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Tourism Thailand: The Official Website for Tourism in Thailand

For Students 9th - 10th
Take an online tour of Thailand, learning about the country's festivals, special events, and tourist activities. Great source for general information about Thailand, including facts about its history, religion, geography, economy, social...
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Migration Heritage Centre: Packing to Leave: Saris, Suits and Spices (Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
Migrants to Australia from South Asia share their personal stories as part of the "Packing to Leave" exhibit.
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Silicon Valley Art Museum: Put Yourself on a Stamp: A Self Portrait Lesson [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Silicon Valley Art Museum presents this printable pdf art activity caled "Put Yourself on a Stamp: A Self-Portrait Lesson", in which you are guided through a creative activity with discussion.
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Minnesota Zoo: Wolf Quest

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about wolves through an interactive online game. Students will investigate wolf ecology by living the life of a wild wolf in Yellowstone National Park.
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The Whale Hunt

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting display of the modern epic of a whale hunt by Inupiat Eskimos. Follow the hunt from preparation to the end in these pictures from Jonathan Harris. Be sure to click on the topics on the left of the screen to read about how...
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Glencoe Literature Library: "The Glory Field" by Walter Dean Myers [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore Walter Dean Myers's "The Glory Field" with the help of a vocabulary lists, pre-reading questions and activities, brainstorming ideas, and thought-provoking discussion and writing prompts. After reading the novel, draw comparisons...
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Photo.net: Costa Rica: The Land

For Students 9th - 10th
A geographic and topographical exploration of Costa Rica which covers all of the regions of the country.
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Museo Nacional De Costa Rica

For Students 9th - 10th
This Spanish language web-site is the main page for the national museum of Costa Rica which features collections of objects from Costa Rica's pre-columbian past as well as the colonial period and beyond.
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Uncle Remus

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a collection of 35 "Uncle Remus" stories, written by Joel Chandler Harris. In addition, many of Harris's songs and poems are gathered here, and some analysis of his work.
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Paradero: New York

For Students 9th - 10th
Spanish content; this is a guide to the city of New York for Spanish speakers, covering all the bases from climate to the arts it is a complete resource of information about the city.
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Juliaalvarez.com

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the personal web-site of the Dominican turned New Yorker author Julia Alvarez. With information about her work, articles and more this is a great resource for literature students.
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Online Nevada Encyclopedia

For Students 9th - 10th
This developing site produced by the Nevada Humanities, a division of the National Endowment for the Humanities, provides a look at Nevada's history, geography,culture and economy making great use of interactive media. Includes popups....
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Northumberland County Council: Northumberland Communities

For Students 9th - 10th
This project provides original source material on Northumberland County's 76 communities. Organized by community it provides digitized records, maps, photographs, and historic overviews of each.
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Museo Argentino De Ciencias Naturales

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the website e for the Argentinian Museum of Natural Sciences. Features information about the museum's variety of exhibits.
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Arte Maya Tz'utuhil

For Students 9th - 10th
This web-site, available in both Spanish and English, is based on the presentation of contemporary Mayan artists of Guatemala. With information and images this is a great contemporary Mayan art resource.
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De Young Museum: Art of Mesoamerica (I Notice . . . I Wonder . . . )

For Students 9th - 10th
Using a green stone mask from the Olmec culture and a wall painting from Teotihuacan, both of prehispanic Mexico, as a point of departure, this pdf article presents examples for the historical analysis of art.
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Passport to Knowledge: Passport to the Rainforest

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the Rainforest by learning about the geosystem and ecosystem. Meet researchers who share their journals and biographies about the rainforest. Teachers are given links to other resources as well as lesson plans.
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De Young Museum: Nineteen Century American Art (I Notice . . . I Wonder . . . )

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn nineteenth century American art and history in this multi-disciplinary analysis of various works of art from the period.
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La Quinta De Anauco: Museo De Arte Colonial De Venezuela

For Students 9th - 10th
Spanish content; learn about colonial period art in Venezuela by visiting the web-site of the colonial art museum of Venezuela.
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National Diet Library, Japan: Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures

For Students 9th - 10th
Portrait photographs of nearly two hundred Japanese statesmen, government officials, military officers, businesspeople, artists, and others who had an impact on the history of modern Japanese society. Each portrait is accompanied by a...
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Speeches From the 2004 Republican National Convention

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of a number of speeches made at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
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Creating a School Garden

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Use this comprehensive site to create a garden at your school. Topics include: school gardening at a glance, cost estimate worksheet, design: using student ideas, and more.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered

For Students 9th - 10th
History, archival film footage, photographs, pictures, maps, and biographies of people connected to the bombings, and related documents and resources.
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I Guitar

For Students 9th - 10th
Now it's easier than ever to make music on your computer! The direct USB connection of the iGuitar.USB models turns the guitar into an easy-to-use computer peripheral. The iGuitar is compatible with Macs and PCs and works directly with...