insights on how she used her anthropological skills to explore the complexities of living in a diverse world.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Student Center
The Math Forum Student Center provides math news, notes, challenges, and much more. Dr. Math is here with the answers to students' math questions. There's a teachers' section, a research division, and a parents' part. This site also...
Harvard University
Open Collections Program: Immigration to the United States, 1789 1930: Timeline
A broad look at immigration policy, its changes, and the numbers of immigrants arriving in the United States from its beginnings until 1940. Included are hyperlinks to primary sources related to the topic in the Harvard University Library.
Yale University
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Harriet Monroe and the "Imagists"
This excellent site pays tribute to Harriet Monroe, her works, and her contemporaries. Contains the history of the term, published in 1915.
Other
M Hon Arc: Earl's Perl's
An index to Perl software programs, resources, and libraries available on the World Wide Web.
Yale University
Eastern Themes and Modernist Theater; O'neill
This is an introduction of Oriental thought in the works of Eugene O'Neill.
Yale University
E.e. Cummings and Gertrude Stein
This site, maintained by Yale's Rare Book and Manuscript Library, discusses the influence of Chinese and Japanese art on Cummings' poems and paintings. Offers one example of each along with brief commentary.
Science U
Science U: Isometries: Reflection
This site from Science U gives a good example of reflection of symmetry. It also gives some background information about reflection as well.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Print Rich Environment [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn the importance of a print rich environment. Teachers will learn how to implement a print rich environment and how to measure students' progress relative to the print rich environment.
Yale University
The Opening of Japan to the West
Site offers wonderful illustrations of Perry's expedition to Japan with brief descriptions.
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