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Military Moments with Laura Lea
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Research
 Appropriate
for PreK aged youth.
 Appropriate
for Elementary aged youth.
 Appropriate
for Middle School aged youth.
Individual Biographies
- Edison National Historic
Site
http://www.nps.gov/edis/home.htm
This national site has a
nice "Kid's Corner" with a large number of biographical pictorials of Thomas
Edison.
- Anne Frank Online.
http://www.annefrank.com/
More than 1,000,000 children
under the age of 16 died in the Holocaust. Anne Frank was one of them.
- The World of Ben
Franklin.
http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html
He became famous
for being a scientist, an inventor, a statesman, a printer, a philosopher, a
musician, and an economist. Today, we honor Ben Franklin as one of our
Founding Fathers and as one of America's greatest citizens.
- Martin Luther King
Jr.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/
Seattle
Times' online information about Martin Luther King Jr.
- Exploring
Leonardo.
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html
"Leonardo
da Vinci had a keen eye and quick mind that led him to make important
scientific discoveries, yet he never published his ideas. He was a gentle
vegetarian who loved animals and despised war, yet he worked as a military
engineer to invent advanced and deadly weapons."
- Abraham
Lincoln Online.
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln.html
This
site includes an enormous amount of information about Lincoln, including
listings of outstanding historic sites and a very large number of
books.
- Abraham
Lincoln Research Site.
http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html
This is a
student-oriented educational Web site about Lincoln's life and family. The web
master, a retired American history teacher, answers questions by
e-mail.
- Pocahontas
(Spectrum Biographies).
http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Pocahontas.html
A short
biography of Pocahontas produced by IncWell.
- Betsy Ross
Homepage.
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/
Why Ross was selected to
make the flag, how she cut a five-point star, and directions of cutting your
own five-point star. Works great in classroom discussions!
Collective Biographies
- 4,000 Years of Women in
Science.
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/
This site lists more than
125 names from our scientific and technical past. They are all women!
- Biography A & E
Page.
http://www.biography.com/
Has a searchable online database
containing 15,000 international names, past and present. This is a commercial
site for the Biography television show.
- Distinguished Women of
Past and Present.
http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com
These are women who were
writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights
crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others. Search for biographies of
distinguished women by name or by field.
- The
Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences.
http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html
Profiled
here are African American men and women who have contributed to the
advancement of science and engineering.
- First Ladies
of the United States of America.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/index.html
Information
about the First Ladies of the United States.
- Gallery of
Achievers.
http://www.achievement.org/galleryachieve.html
In the
Gallery of Achievers, the focus is on individuals who have shaped the 20th
century by their accomplishments.
- National
Inventors Hall of Fame.
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_0_0_hall_of_fame.asp
Learn
about famous and not-so-famous inventors.
- The
Presidents of the United States of America.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/index.html
List
of internal links to each president of the United States. Includes photographs
and links to other Web resources.
- Presidents of the United
States.
http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/
In this resource you will
find background information, election results, cabinet members, presidency
highlights, and some odd facts on each of the presidents. Links to
biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other
presidential sites also are included to enrich this site.
- Well-Known
People Who Happen to Be Canadian.
http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~terning/Canadians/
An
enormous collection of biographies of Canadian actors, educators, and
politicians.
- Women of
NASA.
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/intro.html
The Women of
NASA resource was developed to encourage more young women to pursue careers in
math, science, and technology.
- Appropriate
for PreK aged youth.
- Appropriate
for Elementary aged youth.
- Appropriate
for Middle School aged youth.
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