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Here are resources most likely useful to our Humanities Department.
Updated on Dec 04, 14
Created on Nov 10, 14
Category: Schools & Education
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Create an account to interactively tell stories about turning points in history; world changes in population, topography, the economy, and the environment; and time lapses on spotlight areas from past to present.
Provides fun facts about user-entered areas, relating to the current population, family situations, living styles, careers, education levels, annual income, average age, and hobbies of the majority of citizens residing in that area
A quick go-to site to instigate conversations between students, as a bell ringer, or a ticket out the door. What interesting thing happened on this day in, say, 1778? You can search for specific events, and most feature videos.
Here is a great point-and-click access point for news all around the globe. Built-in Google Translate eases reading newspapers not originally published in English.
This site features statistics, photo galleries, and short videos (most of which were created by students) about global issues in various countries and continents.
Illustrates statistics in action on 519+ topics (such as health, population, work, environment, and economy) across the globe
Search for articles, videos, and PDF lesson plans and activities by key word or year. You can also search for standards by state and grade.
Search by city, county, town, or state for in-depth information about more than 46,000 places in the country, including parks, museums, historic sites, colleges, schools and more.
Search for thousands of significant events, births, and deaths, that took place in specific years or months, or even on a specific day (including your birthday).
Search via 4,000 historical sites for historical documents, photographs, paintings, artifacts, digital images, and descriptions of rare artifacts found in museums, historical societies, national parks, and other institutions across America. Most of the exclusive content found here cannot be retrieved by search engines.
Teaching with Ancestry is a project hosted by LEARN NC that enables students to research their family histories. Please see the LEARN NC link (http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/7969) and PDF guide for more information.
14 items | 12 visits
Here are resources most likely useful to our Humanities Department.
Updated on Dec 04, 14
Created on Nov 10, 14
Category: Schools & Education
URL: