Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Space Age Living: Building the Iss
Discover what the International Space Station is, what it does, who is building it, where it is and the answers to many more ISS questions.
PBS
Pbs: People and Discoveries: Television Is Developed, 1926
Gives a brief account of the inventors and developments that lead up to the creation of television.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Other Worlds the Voyage of Columbus
This site has a lesson plan designed for grades 9-12. The lesson plan deals with understanding the culture from which Columbus came, Renaissance Europe, and the culture he found in the New World.
Other
Radford University: Prelude to European Settlement of Virginia
This site traces the early voyages of explorers from Portugal and Spain who were trying to find new resources.
Read Works
Read Works: Columbus Reports on His First Voyage, 1493
[Free Registration/Login Required] Abridged from the full text located at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, this passage provides a primary source and a discussion of Christopher Columbus' first voyage. Paired texts, a...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Vasco Da Gama
This site from Fordham University provides a look into the thoughts of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama by examining his journal entries during his voyage to India.
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Slippery Rock University: The Treaty of Tordesillas
Some very basic information on the Treaty of Tordesillas and geographic information related to South America.
California State University
California State University: Shipbuilding
This page from the California State University entitled, "Who else in the world was prepared to discover and seek the fortunes of the seas?" describes ships built by these civilizations and explains their reasoning for not joining the...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Woolly Mammoths
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will have the opportunity to learn new science vocabulary and learn about the Ice Age and the recent discovery of preserved mammoth. Assessment has been integrated into the flipchart as well as...
US Geological Survey
Usgs: What Is Geologic Time?
Understand the evidence for ancient earth and the geologic time scale. Learn on this site how the earth can help scientist date discoveries.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Dinosaurs of Utah
Learn why Utah is known as a prime location for the discovery of dinosaur fossils and why, in 1988 the Allosaurus was named Utah's official state fossil.
Other
H2 G2: Neolithic Revolution: How Farming Changed the World
Peruse this article featuring the ways discoveries and establishments of agriculture, government, social class, etc. during the Neolithic Revolution altered the future for all civilization.
Curated OER
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Discusses the different explorers who searched, during the age of Discovery, for the Northwest Passage. Presents each explorer and their contribution
CBS
Cbs News: Black Death "Plague Pit"
Picture a landscape of rolling grass-covered hills with grazing sheep. Who would think that buried far beneath this grassland was a gruesome site waiting to be discovered? Archeologist unearthed a pit of 48 skeletons that died as a...
Other
Exploradome: Exploradome
The Exploradome is an interactive discovery museum of science. This museum is aimed at all ages from 4 years to adults.
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum (London): The Endeavour Botanical Illustrations
A series of articles and online exhibits that gives information on the various specimens, plants and animals that were collected and illustrations were then made. Cook led the world's first scientific naval expedition to the South Pacific.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: The Black Hole
This site examines the black hole as an object in astrophysics. Delve into this comprehensive resource that covers this concept from its history, to qualitative physics, the reality of black holes, mathematical physics and more.
Other
K 3 Learning Pages: Reptiles and Amphibians
Come and discover more about reptiles and amphibians when you explore this awesome resource. This site is filled with useful links.
BBC
Bbc: Captain Cook: Explorer, Navigator and Pioneer
A engaging biography of the great British explorer that discusses not only his contributions to expanding the British empire but also his work in the prevention of scurvy. Archived.
Other
The Literary Link: Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
This is a teacher's guide to the novel Belle Prather's Boy which includes teaching ideas and related themes. In this vivid coming-of-age story, two cousins develop a real friendship while discovering the truths about their families and...
Other
The Home School Mom: Asia
A collection of resources to aid in the discovery of Asia and its nations. Each resource is labeled for the appropriate age groups.
Curated OER
Unesco: Canada: Miguasha National Park
The palaeontological site of Miguasha National Park, in south-eastern Quebec on the southern coast of the Gaspe peninsula, is considered to be the world's most outstanding illustration of the Devonian Period known as the 'Age of Fishes'....
Curated OER
Unesco: Canada: Dinosaur Provincial Park
In addition to its particularly beautiful scenery, Dinosaur Provincial Park - located at the heart of the province of Alberta's badlands - contains some of the most important fossil discoveries ever made from the 'Age of Reptiles', in...
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