Eduhound Spotlight Sites Archives:
2003-2004
August 2004
August 5th
Edgate: Gateway to the Summer Games - Keep the spirit of the Games alive in your classroom with cross-curricular Olympic-themed activities and lesson plans. Learn about the geography, history, people and languages of Athens and Greece, or explore with Virtual Tours. Look here for news, facts, history and more about Olympic sports.
July 2004
July 29th
Ancient Egypt @ The British Museum - This site has been developed to help teachers get the most information for themselves and for their class. The site is divided into ten ‘chapters', which address themes or topics relevant to ancient Egypt. The ten ‘chapters' are presented on a menu page where the user can choose a chapter by clicking on the word or icon relating to that chapter. Within each ‘chapter' there are three sections: ‘Story', ‘Explore' and ‘Challenge'.
July 22nd
Intervention Central - Offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth. Visit to check out newly posted academic and behavioral intervention strategies, download publications on effective teaching practices, and use tools that streamline classroom assessment and intervention.
July 15th
NASM - Apollo to the Moon - The exhibit tells the historic story of human exploration of the Moon by the United States, as well as the efforts to master the challenges of an unprecedented journey across thousands of miles of space.
Also, please visit Lunar Exploration Vehicles. Unmanned lunar probes and a Lunar Module are exhibited in this gallery at http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal112/gal112.html
July 8th
Puzzles4U™ - A unique collection of puzzles, games and optical illusions. With thousands of puzzles, over one hundred awards and millions of visitors per year, Puzzles4U™ is the world's most popular puzzle resource and is updated with illusions and games regularly and has 5 new puzzles added each week. For education use, this version is free from ads.
July 1st 
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - Today, archaeological evidence reveals some of the mysteries that surrounded the history of the Wonders for centuries. For their builders, the Seven Wonders were a celebration of religion, mythology, art, power, and science. For us, they reflect the ability of humans to change the surrounding landscape by building massive yet beautiful structures, one of which stood the test of time to this very day.
June 2004
June 24th 
History Channel Exhibit: The Declaration of Independence - The Declaration of Independence serves as one of America's most treasured symbols because it identifies the moment at which the nation was born and, in stirring language, describes the reasons for its birth. The exhibit features: The Call for Independence, Preservation, Biographies, Quiz, Interpreting Resources and a Teacher's Guide. June 17th 
Cicada Watch 2004 - After 17 years underground, periodical cicadas are emerging throughout the eastern U.S., with the heaviest emergences ocurring in the areas shaded in blue. Soon, male cicadas will begin forming chorusing centers, filling the air with their noisy serenade as they strive to attract a mate. Includes a teacher resource area. June 10th 
CNN Special Reports: Ronald Reagan - Former President Ronald Reagan -- who led a conservative revolution that set the economic and cultural tone of the 1980s, hastened the end of the Cold War and revitalized the Republican Party -- died June 5 at age 93. CNN.com looks back at the life of the a boy from Illinois who became a Hollywood movie star, the governor of California and the oldest elected president of the United States.
June 3rd 
Anne Frank House - In addition to the story of Anne Frank, the website provides practical information about the Anne Frank House. There is also a web store and an application form for group visits to the museum. Visitors can also register as a friend of the Anne Frank House. Furthermore, the website provides information on the house's activities in the field of education, international exhibitions, research, documentation and collection management..
May 27th 
Lewis & Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition - This exciting exhibition will compare the assumptions of Lewis and Clark and the Indian peoples they were among on such topics as politics and diplomacy, women, geography, animals, military heroism, language, trade and property, curing and health, and plants.
These cultural contrasts reveal how the expedition overcame barriers to communication—or failed to overcome them.
May 20th 
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education
@ the National Museum of American History - The exhibit marks the 50th anniversary of the May 17, 1954, Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, which ended racial segregation in public schools and served as the foundation for desegregation in all sectors of society. Includes resources and teacher materials. May 13th 
LostLiners -- Honoring the Gold Age of Ocean Travel - Don't let the name fool you. Many of these famous ocean liners are still going strong! The extensive and beautifully designed collection includes details on dozens of ships from the Britannic to the Queen Mary to the Titanic. May 6th 
The New Americans @ PBS - This PBS series follows Ogoni refugees, a Palestinian bride, Dominican baseball players, a Mexican laborer, and an Indian tech worker as they learn what it takes to become American.
