This fee based database provided by the Office of Library
Information Services contains maps, statistics, and a photo
gallery for 190 different countries and territories.
Sponsored by the Global Virtual University and United
Nations University, this site provides thematic world maps
based on data from the U.N. Human Development Report (2003).
Themes include: literacy rates, economic indicators, and
population density.
This site for a Washington D.C. based non profit institution
provides links to the front pages of more than 400 newspapers
from 47 different countries.
This site has information and links to ancient history
around the globe with lesson plans and activities. You
may need to type in the address by hand for this site.
A site including information, visual sources, and primary
sources about The Ancient Near East, Ancient India, Ancient
China, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Early Islam, and Medieval
Europe.
A site that has a wide range of information on the countries
of Latin America. Topics covered include economy, government,
arts, education, and development.
This
PBS site explores the impact of European exploration
on the Americas.
Rainforest Action Network
http://www.ran.org/kids_action/ Explore how the rainforest is used to meet economic wants and other environmental issues related to the rainforest.
Amazon Interactive
http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html Explore the Amazon through online games and activities. This site contains information about the people and the land. Students can try to run a community based ecotourism project in Ecuador with the information they have gathered.
Columbia University’s comprehensive site on
China and Japan for teachers. The site includes timelines,
primary sources, and lesson plans. There are also teaching
resources listed by art, philosophy, language, population,
inventions, and many other topics.
This
site is sponsored by the Asia Society to create an
understanding of the peoples of Asia. Elements of this
site include news, information, adult-free zone, and
resource educators.
This online research model asks students to identify
important contributions from Ancient Chinese dynasties
and explain how these contributions influenced European
and Asian culture?
In this web quest, appropriate for the end of a student’s
East Asian studies, students apply their knowledge of
China to the complicated issue of foreign relations between
the U.S. and China.
At this site students can learn about the daily life
of students in four African nations, play a virtual thumb
piano, or figure out how the hero of a Swahili folktale
can accomplish his mission. “Teacher Tools” also
has lesson plans.
In this site students explore Africa's past and the
history of the land and people. The topics to explore
are the various forms of the wealth, working and living
in Africa, the Mali, the slave trade, and colonialism.
An online resource about the Middle East and North
Africa. This site includes information on each country
and current events. There is also a link to an overview
of events in Palestine from the Canaanites to the Wye
Accord.
This site offers a wealth of information about Medieval
times, including access to primary sources. Areas featured
are Byzantium, Islam, Crusades, daily life, culture,
Renaissance, Reformation, and Exploration.
This
is a collection of primary source documents from W.W.I.
It presents a global perspective to the war from the
volunteers of the W.W.I Military History List.
This
site provides a directory to specific documents from
Russia in the Library of Congress. Topics of interest
include Stalin; the Soviet System; WWII; Chernobyl,
and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Meet Anne Frank at this site. Explore the house were
she was hidden and read her diary entries about her existence
in hiding during World War II. The site appears in Dutch,
but you can choose to change the language to English
in the upper right hand corner.
This online research model asks students to address
the influence that the Holocaust had on the development
of international standards of moral and legal conduct
for nations and individuals?
