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Stuttgart
This resource provides information about the city, facts & figures, its history, culture, geography, economy, sights, tourism, sports, and free time activity.
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Adirondack History
Gives history and description of people and sights of the Adirondacks Mountains. You will find all kinds of info here.
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Sacred Destinations: Cities of Italy Map
Use this interactive map of Italy to take a virtual tour of the major cities and sights found in Italy. Click on any of the hotspots to get pop-up facts and photos.
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Nurnberg Online
Bilingual site with information about the city, facts & figures, its history, culture, geography, economy, sights, tourism, sports, and free time activity.
NASA
Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Launch Altitude Tracker
This lesson plan allows student to make a launch altitude tracker. Student will use a sighting tube and angle measurements to track the altitude of rockets that are launched.
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Braunschweig
A really first-rate site. Beautifully presented information about the city: facts & figures, its history, culture, geography, economy, sights, tourism, sports, and free time activity. Lots of information, lots of photos. Some...
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Wiesbaden.de: Wiesbaden
Bilingual site with information about the city, facts & figures, its history, culture, geography, economy, sights, tourism, sports, and free time activity. Click on the English link for an English version as well as a few other...
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Willkommen in Potsdam
A wealth of information about the city, facts & figures, its history, culture, geography, economy, sights, tourism, sports, and free time activity.
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Italy Guides: Venice
Welcome to the beautiful city of Venice, Italy! Although this is a commercial site, the interactive city map with its many incredible photos and links to historic sights make it a useful tool for both students and teachers to learn about...
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Explore the Mary Rose
Climb aboard the Mary Rose, Henry VIII's historical Tudor flagship raised in 1982, and enjoy the sights, sounds, and smells of life on board.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Ocean Portal, You Navigate
Delight in the fresh colors, sights, and sounds on this dynamic site on the ocean. Major categories consist of Ocean Life & Ecosystems, The Ocean Over Time, Ocean Science, and The Ocean and You. New information on sharks, a slideshow...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: By the Sea
Read about the different sights you can see along the seashore. Includes audio narration in English and Turkish with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: The Night Sky
Read about the sights you can see in a clear night sky. Book includes audio narration in 16 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: The Mountains
Read about the different sights you can see on a mountain. Book includes audio narration in 22 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: The Island
Read about the different sights you can see on an island. Book includes audio narration in 8 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: Winter, Winter, Spring
Book with colorful illustrations of winter and spring sights and activities. Vocabulary words are 'winter' and 'spring' only. Includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
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The Metropolitan Opera: Met History
Read about the history of the Metropolitan Opera. Content includes an image database of every performance since 1883, as well as a timeline of sights and sounds from the opera through the ages.
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Metro De Madrid Maps
Detailed downloadable subway maps for Madrid, Spain highlighting significant places around the city. A great way to practice, in Spanish, using a subway map to get around in Madrid to see the sights.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Land of Golden Dreams: Li's Journey: China to California
Li is a 14-year-old boy from Guangdong, China, who travels to California during the Gold Rush. Read about his journey on a sailing ship from Southern China to San Francisco. Along the way experience, the sights and sounds of sea travel...
National Wildlife Federation
National Wildlife Federation: Survival by Handout?
Endangered species are often elusive and human sightings of the animals can be rare. The San Joaquin kit fox, however, listed as endangered since 1967 has learned to survive in urban and suburban areas.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal Change
Here you can view maps showing the migratory paths of dozens of animals across the northern hemisphere, report a sighting of one of the animals listed in the database, and much more.
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Wiesbaden
This resource provides information about the city of Wiesbaden, facts & figures, its history, culture, geography, economy, sights, tourism, sports, and free time activity.
PBS
Pbs: L. Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun: Jim Crow, Home Ownership, American Dream
Learn how Jim Crow laws impacted home ownership and the pursuit of the American Dream in this series of videos from the American Masters film, Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart. Lorraine Hansberry's family was at the...
University of Wisconsin
Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
A wide array of selections that focus on African culture through images and sounds. Although much of the narrative is geared toward higher grades, the pictures and sounds, especially the African drums' clips, will be intriguing to all...