See the For Educators section for resources and lesson plans:
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/foreducators_index.html
April 29th 
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation - The website provides an on-line resource for grammar and punctuation usage with lessons, quizzes, tests and more! April 22nd 
LIBERTY! The American Revolution - LIBERTY! is the story of the American Revolution---two and a half decades of debate and rebellion, war and peace. It begins in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and ends with the creation of the Constitution. April 15th 
I Hear America Singing - from The Library of Congress - Your portal to the performing arts collections at the Library of Congress. Experience Gerry Mulligan, in words and music; hum along with some of our nation's most beloved patriotic songs; and, explore a vast landscape of historic sheet music and recordings. April 8th 
The EnviroLink Network - The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization founded in 1991. EnviroLink maintains a database of thousands of environmental resources and provides internet services to non-profit organizations.
April 1st 
Britannica.com - Clockworks
From Sundials to the Atomic Second - The measurement of time is an ancient science, though many of its discoveries are relatively recent. The Cro-Magnons recorded the phases of the Moon some 30,000 years ago--but the first minutes were counted accurately only 400 years ago, and the atomic clocks that allow us to track the approach of the millennium by the billionth of a second are less than 50 years old.
March 25th
whyeaster?com - Includes how Easter customs came into being, is celebrated around the world and why Easter exists.
Holiday Guide to Passover - Get the dates, special events and customs related to each day and even some historical tidbits.
March 18th
Great Buildings Collection - This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.
March 11th
Journey North Spring 2004 - Help track spring's journey across the Northern Hemisphere! Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, bald eagles, robins, hummingbirds, mantees, whooping cranes--and other birds and mammals, the budding of plants, changing sunlight and other natural events.
March 4th
The History of St Patrick's Day - St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for thousands of years. On St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon.
February 26th
NOAA Arctic Theme Page - The Arctic Theme Page is a rich and comprehensive resource linking to widely distributed data and information, from research institutions throughout the world, focused on the Arctic. Available information includes relevant data, graphics, and forecasts, including historical perspectives and in-depth analyses. Also included are a selection of Essays by Arctic experts on key issues in the Arctic. The audience for the Arctic Theme Page is wide, including scientists, students, teachers, decision makers and the general public.
February 19th
NEA's Read Across America - Started in 1998 as a way to get kids excited about reading, NEA's Read Across America has become the nation's largest reading event. The year-round program culminates each year on or near Dr. Seuss's birthday (March 2).
February 12th
NIE Online - NIE Online provides online lesson plans and other innovative materials for use on NIE websites to provide valuable newspaper-oriented resources to teachers through the Internet. These resources help build repeat traffic to NIE websites and provide greater exposure to your programs, special offers. We also provide hosting services for NIE websites with rates scaled based on newspaper print circulation.
February 5th
Celebrating Valentine's Day @ The Holiday Zone - Featuring arts and crafts, coloring pages, discussion questions, learning games, songs and rhymes and more!
January 29th
Internet Public Library: POTUS - In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included to enrich this site.
January 22nd
Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History - Features 600 informative articles and is beautifully illustrated with historical film clips and audio recordings, as well as hundreds of photographs and other images. Enter the Spotlight through the Eras in Black History, which examines five centuries of black heritage through five distinct time periods, from the slave revolts of early America through the successes of the Civil Rights Movement.
The newly added Timeline of Achievements traces the yearly contributions of African-Americans in politics, industry, the arts, religion, sports, and education. In addition, the site can be browsed alphabetically through the expanded Articles A to Z page.
January 15th
Chinatown Online - Chinatown Online is a non-political, non-religious and non-partisan site which provides information about China, the Chinese community in the UK, Chinese businesses and business involved in trade/commerce with China. There is a dual focus to the site: information and education. Specific areas of the site are geared towards the educational sector and/or activities for children.
Be sure to visit the Teacher Resource page at
http://www.chinatown-online.co.uk/pages/learn/teachers.html
January 8th
Mr. Picassohead - Unleash your inner artist! This site allows visitors to create, save and share their own Picasso-like drawing using an online program.
December 18th
The Old Farmer's Almanac - Since 1792, The Old Farmer's Almanac has published useful information for people in all walks of life: tide tables for those who live near the ocean; sunrise tables and planting charts for those who live on the farm; recipes for those who live in the kitchen; and forecasts for those who don't like the question of weather left up in the air.
December 11th
LibrarySpot.com - A free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information.
