INTERNET Red 2000
All About Spain: Travel and Tourism
An extensive index of information about Spain and Spanish culture. It contains photo tours, city guides, a traveler's yellow pages, and a country and culture section filled with useful information.
Smithsonian Institution
Tween Tribune: Whales Reappear in Long Island Sound
Article reports on the return of whales of varies species to the waters off of Long Island.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal Change
Join teachers and students all over the country in observing the migratory patterns of birds and butterflies and the growth changes of plants as the climate changes. "Journey North" offers a wealth of resources to use as you investigate...
Other
Italy Guides: Rome
Welcome to the 'Eternal City' of Rome, Italy! Although this is a commercial site, the interactive city map along with beautiful photos and links to historic areas make this informative for both students and educators.
NASA
Nasa: Comet Hale Bopp Images
This site contains 5,161 images of the Hale-Bopp comet from 1995 to 2000. This incredible photo archive is definitely worth a visit.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Hummingbirds
Observe hummingbirds and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterflies
Observe monarch butterflies and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: American Robin
Observe robins and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.
Other
Freie Hansestadt Bremen
Information about the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven (the nearby port city), facts & figures, history, culture, economy, sights, tourism, sports, and free time activity. Lots of photos, a virtual tour of some of the sights,...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Image Formation for Concave Mirrors Case A
This animation depicts the path of light to each person's eye. Different people are sighting in different directions; yet each person is sighting at the same image location. In this animation the image location is the intersection point...
China State Council Information Office and the China International Publishing Group
China Internet Information Center: Beijing: A Guide to China's Capital City
Welcome to Beijing, the capital city of China! Learn the early background and history of this ancient city as well as about its historic sights, education, economy, religion, and aspects of the new modern day Beijing.
Boston College
A Digital Archive of American Architecture: 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
Find photographs of buildings and other sights from the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Timely Enumerations Concerning Sri Lanka
This poem shares the sights and treasures of Sri Lanka. The turbulent history of Sri Lanka is emphasized.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Determining Bird Populations Through Counting
Students participate in a bird count to determine the number of birds sighted in four different sites. Students draw inferences from recorded data on a bar graph in regard to the number of species in the area and relative population size.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Westward Ho! How Far Is Yonder Mountain
In this lesson quantitative skills in geologic context are reinforced. Students create a spreadsheet to calculate the distance of a peak using vertical angles sighted from a wagon train heading directly for the peak. The spreadsheet also...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: 5th Grade Narrative Practice Prompt: Relevant Setting Details
This exercise was designed to serve as a pre-writing activity for one of their three designated fifth grade practice prompts. The prompt is: Remember a time when you did something that made you feel proud of yourself. Think about what...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Potsdam
Wikipedia provides information on the history and sights of Potsdam, a city in eastern Germany, now the capital of the state of Brandenburg.
The History Place
The History Place: The Triumph of Hitler: Nazis Take Czechoslovakia
Once the German army was ensconced in the Sudetenland, Hitler set his sights on acquiring the rest of Czechoslovakia, despite having sworn he would stop in the Sudetenland. This page describes the events that unfolded as the invasion...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Making a Car for Blind Drivers
Using robotics, laser rangefinders, GPS and smart feedback tools, Dennis Hong is building a car for drivers who are blind. It's not a "self-driving" car, he's careful to note, but a car in which a non-sighted driver can determine speed,...
Other
Saudi Aramco World: The Scholar's Supernova
Article explores the sightings of the supernova of 1006 that were recorded from Europe to Japan.
Nature Canada
Nature Canada: Species Spotlight: Eastern Cougar
A fact sheet giving information about the eastern cougar, an endangered species. It is not certain whether the eastern cougar still survives, as there have not been irrefutable sightings in the wild since the nineteenth century.
Nature Canada
Nature Canada: Species Spotlight: Wolverine, Eastern Population
The eastern Canada population of wolverines is endangered and may even be extirpated in many areas. Sightings are hard to confirm, as it closely resembles the fisher and the porcupine. Where it has possibly survived, it is hard to help...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterfly: Journey North: Monarch Migration Update
Read and learn about monarch butterfly sightings and migration, and what those can tell about the species.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Bald Eagles
Track bald eagle migration. Report your sightings and observations to the bald eagle tracking map.