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 THE FOLLOWING SITES ARE GOOD STARTING POINTS FOR CLASS PROJECTS THAT ARE 
BEING STUDIED IN MANY OF OUR DEPARTMENTS.  LOOK DOWN TO FIND YOUR CLASS. 
World War II collection of internet research information
http://www.mentorhigh.com/library/worldwar2.html

 
 
The Decades, collection of sites indexed by decade including history, 
culture, music, and literature
http://www.mentorhigh.com/library/The_Decades.html

 
 
Information on countries, maps, and government information about countries 
throughout the world instituted by the CIA
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

 
 
The Place for Maps
http://www.maps.com/

 
 
Foreign Foods and Countries Information from Mentor High School Library
http://www.mentorhigh.com/library/foreign_foods.html

 
 
Studying MARS --The last time the red planet was this close to Earth 60,000 
years ago, man lived in caves!
And the good news is that Mars will remain a stunning nighttime attraction 
for weeks.
Some sites to help in this effort:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/08/27/mars.closeup/index.html

 
 
Literature, Shakespeare, Fiction, Non-fiction, Grammar, Styles of writing, 
and Poetry
http://www.bartleby.com

 
 
World Wide Arts Resources  This is the largest gateway for online arts 
information: artists, museums, galleries, quality art, art history, arts 
education, antiques, dance, theater, and more... discover the largest 
collection of original art online!
http://www.wwar.com/

 
 
American Memory Collection - best source for primary source materials 
collected by Library of Congress
http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html

 
 
Christmas around the World - students are researching a country to discover 
traditions, food, and holiday festivities
http://www.yahooligans.com/School_Bell/Social_Studies/Religion/Christianity/Christmas/Christmas_Around_the_World/

 
 
Planets Project
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

 
 
Current Events and Political Cartoons
http://www.libraryspot.com/currentevents.htm

 
 
Technology
http://www.homeworkspot.com/high/technology

 
 
Math
http://mathforum.org/math.topics.html

 
 
Literary Criticism
http://www.libraryspot.com/litcrit.htm

 
 
Authors
http://www.bookspot.com/authors

 
 
Poetry
http://www.poetry.com/

 
 
the Poetry Kit
http://www.poetrykit.org/

 
 
Internet Public Library - Poetry Page
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48518

 
 
CIA Factbook - Flags and Maps of the World,  Countries of the World
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

 
 
Social Studies
http://education.indiana.edu/~socialst/

 
 
World Facts
http://worldfacts.us/

 
 
Black History
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html

 
 
The History Channel
http://www.history.com/

 
 
African American History from Washington University
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/black.html

 
 
Research Sites for Date of Birth Project:
Information Please Almanac
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory

 
 
This Day in History by the History Channel
http://www.history.com/

 
 
Reel History from CNN
video news clips of CNN coverage of events from the 1980's to present
http://fyi.cnn.com/fyi/interactive/multimedia/0003/cnnat20/1981/frameset.exclude.html

 
 
CNN 20th Century
Multimedia web site featuring a timeline of headlines for each decade, 
includes time capsule for each decade highlighting fashions of the day
http://fyi.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/century/

 
 
Life Time Machine Cover Collection
Search by month or day, or browse to see who was on the cover of Life 
Magazine going back to 1936.  Also search by subject
http://www.lifemag.com/Life/covers/index.html

 
 
The New York Times  use NYT Archives since 1981
http://www.nytimes.com/

 
 
Answers.com
use the topic search to put in your month and year of birth
http://www.answers.com/topic/1985

 
 
Wikipedia     Use search to put in your year and then specialize by month
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

 
 
Google  Use News Archive Search
http://news.google.com/

 
 
Time Magazine      Use the archive search for your date
http://www.time.com/time

 
 
Searchmash    Put in "events and date" for articles and magazines
http://www.searchmash.com/

 
 
Timelines
http://timelines.ws/20thcent/TWENTIETHCENT.HTML

 
 
Fact Monster Timelines
http://www.factmonster.com/spot/timelinearchive.html

 
 
Time Capsule by Request.net   Put in your date and find facts,
and costs of items on that day, also find other online date sites
http://www.re-quest.net/history/today-in-history/index.htm

 
 
In the 80's    A Timeline of important events
http://www.inthe80s.com/time1980.shtml

 
 
Article Linking Iran Contra Affair with Afganistan
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=20&sid=78f50228-03a4-461c-b6d1-bed991b85305%40sessionmgr2

 
 
Article about Challenger accident in space and effects to space program
in the future
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=18&sid=37b8c0e9-43ab-4f90-807c-97582c871bdb%40sessionmgr8

 
 
President Reagan's Economic Policies help build technology companies in the 
future --- article
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=14&hid=8&sid=556cdb5e-243b-4cd9-8b0f-72b7459970d9%40sessionmgr102

 
 
Iran Contra and war today
http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=1&hid=4&sid=3a10f42e-a54b-4982-8425-622ac1f8e92e%40sessionmgr9

 
 
Internet Society Impact -- article about Internet in the 80's and 90's and 
impact and continual growth today
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002019651_btnetbirthday30.html

 
 
Impact of the Internet article plus more links about Internet impact and 
society
http://www.december.com/web/text/tutor/netuse.html

 
 
Time magazine article from June 19, 1989 about Women as Chefs
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957984,00.html

 

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