December 4th
December Holidays Across Cultures
@ Education World - December is a month full of special days. Education World offers resources to help educators teach about all those special days. The resources below fall into the following three categories:
- Holiday Lesson Plans
- Holiday Art & Gift Projects
- Additional Holiday Resources
November 20th
StateStandards.com - StateStandards.com, a free service from Scantron, is a single site for accessing lesson plans based on state curriculum standards. For schools and districts that have not yet published their local curriculum standards documents on the Web, teachers can search for lesson plans from their state standards on this new Web site. StateStandards.com contains search-enabled curriculum standards documents for 40+ U.S. states.
November 13th
Create a Food Web - A food web is made up of two or more interconnected food chains. It shows the food relationships among organisms in a community. Click and drag the animals and arrows to form a possible food web. Arrows should be drawn from food source to food consumers. At the end of this activity, you can discard excess pictures into the Recycle Bin and then right-click to print your food web.
November 6th
The First Thanksgiving - Beginning with a pictorial time line of 1620–1621, students explore the voyage on the Mayflower, the relationship between the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims, and the events that led up to the harvest feast celebrated by both groups. The project also gives students an intimate perspective of the period through interviews with Pilgrim interpreters playing the roles of actual Pilgrims, and a modern-day Wampanoag descendant.
October 30th
Oral History Society - The Oral History Society is a national and international organisation dedicated to the collection and preservation of oral history. It encourages people of all ages to tape, video or write down their own and other people's life stories. It offers practical support and advice about how to get started, what equipment to use, what techniques are best, how to look after tapes, and how to make use of what you have collected.
October 23rd
Flashcard Exchange - The Flashcard Exchange is a community supported site where you, the user of the site, make flashcards for yourself, your students or your peers. It is this sense of community that really makes this site a valuable resource for all. Study to your heart's content, but also enter some flashcards before you leave!
October 16th
The Animal Diversity Web @ The Univ. of Michigan Museum of Zoology - An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan.
Including:
- Thousands of 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.
- Descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially phyla, classes, and in some cases, orders and families. Hundreds of hyperlinked pages and images illustrate the traits and general biology of these groups. Professional biologists prepare this part.
October 9th
TrickOrTreats.com: Halloween Fun from Hershey's - Includes Creepy Free Stuff, Halloween Clip Art, Create Your Own Haunted Wallpaper, Spooky Screensavers. More Desktop Wallpapers, Ghoulish Games, Halloween party ideas, humor, screensavers, and pumpkin carving templates.
Also visit the Parent/Teacher Resources area of the site at: http://www.trickortreats.com/parent/index.asp
October 2nd
Library of Congress: Wright Brothers Online Collection - The online presentation of The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress, comprising about 10,121 library items or approximately 49,084 digital images, documents the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright and highlights their pioneering work which led to them making the world's first powered, controlled, and sustained flight.
September 25th
NFPA Online: Fire Prevention Week October 5-11 2003 - This year´s Fire Prevention Week campaign ("When Fire Strikes: Get Out! Stay Out!") teaches two simple but life-saving lessons:
- Install smoke alarms and test them regularly
- Develop and practice home fire drills
September 18th
Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee - We are the nation’s largest and longest-running educational promotion, administered on a not-for-profit basis by The E.W. Scripps Company and 243 sponsors in the United States, Europe, Guam, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, The Bahamas, and American Samoa. Our purpose is to help students improve their spelling, increase their vocabularies, learn concepts, and develop correct English usage that will help them all their lives.
September 12th
USDA Forest Service - Fall Colors - See all the National Forest Fall Foliage Hotspots here!
September 4th
GetTech.org - Introduces students to interesting careers based on math, science, and technology with this kid-friendly website. There is fun and information for students and a class lesson guide for teachers.
August 28th
NASA: Mars Exporation: Mars for Students - Since our first close-up picture of Mars in 1965, spacecraft voyages to the Red Planet have revealed a world strangely familiar, yet different enough to challenge our perceptions of what makes a planet work. Every time we feel close to understanding Mars, new discoveries send us straight back to the drawing board to revise existing theories.
August 21st
The Electric Ben Franklin @ USHistory.org - The remarkable Benjamin Franklin, a printer by trade, a scientist by fame, and a man of action by all accounts, continues to shape American thinking and action. The Independence Hall Association has commissioned and assembled resources for you to explore the diversity that was Benjamin Franklin.
August 14th
How Everyday Things Are Made - If you've ever wondered how things are made - products like candy, cars, airplanes, or bottles - or if you've been interested in manufacturing processes, like forging, casting, or injection molding, then you've come to the right place.
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